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SOEI: A place for students to explore

Northland students have a terrific resource available them, the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute. Here they can apply their environmental interests into every day life activities. Students can volunteer with LoonWatch to help protect loons, or they can participate in the Apostle Island School Mayterm program. The possibilities are endless with this unique resource.

Below are a few videos from the past year that show students working with the SOEI through class work, work-study and volunteering.

SOEI Videos

Northland College students working for the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute work on a stream bank restoration project on Brickyard Creek, Bayfield, Wisconsin..

Northland College students working for the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute plant a rain garden near the dock for the USGS Research Vessel Kiyi.

Northland College students Andrew East and Josh Smith collect data on loons and lakes in Northern Wisconsin for the Wisconsin DNR. The information they collect will be used as part of climate change research project.

Northland College student Alex Kane describes how the Growing Connections Program helped with the wheat harvest at Great Oaks Farm.

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