Director’s Message 2020 was one of the most unusual years in the long history of the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey. January began normally, with WGNHS staff involved primarily in office projects and participating …
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Aerial survey in northeast Wisconsin
In January 2021, northeastern Wisconsinites may notice a low-flying helicopter towing a large, hoop-shaped sensor. The helicopter’s sensor uses airborne electromagnetic (AEM) technology to gather data that will help scientists update depth to bedrock maps. …
2019 Year in Review
Curious about what the Survey was up to in 2019? As always, it was a busy year for us. We worked on projects across the state of Wisconsin, from the shores of the Great Lakes to the Mississippi …
Wisconsin’s Karst Aquifers
On February 19, 2020, WGNHS hydrogeologist Maureen Muldoon gave a talk for Wednesday Nite @ The Lab (WN@TL) entitled “Why Are Wisconsin’s Karst Aquifers So Susceptible to Groundwater Contamination?” This talk focused on the hydrogeology …
Streams of Data from Streams of Wisconsin
In this August 2019 talk for Wednesday Nite @ The Lab (WN@TL), WGNHS hydrogeologist Dave Hart explained how he and his team used canoes outfitted with an array of sensors to record vast amounts of …
Uncovering Wisconsin’s geologic past
Looking for ways to teach geology to your students? We’ve developed some lesson plans to assist! Getting a handle on rock layers and deep time In this two-part lesson plan, students create a three-dimensional model …
Making samples and data readily accessible
Carsyn Ames is the Samples Coordinator for the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey. She joined the Survey in June 2018 after completing her Masters in Geoscience at the University of Iowa. Before that, she …
The Precambrian Geology of the Baraboo Hills
In this March 2019 talk for Wednesday Nite @ The Lab (WN@TL), WGNHS geologist Esther Stewart shares her insights into some of Wisconsin’s oldest rocks. It’s a story of reading the deep-time sedimentary record and …
2018 Year in Review
2018 was another busy year for the Survey. We worked on projects across Wisconsin, from the bluffs of Lake Michigan to Bayfield County, from the Driftless Area to the Door County peninsula and many parts …
Pulling together the pieces of the Bayfield County Groundwater Atlas
WGNHS geologist Grace Graham is producing a map of the depth to bedrock in Bayfield County using a passive-seismic geophysical survey to supplement data from well construction reports. The combination of new methods (passive seismic) …