Dr. Harvey Bootsma, Professor and Researcher at UWM School of Freshwater Sciences explains why the future of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes is in peril. Dr. Bootsma shares how the quagga mussel, an invasive species, is destroying many underwater vessels.
UWM School of Freshwater Professor and Researcher Harvey Bootsma is interviewed in an article about shipwrecks, downed planes and the invasive quagga mussel.
UWM’s Innovative Weather Center, which gives student meteorologists real-world experience, is closing. Innovative Weather has been in operation for 17 years and is a completely unique program where students can learn how to forecast.
UWM School of Freshwater Sciences would like to announce an open position for Assistant Professor in Fisheries. This tenure-track position has an applied fisheries focus. Candidates with a background in fisheries, biology, marine biology, ecology or freshwater science are encouraged …
UWM School of Freshwater Sciences has announced an open position for Assistant Professor in Freshwater Dynamics. The position is for a tenure-track faculty member with expertise in the dynamics of large aquatic systems and their connected urban and rural watersheds. The …
Wisconsin is part of the global trend of recent heat waves. UWM Atmospheric Sciences Professor Clark Evans shares how a new method of computer modeling is being used for heat wave predictions and looks at the impact of these heat …
UWM School of Freshwater Sciences researcher Jim Waples and his two grad students, Rachel Smith and Gage Hunter, spent the summer on the Neeskay. They were gathering samples of radioactive atoms for their research on tracking particle transport in water.
NPR’s Here and Now program highlighted Lina Tran’s recent story on WUWM about why Lake Michigan appears to change color. She joined SFS scientists Russell Cuhel and Carmen Aguilar-Diaz on the R/V Neeskay to learn about this phenomenon and their …
The 2023 Sea Grant and University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute (WRI) Fellows Convocation and Awards Event honored four award winners, 21 postgraduate fellows, three undergraduate scholarship winners and 61 summer undergraduate scholars. Among those honored were Val Klump, former …
Jeff Houghton, UWM School of Freshwater Sciences research ecologist, presented the keynote address at Lake Michigan Day, held at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc. Houghton is part of a team of researchers who have spent the last five years …
