March 2026

3/5/2026 Louisiana 4.9

Location: Louisiana, Date: March 5, 2026, Time: 11:30:08 UTC; 5:30:08 AM CST, Magnitude: 4.9 Mw

A Journey into the Namib Desert

During the austral winters of 2019, 2021, and 2022, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee sedimentology team went deep into one of the oldest and driest deserts on Earth to investigate a well-preserved deep-time landscape generated by glaciers around 300 million years ago.

Congratulations to Ryan Krakowiak, Ph.D. student

Congratulations to Ryan Krakowiak, Ph.D. student, for publishing a research article in the Journal of Hydrology titled, “Elucidating seasonal pathways and sources of chloride to freshwater streams across urban and rural catchments”. A link to the article (in-press) is here: …

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.