What happens after an eaglet comes down from the nest? On the ground, the Eagle Health team works carefully to collect blood samples that will reveal how contaminants move through the food web, and how they may affect immune health in bald eagles. https://youtube.com/shorts/OIyxeth6h68?feature=share

Bird lovers, this one's for you. 🦅 The latest Chronicle profiles the work of the Great Lakes Eagle Health Project, which is investigating how PFAS impact the health of bald eagles. Learn how the team finds eagles, scales trees, and takes blood samples. https://chronicle.aqua.wisc.edu/

Meet the tree climbers behind the Great Lakes Eagle Health Project. Watch what it takes to get that eagle-eye view 🦅. https://youtube.com/shorts/iydZJwrl87s?feature=share

What can bald eagles tell us about “forever chemicals”? In our latest feature, follow the Great Lakes Eagle Health Project team as they study bald eagles as a sentinel species. https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/eagles/

Teachers and students, join us on January 14 for another edition of Students Ask Scientists! Professor Ben Peterson will be talking about mercury and microbes in aquatic environments. https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/join-us-for-students-ask-scientists-on-january-14/

Teachers, looking for #GreatLakes lesson plans? The newly revamped Center for Great Lakes Literacy website has a library of FREE resources for you - like our shipwreck video game, The Legend of the Lost Emerald! https://cgll.org/resource/game-lost-emerald-searching-for-greatlakes-shipwrecks/

Salt makes parking lots, roads, and sidewalks safer to traverse in winter -- but it can also affect lakes and rivers. How much should you use, and when? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct04luWoplM

We asked what you would do with a pile of fish guts, and your answers did not disappoint! Read more about the winning ideas of the 100% Wisconsin Fish Contest. https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/guts-and-glory-thinking-beyond-the-fillet/

Join us on Jan. 14 for another edition of Students Ask Scientists! Ben Peterson of the UW–Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences will be talking about mercury, methylmercury, and microbes in aquatic environments. https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/join-us-for-students-ask-scientists-on-january-14/

Our director, Christy Remucal, was featured in a recent WPR story about #PFAS in landfill runoff. https://www.wpr.org/news/study-landfill-runoff-wisconsin-high-pfas-levels

Say, do you know what a seiche is? If you don't, Dr. Fish explains!

With the help of the Northern Aquaculture Demonstration Facility, Alverno College students got a crash course in #aquaculture this past summer. https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/alverno-college-students-explore-great-lakes-aquaculture/

Join us Dec. 6 for #GreatLakes fun at Uncommon Pints! Fisheries specialist Titus Seilheimer, emerging contaminants specialist Gavin Dehnert and Upham Woods Outdoor Learning Center director Amy Workman will be discussing lakes, invasive species and PFAS. https://www.facebook.com/share/1FinjbzNmV/

A hearty congratulations to the team behind "A Wilderness Act," who brought home awards from the Red Nation Sea International Film Festival AND the Equinox Mountain Film Festival. The doc features Sea Grant-funded research on fire and pine forests. https://www.ishkode.org/a-wilderness-act

Looking for a gift that's the right blend of fun, educational, and unique? Look no further than the Wisconsin Aquaculture Coloring and Sticker Activity Book! A great gift the fish-obsessed kid (or kid at heart!) in your life. https://brand.wisc.edu/gift-guide/

#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

Sam Krueger wasn't sure about grad school, but then she caught the research bug at the Freshwater@UW Summer Research Opportunities Program. The program is now accepting applications for the summer. https://freshwater.wisconsin.edu/freshwater-at-uw-krueger/

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

This weekend, we're rooting for A Wilderness Act at the Red Nation International Film Festival! The film, which features Sea Grant-funded research on fire and red pine forests, was nominated for best short documentary. 🏆 https://www.rednationff.com/2025-nominees-2/

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

Organized by the UW–Green Bay Center for First Nations Education and Wisconsin Sea Grant, the Outdoor Learning with an Elder series gets people outside to learn about natural areas near campus. https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/outdoor-learning-series-connects-elders-students-and-the-land/

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

Students, want to spend your summer on a boat, in a lake, or at the lab? Apply to the Freshwater@UW Summer Research Opportunities Program! Gain hands-on research experience, learn how to communicate science, and explore future careers. https://water.wisc.edu/wateruw-madison-undergraduate-research/

How do scientists track fish? Join Anna Hill for the next Students Ask Scientists event TOMORROW, Nov. 6 and find out! Hill is studying how yellow perch move through #LakeMichigan. https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/join-us-for-students-ask-scientists-on-november-6/

Love sturgeon? Come hang out with us in Bay City on December 12 for a screening of the brand-new short documentary, "Dinosaur Fish"! The free, public event will include a Q&A panel with folks who are working hard to restore lake sturgeon in the Saginaw Bay area. Details: buff.ly/Tu9qRtM

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#PFAS

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/

How do scientists track fish? Join Anna Hill for the next Students Ask Scientists event on Nov. 7 and find out! Hill is studying how yellow perch move through #LakeMichigan. https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/join-us-for-students-ask-scientists-on-november-6/

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#sturgeonalso dissected a juvenile sturgeon.

Today is the LAST DAY to submit your fishy ideas!! www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/submit-...

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/

How do scientists track fish? Join Anna Hill for the next Students Ask Scientists event on Nov. 7 and find out! Hill is studying how yellow perch move through #LakeMichigan. https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/join-us-for-students-ask-scientists-on-november-6/

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/

Get to know lake sturgeon at the 15th annual Wisconsin Science Festival on Oct. 25! "The Story of Water" mini expo will feature hands-on activities for kids, a book talk, and a fish dissection. https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/story-of-water-spotlights-sturgeon-at-wisconsin-science-festival/

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

The Ridges Sanctuary in Door County is known for its unique ridge and swale ecosystems and rare, endangered species. But UW–Madison's Steve Loheide is most interested in what’s going on underground. Read more about this new WRI-funded research: https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/the-swale-tale/

@drfishsg.bsky.social is very practiced in the art of cooking whitefish! 👨‍🍳

There's more to fish than the fillet, and we need your ideas on how to use it! Submit your suggestions 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-...

For twelve interns stationed at aquaculture facilities across the state, this summer was the season of fish. 🐟 Funded through the Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin, this first-time program gave students hands-on opportunities to learn about fish farming. www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/summer-...

The new Center for Great Lakes Literacy website is brimming with resources for educators! Explore the ever-expanding resource library full of data-driven lessons, curriculum packages, success stories, videos, storymaps, and more. buff.ly/EqWx1QR @uwiscseagrant.bsky.social @mnseagrant.bsky.social

Sea Grant-funded researcher Evan Larson just landed a big publication! Larson and his research team documented how Anishinaabe fire stewardship maintained pine forests on Wisconsin and Minnesota Points along Lake Superior. www.uwplatt.edu/news/univers...

Teachers, explore 10,000 years of history beneath the #GreatLakes with your students at the next Students Ask Scientists webinar on October 7! UW-Milwaukee professor Ashley Lemke will talk about what's buried beneath the waves of our biggest lakes. www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/join-us...

We happen to agree with Joe! 😄

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

With funding from the Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Sea Grant supported 12 interns at aquaculture facilities across the state. It was a fun, busy summer filled with lots of learning! Hear what the interns had to say about the experience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Eu...

"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. www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/new-chi...

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...