2023 Spring Symposium

The event will be held in person and will also be streamed live.

Register for the in-person event here.

Register to receive a zoom link here.

9:00 – 9:15 AM WELCOME

• Alison Mikulyuk, Water@UW-Madison Research Program Coordinator 
• Steve Ackerman, Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, UW-Madison Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 

9:15 – 9:55 AM  LIGHTNING TALKS (5 mins each)

• Hali Jama, Undergraduate Student, UW-Madison
• Gavin Luter, Managing Director, UniverCity Alliance
• Ana Fochesatto, PhD Student, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UW-Madison
• Ellen Albright, Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Limnology, UW-Madison
• Nina Delgadillo, Student Intern, Office of Sustainability, UW-Madison
• Ken Genshow, Professor of Environmental Planning and Policy, UW-Madison

9:55-10:10 BREAK

10:10 – 11:05 “COMMUNITY INFORMED PROJECTS ACROSS SECTORS” – Presentations (12 min each)

• Jared Porter, Project Scientist Kleinschmidt Associates and Yiying Xiong, Associate Director, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
• Nancy Wedwick, President, Coon Creek Community Watershed Council and Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Professor of English, UW-Madison and Water@UW-Madison Chair
• Carolyn Voter, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Delaware
• Felice Green, Director of Programming, Milwaukee Water Commons

11:05 – 11:50 “COMMUNITY INFORMED PROJECTS ACROSS SECTORS” – Panel Discussion

Moderated by:

• Alison Mikulyuk, Water@UW-Madison Research Program Coordinator
• Elliot Hendry, Masters Student, Freshwater and Marine Sciences, UW-Madison

Presenters:

• Jared Porter, Project Scientist Kleinschmidt Associates and Yiying Xiong, Associate Director, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
• Nancy Wedwick, President, Coon Creek Community Watershed Council and Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Professor of English, UW-Madison and Water@UW-Madison Chair
• Carolyn Voter, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Delaware
• Felice Green, Director of Programming, Milwaukee Water Commons

11:50 – 12:00 PM CLOSING

• Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Professor of English, UW-Madison and Water@UW-Madison Chair

Event parking: Lot 46 (Lake & Johnson Ramp). Parking cost: Visitors pay with a parking ticket at time of exit from lot; hourly parking rates apply. There is some street parking located near the Gordon Event and Dining Center, however there are 2 hour maximum.

The event takes place on the northern end of the building in the Symphony Room on the 2nd floor.  Entering the northern-most front doors of the Gordon Center, turn right and take the steps or the elevator to the second floor. The Symphony Room is across from the elevator or at the top of the steps.

Our goal is to make this event as accessible as possible for presenters and attendees alike. We are working with the McBurney Center at UW-Madison to provide closed captioning for the event. The event will also be live streamed for those unable to attend in-person.

If you need any additional accommodation to attend this event, including sign language interpretation, please contact Meg Baker at water@mailplus.wisc.edu. All accommodation requests should be made no less than two weeks (by April 4th) before the event. We will attempt to fulfill requests made after this date, but cannot guarantee they will be met.