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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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