It's peak boating season, and the Wisconsin Clean Marina program helps businesses like the Port Washington Marina keep our waters clean and safe. ⛵ https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee/news/2026/05/13/clean-marina-program-port-washington

How marinas can do their part to keep Wisconsin waterways clean

As boating season gets underway, environmental leaders are asking boaters and marina owners to help keep waterways clean.

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NOAA is seeking public input on where to focus the search for identifying new Aquaculture Opportunity Areas in U.S. waters. These are defined geographic areas that have been evaluated for commercial aquaculture. www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...

Join our team! The UW–Madison Aquatic Sciences Center, which administers both Wisconsin Sea Grant and the Water Resources Institute, is hiring an Associate Director for Outreach and Engagement. https://jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/associate-director-for-outreach-and-engagement-madison-wisconsin-united-states

Educators, teach your students about lake sturgeon with new lesson plans from Wisconsin Sea Grant! The curriculum features four lesson plans about the anatomy, history, and cultural importance of lake sturgeon in Wisconsin. https://seagrant.wisc.edu/lake-sturgeon-curriculum/

Three Wisconsin high schools won awards in the Aquaculture Challenge competition! Congrats to Washburn and Wabeno high schools and the School of Options and Applied Research for their work developing innovative aquaponics systems. 🏆 https://seagrant.wisc.edu/2026-aquaculture-challenge-winners/

Three Wisconsin high school teams named 2026 Aquaculture Challenge winners

Washburn and Wabeno high schools and the School of Options and Applied Research High School in Eagle River, Wisconsin won awards for their aquaponic systems.

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Sign up for the Wisconsin Great Lakes Coastal Leadership Academy and learn how your city can adapt to coastal hazards like flooding and erosion! ⬇️

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Local, county, and tribal government staff, do you want to learn more about Great Lakes coastal hazards like erosion, flooding, and changing water levels? Join us at the Wisconsin Great Lakes Coastal Leadership Academy and develop a plan to address your community's challenges. go.wisc.edu/h8l05n

We always knew our fish guy a champion, but now it's o-fish-al. Join us in congratulating Titus Seilheimer on being named a 2026 Lake Michigan Champion of Conservation! https://www.lakemichiganstakeholders.org/champions-awards

Hear from the teachers currently aboard the R/V Lake Guardian today at 4pm CT! Topics include zooplankton and water chemistry. Register: https://seagrant.umn.edu/events/shipboard-science-immersion-spotlight-lake-superior

Join us on July 13 in Waupaca as our fisheries specialist, Titus Seilheimer, talks about - you guessed it! - fish. today.wisc.edu/events/view/...

Local, county, and tribal government staff, do you want to learn more about Great Lakes coastal hazards like erosion, flooding, and changing water levels? Join us at the Wisconsin Great Lakes Coastal Leadership Academy and develop a plan to address your community's challenges. go.wisc.edu/h8l05n

New paper by former Phd student Chelsea Volpano on the permanent retreat of coastal bluffs! While there is abundant erosion of the bluffs their glacial origin causes them to contribute insufficient sand to balance nearshore removal. @uwiscseagrant.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

The 8th annual #GreatLakes Aquatic Invasive Species Landing Blitz is June 29–July 12! Organizations will help boaters learn how to spot, report, and prevent AIS—one of the biggest threats to our lakes. Learn more: https://www.glc.org/news/blitz-062526 #GLAISBlitz

Look who got a glow-up! 👀 The Wisconsin Water Library recently debuted their new website, and it's got all your water information needs but with an updated, streamlined, and accessible design. As always, any adult Wisconsin resident can check out materials. https://waterlibrary.wisc.edu/

Congratulations to the Wisconsin Sea Grant staff who were recognized with multiple awards at the 2026 Great Lakes Sea Grant Network Conference in Oswego, New York! 🏆🎉 https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/wisconsin-sea-grant-staff-win-multiple-awards-at-2026-great-lakes-sea-grant-network-conference/

Add a Great Lakes twist to your summer reading! Discover stories inspired by our region with Great Lakes Great Reads. Check out reading lists perfect for beach days or quiet evenings. greatlakesgreatread.org

Teachers, check out our new coastal engineering curriculum! Designed for middle schoolers, the six lesson plans cover erosion, beaches, engineering, green infrastructure and more. https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/new-coastal-engineering-curriculum-connects-middle-schoolers-to-the-great-lakes/

New coastal engineering curriculum connects middle schoolers to the Great Lakes

The hands-on lessons teach kids about bluff erosion, stormwater, and green infrastructure.

