The School of Freshwater Sciences launches and maintains a number of buoys in Lake Michigan, which provide information for research and recreation from late spring through fall. What happens to the buoys during the winter? According to Jessie Grow, freshwater …
The National Science Foundation recently awarded Professor Laodong Guo $360,800 to investigate how microplastics behave in water and the chemical properties of their smallest particles during weathering.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Reporter Caitlin Looby joined the School of Freshwater Sciences crew on the expedition to retrieve our 850-pound buoy at Atwater Beach. Her front-page article details the importance of the three buoys we monitor and the important information …
How do bacteria affect the infrastructure of sewer systems? Professor Sandra McLellan has been studying this issue for a number of years, and now she will travel halfway around the world to gain insight into how to build better cities. …
During hurricane season, the Washington Post and the New York Times consulted a database on a UWM professor’s website for information on these storms, past and present. What were they looking for that they couldn’t get from NOAA’s National Hurricane …
Climate-fueled weather events, such as hurricanes, fires and drought, are becoming more common, and better tools are needed to understand and predict changing weather patterns. To better understand the Earth’s atmosphere and combat climate change, the U.S. Department of Energy …
Often extensive but unseen, sewer systems collect and transport wastewater in cities. In doing so, they prevent the rapid spread of diseases. Studying the microorganisms living among the vast network of pipes beneath a city can tell us a great …
By Laura Otto, UWM Report When Dong-Fang Deng and her students make feed for the fish they raise at UWM’s School of Freshwater Sciences, they often use ground fishmeal – dried fish parts from fisheries or wild catch – as …
Permafrost affects only 10 percent of the Earth’s surface—mainly in the far north. However, changes in these distant regions should concern us all. Rapid warming is causing cascading changes in permafrost regions that are threatening biodiversity, the stability of global …
The laboratory of Rebecca Klaper just had a study published in the journal Nature Nanomaterials! Read the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-022-01096-2 Engineered nanomaterials — particles that are 100 nm in one dimension and are made of various chemicals — are being incorporated into everything …
