When it comes to monitoring diseases that affect public heath, Wisconsin is one of four National Centers of Excellence, a CDC designation that puts the state at the forefront of efforts to improve and expand wastewater’s role in monitoring public …
Echo, a graduate student in the Professional Science Master’s program, makes learning about conservation and the environment fun for kids and adults as Mermaid Echo. She regularly performs at Discovery World and birthday parties. She came to UW-Milwaukee’s School of …
WUWM Environmental Reporter Susan Bence talks with Captain Max Morgan about captaining the R/V Neeskay year-round in UWM research vessel captain: ‘Almost like you’re president & the United States is your ship’.
A new project funded by Inflation Reduction Act dollars will build a living breakwater along part of Milwaukee’s Lake Michigan coast to help further protect the harbor from big storm events that are becoming more common due to climate change. …
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Brittany Truong joined the R/V Neeskay crew to learn about Great Lakes research, the need for a more research and how, once built, the Maggi Sue will be the most advanced vessel on the Great Lakes. …
WUWM Reporter Lina Chan climbed aboard the R/V Neeskay to talk with SFS scientists Russell Cuhel and Carmen Aguilar-Diaz about why Lake Michigan appears to change color. Sediment, dissolved plant bits, plankton, the angle at which sunlight hits the water, …
Wisconsin Sea Grant’s article Persistent Pollution: Researchers investigate the key to E. coli bacteria survival in Lake Michigan beach sand and water highlights ongoing research being conducted by Sandra McLellan and Gyaneshwar Prasad, both are Sea Grant-funded researchers at UW-Milwaukee. With School …
The Wisconsin Wastewater Surveillance Program has been named a National Center of Excellence for Wastewater Surveillance by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Wisconsin Wastewater Surveillance Program (WWSP) is a partnership between the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, …
Jon Kahl, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, talked about a perfect storm of polluted air in Wisconsin due to wildfires.
CBS 58 spoke with Professor Harvey Bootsma to learn more insight about the challenges faced by rescue and recovery teams. “Sound travels more than four times faster in water than it does in air and sound is not attenuated or …
