UW Sea Grant Awarded $1.9 Million Federal Grant
By John Karl
WASHINGTON, D.C. (3/18/99) — U.S. Senator Herb Kohl announced today that the National Sea Grant College Program has awarded the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute $1.9 million to support the first year of its federally approved 1998-2000 program.
Coupled with $1.6 million in matching funds from the State of Wisconsin and private sources, the federal
grant will support a total of 35
research, outreach and education projects involving 77 faculty and academic staff and
58 graduate and undergraduate students at seven UW System
campuses: UW-Madison; UW-Milwaukee;
UW-Green Bay; UW-La
Crosse; UW-Stevens Point; UW-Superior; and UW-Manitowoc.
"This grant allows us to continue conducting research and education on a host of Great Lakes issues," said UW Sea Grant Director Anders W. Andren. "We look forward to a year of useful research findings from Wisconsin’s university scientists and to providing helpful public services through our outreach and education programs."
The collapse of Lake Michigan’s yellow perch fishery will receive special attention from Sea Grant during the next two years. Andren said both the Illinois-Indiana and Michigan Sea Grant programs have joined with UW Sea Grant in funding a coordinated perch research program involving more than a half-dozen university scientists.
Other research theme areas include continuation of UW Sea Grant’s Lake Superior initiative, freshwater aquaculture, zebra mussels and other exotic aquatic species, cleaning up contaminated harbor sediments, scuba diving safety, and environmental contaminants suspected of disrupting the endocrine systems of aquatic animals.
The grant will also support the work of eight UW Sea Grant Advisory Services specialists, who provide free statewide assistance in aquaculture, water quality issues, geographic information systems, and recreational and commercial fishing. Other specialist services include Great Lakes-related business development and coastal engineering advice, contaminated sediment remediation technologies, and K-12 and public education programs.
For More Information:
Anders W. Andren, Director, UW Sea Grant Institute, (608) 262-0905
Stephen Wittman, Assistant Director for Communications, (608) 263-3259
Allen H. Miller, Assistant Director for Advisory Services, (608) 262-0645
Mary Lou Reeb, Assistant Director for Education, (608) 263-0905
Created in 1966, Sea Grant is a national network of 29 university-based programs of research, outreach and education dedicated to the protection and sustainable use of the United States' coastal, ocean and Great Lakes resources. The National Sea Grant Network is a partnership of participating coastal states, private industry and the National Sea Grant College Program , National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration , U.S. Department of Commerce . The University of Wisconsin Sea Grant College Program is administered by the Sea Grant Institute on the UW-Madison campus in Madison, Wisconsin.
Posted 29 March 2000 by Karl
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