"Wisconsin Fossils": In-Person Badger Talk in McFarland, WI

This is a free, in-person talk hosted on October 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM by the E.D. Locke Public Library. No registration is necessary to attend. This event is a part of the Wisconsin Science Festival!

Learn all about Wisconsin's fossils!

Presenter Mel Reusche (Roo-SHAY) is the communications and outreach specialist for the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, part of the Natural Resource Institute of the UW-Madison Division of Extension. Her goal is to share the latest research on the geology of Wisconsin, and provide this context to all people in Wisconsin. For her PhD research, she studies past climate change using stalactites and stalagmites in caves, and her past research has focused on arctic glacial geology. This work with past climate helps to better understand how Earth’s climate changes. She has also worked extensively with the UW Geology Museum to share and delight in Earth’s natural geologic wonders. She earned her degrees at UW-Madison, and has lived in Wisconsin on and off for more than a decade. She loves being outdoors all year, and is also busy raising 3 little geologists at home with her geologist husband!

📸 credit: https://home.wgnhs.wisc.edu/wisconsin-geology/fossils/trilobites/

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