UWM to participate in The Water Council’s WAVE program
WAVE, established in 2022, offers a continual improvement platform that gives participants clear pathways to improve water stewardship.
WAVE, established in 2022, offers a continual improvement platform that gives participants clear pathways to improve water stewardship.
Plastic waste breaks down in the environment, but little is known about just how much they degrade and what the effects on people might be.
Dong-Fang Deng, professor of freshwater sciences at UWM, sought to find out what happens when fish ingest the tiny particles of plastic that increasingly litter our oceans and lakes.
Summer brings warm weather, sunshine and time to enjoy Wisconsin’s beautiful waters. Unfortunately, it can also bring potentially toxic blue green algae that can result in toxins harmful to humans and pets.
J. Val Klump, former dean and a professor emeritus of the School of Freshwater Sciences at UW-Milwaukee, recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association for Great Lakes Research, the association’s highest accolade.
On this episode of Curious Campus, we talk with the new interim captain of the UWM research vessel Neeskay and Harvey Bootsma, a professor at the School of Freshwater Sciences who often uses the ship.
The Center for Water Policy at the UWM School for Freshwater Sciences has named Laura M. Suppes as the 2022-23 Water Policy Scholar. Suppes is an associate professor in public health and environmental studies at UW-Eau Claire.
On this edition of Curious Campus, UWM scientist Rebecca Klaper talks about the research being done by the School of Freshwater Sciences and the potential danger of nanomaterials.
UWM will receive $777,277 from the Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin this year to enhance its water-related academic programs designed to help students interested in water-related fields at the 13 UW System universities.
UWM researchers Charles Paradis is trying to answer a question: Tons of salt are spread on roads in the winter, so why do rivers and lakes get salty months later?