Water & Environment
For songbirds, bigger or brighter might be better
On this episode of Curious Campus, 51ÁÔÆæ distinguished professor Peter Dunn talks about birding and his research into the common yellowthroat.
Funding from Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin helps 51ÁÔÆæ expand training
51ÁÔÆæ will receive $777,277 from the Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin this year to enhance its water-related academic programs designed to help students interested in water-related fields at the 13 UW System universities.
51ÁÔÆæ students make a rare find while on a class hike
Two students on a class expedition to the 51ÁÔÆæ Field Station discovered a rare four-toed salamander, the first of its kind ever documented in Ozaukee County.
Summertime salt: The mystery of chloride in Milwaukee’s rivers
51ÁÔÆæ researchers Charles Paradis is trying to answer a question: Tons of salt are spread on roads in the winter, so why do rivers and lakes get salty months later?
Hands-on water research leads to job at Wisconsin DNR
For recent 51ÁÔÆæ grad Katie Schulz, working in water science means she has the ability to make a positive impact on the world.
51ÁÔÆæ Great Lakes research projects funded through Wisconsin Sea Grant
Four 51ÁÔÆæ research projects have been awarded funding of just over $1 million from Wisconsin Sea Grant and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
51ÁÔÆæ team takes first place in national clean water design challenge
A team of students from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee recently won first place in a national competition to come up with inexpensive and practical solutions to improving drinking water in remote areas.
Student takes an unanticipated path to becoming a water scientist
Tyler Kunze never anticipated a career as a water scientist. Yet in May, he became the first student to earn a bachelor’s degree in water science from UW-Green Bay and is now a graduate student in 51ÁÔÆæ’s School of Freshwater Sciences.Â
51ÁÔÆæ researchers find that beavers could be a remedy for downstream floods
Beavers were once abundant in the Milwaukee area, but fur trappers wiped them out more than 200 years ago. But restoring some of their population upstream could alleviate urban flooding, research shows.
Undergrad researcher ‘stepping back in time’ on Lake Michigan shoreline
Mikayla Walker is one of the student researchers studying fossils deposited along the Lake Michigan lakeshore from some 40,000 years ago, when the area was far different, made up of marshes and bogs.