Metro WaterShed Partners, a coalition of Twin Cities organizations devoted to protecting and enhancing Minnesota’s water resources, will host a special meeting on environmental education on Wednesday, Nov. 3. The meeting will explore education’s role in protecting water.
The meeting, at Hamline University, is free and open to the public. For information and an agenda, click here.
More than 1,200 fifth-grade students from each of the seven Twin Cities Metropolitan Counties took part in the thirteenth annual Metro
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| Heart of the Beast actors teach about water |
Children’s Water Festival on Sept. 29 at the state fairgrounds.
Each student attended at least three learning stations that coupled water resource science with innovative learning techniques.
Diane Lynch, development director and senior manager for the Freshwater Society, volunteered at the festival as a class guide for John Keran’s class of 30 enthusiastic students from Adams Elementary School in Coon Rapids.
The students participated in “Water! Water! From the River to the River,” an interactive play sponsored by In the Heart of the Beast Mask and Puppet Theatre that used animated puppets to explore water usage and pollution issues common to humans around the world.
Water sustainability and water governance will be the focus of a policy forum to be held Nov. 17 by the Minnesota Environmental initiative. “Water Policy in Minnesota: Planning the Next Chapter” is the title of the forum, which will be held at Silverwood Park in St. Anthony.
The Freshwater Society will host an Oct. 21-22 Midwest meeting of the Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable. The Roundtable is a national group of water experts that provides advice and information … Read more
These governmental agencies and organizations are partnering with the Freshwater Society and the Friends of the Minnesota Valley to provide information to citizens and groups on how to organize and … Read more
U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson will be a featured speaker in this year’s Minnesota Water Resources Conference, a two-day event hosted by the University of Minnesota’s Water Resources Center. The conference will be Oct. 19 and 20 at the Saint Paul RiverCentre, 175 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul.
Peterson, chair of the U.S. House of Representative’s Agriculture Committee and a key player in development of the 2012 Farm Bill, will speak on “The Future of Farm Policy” at 12:15 p.m. on Oct. 19.
The U.S. Geological Survey, in a major new report released Sept. 23, reports on nutrient pollution of surface and ground water that has failed to improve or has gotten worse … Read more
About 90 people — citizens, scientists, policy-makers and water planners — attended a meeting of the Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable on Oct. 21-22, at the Gray Freshwater Center in Excelsior. … Read more
Read about Light Detection and Ranging – LiDAR – a laser-mapping technique that is revolutionizing water planning and management in Minnesota. Read about zebra mussels in Lake Minnetonka, and read … Read more
Alligators have a lot more in common with humans than you might think, and the ways their bodily systems develop – or deform — before hatching are a lot like the ways human babies grow in their mothers’ uteruses.
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| Dr. Louis J. Guillette Jr. |
And tiny, tiny doses of chemicals that can cause alligators to die before they hatch or to hatch with significant birth defects can have similar impacts on humans.
That was the message that Louis J. Guillette Jr., a reproductive biologist, delivered to about 150 people who attended his lecture Sept. 14 at the University of Minnesota. The lecture was sponsored by the Freshwater Society and the university’s College of Biological Sciences.
To view a videotape of Guillette’s lecture, click here. To hear a Minnesota Public Radio interview with Guillette and University of Minnesota Professor Deborah Swackhamer, click here. To read a Freshwater interview with Guillette, click here. And to view a KARE-11 television interview with Guillette, click here.
Guillette is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Medical University of South Carolina. He also
