Carrie Bristoll-Groll has made a career out of improving urban infrastructure and educating the public on how they can prevent flooding and improve their beaches and water quality.

Each summer for the past six years, Bill Sonzogni and Jim Peterson have been teaching parts of a limnology (the study of lakes) class to grandparents and their grandchildren. The class is part of the popular Grandparents University, which is offered by the Wisconsin Alumni Association and in which Wisconsin Sea Grant participates. What these students might not realize is that, between Sonzogni and Peterson, they are on the receiving end of nearly 100 years of experience in water issues.

The Wisconsin and Minnesota Sea Grant programs are winners of major national research award.

The third of UW Sea Grant’s 2015 Knauss Marine Policy fellows is drawn to water in every way.

The second of UW Sea Grant’s 2015 Knauss Marion Policy Fellows refuses to let obstacles stand in her way.

Maritime archaeologists survey the docks and timber cribs of the 19th-century brownstone quarries at Stockton, Basswood and Hermit Islands.

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.