Sea Grant project faves, Moira Harrington
Moira Harrington begins a new series of favorite staff projects for 2021. Hers involves an event that’s happening in 2022.
Unsalted: The Wisconsin Sea Grant Blog
How climate action can change lives
Sea Grant staffer Natalie Chin, climate and tourism outreach specialist.provides insight into some of the ways her specialty has changed in the past 50 years, and how she hopes to see it progress in the next 50.
The ever-changing ecosystems of the Great Lakes
Continuing our series of posts celebrating our 50th anniversary, we check with in Fisheries Specialist Titus Seilheimer to discusses how his field has changed over the years and how he hopes to see it progress.
Interpreting the Marten Trail
The November River Talks featured Samuel Geer, president of Urban Ecosystems, presenting, “Revealing the Invisible: Experiencing and Interpreting the St. Louis River Along Waabizheshikana (The Marten Trail).” Through his landscape architecture practice, Geer was the lead designer of the interpretive plan for the trail, which was formerly known as the Western Waterfront Trail in Duluth, Minnesota.
Sea Grant was second career for Harvey Hoven
Former Wisconsin Sea Grant extension agent Harvey Hoven worked out of the Superior field office. He was employed from 1989 through 2003 and focused on coastal businesses along the South Shore of Lake Superior, aquaculture in the Midwest and initial efforts to remediate the St. Louis River, the largest U.S. tributary into Lake Superior.
Eat fish, people!
Continuing Wisconsin Sea Grant’s 50th anniversary blog series, communications student Eva Ryan interviewed Sharon Moen, the Eat Wisconsin Fish outreach specialist. They discussed the past, present and hopes for the future of producing fish in Wisconsin for local and global consumption.
Invasive species: then and now
In the first of a series celebrating Wisconsin Sea Grant’s upcoming 50th anniversary, Tim Campbell, aquatic invasive species outreach specialist, describes how things have changed in his field in the past 50 years, and how he hopes they will progress.
Greener and cleaner: how a marina takes big strides toward cleaner water
The new season of River Talks began in October with three speakers who described projects designed to control stormwater runoff and prevent pollution at the marina on Barker’s Island in Superior, Wisconsin. Theresa Qualls with the Wisconsin Clean Marina Program, Eric Thomas with Barker’s Island Marina and Michael Krick with the city of Superior gave in-person presentations in the Lake Superior Estuarium.
Try Wisconsin fish recipes. Not you, though, zombies
October. In this month of Halloween, thoughts might turn toward ghosts, vampires and skeletons. Zombies, too. October is also Seafood Awareness Month. Moira Harrington, our assistant director for communications, draws the connection between zombies and fish.
Sea Grant staff collect commendable beach cleanup haul
The third weekend in September is traditionally a time for beach cleanups by communities in the Great Lakes. Volunteers scour beaches and shorelines for trash as part of the International Coastal Cleanup. Our Sea Grant staff members got in the spirit, participating in cleanups spanning across the state, from Wisconsin Point in Lake Superior, to Read more about Sea Grant staff collect commendable beach cleanup haul[…]