Meet Sharon Cook, our newest advisory council member. Sharon is unusually connected to the Great Lakes. She lives two blocks from Lake Michigan in Milwaukee. She tutors a fourth-grade class once a week at a school with a Great Lakes focus. And she has literally immersed herself in Lake Michigan — diving down fifty feet to the shipwreck that claimed the life of her great-great-grandmother and great-aunt.
Using money from the NOAA Marine Debris Program, UW Sea Grant partners to educate commercial and tribal fishermen about the dangers of unmoored gill nets in Lake Superior–and what do do when they become entangled in one.
Researcher Greg Kleinheinz aims to assess whether redesigning beaches has an impact on reducing contamination.
The first of UW Sea Grant’s three 2015 Knauss Marine Policy Fellows is a dynamo who’s always expanding her horizons.
If you’ve ever seen the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or the Sea Grant logo, you’ve probably noticed a gull is part of it. Recently, two NOAA partners seized a chance to give a gull a helping hand.
A Wisconsin Sea Grant-funded researcher has found that dioxin exposure can negatively impact the nose tissue and sexual development of rainbow trout and zebrafish.
She brings years of internal experience to a newly created role.
A website offers a one-stop-shop for wave and weather conditions at Milwaukee County beaches, including information about potentially deadly rip currents.
A team of boat landing inspectors is on Great Lakes sites to spread educational messages to boaters: clean, drain and dry. They protect Wisconsin waters.
Emma Wiermaa is working to give aquaculture a good name — not that it has a bad name — but people sometimes have misconceptions about its fish-raising practices and food safety. Wiermaa is the new part-time outreach specialist at the Northern Aquaculture Demonstration Facility (NADF) in Red Cliff, Wis.