2023 year in review
Celebrate 2023 and the Great Lakes.
Celebrate 2023 and the Great Lakes.
Community read focused on water to kick off in 2024.
A fellow is spending a year and a half rating the vulnerability of Lake Superior wetlands to climate change.
Episode 13, 11/16/23 Michael Valley, Mississippi River Fisherman and Catfish Fillets with Lime Video Transcript In this episode, The Fish Dish travels to the Mississippi River to meet Michael Valley, a fourth-generation fisherman out of Prairie du Chien. Mike operates Valley Fish and Cheese, a quirky store that sells a plethora of different river fish Read more about Michael Valley, Mississippi River Fisherman and Catfish Fillets with Lime[…]
Debuting a new tool to spot signs of shoreline erosion on Lake Superior.
Episode 13, 11/15/23 3. Public Trust: Testing the Waters Transcript Are PFAS in maple sap, wild rice, fish and other harvestable goods important to the Anishinaabe way of life? These are some of the questions the Voigt Intertribal Task Force asked Gavin Dehnert, Wisconsin Sea Grant’s emerging contaminants scientist, after PFAS were found in wolves. Read more about 3. Public Trust: Testing the Waters[…]
Episode 54, 11/6/23 Plastics learning kit educates and enthralls Transcript Wisconsin Sea Grant’s Anne Moser has learned enough about wastewater treatment to create “Plastic Panic,” a grab-and-go kit that formal and nonformal educators can use to teach about plastic pollution in the Great Lakes, specifically, microplastics. The colorful artwork in the “grab-and-go” kit both educates Read more about Plastics learning kit educates and enthralls[…]
The next River Talk will be at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8, with “Making Sense of Algal Blooms in the St. Louis River Estuary,” an in-person presentation by Euan Reavie with the Natural Resources Research Institute. His talk will be held at the Lake Superior Estuarium (3 Marina Dr., Superior, Wis.).
Anne Moser wins Wisconsin Library Association President’s Volunteer Award.
Episode 12, 10/25/23 2. Public Trust: Fighting Fires Transcript In this episode, we return to French Island, a community near La Crosse in Western Wisconsin, to learn more about how local drinking water became contaminated with PFAS. For decades, firefighting foams made from PFAS were used at the local airport for routine training and to Read more about 2. Public Trust: Fighting Fires[…]