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Check out the National Sea Grant Law Center's upcoming webinar on June 17 about #PFAS legal and regulatory updates and hear from Sea Grant's Water Science-Policy Fellow, Anna Watson! https://nsglc.olemiss.edu/webinars/index.html

Webinar Series - National Sea Grant Law Center

The National Sea Grant Law Center at the University of Mississippi and researchers at Florida State University have developed an online dashboard of state policy data for U.S. marine aquaculture. The State Marine Aquaculture Policy Dashboard improves accessibility to marine aquaculture policy data,…

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This year's Aquaculture Challenge teams battled power outages and ice storms to design, build, and run classroom aquaponics systems. They raised cucumbers, spider plants, tilapia, strawberries, and more while gaining skills in biology, engineering, leadership, and problem-solving: buff.ly/eRJ9rEX

Catch emerging contaminants specialist Gavin Dehnert tomorrow at the New Richmond Community Library as he talks about #PFAS and harvestable goods! https://www.facebook.com/share/1BRkbwKrdk/

"PFAS in Harvestable Goods Across the Ceded Territories": In-Person Badger Talk in New Richmond, WI

Causes event in New Richmond, WI by Badger Talks and New Richmond Community Library on Tuesday, June 9 2026

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Miss our conversation with Pamela Cameron, author of "SPORT: Ship Dog of the Great Lakes"? The recording is now available! https://youtu.be/uicdX47lLZg?si=coSfmvLBokQdEc6F

Twenty UW–Madison students got a unique - and very squishy - hands-on lesson in sustainability this spring when Wisconsin Sea Grant staff taught them how to make leather from fish skin. Why make fish leather? It's strong, beautiful, and reduces waste! https://youtu.be/Tnv7U3KdUYU

The 10th anniversary of the HazMaTON Summer Webinar Series begins May 27! 🚢⚓️ Explore how freshwater spill response is evolving through new research and outreach. Register: z.umn.edu/HazMaTON26 #Hazmat #GreatLakes #EnvironmentalScience #MarineSafety

The Hazardous Material Transport Outreach Network (HazMaTON) is back with its summer webinar series! The first one, "Shaping the Next Generation of Great Lakes Spill Responders," kicks off on May 27 at 11 a.m. https://hazmaton.org/webinars/

Webinars – Hazardous Material Transport Outreach Network

The Hazardous Material Transport Outreach Network (HazMaTON) hosts a HazMaTON Summer Webinar Series each year. The series provides free, publicly available webinars that take place monthly between May and September. The series is meant to provide the latest research and resources to stakeholders in…

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Join us this Wednesday to talk about some of life's greatest things: the Great Lakes, books, dogs, and lighthouses.

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Join us on May 13 at 6 p.m. to talk about books, dogs, and lighthouses with Pamela Cameron, author of the Great Lakes, Great Read picture book selection, "SPORT – Ship Dog of the Great Lakes." https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/great-lakes-great-read-author-to-talk-about-books-dogs-and-lighthouses/

Some nice coverage of last week's Everyone Can Bird event! Even the pelicans showed up. https://www.northernnewsnow.com/2026/05/04/twin-ports-birding-event-aims-expand-accessibility/

Twin Ports birding event aims to expand accessibility

Sunday’s event offered stationary and mobile activities, snacks, free bus transportation and binoculars to borrow.

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Congratulations to "A Wilderness Act," which was selected for the 2025-2026 Films for the Forest juried film collection! The documentary features Sea Grant-funded research on fire and pine forests in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota. https://www.filmsfortheforest.org/films/a-wilderness-act

Join us on May 13 at 6 p.m. to talk about books, dogs, and lighthouses with Pamela Cameron, author of the Great Lakes, Great Read picture book selection, "SPORT – Ship Dog of the Great Lakes." https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/great-lakes-great-read-author-to-talk-about-books-dogs-and-lighthouses/

Great Lakes, Great Read author to talk about books, dogs, and lighthouses

Author Pamela Cameron will be talking about “SPORT – Ship Dog of the Great Lakes," on May 13 at 6 p.m. CT.

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When people search for #PFAS online, what type of information do they find? Tune in to hear Lyn van Swol and Rachel Hutchins talk about their Sea Grant-funded research on PFAS communication. https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/lets-talk-risk/the-case-for-honest-pfas-LHWrCxdPn1X/#google_vignette

April showers bring May flowers...and the ASC Chronicle! The latest issue is blooming with stories about water, research, and people. https://chronicle.aqua.wisc.edu/

Fish watching season. Spawning white suckers. #GreatLakes