Posted 8:25 a.m. Monday, April 19, 2010
A team of UW-L professors has secured a $1.5 million dollar cooperative agreement, the largest such partnership or grant in UW-L history, with the U.S. National Park Service. Over the next four years, Roger Haro, Kris Rolfhus, Mark Sandheinrich and Jim Wiener, together with 20 UW-L undergraduate and graduate students, will monitor six national park sites within the Great Lakes region to document levels of mercury, lead, PCBs and other contaminants in fish and aquatic invertebrates.
UW-L's River Studies Center has been one of the world’s premiere environmental research centers since its inception in 1972.
Find out more about the Center at http://www.uwlax.edu/biology/River-Studies-Center.htm.