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Northland College alum Shannon Franks

Using Science to Monitor Earth’s Changes

Shannon Franks '01, NASA Senior Scientist

…in high school in New Jersey, I wanted to branch out and be around people with similar interests. Without any doubt, it was the environmental aspect that drew me to Northland College. My college experience was filled with all types of outdoor activities, whether it was rock climbing with friends…

Northland College student holding phone.

The Woman Behind the Screen

…and learned to print film in a dark room. “I’m not a people photographer but I love nature and animals—and the chemistry of printing was an added benefit.” That photography class led her to an internship that further cemented her love for biology and her affinity for the arts. She…

Katherine Sorenson

Senior Katherine Sorenson on EcoLeague

Majors in directed studies, agroecology Grew up on the shores of Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Keeps busy with patchwork and sewing, gardening, rock climbing, bicycling, swimming, and beachcombing for Lake Superior agates Q. How did you find out about EcoLeague? A. I found out about EcoLeague before I even…

Portrait of singer Sofia Jannok

Sámi Singer to Perform

…community and friendship across the continents. In addition to her stop at Northland College, Jannok will be visiting the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota with a small group of Sámi musicians and activists, in a show of Sámi Solidarity with the Tribe and the Sacred Stone Camp. For more…

Northland College students help build a section of the Ice Age Trail.

Students, Faculty Add Muscle to Ice Age Trail

…Raschke , both majoring in natural resources with an emphasis in ecological restoration, volunteered on their own time and in the middle of mid-terms. More 175 volunteers contributed 3,262 hours to clearing brush, cutting new trail, building rock walls, creating a two-mile section of trail along the Chippewa Moraine segment…

Annin Judges Our Waters, Our Future Writing Contest

…the year 2070 and in the region around the Yahara Watershed and/or the affiliated counties of Dane, Rock and Columbia. The winner and finalists will be announced at a World Water Day event—featuring Peter Annin and Jerry Apps—hosted by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. Despite this regional…

Immerse Yourselves

Rock, brook trout fishing on the Marengo River, or hiking on the North Country Trail. Hunt ducks in the Fish Creek Sloughs, as Sigurd Olson did; Ski out onto the ice of Chequamegon Bay in the dark of a new moon and watch for the northern lights over Long Island….

Deer exclosure-Bayfield County

Wisconsin’s Disappearing Forest

Prof Sarah Johnson researches the botanical realities of deer browse

…Canada yew. Anywhere. It is night and day. Even this untrained eye gets it. Very little Canada yew persists at all in northern forests, except as a small, scattered shrub primarily present along ravine faces or around rock outcrops. Johnson and her students have been documenting the presence of Canada…