Search Results

Searched for: mary obrien

CUUF: Belonging to a Place Through the Lens of Poets

April 14, 2024, 10:00 am11:30 am

…message “Belonging to a Place Through the Lens of Poets.” About the Message Poets work to shine light on the world. Let’s see how Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, and other poets use words to transform our experiences and help us belong to a place. Raina Ungrodt and youth will be…

Muddy fish creek watershed

Northland Project Aims to Clear Chequamegon Bay’s Muddy Waters

…of Northland’s Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation. It is funded by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and began in 2013. Hudson and his team are trying to slow the flow of water through the creek to protect its bluffs, which can crumble and collapse during severe storms. The…

Northland College student Max Beal was awarded the Parker Matzinger Internship Award

Beal first to receive Parker Matzinger Internship Award

…worked on Isle Royale dragonfly research for the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation, and helped with aquatic plant surveys in the Chippewa Flowage. Olson and Matzinger started the Costa Rica project in 2015. “I am grateful to the Matzingers for their efforts to further inspire students to achieve…

GLWC director Mic Isham on panel discussion at Northland College

Isham heads Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission

…to witness programming that helps lower truancy and improve homework. “Mic has long been a committed and passionate advocate,” said Peter Annin, co-director of the Northland College Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation. “Whether it is at the State of the Tribes address in Madison, or Northland’s Water Summit…

Crane beak

Saving Cranes

Senior Mary Sellars Interns at the International Crane Foundation

Northland College senior Mary Sellars interned at the International Crane Foundation (ICF) this past summer and is currently applying to veterinary schools as she finishes her biology degree. As part of her internship, she assisted with everything from general husbandry for all fifteen species of cranes, to beak trims, Whooping…