Kimiko Pettis wins Sea Grant PPCP Stewardship Award for classroom PPCP projects
…educate their local community about the importance of properly using and disposing of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCP). The class’ first step was to research the subject of…
IISG in the News: Conservation by Design
In Purdue University’s Agriculture Magazine: A big house on a few acres in the country sounds like the American dream—and it has been in recent decades, as urban sprawl became…
6th Grade teacher uses workshop experience to train student scientists
…observers for CoCoRaHS – the “Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network” – which is a volunteer network of weather watchers throughout the country. The project was even featured in…
Website of the week: Plan for the future with Sustainable Communities
A closer look at web tools and sites that boost research and empower Great Lakes communities to secure a healthy environment and economy. The Sustainable Communities program, a collaboration between IISG…
IISG Aquaculture Specialist Honored for Leadership, Innovation
IISG aquaculture marketing specialist Kwamena Quagrainie has been awarded the Distinguished Early Career Award by the U.S. Aquaculture Society (USAS). USAS recognizes individuals involved in aquaculture for less than 10…
Summer intern works on getting the word out about waste reduction
John Saltanovitz, currently a senior at Purdue earning a bachelor’s degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Science, worked this past summer as a sustainable communities outreach intern with IISG’s Kara…
Sea Grant staff take to the sea for research
Community outreach specialist Kristin TePas rinses a PONAR dredge used to collect sediment containing benthic organisms. IISG staff members Paris Collingsworth and Kristin TePas are sailing on the research…
COSEE online workshop a success
COSEE Great Lakes recently completed another successful online workshop—“Great Lakes Alive!”—in which scientists and educators were brought together to exchange information about the biological aspects of the Great Lakes. The…
Sara Paver looks back on her experiences as a Knauss Fellow
…career paths. I might consider coming back to NSF as a rotating program officer in the future. In the near term, I plan to return to an academic setting in…