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Randy Lehr: Rainfall and Roads
WPR Hear Me Out
Wisconsin Public Radio’s Hear Me Out host, Danielle Kaeding, interviews Randy Lehr, co-director of the Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation at Northland College, about how more frequent and intense rainfall in northern Wisconsin may play a role in plans to rebuild roads and infrastructure after this month’s flooding. Listen to…
Q & A with Water Researcher Randy Lehr
Since 2010, Randy Lehr has been the Bro professor of sustainable regional development, leading and directing students, faculty, and staff in the field and in the classroom. In August, Lehr became the codirector of the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation. Q. Is it true you got hooked on…
Researchers Prep region for Climate Change
…cleanup efforts until next spring, providing more time and opportunity for the substances to spread. Research funded by Wisconsin Sea Grant could help prevent such weather-related damage and delays in the future. “Chequamegon Bay is arguably the least-climate-adapted spot in the country from an infrastructure viewpoint,” said Randy Lehr, Bro…
Complexities of Chequamegon Bay
…Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute. This is the second in a series of SOEI-sponsored climate change lecture series. “Chequamegon Bay is arguably one of the most vulnerable places in the country to climate change impacts,” said Randy Lehr, Bro Professor of Sustainable Regional Development. “It also happens to be one of…
Research Experience Lands Weir His Dream Job
…parameters. I also help coordinate targeted studies involving nitrate in groundwater,” Weir said. When he started working at RMB, Weir advanced quickly into positions “they didn’t think they would have him in right away,” Randy Lehr, codirector of the Mary Griggs Burk Center for Freshwater Innovation, noted attributing this to…
WPR: New ‘Freshwater Innovation Center’ Aims To Expand Great Lakes Research
…Annin has been managing director of Notre Dame’s Environmental Change Initiative since 2010. Northland College’s Randy Lehr will co-direct the center as the Mary Griggs Burke Distinguished Professor of Environmental Science and Management. Lehr described the project as “a way for us to expand and broaden the work that we’re…
Chasing Dragonflies for Science
…Dr. Randy Lehr, professor and codirector of the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation, has been working with students since 2012 to collect larval dragonfly at the St Croix National Scenic Riverway. The hope is to use larval dragonfly as sentinel organisms to monitor spatial patterns and trends in…
Lehr Speaks at UMD
By Marie Zhuikov, Wisconsin Sea Grant February 15, 2016 Wisconsin Sea Grant Researcher and Northland College Professor, Randy Lehr, was in Duluth on Feb. 2, speaking about his climate change research in the Chequamegon Bay of Lake Superior and a new integrated assessment project he’s starting for the same area….
Fitzgerald: From Plankton Guy to Water Resources Policy Economist
By Marie Zhuikov, University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Wisconsin Sea Grant undergraduate student, Joe Fitzgerald, has spent the past two years working with Northland College Professor Randy Lehr collecting plankton. The collection is for Lehr’s research project on the Chequamegon Bay in Lake Superior. Students in the center where Fitzgerald…
WPR Audio Recording: Panel Discussion on The Future of GLRI
…Isham, Council of Great Lakes Industries President Kathryn Buckner, Healing Our Waters Coalition Campaign Director Todd Ambs and Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation Co-Directors Randy Lehr and Peter Annin. Annin moderates the discussion. Listen to a complete audio recording of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative panel discussion, including audience questions….