#PFAS in maple syrup? Our emerging contaminants specialist, Gavin Dehnert, will be talking about his research at the Great Lakes PFAS Summit on December 2. https://egle.idloom.events/2025-PFAS-Summit

UW–Madison students, are you interested in academic librarianship? The Wisconsin Water Library is #hiring a student assistant for next semester! Apply by Friday, November 21.

https://studentjobs.hr.wisc.edu/en-us/job/509715/wisconsin-water-library-library-assistant

Our video producer, Bonnie Willison, won two Madison Media Pros WAVE awards last week, including judge's choice. The winning video chronicles a night spearfishing with the St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin.

Congrats, Bonnie! 🏆

Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NP-TEp4XCI

Great Lakes + trivia + drinks + bingo = Get it on the calendar, people!

Join Titus Seilheimer, Gavin Dehnert, and Amy Workman on Dec. 6 at 4 pm as they discuss lakes, invasive species, and PFAS at Uncommon Pints in Rothschild, WI.

https://today.wisc.edu/events/view/215327

Fifty years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior after hitting a ferocious storm. None of the 29 crew members survived. Learn more about this wreck and others at wisconsinshipwrecks.org.

Photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Gavin Dehnert, Sea Grant emerging contaminants specialist, and wildlife ecologist Emily Cornelius Ruhs will be talking about their research on bald eagles and #PFAS at an upcoming webinar on Nov. 13.

Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y_Bjx-0gSB2ym-MA0SntQw

This Halloween, meet a spooky #GreatLakes specimen, the bloody red shrimp! Like vampires, bloody red shrimp avoid direct sunlight, and so they'll swarm in the shadows of boats and piers.

Most haunting of all, we don't yet know how this nonnative species will impact the Great Lakes...😱

Green Bay's got the green and gold, but they've also got...green stormwater infrastructure? On Oct. 2, the East River Collaborative led a tour of green stormwater infrastructure projects in the city.

https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/stormwater-infrastructure-tour-puts-the-green-in-green-bay/

We had a fin-tastic time at the Wisconsin Science Festival this weekend! Over 250 people dropped by to learn about #sturgeon, coastal engineering, maritime archaeology, plastic pollution, and zebra mussels. Titus Seilheimer also dissected a juvenile sturgeon.

Swales!
Students!
Sturgeon!

The latest issue of the ASC Chronicle has got the three S's covered. Read about research on swales at the Ridges Sanctuary in Door County, how staff and students spent their summers, and a new children's book about sturgeon.

https://chronicle.aqua.wisc.edu/

There's more to fish than the fillet, and we need your ideas on how to use it! Submit your suggestions to the 100% Wisconsin Fish contest for a chance to win a #GreatLakes prize pack.

Contest closes Oct. 24.

https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/submit-your-ideas-to-the-100-wisconsin-fish-contest/

Tony Kiszonas has seen first-hand how changing Great Lakes water levels affect the wetlands and forests at The Ridges Sanctuary. When Lake Michigan water levels drop, he sees that some swales dry up. But some swales remain unaffected. Read more about the research: https://ow.ly/48V750X7mZz

Could this whitefish be a hat? A drink? The elixir of life? 🧪

Submit your ideas on how to use the whole fish to the 100% Wisconsin Fish contest for a chance to win a #GreatLakes prize pack!

www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/submit-...

Get revved up for Wisconsin Stormwater Week by connecting with water professionals and community leaders at Discovery World in Milwaukee this Friday, Sept. 19 from 1-3:30!

The event will highlight ongoing projects and programs around water quality and stormwater.

www.wistormwater.com

August is back-to-school season - and bird graduation! Join us on Thursday, Aug. 21 for an Everyone Can Bird event that celebrates baby birds as they move into adulthood and prepare for migration.

The event is for folks of all ages and ability levels. More info: www.facebook.com/share/1EMftY...

The latest edition of the Chronicle takes you 100 feet beneath the surface of #LakeMichigan to the wreck of the Little Harbor launch - a boat tied to cherry-picking and tourism in #DoorCounty.

We've also got stories about aquaculture interns, wild rice, and fire. Read more: chronicle.aqua.wisc.edu