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Water & Environment

UWM students make a rare find while on a class hike

By Kathy QuirkMarch 21, 2022Science & TechnologyWater & Environment

UWM students make a rare find while on a class hike

By Kathy QuirkMarch 21, 2022Science & TechnologyWater & Environment

Two students on a class expedition to the UWM Field Station discovered a rare four-toed salamander, the first of its kind ever documented in Ozaukee County.

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Funding from Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin helps UWM expand training

By UWM NewsMarch 29, 2022Science & TechnologyWater & Environment

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.

Summertime salt: The mystery of chloride in Milwaukee’s rivers

By Laura OttoMarch 14, 2022Science & TechnologyWater & Environment

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?

Hands-on water research leads to job at Wisconsin DNR

By Heidi JeterFebruary 21, 2022Science & TechnologyWater & Environment

For recent UWM grad Katie Schulz, working in water science means she has the ability to make a positive impact on the world.

UWM Great Lakes research projects funded through Wisconsin Sea Grant

By Laura OttoFebruary 1, 2022Science & TechnologyWater & Environment

Four UWM research projects have been awarded funding of just over $1 million from Wisconsin Sea Grant and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

UWM team takes first place in national clean water design challenge

By Kathy QuirkDecember 8, 2021Science & TechnologyWater & Environment

A team of students from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee recently won first place in a national competition to come up with inexpensive and practical solutions to improving drinking water in remote areas.

Student takes an unanticipated path to becoming a water scientist

By Heidi JeterNovember 22, 2021Science & TechnologyWater & Environment

Tyler Kunze never anticipated a career as a water scientist. Yet in May, he became the first student to earn a bachelor’s degree in water science from UW-Green Bay and is now a graduate student in UWM’s School of Freshwater Sciences. 

UWM researchers find that beavers could be a remedy for downstream floods

By Laura OttoApril 26, 2021Science & TechnologyWater & Environment

Beavers were once abundant in the Milwaukee area, but fur trappers wiped them out more than 200 years ago. But restoring some of their population upstream could alleviate urban flooding, research shows.

Undergrad researcher ‘stepping back in time’ on Lake Michigan shoreline

By Kathy QuirkApril 19, 2021Science & TechnologyWater & Environment

Mikayla Walker is one of the student researchers studying fossils deposited along the Lake Michigan lakeshore from some 40,000 years ago, when the area was far different, made up of marshes and bogs.

Dan Egan named Brico Fund Journalist in Residence at UWM’s Center for Water Policy

By UWM NewsApril 6, 2021Science & TechnologyWater & Environment

Dan Egan, an environmental journalist and author of the “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes,” has been named the Brico Fund Journalist in Residence at the Center for Water Policy in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Sciences.

Undergrad’s research focuses on fish-fry staple yellow perch

By Kathy QuirkMarch 29, 2021Science & TechnologyWater & Environment

Emma Kraco was always interested in biological sciences in elementary and high school. “I loved looking for bugs, looking at tiny things up close. It just made sense to get interested in water, especially fresh water. It’s absolutely teeming with life all the time.”

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