Eating snails, for science
Sea Grant’s fisheries specialist recently joined a top chef for the collection of nonnative snails for a tasty meal. It will air on a nationally broadcast program on the Outdoor Channel in January.
Sea Grant’s fisheries specialist recently joined a top chef for the collection of nonnative snails for a tasty meal. It will air on a nationally broadcast program on the Outdoor Channel in January.
Sea Grant-funded research has found PFAS and PFOA, known as forever chemicals and detrimental to human health, have spread into the Great Lakes via a contaminated site in northeastern Wisconsin.
The River Talks will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 11, at the Lake Superior Estuarium in Superior, with “Nimaawanji’idimin Giiwitaashkodeng: Working with Fire to Heal the Land on Wisconsin and Minnesota Points,” an in-person and Zoom presentation by Evan Larson, University of Wisconsin-Platteville and Melonee Montano, Red Cliff tribal member and University of Minnesota graduate student.
Alison Mikulyuk is the new Water@UW coordinator.
A Wisconsin Sea Grant event held in Madison this fall celebrated Wisconsin’s water, from drinking water to water on which businesses rely for their livelihoods. These include commercial fishing and aquaculture operations.
A research project on Wisconsin and Minnesota points seeks to combine tree-ring data with Indigenous Experiential Knowledge.
Bonnie Willison recently won two video production awards.
Ask Jim Lubner about his 33-year career as a boating safety and education outreach specialist at Wisconsin Sea Grant (and what led to those years), and he’ll tell you about Lake Michigan. “Living in the Bay View area of Milwaukee, I’m never very far from Lake Michigan. I see it on a regular basis and Read more about A Lifetime of Education—Retired Outreach Specialist James Lubner[…]
A brand-new video celebrates Wisconsin Sea Grant’s 50 years of service.
Hannah Paulson, the newest J. Philip Keillor Wisconsin Coastal Management-Sea Grant Fellow, brings strong interests in both social equity and nature-based solutions for stabilizing shorelines.