Itasca

First fieldwork foray

For the third summer in a row, a White Earth area senior is awarded a field work internship.

Setting the stage

Researchers deploy buoys and teams to collect expansive data sets, and anticipate more research acts to come.

Life on logs

The loss of Minnesota’s largest white pine opens opportunities for researchers to talk about its afterlife, an often ignored, yet rich chapter of its story.

Layered lakes fuel microbial hotspots

It should come as no surprise that plentiful lakes draw many researchers to the Itasca region. The fact that some are drawn to lakes because they resemble iron-rich oceans of a bygone era might come as a surprise.

Excuse you, lake

Study points to microbes below lake surfaces as source of nitrogen gases.

2020 Itasca Research Internship Program awarded to Logan Stech from White Earth Reservation

Itasca Research Internship Program welcomes high school intern this July.

Big River Continuum gets a boost

Big River Continuum

A field station and and artist residency at opposite ends of the Mississippi River launch a scientist-artist exchange to explore our connection to — and impact on — the iconic waterway.

Itasca Director's Report - Spring 2019

A tradition of traditions

John S. Anderson provides incoming students with a sense of history and their place in it.