The Rice Lake Public Library, at 2 E. Marshall St., has announced that it will host a Badger Talk on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at 5:30 p.m. on The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald: The Ship, the Storm, and the Song. The event is free and open to the public. It will be presented by UW-Madison professor Steve Ackerman. He will explore the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald from the perspectives of the weather, the ship and the song by Gordon Lightfoot.
Ackerman moved to Wisconsin in 1987, accepting a research scientist position in the Space Science and Engineering Center. He joined the UW-Madison faculty in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences in 1992. Ackerman served as director of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies from 1999-2019. This research organization is a collaboration between the UW-Madison, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Wisconsin is widely recognized as the birthplace of weather satellites, and CIMSS is key to Wisconsin’s current reputation.