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.

Throughout its 42-year history, UW Sea Grant has maintained an unparalleled commitment to educating the next generation of marine and land-use scientists and specialists.

Anders Andren ends two-plus decades at the helm of UW Sea Grant at the end of June, and Jim Hurley is already on the job and getting up to speed. NOAA Director Leon Cammen salutes them both.

Environmental science major Hans Bremer gets to spend his summer coordinating a small troop of soldiers fighting a war. The war is not directed against other people in faraway places, however. It’s directed against invasive plants and animals in local waterways.

Phil Moy arrives in Colorado, inspects some boats, contemplates a “slopper”

Beginning in early May, UW Sea Grant will ask area shoppers what they know and how the feel about Wisconsin fish.

UW Sea Grant fisheries and aquatic invasive species expert Phil Moy is on his way to the Cabela’s Masters Walleye Circuit fishing tournament this weekend at Lake Pueblo State Park in Colorado, there to help spread the word among anglers about preventing the spread of aquatic invasive species.

A four-student team from Marshfield, Wis., bested schools from around the country in the annual National Ocean Sciences Bowl that pits one team’s oceanography knowledge against 24 others.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School Dean Martin Cadwallader named Jim Hurley to be the next director of Wisconsin Sea Grant, only the third in the program’s history.