Just like in the ocean, Lakes Michigan and Superior can harbor rip currents. Learn what to look for and how to keep safe.

At the end of June, UW Sea Grant Assistant Director Mary Lou Reeb retires, after 36 years of service with the organization.

Preliminary dives begin this week.

Jennifer Phillips was recently named a 2013 Dean A. Knauss Sea Grant Fellow. She will be off to Washington, D.C., next year for a 12-month stint in, she hopes, the executive branch, to better marry science and policy making.

A project more than four decades in the making, work finally begins on the restoration of Green Bay’s Cat Island chain.

The award-winning People of the Sturgeon will soon be released as an audiobook. Get an early listen to how wonderful it’s going to sound.

Sea Grant’s Chris Bocast spent months producing an audio adaptation of the popular “People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin’s Love Affair With an Ancient Fish.” Now, it’s complete, and ready for purchase.

The International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) gives Harris the John R. (Jack) Vallentyne Award.

It all started so innocently. Eleven years ago, Paul Herder received a postcard from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee promoting the National Ocean Science Bowl competition.

When Robbie Greene came to UW-Madison, he probably never thought it would lead to a job on a far-flung tropical archipelago with active volcanoes, but that’s just what happened.