Since 1982, the marine-science and marine-policy career hopes and dreams of 28 Wisconsin scholars were sparked and nurtured into a blaze due to something known as the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, which celebrates a 40-year anniversary this year. The nationally competitive 12-month Washington, D.C.-based fellowship matches graduate students with an interest in ocean, Read more about Knauss Fellowship celebrates 40 years in 2019[…]
They are diverse group—a geoscientist, limnologist and natural resources educator. Also on the team is a water chemist, biologist, civil engineer and watershed scientist. As collaborators on a Sea Grant-funded effort to envision conditions in Green Bay, you could also say they are soothsayers. It’s a project called Transitioning Science to Management: Developing Models and Read more about Green Bay soothsayers seek to project scenarios for ecosystem restoration[…]
Students from Freedom High School in Outagamie County had a rewarding field trip to Milwaukee, where they visited Sea Grant Aquaculture Specialist Fred Binkowski, who gave them a taste of hands-on work with yellow perch.
Sea Grant Fisheries Specialist Titus Seilheimer shares helpful tips for reducing plastic marine debris.
We are always grateful for Wisconsin waters. Thanksgiving is a chance to say an extra thank-you.
Get to know Morgan Witte, a master’s student in library and information science who is working primarily with the Wisconsin Water Library.
A popular and award-winning Sea Grant book about a conservation success story is now available in paperback.
The River Talk series continues at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 14, at the Lake Superior Estuarium (3 Marina Dr., Superior, Wis.). Elizabeth Minor, a professor with the University of Minnesota Duluth’s Large Lakes Observatory, will present: “Lake Superior Storm Stories: A Biogeochemist’s View of the Plumes.”
This fall, Wisconsin Sea Grant bid farewell to a longtime and treasured employee, Kathy Schmitt Kline. She’s played many roles in the organization, all in service to Great Lakes stakeholders.
Wisconsin Sea Grant has been awarded a grant from the national office of Sea Grant, housed at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to support the further development of sustainable, land-based Atlantic salmon aquaculture.