Dave Hart, a WGNHS hydrogeologist, is designing and implementing a project that is challenging ideas about how much data is enough data. Dave collects data and uses models to understand Wisconsin’s water quantity and quality …
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Investigating bluff collapse along Lake Michigan
J. Elmo Rawling III, a WGNHS Quaternary geologist, is working with Dr. Lucas Zoet in UW–Madison’s Department of Geoscience to monitor bluff stability to identify what conditions are likely to lead to slope failure in …
Mapping the Ice Age Deposits of Jefferson County
Libby Ives is a research assistant and a PhD student at UW–Milwaukee and a field assistant at the Survey. With the Survey’s Elmo Rawling, Libby is mapping the Pleistocene (Ice Age) geology in Jefferson County. …
Mapping the Springs of Wisconsin
Springs can be vulnerable to human activities that cause groundwater pollution or depletion. In this August 2018 talk for Wednesday Nite @ The Lab (WN@TL), Sue Swanson (Beloit College) and Grace Graham (WGNHS) describe the …
Groundwater, Wetlands, and Geology: The Invisible Links
Why do wetlands occur where they do? Where does their water come from? How are they connected to the groundwater systems around them? In this April 2018 talk for Wednesday Nite @ The Lab (WN@TL), …
2017 Year in Review
In 2017, Survey staff worked in 69 Wisconsin counties. We mapped geology, inventoried springs, and created groundwater models. We provide natural resource managers – land and water conservationists, county boards, and water utilities – with …
2016 Year in Review
In 2016, Survey staff worked in 64 Wisconsin counties. We mapped geology, inventoried springs, and created groundwater models. We provide natural resource managers – land and water conservationists, county boards, and water utilities – with …
Getting hit by a meteorite—what are the odds?
Looking for ways to teach geology to your students? We’ve developed some lesson plans to assist! This lesson plan uses meteorites as a way to learn about the scientific method. Using a model to understand …
Little Plover River Groundwater Model
In Wisconsin’s Central Sands, stretches of the Little Plover River have gone dry in past years. Some people have blamed high-capacity wells, while others cite changing land use, climate change, or natural weather patterns. To evaluate the …
Dane County groundwater model
The 2016 Groundwater Flow Model for Dane County, Wisconsin, is a decision-support tool that can be used to site new wells, develop wellhead protection plans, evaluate the effects of changing land use and climate on groundwater, and …