The Wisconsin Water Library is a back-to-school resource
The Wisconsin Water Library is a great resource for schools and students. Moira Harrington, our communications coordinator, reminisces about her children’s school days.
Unsalted: The Wisconsin Sea Grant Blog
Big pride, big photo
Kyle Woolever with the Superior Fresh aquaculture facility was featured in a Sea Grant display at the Dane County Regional Airport. Now that the display is being dismantled, his parents get to keep his huge photo that was part of it.
Lake Superior Love
Wisconsin Sea Grant was represented by fortune-telling fish at Lake Superior Day this year. We also offer Lake Superior images for free download through Flickr.
It takes a family to deal with dangerous currents
Chin Wu is working to “build a family” to deal with dangerous currents along the South Shore of Lake Superior and on other beaches in the Great Lakes. Wu, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, made the comment during a dangerous currents workshop in late May in Ashland, Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Maritime Museum photo exhibit depicts a changing commercial fishing industry
Photographs by Jim Legault now on display at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc show how the commercial fishing industry has changed over the years, as has the ecology of Lake Michigan.
“People of the Sturgeon” lives on, online!
Graduate student Morgan Witte has helped make “People of the Sturgeon” audio interviews available online, expanding the ways that people can interact with the book’s content.
Newton Creek under the microscope
Lorena Rios-Mendoza with the University of Wisconsin-Superior has found 15 toxic chemicals so far in Newton Creek in Superior.
Water@UW-Madison symposium unites poetry and science
A day of thinking about water from many different angles ended–fittingly–with poetry.
We have a winner in the Spring Thaw Throwdown!
The winner of the Spring Thaw Throwdown is announced! Find out who takes the title of “Wisconsin’s least-wanted aquatic invasive species.”
Project partner: Mike LeClair, Susie-Q Fish Co.
Mike LeClair is a fourth-generation commercial fisherman on Lake Michigan, based out of Two Rivers, Wisconsin. With more than 45 years of fishing experience, he’s one of Wisconsin Sea Grant’s partners on a project that sought to understand the catch rates of whitefish and incidental species (bycatch) in an experimental trawl fishery on Lake Michigan. Read more about Project partner: Mike LeClair, Susie-Q Fish Co.[…]