Environmental Science Program at UW-Stout

Celebrating our fall graduates at advisement day! Congrats to Pauley, Ben, Ryder, and Paul!

Our Freshwater Collaborative research crew is winding down for the summer, but we’re excited about all the data they collected in streams, lakes, swamps, and riparian areas in the Red Cedar watershed!

More Freshwater Collaborative research! Cayanna Erickson (UW-Stout) and Faith Fogarty (UW-Eau Claire) are continuing zebra mussel surveys on Lake Menomin after their confirmed presence last summer.

The Freshwater Collaborative summer hires have been working hard on their projects lately. Shelby Kraco is doing some initial surveys of the leftover sand/gravel mine ponds at Dobbs Landing and the Colfax Preserve. They are assessing macroinvertebrate community diversity, water quality, and the bathymetry of three ponds. Looking forward to seeing the results!

Corrina recently made some progress planting her native prairie starts on the green roof, including butterfly milkweed, little bluestem, yarrow, and bee balm.

First boat day of the summer research season!

Corrina Tvedt got started clearing weeds out of the green roof this week to make way for a native pollinator garden! This is an honors project, and we’re super excited to see how it turns out!

Our ENSC grads gave their capstone presentations today! It was a great array of projects and we’re proud of y’all! 👏

Kal Breeden and Ben Gau won Internship Student of the Year Awards!

Congratulations on Research Awards Dr. Hayes, Ted Welch and Cortney Dean. We’re so proud of you!

Dr. Chapman’s BIO 343 Applied Plant Science class was excited to share their projects on growing native plants from seed at Research Day yesterday! In general, they learned that germinating these species from seed can be tricky. Experiments don’t always turn out the way you had hoped, but there’s still plenty to learn from failure!

How do our ENSC students get hand-on experience outside the classroom? By volunteering with local conservation groups! Twelve of our students became trained prescribed burn volunteers this weekend with the Chippewa Savannas Chapter of The Prairie Enthusiasts. 🔥🙌😁