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Alatout, Samer
Faculty, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology
Research Topics: Global environmental policy and politics, environmental security/insecurity, bio-territorial framework of power and government
Andresen, Christian
Faculty, Department of Geography
Research Topics: Arctic hydrology, ecology, wetlands, climate change, remote sensing and UAS (drones)
Anex, Robert
Faculty, Department of Biological Systems Engineering
Research Topics: Biological systems analysis and assessment, life cycle assessment, techno-economic analysis
Arnold, Michael
Faculty, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Research Topics: Advanced nanostructured materials for water purification and desalination
Arriaga, Francisco
Faculty, Department of Soil Science; Division of Extension
Research Topics: Applied soil physics, soil and water management and conservation, soil erosion, water quality, crop production
Azevedo-Casey, Emily
PhD student, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Research Topics: nutrient management in watersheds, water quality policy, watershed stewardship and conservation, stakeholder engagement, collaborative planning, spatial data, social-ecological systems, science communication
Baird, Ian G.
Faculty, Department of Geography
Research Topics: Mekong fish and fisheries; fish ecology, fisheries co-management, political ecology of hydro power dams and fisheries in the Mekong Basin
Balster, Nick
Faculty, Department of Soil Science
Research Topics: Stormwater management, green engineering, restoration of retention basins and dam impoundments, wintertime water flows, urban waters, forest hydrology
Bart, David
Faculty, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture
Research Topics: Hydrologic characteristics and floristic quality of calcareous fens; legacy and current impacts of groundwater withdrawal, land-use change, climate change, and shrub encroachment; remote sensing
Bates, Laura
PhD Student, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Research Topics: Stream ecology, watershed management, water quality, stakeholder engagement, nutrient management, biological indicators, limnology
Bechle , Adam
Coastal Engineering Outreach Specialist Wisconsin Sea Grant
Outreach Topics: Great Lakes coastal hazards, water levels, climate change, engineering and resilience
Beilfuss, Richard
Adjunct Professor, College of Engineering; President & CEO, International Crane Foundation
Research Topics: Ecological restoration, environmental flows, wetland ecology, impact of water resources development and climate on river systems, landscape ecology
Bell, Michael
Faculty, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology; Director, Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
Research Topics: Sociology of perennial agriculture systems such as grazing and agroforestry, sociology of cover crops, sociology of climate change
Block, Paul
Faculty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Topics: Effects of climate change on water systems, hydrologic forecasting and integration into decision models, hydroeconomics
Bohanan, Robert
Outreach Program Manager, WISCIENCE
Research Topics: Citizen science, urban ecology, storm water basin ecology, dragonflies of Wisconsin
Booth, Eric
Research Scientist, Department of Agronomy, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Topics: Hydroecology, hydrologic impacts of climate and land-use, stormwater management, wetland/stream restoration, groundwater, fluvial geomorphology, agroecology
Bradbury, Ken
Director and State Geologist, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey; Faculty, Department of Geoscience
Research Topics: Groundwater movement, viruses in groundwater systems, hydrogeology of Wisconsin, wellhead protection, and groundwater recharge
Brossard, Dominique
Faculty, Department of Life Sciences Communication
Research topics: Risk communication (e.g. AIS communication, public opinion and water toxicity)
Burkett, Erin
Lake Superior Outreach Specialist
Research Topics: Environmental social science, collaboration, community-engaged research, leadership
Cardiff, Michael
Faculty, Department of Geoscience
Research Topics: Aquifer characterization, inverse problems, environmental decision-making under uncertainty, water supply systems
Carlton, Virginia (Ginny)
Education Outreach Specialist, Wisconsin Sea Grant
Research Topics: Environmental education, place-based education, adult education, Great Lakes literacy principles
Chin, Natalie
Climate and Tourism Outreach Specialist Wisconsin Sea Grant
Research Topics: Climate change, tourism and outdoor recreation, regional modeling, community engagement
Cook, Chad
Land & Water Outreach Program Manager, Division of Extension, Natural Resources Institute
Outreach Topics: Water quality and non-point source pollution impacts, forestry outreach to landowners, citizen science, invasive species
Desai, Ankur
Faculty, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Research Topics: Inland water biogeochemistry, surface-atmosphere exchange, ecosystem modeling, micrometeorology, climate change
Diran , Ingrid
Faculty, Department of English
Research Topics: environmental humanities, critical race studies, and critical theory (especially biopolitics and Marxism).
Druschke, Caroline Gottschalk
Faculty, Department of English
caroline.gottschalk.druschke@wisc.edu
Research Topics: Stream restoration, flooding, freshwater management, public engagement, narrative, Driftless Area
Dugan, Hilary
Faculty, Center for Limnology, Department of Integrative Biology
Erb, Kevin
Director, Conservation Professional Training Program, Division of Extension
Research Topics: manure and animal waste management, land application technologies, nutrient management planning, conservation planning, karst, soil health, groundwater, and adult education.
Erickson, Deanna
Director, Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve
Research Topics: Environmental education, place-based education, watershed, Lake Superior, restoration, remediation, Great Lakes Area of Concern, estuaries
Exo, John
Water Quality Programs Coordinator
Research Topics: Groundwater nitrates from agriculture; Coordinate CALS & Extension outreach and response to challenges of nitrates from agriculture
Feiner , Zachary
Assistant Scientist & WDNR Research Liaison, Center for Limnology
Research Topics: Fisheries and aquatic ecology; Fisheries management; Eco-evolutionary dynamics; Climate change impacts on fish and fisheries; Food webs
Ferris, Michael
Faculty, Department of Computer Sciences; Director, Data Sciences Hub, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
Research Topics: Economic modeling for decision problems, strategic design & operation of energy, agriculture, & hydro-economic systems.
