What Are We Wading For? With Jemel Thompson

About this episode

Nancy and Erica discuss water resources and community education with engineer Jemel Thompson.

Nancy and Erica dip their toes into the Grand River with a little help from Water Resource Engineer, Jemel Thompson. In this conversation Jemel takes them on a voyage from the Lake Huron to Lake Superior and back to our shared water address, helping everyone gain more perspective on those being educated in this state and what they are doing with that education to better their communities. Get your waders on and soak it all in with Green Rapids!

People in this episode

Hosts: Nancy, Erica

Guest: Jemel Thompson

Topics covered

• water resources
• community education
• environmental engineering
• Great Lakes
• local ecosystems

Keywords

• water resources
• Grand River
• Lake Huron
• Lake Superior
• community education
• environmental engineering

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Lake Huron, Lake Superior, Grand River

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