Howe gets $17,000 share of EPA grant for bay, river cleanup

Prof. Robert Howe and company in Natural and Applied Sciences are receiving a $17,550 share of a federal Environmental Protection Agency grant as apportioned by UW-Extension. The amount represents continued funding through June 2015 of the project “Explore and Restore: Catalyzing Delisting via Advisory Teams.” The project deals with ongoing Great Lakes restoration efforts, so-called Beneficial Use Impairments or BUIs, and the EPA-designated Areas of Concern or AOCs, which include several pollution hot spots on Lake Michigan and Green Bay. The work of principal investigator Howe and staff member Annette Pelegrin involves the lower Fox River and bay of Green Bay, and the lower Menominee River. The UW-Green Bay portion of the grant will assist with citizen advisory board involvement and public education as teams evaluate whether the bay’s health has improved sufficiently to support delisting.