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
Are man-made chemicals in the environment – chemicals like those linked to changes in the sexual development of fish in streams across the country – causing birth defects in children? … Read more
Take advantage of the State Fair – Thursday, Aug. 26, through Labor Day, Sept. 6 – to learn more about water and the environment and to meet some of the … Read more
Are chemical contaminants in the foods we eat, in the products we put into and on our bodies and in our lakes and rivers causing birth defects in humans?
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| Louis J. Gillette Jr. |
Louis J. Guillette Jr., an internationally recognized reproductive biologist who has spent 25 years
| For a preview, tune in to an interview with Guillette on MPR’s Midmorning show at 10 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 14. |
studying sexually stunted alligators and other wildlife from polluted waters in Florida and around the world, says a growing body of research shows those chemicals – including trace amounts often found in lakes and rivers — do cause birth defects, both in animals and humans.
On Sept. 14, Guillette, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Medical University of South Carolina, will deliver the third in a series of lectures sponsored by the Freshwater Society and the University of Minnesota’s College of Biological Sciences.
Guillette’s lecture, aimed at a general audience, will be titled: Contaminants, Water and Our Health: New Lessons from Wildlife.
A panel of Minnesota experts on environmental contaminants will appear with Guillette.
The lecture will be at 7 p.m. in the theater of the St. Paul Student Center on the University of Minnesota’s campus. The lecture, funded by an endowment honoring former university president Malcolm Moos, is free and open to the public. But seating is limited, and registration is required. To register, click here.
To read an interview with Guillette from the September Freshwater newsletter, click here. And for a map of the St. Paul campus, click here.
What’s your favorite view of the Mississippi River? The Friends of the Mississippi River organization is seeking input on a new video project that offers on-line panoramic views of the … Read more
