The final talk of the 2022-23 River Talk season took place in early May. Steve Kolbe, an avian ecologist with the University of Minnesota Duluth’s Natural Resources Research Institute, gave a presentation about where to find birds in the St. Louis River Estuary
In a continuation of her Wisconsin tour, science communicator Marie visits the Green Bay Packaging Co. and the Menominee Reservation.
Our Minnesota-born science communicator, Marie, finds herself on a bus traveling around the state of Wisconsin to learn more about its culture. This included a tour of Ho-Chunk sites on the UW-Madison campus.
Jenna, our new science communicator, discusses her soft spot for sturgeon and her quest to see them spawn in Wisconsin this spring.
Over the course of two days in August, educators will work alongside each other, engineers, scientists and Sea Grant educators to take a deep dive into coastal engineering on Lake Michigan.
Environmental science painter and muralist Adam Swanson described how he mixes art and science for the April River Talk.
Student worker Serena George’s comic-style scientific poster was runner-up for best poster for the Midwest SETAC Meeting poster session.
Natural resource management issues often boil down to people management issues. To make meaningful progress in aquatic invasive species management issues, human behavior must be taken into account. Intersections between natural and social science is the theme of a recent article written by Wisconsin Sea Grant’s Tim Campbell and University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Bret Shaw.