Where can the public walk along Lake Michigan? That’s the question at hand for the recent municipal court trial in Shorewood where a man was accused of trespassing after taking a route north of Atwater Beach. He’s contesting the $313 …
Tressie Kamp, Assistant Director of UWM’s Center for Water Policy, was recently quoted in a Great Lakes Now article on Wisconsin’s wetlands. “In southeast Wisconsin in particular, this issue exemplifies how the protection or lack of protection in an area …
Center for Water Policy Director, Professor & Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan was featured in a recent NPR article examining the rapid expansion of data centers across the United States and the accompanying environmental challenges. The article highlights …
Center for Water Policy Director Melissa Scanlan was recently featured on the Water Talk podcast to discuss data centers. Professor Scanlan explained how data centers use water, how data centers’ growing prevalence in the Great Lakes region is occurring without …
Center for Water Policy Director and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair and Professor Melissa Scanlan was featured in a 620 WTMJ radio segment and news article talking about data centers. In it, she suggests ways to overcome fragmented information on the …
Data centers require massive volumes of water to operate, and the growing use of artificial intelligence means more of these centers are popping up in water-abundant regions such as the Great Lakes. However, despite their access to the vast bodies …
In a recent article for The Conversation, Peyton McCauley, Water Policy Specialist, and Professor Melissa Scanlan, Director, of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Center for Water Policy examined the growing water demands of data centers driven by artificial intelligence, and why transparency and …
The historic flooding that took place overnight on Saturday, August 9 affected many in the Milwaukee area and surrounding region. With some areas hit harder than others, Governor Tony Evers declared a state of emergency and deployed the National Guard …
Associate dean and professor Harvey Bootsma and his lab are a small team that’s dedicated to a monumental task: finding a way to kill invasive quagga mussels that blanket the lake bottom and starve whitefish to death. Whitefish face collapse …
Harvey Bootsma‘s lab has been working to combat the invasive quagga mussels, despite inadequate funding for research.
