The McLellan Lab has been conducting testing at South Shore Beach for over 20 years, and has found the chosen area for the new beach has better water circulation and lower bacterial contamination than the current beach. Read more about beach rebuild plans here: DNR Funding New Beach for South Shore Park
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Undergraduates funded through SURF grant present individual research projects
The Mclellan lab received multiple Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF) grants to enhance ongoing research on E.coli levels on various beaches local to SE Wisconsin.
Throughout the summer of 20203, our students (pictured below) collected over 70 water and sand samples from 6 beaches across Lake Michigan in addition to working on individual projects which they presented in the form of poster.
![](https://sites.uwm.edu/mclellanlab/files/2023/08/Undergrads-Poster-2023-e1692034385836-1024x691.jpg)
From left to right: Zachary Lewan, Mariella Boudreau, and Kirandeep Kaur
Read more aobut the UWM SURF program here: https://uwm.edu/our/programs/support-for-undergraduate-research-fellows-surf/
UWM is part of a National Center of Excellence for Wastewater Surveillance named by the CDC
Dr. McLellan Receives Lynde B. Uihlein Professorship to Expand Research
Dr. Sandra McLellan was recognized as a distinguished professor, and has received the first Lynde B. Uihlein Professorship in Ecosystem Health. The four-year appointment will allow Sandra to expand her lab’s exploration into new research on the evolution of bacteria living in urban water infrastructure. Read more about these accomplishments here: https://uwm.edu/freshwater/mclellan-receives-new-uihlein-professorship-to-expand-research-named-uwm-distinguished-professor/
National Wastewater Surveillance for Infectious Diseases Worthy of Further Investment, Says New Report
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Community Wastewater-based Infectious Disease Surveillance publishes on the importance of wastewater Survellience in new Consensus Study Report.
Read the news release here:
Recipient of 2022 Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research’s Ripple Effect Partner Award
Master’s student Lexi Passante featured on page 32 of Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research’s Ripple Effect to discuss her project on road salt pollution in the Great Lakes that was possible due to CIGLR funding.
Dr. Sandra McLellan will be studying bacteria in Australian sewer systems in 2022-2023
Newest Wastewater Surveillance Display Created by Colleagues at the WI State Lab of Hygiene
https://dataportal.slh.wisc.edu/sc2-ww-dashboard
A new COVID-19 wastewater surveillance dashboard (link above) has been created by our former post-doc Adelaide Roguet, who now works at the WI State Lab of Hygiene. This dashboard includes genomic data of SARS-CoV-2 variants from multiple Wisconsin cities, including Milwaukee samples that are processed in our laboratory.