Using soft skills to communicate hard science
Student worker Serena George’s comic-style scientific poster was runner-up for best poster for the Midwest SETAC Meeting poster session.
Category: News
Aquatic invasive species management through people management
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.
Green Infrastructure for Community Health
Gardening has been shown to be good for our physical and mental wellbeing. This year, why not plant a garden that will also improve your community’s health?
Great Lakes Julie
For National Poetry Month, our science writer turns a saltwater song into a freshwater one.
The Great Lakes BioBlitz
Everyone’s invited to celebrate Earth Day with the kickoff of the Center for Great Lakes Literacy’s 4th Annual Great Lakes BioBlitz.
Restoring piping plover habitat on Wisconsin Point
One of our science communicators takes a field trip to Wisconsin Point’s Bird Sanctuary to hear the latest intel about the status of the endangered piping plover shorebird.
History of Fond du Lac and winter Ojibwe stories shared at River Talks
Christine Carlson and Mark McConnell shared their wealth of knowledge about the community of Fond du Lac MN and Ojibwe stories for the March River Talks.
Why people love the St. Louis River
The November River Talk featured a researcher and a youth panel who spoke to the theme: “Tell us what you Love About the River.” Molly Wick, a Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve Margaret A. Davidson Fellow, described a study she designed to help environmental managers understand how the community benefits from local lakes, rivers and streams and how this work could help make those benefits more accessible to everyone. Afterward, a panel of three young people rounded out the discussion with their personal stories about why the St. Louis River is important to them.