…funding for the project is a cooperative agreement with the US Geological Survey Great Lakes Science Center with collaborators from USGS, Central Michigan University, University of Minnesota Duluth, and SUNY College at Brockport. “We hope to find out how much coastal wetlands support the Great Lakes fishery with habitat and…
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…
…Grant. One project seeks to bring art and science together to educate at-risk youth about Great Lakes watersheds through an underwater photography program. [Northland College alumnus] Ian Karl works with troubled teens as an experiential program coordinator at the residential treatment center Northwest Passage. “We snorkel throughout the watershed in…
…sent me a brochure and I was sold on the fact that I would be in the north woods and go to college,” he said. Here he studied history and secondary education and paddled and surfed kayaks on Lake Superior. Out of college, Claybaugh taught high school on the Big…
