For the past six summers, teams of teachers have met in Superior, Wisconsin, to kick off a week of watershed exploration. From tracking lake sturgeon and sampling cyanobacteria to monitoring water quality, they were immersed in the science and conservation of Lake Superior, the town’s namesake and the largest surface of freshwater in the world.
![During the 2018 Rivers2Lake Summer Institute, Superior Middle School life science teacher Valerie Poynter (left) and Carlton High School biology teacher Katherine Nistler (right), accompanied by University of Minnesota, Duluth, Ph.D. student Kait Reinl (center), perform a plankton tow in the Bibon Slough in Port Wing, Wisconsin. (Image credit: Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve) During the 2018 Rivers2Lake Summer Institute, Superior Middle School life science teacher Valerie Poynter (left) and Carlton High School biology teacher Katherine Nistler (right), accompanied by University of Minnesota, Duluth, Ph.D. student Kait Reinl (center), perform a plankton tow in the Bibon Slough in Port Wing, Wisconsin.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_1275/public/legacy/image/2019/Jun/img_9124.jpg?itok=y-XYRu52)
During the 2018 Rivers2Lake Summer Institute, Superior Middle School life science teacher Valerie Poynter (left) and Carlton High School biology teacher Katherine Nistler (right), accompanied by University of Minnesota, Duluth, Ph.D. student Kait Reinl (center), perform a plankton tow in the Bibon Slough in Port Wing, Wisconsin. (Image credit: Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve)