Tag: Cofrin Center for Biodiversity
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UW-Green Bay to host annual student watershed symposium
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Annette Pelegrin shares word that the 11th Annual Student Watershed Symposium — part of the Lower Fox River Watershed Monitoring Program — will take place on campus next Tuesday, April 8. More than 90 teachers and students from 11 area high schools will participate in the daylong event. The symposium allows students to share their…
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Heirloom Plant Sale featured in spring issue of Edible Door
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UW-Green Bay’s ever-popular Heirloom Plant Sale is featured in the spring 2014 edition of Edible Door magazine, a publication that highlights the foods, culinary heritage and communities of Northeastern Wisconsin. The story offers a look at the humble beginnings and history of the sale, which has blossomed in popularity and is now approaching its 18th…
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Get your garden on: Garden Mentor Training is Saturday
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The Cofrin Center for Biodiversity is among the partners for Garden Mentor Training, taking place from 10 a.m.-noon Saturday (March 8) at the Brown County UW-Extension Office, 1150 Bellevue St., Green Bay. Program organizers are seeking volunteers to help support new gardeners throughout the upcoming growing season (You read that right. There will be a…
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Giving Back: Celebrating 25 years of student environmental research
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Ten University of Wisconsin-Green Bay students will report on research conducted in UW-Green Bay natural areas at the 25th annual Cofrin Student Symposium, scheduled from 1-5 p.m. Tuesday, March 4 in the Christie Theatre of the University Union on campus, 2420 Nicolet Drive. The symposium marks a quarter-century of student research and more 140 students…
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UW-Green Bay celebrates 25 years of student research with annual Cofrin Symposium
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Ten University of Wisconsin-Green Bay students will report on research conducted in UW-Green Bay natural areas at the 25th annual Cofrin Student Symposium, scheduled from 1-5 p.m. Tuesday, March 4 in the Christie Theatre of the University Union on campus, 2420 Nicolet Drive. The symposium marks a quarter-century of student research and more 140 students…
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Save the date: Cofrin Student Symposium set for March 4
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Our friends in Natural and Applied Sciences are asking you to please save the date for the Cofrin Student Symposium, 1-5 p.m. Tuesday, March 4 in the Union’s Christie Theatre. Attendees will hear from the 11 2013 Cofrin and Land Trust Grant recipients as they present the results of their research projects. Each presentation is about…
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Falcon keeps an eye on things
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Birders from the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity have been training their scopes toward the roof of the Cofrin Library in recent weeks, with multiple peregrine falcon sightings on the UW-Green Bay campus. Amateurs are enjoying the occasional sighting, as well. This smart-phone snapshot of a resting falcon — we think it’s a peregrine based on…
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Graduate students work to restore Cat Island
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For some, Cat Island is just a lump of land that juts a little above the waters of Green Bay not far from the mouth of the Fox River. But for UW-Green Bay graduate students Tim Flood and Tom Prestby — each is enrolled in the Environmental Science and Policy graduate program — it is a…
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Biodiversity blog: Colorful birds, Point au Sable banding
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Vicki Medland, associate director of the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity, provides some great info on — and pictures of — bird banding at Point au Sable in a new blog post on the center’s website. The piece describes the efforts of grad student Stephanie Beilke, who is banding to learn more about how migratory birds…
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Faculty/staff note: A new tool for measuring health of northern forests
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Erin Giese, data management specialist for the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity, and graduate student Nicholas Walton, under the guidance of center director Prof. Bob Howe, Associate Prof. Amy Wolf and Nicholas Miller of The Nature Conservancy, have created an online tool that uses bird surveys to measure the ecological health of northern mesic forests in…