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.
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.