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Spotlight Stories
Something Fishy About Pesticides
UW-La Crosse and UW-Whitewater toxicologists and students investigate off-target effects of popular pest control chemicals“Neonics.” It’s a cute-sounding nickname for chemicals that are anything but adorable. Neonicotinoids have been used in commercial agriculture for more than two decades as potent insecticides. As their use has spread, so have some unintended consequences. “The pesticides are…
Fantastic Filters and Where to Find Them
A UW-Green Bay team searches for the perfect solution to excess phosphorus runoff“It’s pretty much a Brita filter,” says University of Wisconsin-Green Bay assistant professor Michael Holly. Make that a very big Brita filter: “We’re trying to clean up the water in northeastern Wisconsin.” The material Holly hopes to identify one day,…
A Double Dose of Hands-On Learning
UW-Oshkosh's ERIC prepares students in both lab and fieldOn the banks of the Fox River, just a short stroll from Lake Winnebago, a nondescript building houses one of the state’s most important research and training hubs for environmental health and safety. Since opening in 2008, the Environmental Research…
Serious Mussel Power
UW-Platteville and Trout Lake Station team up to study Wisconsin’s secret superheroesMussels sometimes get a bad rap, thanks to destructive invasive species. While these unwelcome outsiders stir up trouble, dozens of native mussel species are quietly going about their business, cleaning our water and serving as sentinels for the health of…
A Great Lake’s Unwanted “Diamonds”
A statewide team digs deep into the persistent problem of microplastics“Plastics can be like diamonds: forever,” says Lorena Rios Mendoza. The UW-Superior environmental chemist studies how the nonbiodegradable synthetic materials get into Lake Superior and the problems they can cause as they fragment or absorb toxic chemicals also present in…