Learning about Manoomin

Deidre Peroff got to know Generation Z students better on field excursions to learn about wild rice during a meaningful four days last summer.

Hiring Beach Ambassadors

The summer Beach Ambassador Program in Milwaukee, conducted by Sea Grant and partners, keeps people safer from dangerous currents.

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Deidre Peroff, social science and Sea Grant by numbers

As Sea Grant celebrates a 50-year anniversary in 2022, we celebrate bringing on board a social scientist. Her work demonstrates the evolution of how Sea Grant deepened an understanding of and recognized the value of bringing a human dimension to freshwater and coastal science.