What is marine debris, what are its impacts and what can we do about it? These are the central messages of a play written on behalf of Wisconsin Sea Grant that is now available for others to use for free, complete with props.
Video Producer Bonnie Willison’s favorite projects from this year are bound to make you hungry.
Learn more about Ojibwe culture in the Great Lakes by joining our online book club!
Episode 14 For the final episode of Public Trust, we head to the communities of Peshtigo and Marinette in northeast Wisconsin, where we meet local residents who have been engaged in a yearslong battle with a multinational company that polluted their drinking water with PFAS. We learn how community members have come together to fight …
Staff member Adam Bechle’s favorite project this year involved sharing his coastal processes and engineering expertise about Milwaukee’s lakefront with educators during a shipboard science workshop.
A new report published by the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that Wisconsin’s rural residents perceived significant risks to water quality from pesticides, PFAS (which are per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances) and excess nutrients. They also ranked water as very or extremely important for supporting wildlife and for hunting and fishing, in addition to home uses such …
Euan Reavie with the Natural Resources Research Institute described possible reasons behind a seeming increase in harmful algal blooms in the St. Louis River Estuary and Lake Superior at a recent River Talk.
Science Communicator Marie Zhuikov recounts lessons learned at a recent symposium on wild rice, which she attended with Deidre Peroff, our social science outreach specialist.