Category: Environment
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Posted on January 23, 2008
Climbing to the Top
Forestry grad Joe House goes out on a limb to promote tree saftey.
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Bearing South
With a growing population and expanding range, Wisconsin black bears are on the move. CALS researchers are studying their path to figure out where they’ll end up.
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Posted on January 21, 2008
Go Figure
By blending biology and computational logic, Julie Mitchell is helping make math the next microscope.
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Posted on January 20, 2008
Wisconsin: Playing Matchmaker for a Threatened Chicken
CALS ecologists hoping to preserve greater prairie chickens and their “booming grounds.”
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Posted on January 16, 2008
To Kill a Caterpillar
A surprising strategy for combating gypsy moths.
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Posted on January 3, 2008
Five things everyone should know about…GIS Maps
GIS can be a useful tool in everyone’s daily life.
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Posted on November 16, 2007
The Plot Thickens
Rain gardens are popular, but researchers are only starting to explain what makes them effective.
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Posted on October 18, 2007
Unfolding the Prion Mystery
To help control the deadly rise of CWD among Wisconsin’s deer herd, Joel Pedersen went hunting for the source of the infection. His studies of the strange protein behind the disease are uncovering surprising answers––and new questions.
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Posted on September 18, 2007
Digging Dirt
Soil scientist Teri Balser says we can learn a lot from what lives under the surface. Even the weather.