This week, we're excited to be hosting #IAGLR25. Nearly 500 attendees are here in Milwaukee! We hope it's a great week of learning, sharing and connecting. 🧑‍🔬🌊💙 If you're at the conference, say hello and check out our booth in the N200 Level of the Baird Center!

Tonight Milwaukee! Join us for a FREE screening and meet our robot. Grab your tickets: uwm.edu/freshwater/eve…

Invasive mussels drastically altered the Great Lakes. Now, scientists are fighting back. jsonline.com/story/news/loc…

🌊 The Freshwater@UW 2025 cohort wrapped their orientation week with a visit last week—complete with lab tours, kayaking the Milwaukee River, and time aboard the R/V Neeskay. Next up: 8 weeks of #research with faculty across 13 UW campuses! 👩‍🔬🧪 Water@UW-Madison

Hundreds of scientists gather in Milwaukee to confront Great Lakes resilience challenges jsonline.com/story/news/spe…

Invasive zebra & quagga mussels are changing the Great Lakes—and UW-Milwaukee professor Harvey Bootsma is helping lead efforts to stop them. 🧪🌊 New research could offer real solutions for Lake Michigan. Read more: jsonline.com/story/news/loc…

Grad students from UWM School of Freshwater Sciences were featured on WUWM 89.7 FM for their work on flood risk & resilience in #Milwaukee — highlighting #climate impacts, #FEMA mapping inequities, & #greeninfrastructure. 🎧 Listen: wuwm.com/environment/20…

.UW-Milwaukee’s Harvey Bootsma of UWM School of Freshwater Sciences is leading bold, first-of-their-kind efforts to remove invasive mussels from #LakeMichigan. From mussel mashers to underwater crawlers, scientists are testing new ways to protect our waters and ecosystems. jsonline.com/story/news/loc…

Two highlights for me were visiting a Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District - MMSD Greenseams site and visiting the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee’s UWM School of Freshwater Sciences.

Invasive #mussels have disrupted #LakeMichigan for decades. Now, UWM School of Freshwater Sciences's Dr. Harvey Bootsma is leading a team testing new strategies to fight back. Learn more about these efforts from Meteorologist Gino Recchia at WISN 12 NEWS. wisn.com/article/scient…

Nothing ruins a day at the beach like E. coli. 😩💩 Learn how Sea Grant-funded researcher and UWM School of Freshwater Sciences professor Ryan Newton is developing a quicker way to test for E. coli at public beaches and identify where it came from. seagrant.wisc.edu/news/developin…

Great to see the improvements at South Shore beach to make it clean, safe, healthy! Shout out to all the students UWM School of Freshwater Sciences that contributed. jsonline.com/story/news/loc… via Journal Sentinel Caitlin Looby, PhD

Bay View’s South Shore Beach is nearly back! 🏖 Thanks to years of monitoring by the McLellan Lab, we now know what was causing water quality issues—bacteria, runoff, & water flow. After major improvements, it’s clean, swimmable & ready for beachgoers. jsonline.com/story/news/loc…

Offshore wind in the Great Lakes = clean energy for the region and beyond. We break it down in our new article for The Conversation U.S. & explain why state leadership is key as federal #offshorewind permitting stalls. #GreatLakes #CleanEnergy #RenewableEnergy theconversation.com/great-lakes-of…

📨 New article published in The Conversation US by our partners UWM Center for Water Policy in the school of UWM School of Freshwater Sciences, authored by Melissa Scanlan and Cora Sutherland, about how #GreatLakes offshore wind could power the region & beyond Read the full article: theconversation.com/great-lakes-of…

Fall Welcome is your time to dive into #UWM life. From student org fairs to trying new activities and everything in between, there’s no better way to start the semester. Explore the Fall Welcome events below! uwm.edu/welcome/events/

USGS scientists love sharing our science! In mid July, @usgs_umid Physical Scientist James Romano and Hydrologist Hayley Olds visited a high school summer research camp at UWM School of Freshwater Sciences. 1/4

"Saving our Sturgeon," a children's book about Wisconsin's beloved big fish, is out now! Written by Rebecca Hogue Wojahn, the book tells the story of how people came together to save the lake sturgeon – a prehistoric fish that can live up to 150 years. seagrant.wisc.edu/news/new-child…

Lake Michigan's rising temperatures could be changing the taste of your tap water; our own Sandra McLellan and other experts explain why tmj4.com/news/local-new…