Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler visited UWM’s School of Freshwater Sciences on Monday to announce a $492,000 grant for the Harbor District in Milwaukee to build and install a trash collector on the Kinnickinnic River designed to help protect… Read More

Environmental engineer Marissa Jablonski was named as executive director of the Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin, a first-of-its-kind statewide research hub around freshwater topics. Administered by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the collaborative is a UW System initiative that blends the expertise… Read More

Congratulations to our Freshwater faculty who received Discovery and Innovation Grant (DIG) awards.  Associate Professor Jim Waples was awarded funds for his project “Linking water age and microbial growth in a full‐scale water distribution system.”  Professor Laodong Guo was awarded… Read More

Held on May 8, 2020, the Freshwater Symposium included capstone internship presentations from six Professional Science Master’s students, Spring 2020 graduate recognition, and a keynote talk by Seth M. Siegel. Listen to it here.

Scientists working in Sandra McLellan’s lab believe the information they find in sewage samples can help spot trends in the number of COVID cases and give healthcare providers a warning days or weeks before it happens. “This is really, potentially,… Read More

Val Klump, Ph.D., J.D. and Marissa Jablonski, Ph.D., Dean and Professor, School of Freshwater Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Executive Director of the Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin, will speak about the Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin at the 2020 Water@UW-Madison Spring Symposium… Read More

We are continuing to review applications for the Fall 2020 Professional Science Master’s cohort and are looking forward to welcoming new students into our programs. Classes will be held this fall online, blended or, hopefully, face-to-face as determined by the… Read More

Lake levels have reached a record high. With the levels of Lake Michigan and other Great Lakes soaring, Harvey Bootsma of the UWM School of Freshwater Sciences says more shoreline damage is likely to happen. Listen to the full story… Read More

  UW-Milwaukee Aquatic Scientists Russell Cuhel and Carmen Aguilar are featured with the RV NEESKAY on Chef Andrew Zimmern’s MS-NBC food series, What’s Eating America.” They demonstrate how aspects of climate change affect Lake Michigan and hence Midwest eating habits, including… Read More

Director of the Center for Water Policy School of Freshwater Sciences, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Type: Administrative Leadership Appointment within UWM Official Title: Director, Unspecified (10) Preferred Start Date: August 24, 2020 Preliminary Application Deadline: March 23, 2020. This is… Read More