Mn Sea Grant: Superior Waves

Host Jesse Schomberg talks with University of Minnesota Duluth undergraduate Annika Whitcomb about her role in managing Minnesota Sea Grant's social media.

Jesse Schomberg talks with L.J. Rogers, UMD undergraduate and president of the American Fisheries Society - University of Minnesota Duluth Subunit, about preparing for a career in fisheries science.

Host Jesse Schomberg talks about cyanobacteria (aka. blue-green algae) and ways that Sea Grant, and possibly you, are working to understand hazardous algae blooms.

On Oct 15, 1966 President Johnson signed the Sea Grant College Act. Why would he do such a thing? What did it do? What has it done (maybe found a key to curing cancer?!?!?)? What does it mean for the future?

Host Jesse Schomberg interviews Dr. Michael Sierszen, Research Ecologist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, about the Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative on the Great Lakes.

Host Jesse Schomberg talks about the charter fishing industry in western Lake Superior and the aquatic food web on which it is built.

Host Jesse Schomberg interviews UMD undergraduate Claire Freesmeier about her internship with Minnesota Sea Grant's Aquatic Invasive Species Program and the non-native species that are poised to damage Lake Superior if the region continues to warm due to its changing climate.

Find out more about Minnesota Walleye as host Jesse Schomberg interviews Minnesota Sea Grant Fisheries Extension Educator Don Schreiner. Topics include balancing stocking with wild reproduction, and aquatic invasive species.

Host Jesse Schomberg talks with Minnesota Sea Grant Fisheries Extension Educator Don Schreiner about Minnesota's state fish ... the Walleye. Topics include eyes, Walleye chop and distribution. Tip for anglers: Shiner minnows!

Host Jesse Schomberg talks about how researchers are using Lake Superior and the St. Louis River Estuary as test sites for developing new techniques to determine the sources of bacteria found on beaches.

Host Jesse Schomberg talks to Carol Christenson, Warning Coordination Meteorologist with the National Weather Service Office in Duluth, about severe weather and what it means to be a weather-ready nation.

Host Jesse Schomberg talks with Don Schreiner, retired MNDNR Lake Superior fisheries supervisor and new MNSG fisheries extension specialist about ... you guessed it ... FISH!

Host Jesse Schomberg talks about transboundary water challenges and the Upper Great Lakes Law and Policy Symposium.

There's nothing like being there but Jesse Schomberg gives a great overview of what went on at the Climate Adaptation Conference in Minneapolis.

Minnesota Sea Grant's new director is excited to be part of NOAA Sea Grant's next 50 years. Host Jesse Schomberg interviews Dr. John A. Downing.

Jesse Schomberg tells goldfish-gone-wild stories and explains how a Sea Grant/MN Aquarium Scoiety event helped over 100 aquarium fish find new homes.

Host Jesse Schomberg talks with Erica Strom, a Minnesota Green Corps volunteer who is working with the City of Duluth to minimize the amount of road salt that ends up in the city's streams and in Lake Superior.

Host Jesse Schomberg talks about the largest vessels plying the waters of Superior and the robust shipping industry within the Great Lakes.

Host Jesse Schomberg talks to Dr. Karen Gran, associate professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Minnesota Duluth, about the streams along Minnesota's North Shore.

Jesse Schomberg interviews Ted Ozersky, Assistant Professor of Biology and the Large Lakes Observatory at UMD. Ozersky has studied large, cold lakes worldwide finding that there's more going on under the ice than we thought.