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Minnesota Sea Grant is seeking 1-2 Aquaculture Lab Interns, who will support Minnesota Sea Grant (MNSG) staff in implementing MNSG’s Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture program and focus area. Application deadline is June 12, 2026.
Three Minnesota educators will trade their classrooms for a research vessel on Lake Superior this July.
Duluth and Rochester schools earned grand-prize honors in the 2026 Aquaculture Challenge.
Minnesota Sea Grant and MAISRC are looking for lakeshore groups and land managers to join the newly launched Minnesota Cattail Collaborative and turn proven research into real-world habitat restoration.
The University of Minnesota Duluth and Minnesota Sea Grant seek 2–4 temporary student engineering assistants to support the development of low-cost freshwater monitoring systems for education, community-based environmental monitoring, and real-time environmental data collection applications.
Twin Ports Freshwater Folk invites you to a special event on June 3, 2026, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., showcasing the work of the 2025-2026 cohort of the Minnesota Sea Grant Science and Policy Fellowship.
From the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast, Minnesota and Texas Sea Grant programs are uniting for the 2026-2027 Aquaculture Leadership Academy to train the next generation of industry experts in the future of American fish farming.
Minnesota Sea Grant researchers documented that PFAS are a persistent presence in the Great Lakes atmosphere, appearing in every rain and snow sample collected during a two-year project across Minnesota and Michigan.
Minnesota Sea Grant Director John A. Downing has been awarded the Tommy and Yvette Edmondson Distinguished Service Award by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography for his decades of leadership and dedication to the aquatic science community.
Kelsey Prihoda, Great Lakes Transportation Extension Educator with Minnesota Sea Grant, is recognized for helping students and communities navigate the real-world trade-offs of dredged material management in the Duluth-Superior harbor.