Mn Sea Grant: Superior Waves

Steve Bortone talks with Kendra Richards about safe, sustainable fisheries and Lake Superior.

Anne Cooper discusses genetically engineered fish and her Knauss Fellowship from Washington, D.C.

Jesse Schomberg, Minnesota Sea Grant, talks with Steve Bortone about climage change in Minnesota.

Chad Scott, CEO of AMI Consulting Engineers, talks with Steve Bortone about the accelerated corrosion occurring on steel in the Duluth Superior Harbor.

Melissa Berke, a UMD graduate student studying East African lakes, talks about using sediment from the floor of old lakes to reveal information about the Earth's past climate.

Barbara Liukkonen, Sea Grant's Water Resources Education Coordinator, talks about flooding and overcoming water quality challenges caused by floods with Steve Bortone.

Erik Brown, a professor with UMD's Large Lakes Observatory, discusses the carbon cycle that challenges Lake Superior's researchers and research aboard the R/V Blue Heron.

Jeff Gunderson, extension professor for the Minnesota Sea Grant College Program at UMD, will talk about the VHS virus and Lake Superior Fish.

Sea Grant's Great Lakes maritime transportation expert Dale Bergeron discusses why shipping commodities around the Great Lakes makes dollars and sense.

Dr. Nigel Wattrus, associate professor of Geological Sciences and faculty of the Large Lakes Observatory at UMD, discusses what he's finding on the floor of Lake Superior.

UMD graduate students Tyler Ahrenstorff and EJ Isaac talk with Steve Bortone about the lengths invertebrates go to avoid Lake Superior's fish.

Elaine Ruzycki, assistant scientist for the Natural Resources Research Institute at UMD and key on-the-ground scientist for LakeSuperiorStreams.org, talks about robo-researching Lake Superior Streams.

Anna Peterson, a graduate student at the University of Minnesota Duluth, shares information about migrating birds along Lake Superior's North Shore with Dr. Bortone.

Learn about the sources of E. coli in the environment as Dennis Hansen discusses his research with Steve Bortone.

Education director Sarah Erickson joins Dr. Bortone to discuss how science guides opportunities at the Great Lakes Aquarium.

Host Steve Bortone discusses Lake Superior's temperature and circulation modeling with Jay Austin, assistant professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth Large Lakes Observatory and Department of Physics.

Dr. Steve Bortone speaks with Sea Grant graduate student Tory Olson about invasive waterfleas, mercury, and the aquatic food web.

Steve Bortone, director of the University of Minnesota Sea Grant program, talks about how Sea Grant advances society's ability to sustain aquatic and coastal environments and economies. The 7-minute monolog especially focuses on scientific endeavors related to Lake Superior and Minnesota's inland waters.

On this warm August day, two graduate students from the University of Minnesota in Duluth take to the outdoors to study the water quality of the city's streams. Jeremy Erickson and LaRae Lehto haul equipment down to Tischer Creek to take samples along the stream. They are looking at stream health.

Light rain and cool air blowing off Lake Superior couldn't keep representatives from the Wisconsin DNR's Coastal Management Program and several other agencies from heading out on the water. The group of fifteen set out in four boats to get a closer look at the site nominated for the second freshwater research estuary on the Great Lakes: the St. Louis River, one of the major rivers feeding into Lake Superior.