Sandra McLellan describes how E.coli can provide insight into water standards but is not the best indicator for fecal contamination. Read the article here: There are worse things in the water than E. coli
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St. Petersburg officials turn off water after main breaks during Milton landfall. Here are the Health risks 
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
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.
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/
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/
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:
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.
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.