Freshwater graduate Clay St. John was featured in the 51ÁÔÆæ Class of 2025’s commencement video, highlighting their academic careers and what is next after graduation. Clay worked as an intern with Engineers Without Borders and traveled to Guatemala to install …
Daniel Wroblewski (BFA Film ’21, MS Freshwater Sciences ’25) recently completed an internship with NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. As a Communications and Social Media Intern, he utilized his video editing skills to create videos with varying topics related …
“We are creating new land here in the heart of the city—in the lake. When it’s finished, years from now, it will become lakefront land. So the question is: what should it be as part of the city? A port …
As coastal land manipulation and flooding increase along Wisconsin’s Great Lakes regions, two graduate student teams at UW-Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Sciences have delivered a set of recommendations to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) aimed at building long-term …
Associate dean and professor Harvey Bootsma spoke to Spectrum News 1 about programs at risk with the proposed 2026 federal budget, which includes the Great Lakes Observing System and other research programs. GLOS is funded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric …
Kevin Shafer of Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District envisions a greener, climate-ready Milwaukee. Including help from the School of Freshwater Sciences, MMSD is tackling PFAS and microplastics flowing into Lake Michigan. “Water is the gold of this century—we just need to …
Dr. Brandon Gerig is cited as a senior author in two new published papers: “Intraspecific variation in stable isotopes provides insight into adfluvial migrations and ecology of brook trout in Lake Superior tributaries.” Abstract: Lake Superior is one of the …
Peyton McCauley, Water Policy Specialist, was a featured speaker at the Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal “Guardrails for Green Tech: Legal Perspectives on AI’s Environmental Impacts” symposium on April 25, 2025. Peyton presented on her legal research into the …
Many Freshwater Sciences undergraduate students participated in the 17th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium on Friday, April 25th. Out of 275 presenters across campus, there were 21 finalists. School of Freshwater Sciences students Jena Choi and John De Tuncq were finalists. …
Dr. Ben Peterson is cited as a co-author in a new article in Environmental Science & Technology titled “Sulfate Reduction Drives Elevated Methylmercury Formation in the Water Column of a Eutrophic Freshwater Lake.” The microbial factors underlying environmental formation of …
