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Based at the La Crosse Fish Health Center, which is part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, biologist Eric Leis investigates unexplained mussel deaths around the world. Photo by Michael Lieurance/UW–La Crosse.
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Mussel Murder Mystery

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Kyle Farris

 La Crosse Fish Health Center biologist Eric Leis investigates unexplained mussel deaths around the world.

This 24-acre stretch of land along the Menomonee River in Milwaukee used to be an abandoned rail yard. In 2013 a group of state and local partners completed its transformation into an urban green space. Today, Three Bridges Park is home to an urban ecology center and bike paths, and hosts over 50,000 visitors every year. Photo by Jon Elliott/MKE Drones.
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Natural Climate Solutions

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Catie DeMets

Natural climate solutions are pragmatic options for sequestering greenhouse gases. But where to start?

Daphnia, or water fleas, such as this are found in lakes and ponds across the world. Because of their pivotal position in food webs, daphnia are widely utilized as an indicator species to assess the response of ecosystems to environmental change.
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Tiny Changes, Big Impact

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Adam Hinterthuer

Fresh water scientist Rebecca Klaper studies the impact of indescribably small nanoparticles on our Great Lakes.

John D. Lyons and his son, Eric, seining a Mississippi River backwater near Cassville for Asian carp in 2007.
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To Keep Every Cog & Wheel

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John Lyons

It never occurred to me to ask why we have laws to protect rare fishes—or rare species of any animal or plant—in Wisconsin if that species is common elsewhere.

Moriah Rataczak uses her Phantom 4 quadcopter—more commonly known as a drone—to monitor field conditions for Gumz Farms. Photo by Cassie Smith-Krebs.
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Drones in Dairyland

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Steven Potter

From a hundred feet in the air, Moriah Rataczak inspects the fields of Gumz Farms in Central Wisconsin.

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Finding Your Role in Our Energy Democracy

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Chelsea Chandler

There are many places where people concerned about climate change can influence decisions surrounding electricity generation and transmission.

Named a Wisconsin Academy Fellow in 2004, Michael Fiore is a physician, a professor, and the director of the UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. Here Fiore checks patient Mike Eheler’s carbon monoxide levels. Heeler, a father of four, quit smoking with help from Fiore and the UW–CTRI. Photo credit: UW–Madison Department of Medicine/Clint Thayer.
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Stamping Out Tobacco Addiction

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Christopher Hollenback, Michael Fiore

Through the UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, Drs. Michael Fiore and Timothy Baker have helped more than 300,000 Wisconsinites kick the habit.

UW–Madison researcher and Wicab Inc. founder Paul Bach-y-Rita showcases his tongue display unit, a sensory substitution device that helps profoundly blind patients with orientation, mobility, and object recognition through electro-tactile stimulation. Photo by Phillipe Psaila/Science Photo Library.
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Seeing with the Brain

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Steven Potter

A vision-aid device developed by a Middleton company helps profoundly blind patients "see" through electro-tactile stimulation to the tongue.

Petri dishes in the Hittinger lab at UW–Madison grow a multitude of wild yeast species. Undiscovered yeast species and engineered yeast hybrids may hold the key to unlocking the biofuel potential of switchgrass and other biomass crops.
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Salvation through Fermentation

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Krista Eastman

Yeast hybrids may hold the key to unlocking the biofuel potential of switchgrass and other biomass crops. 

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Growing Our Creative Power

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Anne Katz

What we learned from a year of examining how to harness the power of creativity to improve life in Wisconsin.

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