In the classic game of rock, paper, scissors—during each round—one of these mock items formed by participants’ hands comes out on top. In thinking about groundwater and with a scientific twist, rock always comes out …
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Ginder-Vogel earns award for water research
Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor Matthew Ginder-Vogel has been named a 2020 Research Award Winner by the Wisconsin Section of the American Water Works Association.
Virtual symposium addresses key resource during pandemic: clean water
COVID-19 may have forced the event to go virtual, but it also brought the importance of its topic into sharp focus. “You can’t wash your hands if you don’t have water,” says Water@UW–Madison’s Matt Ginder-Vogel
Annual UW water symposium shifts online, highlights Wisconsin’s water challenges
The fifth annual Water@UW-Madison symposium will take place virtually Tuesday, May 5, 2020 highlighting water challenges at the university and state levels. More than 200 people are expected to attend the Zoom video conference, titled …
Research Finds Rising Radium Levels In Wisconsin Groundwater
A recently published study has found radium levels in groundwater have been increasing in public water supply wells over the last two decades. Researchers with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and others analyzed groundwater data collected by …
Levels of Radium Rising in Wisconsin Groundwater
In Wisconsin, the highest radium levels occur in water from two types of rock aquifers: the deep sandstone in Wisconsin’s eastern quarter and the crystalline granite found in the north-central part of the state. Water …
Levels of radium rising in Wisconsin groundwater
Several graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were part of a research team that found levels of radium in groundwater from public water supply wells in much of Wisconsin have risen over the past …
Radium found in Near West Side well; follow-up test results pending
High levels of a radioactive metal have turned up again in one of Madison’s wells. In a sample taken in August, the radium concentration was above the federal drinking water standard in Well 19 near …
Preserving a basic human right: Ginder-Vogel lands NSF CAREER award to study arsenic in groundwater
Most people don’t think about arsenic from day to day, but Matt Ginder-Vogel says it’s more common than you’d think. Ginder-Vogel, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a $560,000 CAREER …
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An Important Crop For Native People, Wild Rice Is Negatively Impacted By Changing Conditions