“Rivers are the gutters down which flow the ruins of continents.” – Luna B. Leopold Luna Leopold understood that rivers are far more than gutters. In a

Ahead of Saturday's Sturgeon Fest, we checked in on the little babies released last year. How are they doing? Early signs are promising.

A fish elevator in Michigan is helping save one of the Great Lakes’ most ancient species from extinction.

Jani Ingram set out to find water sources on the Navajo Nation that are safe to drink, and the result is an interactive map.

Phytoplankton dynamics in rivers have long challenged growth models, which predict limited biomass accumulation due to insufficient water residence times—yet phytoplankton populations often persist d...

The Great Lakes region contains more than 20% of the world’s surface freshwater and supports a culturally, economically, and ecologically significant seafood...

How we lost 5 billion pigeons

The closure does not affect the rest of the institution, which builds and maintains the collections and conducts research through departments such as the Patrick Center for Environmental Research.

Wildlife Action Plan

The goal of this seminar series is to showcase diverse early-career biologists working relatively local to West Chester, PA. Apart from giving our students the chance to learn about cutting-edge scien...

YouTube video by Wisconsin Sea Grant

The Devils hole pupfish lives in just one spot in Death Valley. Wildlife officials have managed this iconic fish for decades, and last spring, just as the Trump administration was laying off all kinds of scientists, the wild population of this fish plummeted to only 20 individuals. Officials then took an irrevocable step.

Alt: Agent dale cooper and officer harry trauman from the tv series twin peaks clinking coffee mugs and looking at each other in an office