Mn Sea Grant: Sea Grant Files

Jesse Schomberg describes Lake Superior facts should inspire awe. For more information, see www.seagrant.umn.edu/superior/facts.

Victor Serveiss, Environmental Advisor to the International Joint Commission, explains what the Canadian and U.S. governments are doing to find solutions to problems in their shared waters.

Environment Canada's Nancy Stadler-Salt and Carrie Lohse-Hanson from the MN Pollution Control Agency join host Jesse Schomberg to discuss the Canada/U.S. goal of protecting Lake Superior.

Sapna Sharma talks about the combination of climate cycles and daily weather conditions that might be causing the different spring conditions.

Faith Fitzpatrick, a research hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Madison, Wisc., talks about how climate and landscape changes are reflected in stream flow data from the Lake Superior basin.

UMD researchers Amy Kireta and Euan Reavie talk about working with sediment cores and long-dead algae to document how Lake Superior's water has changed in the last 300 years.

Tim Cline, associate research specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, talks about how fisheries management and warmer water temperatures have affected invasive sea lamprey in Lake Superior.

Dr. Pat Schoff, research associate with UMD's Natural Resources Research Institute, relates declining frog populations to our activities and use of synthetic chemicals.

Scientists that study the world's largest lakes meet once a year to discuss their work. Here are a few thoughts from their 2011 conference held on the western edge of Lake Superior.

Adam Bechle, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, explains what he is learning about unusually high waves near Lake Superior's Apostle Islands.

Dr. Pat Schoff, research associate with UMD's Natural Resources Research Institute, discusses the possible causes of the malformations seen in some frog populations.

Doug Ricketts, research associate and marine superintendent, talks about the R/V Blue Heron's busy schedule and the science conducted on board. The Blue Heron is the UMD Large Lakes Observatory's research vessel.

National Weather Service warning coordinator meteorologist, Carol Christenson, discusses summer weather phenomena around Lake Superior.

Steve Dahl, a commercial fisherman on Minnesota's North Shore, talks about gill netting Lake Herring and the changes he's seen after 25 years of plying the waters of Lake Superior.

UMD associate professor Stephanie Guildford talks with guest host Maija Morton about research, primary production, and phosphorous in large lakes.

Minnesota Sea Grant director Jeff Gunderson discusses the possibility that lake whitefish spawned in the St. Louis River, a major Lake Superior tributary, more than a century ago and that they might do so again someday.

Lorena Rios, assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, talks about an ocean region where fragmented plastic accumulates, and plastic in Lake Superior.

Dr. Tom Hrabik, UMD associate professor, talks about some of the animals, including shrimplike creatures and fish, living in Lake Superior and the lake’s multiple food.

UMD grad Andrea Crouse comments on how land use and weather combine to muddy Lake Superior's streams.

National Weather Service warning coordinator meteorologist, Carol Christenson, talks about Lake Superior's warmer by the lake winters.