10/03/16

New Lake Herring Aquaculture Manual Provides Direction for Restoration Programs

If you visited the Great Lakes section of the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago in the past, perhaps you saw them: a school of herring swimming around and around like a silver tornado. Besides providing a mesmerizing sight, these small, torpedo-shaped fish are vital to the Great Lakes food chain. Their populations are in trouble in Read more about New Lake Herring Aquaculture Manual Provides Direction for Restoration Programs[…]

09/25/16

Wisconsin Water Library Improves Its Online Presence

The Wisconsin Water Library is relaunched with a new look and improved navigation. What hasn’t changed is the library’s mission to share water resources with all state residents.

09/21/16

A Ray of Light

How quickly can sunlight break down contaminants in the St. Louis River Estuary? A Wisconsin Sea Grant-funded researcher aims to find out.

09/21/16

Sea Grant Photography Project Focuses Kids on Water

An underwater photography project designed to engage troubled children in freshwater science is showing such success that the founders are working to expand its reach to youths in coastal communities.

09/15/16

Surrender, Don’t Release

An Oct. 1 Habitattitude event aims to help owners of unwanted exotic pets

09/12/16

Capitol Hill Briefing on Coastal Economic Resiliency Planned

Jim Sharrow with the Duluth Seaway Port Authority will be one of three speakers on Capitol Hill on Sept. 21. Sharrow, director of port planning and resiliency, will speak about the port’s successful economic activities and his work with both the Wisconsin and Minnesota Sea Grant programs on the beneficial reuse of dredged material and finding answers to the issue of freshwater corrosion of steel structures in the harbor.

09/09/16

A Fall Filled With Aquaculture

Wisconsin Sea Grant is sponsoring a seminar series and a two-day conference aimed at educating students, would-be fish farmers and the public about aquaculture and aquaponics.

08/26/16

Joe Dwyer: Improving Wisconsin’s Coastal Access

New 2016 NOAA Coastal Management Fellow will use technology, stakeholder engagement to imrprove the state’s coastal tourism.

08/22/16

Switching from Lakes to Streams: Alex Latzka, New Water Resources Policy Fellow

Although he grew up in Massachusetts, Alex Latzka fell in love with Wisconsin’s lakes and streams when visiting relatives in his youth. That love led him to receive a Ph.D. in freshwater and marine sciences, and his current post as Wisconsin’s first full-time postgraduate Water Resources Policy Fellow.

08/11/16

Great Lakes Educators to Sail in Duluth Tall Ships Festival’s Parade of Sail

Educators from Wisconsin and Minnesota will be sailing aboard the S/V Denis Sullivan as part of a unique professional development workshop offered by the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network’s Center for Great Lakes Literacy with financial support from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. The six-day, five-night workshop from August 13-18 begins in Milwaukee and ends in Duluth when the Sullivan sails into the harbor as part of the Duluth Tall Ships Festival’s Parade of Sail.