A new research project lead by a UW graduate student looks to bring together tribal and university researchers on the issue of wild rice protection and restoration. We hear from the student about the aims …
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Wild Rice Project Sows Seeds for University Tribal Collaboration
The Ojibwe people tell of a prophecy that spurred their journey from the Atlantic coast of North America to the Great Lakes region more than 1,000 years ago — revelations that told them to travel …
Over the moon over Manoomin
Sarah Dance, a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was recently awarded a Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment grant to fund research into wild rice in Wisconsin. When her advisor, Matthew Ginder-Vogel, assistant professor in …
Wisconsin Scientists Are Trying New Techniques To Help Protect Water
Wisconsin scientists are working on new ways to protect drinking and surface water from pollutants. They’re also investigating better methods of cleaning water that’s already contaminated. But researchers say success may cost taxpayers more money.
Elevated radium levels detected in Brookfield drinking water
BROOKFIELD, Wis. (CBS 58) — The City of Brookfield says their drinking water is in violation of State and Federal Safe Drinking Water Regulations due to elevated levels of combined Radium-226 and Radium-228. In a …
Unraveling the radium riddle
Over the last several years, the city of Waukesha, Wis., has become the poster child for requests to divert water from Lake Michigan under the Great Lakes Compact, in part because it’s also the poster …
We carved Pumpkins!
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Jacqueline Mejia Awarded DOE SCGSR Fellowship
Doctoral candidate Jacqueline Mejia was awarded a fellowship from the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research to work with Professor Jack Gilbert at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago. Congratulations! Jackie’s project will use …
New Paper by Elizabeth Tomaszewski!
Elizabeth Tomaszewski’s first paper has been published in Chemical Geology! Congratulations Beth! The role of dissolved Fe(II) concentration in the mineralogical evolution of Fe (hydr)oxides during redox cycling This paper examines the mineralogical evolution of …