by Adam Hinterthuer | Oct 15, 2019 | Magazine Article
On the shores of Lake Michigan, one of the largest sources of fresh water in the world, Rebecca Klaper is busy pouring the tiniest materials humans have ever made into tanks containing some of the smallest members of the Great Lakes food web. Klaper is a professor in...
by Jane Elder | Oct 15, 2019 | Magazine Article
On the anniversary of the catastrophic floods of 2018, the Academy hosted a leadership gathering in Baraboo. Our common goal was to explore better ways to anticipate and prevent damage caused by flooding as the Upper Midwest continues to experience more intense and...
by John Lyons | Aug 22, 2019 | Magazine Article
On a particularly hot July day during the summer of 2012, Phil Cochran, Gary Borash, and I were netting fish in the backwaters and side channels of the Mississippi River in southwestern Wisconsin. We were working for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources on an...
by Dave Cieslewicz | Feb 21, 2019 | Magazine Article
According to Peter Annin, the future is all about water. And here in Wisconsin, we’ve got it. The problem is: The rest of the world wants it. In a newly revised and expanded edition of The Great Lakes Water Wars, which was first released in 2006, Annin has written...
by J. Val Klump | Sep 27, 2017 | Videos
The Great Lakes alone contain one-fifth of the world’s supply of surface freshwater—the greatest single freshwater resource on the planet. Yet, despite their size, these lakes are surprisingly fragile and are subject to a host of complex and interacting stresses. In...
