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They also led a new hands-on summer course, in collaboration with UW-River Falls, that got undergraduate students from multiple campuses conducting research on Lake Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional expeditions included launching research buoys in Racine, Green Bay and Milwaukee (Atwater and Bradford Beaches). The Bootsma lab provided the opportunity&nbsp;to launch never-before tested equipment dubbed the mussel masher because it weighs in at about 1,500 pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jim Waples and two students made multiple trips to gather samples of radioactive atoms for their research on tracking particle transport in water. 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