Jacqueline Gill is a PhD candidate in geography at UW-Madison and one of the authors of new research explaining the mass extinctions of large animals in North America at the end of the last ice age. She spoke to Bonnie North from the studios of Wisconsin Public Radio. The study appears in the journal Science, and is called "Pleistocene Megafaunal Collapse, Novel Plant Communities and Enhanced Fire Regimes in North America."
John Grogan is the author of The Longest Trip Home. His first book, Marley & Me, was an international best-seller and was turned into a movie. He spent more than 20 years as a newspaper journalist and magazine editor. He lives in Pennsylvania. He was in town this fall at Next Chapter Bookshop, and spoke with Stephanie Lecci.
Lake Effect’s Joel Van Haren produced our interview with Milwaukee 3rd district Alderman Nick Kovac on East Newberry Boulevard. The boulevard between Lake and Riverside parks was named one of the “10 Great Streets for 2009” by the American Planning Association.
Singer/songwriter Chris Smither with an in-studio performance of "Don't Call Me Stranger," from his newest album Time Stands Still. Smither played a concert in Milwaukee in October, and joined Bonnie North in the studio then. WUWM's Jon Strelecki engineered our studio concert. There is also a supplemental audio file below, with the complete version of all three songs Smither played for us.
From the vaults, we take you back to our very first Lake Effect episode, in which we spoke with recently named Rhodes Scholar Eva Lam. She is a senior at Harvard University and a graduate of Milwaukee's Rufus King High School. The $50,000-per-year scholarship will allow Lam to study for up to three years at the University of Oxford in England. When we spoke to her, she was just heading off to Harvard. You can listen to the interview here.
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Lake Effect’s Joel Van Haren produced our interview with Milwaukee 3rd district Alderman 
