Mn Sea Grant: Superior Waves

Sea Grant's Jesse Schomberg explains how to save a life - a fish's life. Learn how to send a deepwater fish back down to deep water when it's swim bladder is over-inflated.

Jesse Schomberg talks about Lake Superior's numerous siscowet and why this hefty strain of lake trout is being eyed as a source of fish oil.

Lake Superior's communities might not face hurricanes or tsunamis, but storms, rip currents, and hypothermia can also take lives. Jesse Schomberg explains coastal hazards.

Hear what host Jesse Schomberg has to say about climate trends in Minnesota and over Lake Superior.

Whale burps and agates. Jesse Schomberg tells you about what a Lake Superior wind can blow up onto the north shore.

Jesse Schomberg tells the story of sea lamprey and their impact on fish in Lake Superior, including native lamprey species.

Jesse Schomberg talks about the lake's vast but almost invisible suite of plankton species.

Jesse Schomberg talks about an uncomfortable but important topic for anyone who eats fish: tapeworms and other fish parasites.

Jesse Schomberg talks about why Lake Superior neither gives up her dead nor her toxaphene.

Jesse Schomberg explains hypothermia and how to survive this potentially lethal condition.

Jesse Schomberg describes Lake Superior facts should inspire awe. For more information, see www.seagrant.umn.edu/superior/facts.

Dr. Tom Hrabik, Associate Professor of biology at the University of Minnesota Duluth, talked about a Sea Grant study he co-authored relating to what fish eat in the depths of Lake Superior.

Victor Serveiss, Environmental Advisor to the International Joint Commission, explains what the Canadian and U.S. governments are doing to find solutions to problems in their shared waters.

Environment Canada's Nancy Stadler-Salt and Carrie Lohse-Hanson from the MN Pollution Control Agency join host Jesse Schomberg to discuss the Canada/U.S. goal of protecting Lake Superior.

Sapna Sharma talks about the combination of climate cycles and daily weather conditions that might be causing earlier ice-out dates than a century ago.

Faith Fitzpatrick, a research hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Madison, Wisc., talks about how climate and landscape changes are reflected in stream flow data from the Lake Superior basin.

UMD researchers Amy Kireta and Euan Reavie talk about working with sediment cores and long-dead algae to document how Lake Superior's water has changed in the last 300 years.

Tim Cline, associate research specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, talks about how fisheries management and warmer water temperatures have affected invasive sea lamprey in Lake Superior.

Dr. Pat Schoff, research associate with UMD's Natural Resources Research Institute, relates declining frog populations to our activities and use of synthetic chemicals.

Scientists that study the world's largest lakes meet once a year to discuss their work. Here are a few thoughts from their 2011 conference held on the western edge of Lake Superior.