Caelainn Barr is an Irish nonfiction writer and journalist. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa and a masters in journalism from Columbia University. She has worked as a journalist and editor at the Guardian and was a Nieman fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Her writing is forthcoming in The Iowa Review and she is at work on her first book.
Caelainn Barr will read from a selection of personal essays, examining the power of environmental storytelling to shape how we understand the world around us, and ourselves.
WILDWEDNESDAY
Star Stories
5 PM
Mahan Hall
The Okoboji Writers’ and Songwriters’ Retreat Returns Again!
The event will take place from September 28th to October 1st, 2025, at the historic Iowa Lakeside Laboratory on the shores of West Lake Okoboji, offering writers and songwriters a unique blend of education, creativity, and community.
Scholarships are also available to assist writers from all backgrounds.
COFFEE & GROUNDS
Join our facilities manager, Matt Fairchild, on Tuesdays at 8:30 AM at the Waitt Lab to help manage our 147 acres of land! Work hard, make friends, & learn about native ecosystems while helping to restore Lakeside to its original prairie & oak savanna landscape. No experience required!
Coffee, snacks, & conversation to take place afterwards, around 9:30-10 AM, on the Waitt Lab deck.
Questions? More information? Call Matt at 712-260-1474
CLAMP
Cooperative Lakes Area Monitoring Project
Summer is almost here and CLAMP will be starting to sample in June!
Since 1999 this citizen science program has relied on the help of volunteers like YOU to collect samples for testing at Iowa Lakeside Laboratory’s water quality lab. This information is used to monitor the health of all the different lakes in the area & to inform decision makers like those at the Department of Natural Resources.
Boat not needed to join!
Contact megan-vigdal@uiowa.edu or ashley-scheve@uiowa.edu for more information!
Looking for a fun way to spend time in nature? Try our Treasure Hike! For all ages. Follow the map around campus to put the pieces together! Maps are available beginning Memorial Day weekend and can be found by the map in the parking lot, or in Waitt Lab.
Iowa Lakeside Laboratory is located on the homelands of several Indigenous nations including the Báxoǰe (Iowa), Umoⁿhoⁿ (Omaha), Póⁿka (Ponca), Dakota/Lakota/Nakoda, and Sahnish/Nuxbaaga/Nuweta (Three Affiliated Tribes) and acknowledges the sovereignty and traditional territories of these people, the treaties that were used to remove them, and the histories of dispossession.
Mitakuye Oyasin – We are all related.
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