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Interim Director and State Geologist announced

Posted on August 22, 2022

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Eric Carson has been appointed Interim Director and State Geologist at WGNHS following the retirement of Dr. Ken Bradbury in July 2022. Eric begins his role as our …

Posted in Staff stories, WGNHS blog, WGNHS news

Making samples and data readily accessible

Posted on June 7, 2019

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 …

Posted in Staff stories, WGNHS blog

Pulling together the pieces of the Bayfield County Groundwater Atlas

Posted on February 12, 2019

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) …

Posted in Staff stories, Water research, WGNHS blog, WGNHS research

Big Data from Small Streams (and Small Lakes—the 2018 Update)

Posted on February 12, 2019

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 …

Posted in Staff stories, WGNHS blog, WGNHS researchTagged 2019, hydrogeology

Investigating bluff collapse along Lake Michigan

Posted on February 12, 2019

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 …

Posted in Geology research, Staff stories, WGNHS blog, WGNHS research

Mapping the Ice Age Deposits of Jefferson County

Posted on October 19, 2018

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. …

Posted in Staff stories, WGNHS blog

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