The Death and Life of the Great Lakes: Author Dan Egan in Conversation

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Dan Egan, author of The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, and The Devil's Element: Phosphorous and a World Out of Balance, will be in conversation with Greg McGlinchey, Legislative Affairs and Policy Director for the Great Lakes Fishery Commission to explore issues related to the ecology, culture, politics, and commerce of the Great Lakes.

Dan Egan is the Brico Fund Journalist in Residence at the Center for Water Policy in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Freshwater Sciences whose work appears in media outlets across the country. Egan is an environmental journalist and author of the “Death and Life of the Great Lakes.” Egan was a reporter with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, covering the Great Lakes from 2002 until 2021. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and he has won the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award, John B. Oakes Award, AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award, and J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. Egan is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Columbia School of Journalism.