• Lobby – Science displays open to the public Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
• Tours – Schools, businesses, and community groups can contact UMESC to schedule tours during weekdays.
  
  
  • Foyer Displays
    
    Fish Culture Room: This portion of tours is not available until further notice due to needed repairs and facility upgrades.
    
    
• Teachers Resources
  • On-line quizzes for students
  • Potential Learning Questions
  • Presentations – Schools, businesses, and community groups can contact UMESC to request on- and off-site presentations to learn more about USGS science.
    
    

UMESC On-line Science Education Resources

• Learn How Scientists Track Animals
  • Loon Tracking and Migration Study
    
    
  • Paddlefish Tracking and Movement Study
    
    
• UMESC Publications

USGS and UMESC Employment

• USGS Employment
  
  
• Employment – UMESC offers summer and part-time school year employment opportunities for students in college.
• Student Employment
  • What does employment with USGS offer students? - "Employment Experience and Perspective"
    
    
• Volunteer for Science

Additional Online Science Education Resources

• USGS Resources
  • Climate and Land Use Change
  • Core Science Systems
  • Ecosystems
  • Energy and Minerals
  • Environmental Health
  • Natural Hazards
  • Science Education
  • Water
    
    
• Learn about the Mississippi River
  • Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
    
    
  • Upper Mississippi River Basin Assocication
    
    
  • Mississippi River Conservation Committee
    
    
  • American Rivers
    
    
  • Army Corps of Engineers
    
    
  • River Watch Mississippi River Basin site
    
    
  • Mississippi River Research Consortium
    
    
  • River Studies Center - University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
    
    
  • Large River Studies Center - Winona State University
    
    
  • National Great Rivers Research and Education Center
    • Mississippi River to the Sea Facts poster (.pdf)
      
      
  • National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium
    
    
  • Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Videos
    
    
• Wisconsin DNR – Environmental Education for Kids (EEK)

• Department of the Interior – Teach and Learn Opportunities

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – Students and Educators
  

• Citizen Science – A way for citizens to become actively involved in science and discovery about the Earth and the natural processes around us.
  • Mayfly Watch
  • Invertebrate/Mussel
    • Freshwater Mussel Activity Book and Learning Resource (pdf)
  • National Phenology Network
  • Citizen-based Monitoring Network of Wisconsin
  • Water Action Volunteers
  • Birds
  • Frogs
  • Butterflies
  • Invasive Species
  • Wildlife Watch
    
    
• Youth in the Outdoors
  
  
• Environmental Cameras
  • Live Loon Cam - Minnesota Bound Live Loon Cam
  • Eagles 4 Kids - Blair Taylor Elementary School
  • Raptor Resource Project Decorah Eagle Cam - UStream link
  • Great Blue Heron Nest - Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York
  • Red-tailed Hawk Nest - Cornell University, Ithaca, New York