Unique collaboration helps marinas install green infrastructure
Nature-based techniques installed at marinas can minimize water pollution, eliminate flooding and improve aesthetics. New video offers details.
Nature-based techniques installed at marinas can minimize water pollution, eliminate flooding and improve aesthetics. New video offers details.
Episode 10, 2/10/23 Happy Burbotine’s Day! Transcript In this episode Sharon and Marie interview Titus Seilheimer, Sea Grant’s fisheries outreach specialist. Then they travel to Cornucopia, Wisconsin, on the south shore of Lake Superior to speak with staff from Halvorson Fisheries. What’s the topic? Burbot! If you’re not familiar with what a burbot fish is, Read more about Happy Burbotine’s Day![…]
I am the aquaculture outreach and extension specialist.
Episode 10, 2/8/23 Fire, blueberries and treaty rights Transcript Today, we’re talking about red pine forests, blueberries, treaty rights, and how they all converge around fire on a tiny split of land jutting out into Lake Superior – what we now call Minnesota and Wisconsin Points. The story starts at the opening ceremony of a Read more about Fire, blueberries and treaty rights[…]
2/6/23 Season Two: An Update Hear an update about season two and a farewell message from Hali, co-creator of The Water We Swim In and former Wisconsin Sea Grant intern. Credits Bonnie Willison | Host Video Producer What I do at Sea Grant As the videographer and digital storyteller, Bonnie uses her video and animation skills Read more about Season Two: An Update[…]
The River Talks will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8 with “We’ve Got Fleas! Invaders and Nonlocal Beings on Water and Land,” a Zoom-only presentation given by Kelsey Taylor with Fond du Lac Natural Resource Management Division and Zach Stewart with Douglas County. Taylor will share information about invasive species, or nonlocal beings, Read more about We’ve got fleas![…]
Allie Pesano’s love of birds has her researching the impacts of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) on the reproductive success of birds in the Duluth area.
The Water We Swim In is a multi-episode podcast series created and hosted by Bonnie Willison, Sea Grant’s digital storyteller, along with student Hali Jama. The series recently won two awards in the inaugural national Signal Awards competition. In the diversity, equity and inclusion category, the series won both a bronze award and the listener’s Read more about Water equity podcast wins two national awards[…]
Episode 47, 1/5/23 The Stories Trees Tell Transcript A Wisconsin Sea Grant-funded research and outreach project is designed to explore how the Anishinaabe people connected to and homesteaded the lands of Wisconsin and Minnesota points and how they used fire to manage the landscape. The project name, “Nimaawanji’idimin Giiwitaashkodeng,” translates into “We are all gathering Read more about The Stories Trees Tell[…]