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2016 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award Winners

Northland College announces Book Awards for Earth Day

…Your Plate, and How There’s More of Less to Eat Around the World, by Nancy F. Castaldo (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, New York) Children’s Winner Journey: The Most Famous Wolf in the West, by Emma Bland Smith with illustrations by Robin James (Little Bigfoot, Seattle, Washington). Children’s Honorable Mention…

Student looking through geology loop

A Future in Geologic Time

…it is difficult to know what she will want from life in the next few years, but she’s excited for the journey. “Ready to take what I have learned here and apply it elsewhere. I don’t know what the future has in store for me,” Annie said. “I just hope…

students outside

Northland, Nicolet Signs Transfer Agreement

…Education, Graphic Design, and Natural Resources. “This collaboration with Northland College provides a seamless transition for Nicolet graduates who have their sights set on earning a bachelor’s degree,” said Nicolet Transfer Coordinator Teresa Rose. “The agreements allow students to visualize their path, hopefully making the journey a little less daunting.”…

Northland College alumnus Scott Canfield at the white board

Alum Inspires Students with Science

…and explain my journey from a small high school to a small college to graduate school and now to a post doctoral fellow in chemical and biological engineering.” Canfield’s workshop is based on differentiating cardiac myocytes (heart cells) from pluripotent stem cells. He and the students add varying pharmaceuticals and…

Gary Ferguson

Wolf Awareness Week Focuses on Yellowstone Wolves

…with being able to stay in the present moment. By going into wildness, like Yellowstone, I was able to keep in touch where I was on this journey of grief,” Ferguson said. Ferguson said he is honored to receive this award because Sigurd Olson was one of the first natural…

SONWA Winners 2017

Honeybees and a trailblazing scientist top the 2017 SONWA book awards

…Saved the Ecosystem, by Patricia Newman (Millbrook Press/Learner Publishing Group) This book is an account of the scientific journey marine biologist, Brent Hughes, took to discover the interdependent relationship between healthy seagrass beds, extraordinarily surviving nutrient-polluted waters, with an unexpected hero, the sea otter. Filled with facts about sea life…

Winning books in grass

SONWA 2015 Winners

Rivers, Water, and a North Woods Girl

In time for Earth Day, Northland College has announced the winning 2015 books for the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award (SONWA) in adult, young adult, and children’s literature. The winners include: For the Love of Rivers: A Scientist’s Journey, by Kurt D. Fausch, (Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, Oregon),…

Research in lake

Q & A with Water Researcher Randy Lehr

the accumulation of chemical contaminants in Great Lakes fish. That scientist ultimately became my graduate school advisor—and now I am studying Lake Superior. It has been a pretty interesting journey. Q. Do you still fish? Any favorite spots? A. My wife and I just took our three-year-old son fishing for…

Gary Ferguson

2014 SONWA Winners Announced

…an evocative reflection on Ferguson’s journey to fulfill his wife’s dying wish to scatter her ashes in the five remote locations they loved and shared together. The memoir chronicles the uplifting power of nature and challenges readers to consider how to foster empowered relationships with wild places. The Carry Home…

Katie Musick at the mountains

Reflections of a College Hopper

…of beautiful Lake Superior. To some that might seem like a sign of an inability to commit—the typical journey of a millennial—but for this college hopper, it simply is a timeline of how long it took me to find the sense of place that is the Northwoods. My first hop…