With the new year comes a rating of “outstanding” for the University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute based on a review conducted in 2019 by the program's funders at the U.S. Geological Survey.

Trina McMahon, a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her team were recently awarded a National Competitive Grant from the USGS in cooperation with the National Institutes for Water Resources. They are using the three-year grant to study the “weird” methylmercury conditions in reservoirs on the Snake River in Hells Canyon.

The University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute sister organization, Wisconsin Sea Grant, is hosting five different summer 2020 undergraduate internship experiences. The areas of focus...

Thank you for contributing to water science in 2019. Here is a year in review, along with heartfelt greetings for a Happy New Year.

Carolyn Voter is working on the Central Sands Lake Study, which focuses on the interactions between groundwater and three Waushara County lakes, and the impact of high-capacity wells on those lakes.

Ryan Lepak, a UW-Madison-EPA research fellow, is looking at sources of methylmercury in fish and how it accumulates in and moves through the Great Lakes environment.

WRI Contributed to Fox River Effort Nov. 6, 2019 by Moira Harrington For three decades beginning in the 1950s, seven Fox River Valley paper mills manufactured or recycled carbon...

Nov. 4, 2019 By Moira Harrington According to a new study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 40 years of reduced mercury use, emissions, and loadin...

A new program will support trainees at three levels (undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows) while strengthening cooperation between the EPA and UW-Madison.