FitzSimons, Sarah
Faculty, Department of Art
Research Topics: Site-specific sculpture, installation art, water and architecture.
Fratta, Dante
Faculty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Topics: Geotomography, near surface geophysics, detection of anomalies in infrastructure, study of low strain stiffness in rock masses, geomaterial process evaluation
Genskow, Ken
Faculty, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture; Extension Specialist, Natural Resources Institute
Research Topics: Watershed planning, water policy, integration, collaboration, social indicators, human dimensions, governance, program evaluation
Gerrish, Gretchen
Director, Trout Lake Research Station, Center for Limnology
Research Topics: Evolutionary ecology of aquatic invertebrates, zooplankton population and community ecology, life history evolution
Ginder-Vogel, Matthew
Faculty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Topics: Environmental chemistry, biogeochemistry, water chemistry, X-ray absorption spectroscopy
Goldberg, Tony
Faculty, Department of Pathobiological Sciences
Research Topics: Ecology and epidemiology of infectious diseases of aquatic animals, including invasive pathogens with economic importance to Wisconsin
Good, Laura
Research Scientist, Department of Soil Science
Research Topics: Nutrient management planning, conservation planning, runoff phosphorus, Phosphorus Index.
Gorski, Patrick
Emerging Contaminants Research Scientist, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Research Topics: Mercury bioavailability and bioaccumulation, groundwater geochemistry and contamination, trace-metals analysis, nutrient cycling and removal, zooplankton and aquatic ecology
Graham, Linda
Faculty, Department of Botany
Research Topics: Algae, bryophytes, periphyton, bacterial-autotroph associations, humic lakes, cellulose, technological applications of eukaryotic autotrophs
Grainger, Corbett
Faculty, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
Research Topics: Marine fisheries management including catch shares and rights-based management
Gratton, Claudio
Faculty, Department of Entomology
Research Topics: Landscape ecology, insect ecology and food webs, lake-land linkages, agriculture, bioenergy
Haines, Dustin
Research Coordinator, Natural Resources Institute, Division of Extension
Research Topics: ecology, invasive plants, restoration
Hanson, Paul
Faculty, Center for Limnology
Research Topics: Carbon cycling, lake ecosystem modeling, aquatic sensor networks and cyber-infrastructure
Harrington, Gregory W.
Faculty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Topics: Chemistry of drinking water treatment and distribution, removal of waterborne pathogens and microbes during drinking water treatment and distribution, mathematical modeling
Harrington, Moira
Assistant Director for Communications Wisconsin Sea Grant
Hart, David
Assistant Director for Extension, Aquatic Sciences Center
Research Topics: Application of geospatial technologies to Great Lakes issues (sustainable coastal development, coastal hazards, coastal heritage tourism)
Hauxwell, Jennifer
Associate Director, Aquatic Sciences Center
jennifer.hauxwell@aqua.wisc.edu
Research Topics: Effects of nutrient loading on aquatic environments, aquatic plant ecology and management, water resource and fisheries management, research program administration
Heim, Karina
Coastal Training Program Coordinator, Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve
Hendry, Elliot
Masters Student, Freshwater and Marine Sciences
Research Topics: perennial and ephemeral stream dynamics, watershed science, adaptations to disturbance, writing and storytelling, labor and environmental history
Hillman, Andrew
PhD Student, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Research Topics: Agricultural water quality, watershed science, community and stakeholder engagement, policy
Horowitz, Leah
Faculty, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, School of Human Ecology
Research Topics: environmental governance, grassroots ecological resistance, social movements, American Indian communities, Melanesia, political ecology, community responses to industrial development, social dimensions of biodiversity conservation, climate change activism
Hotchkiss, Sara
Faculty, Department of Botany, Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research
Research topics: Studies of vegetation history, climate history, ecosystem response to climate change, disturbance and landscape dynamics, paleoecology
Hua, Jessica
Associate Professor, Forest and Wildlife Ecology Department
Research Topics: Ecology and Evolution, Disease Ecology, Ecotoxicology, Herpetology, Science Communication
Huang, Jingyi
Faculty, Department of Soil Science
Research Topics: Soil physics, proximal and remote sensing, soil monitoring, water conservation and irrigation management, digital soil mapping
Hurley, James
Director, Aquatic Sciences Center; Faculty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Topics: Chemical limnology, natural organic matter, nutrient cycling, Great Lakes research, bioaccumulation of contaminants, chemical interactions at the sediment-water interface
Ives, Anthony
Faculty, Department of Integrative Biology
Research Topics: Population and community ecology; theory and statistical methods
Jackson, Randy
Faculty, Department of Agronomy
rdjackson@wisc.edu
Website
Research Topics: Grassland ecosystem structure and fucntion, C sequestration and ecosystem services of grasslands, C balance and grassland management regimes, grassland and pasture management
Jandl, Nathan
Associate Director of Sustainability, UW-Madison Office of Sustainability
Research topics: sustainability, communication, climate anxiety, environmental humanities, environmental literature
Jensen, Olaf
Faculty, Center for Limnology and Department of Integrative Biology
Research Topics: Fish ecology, fishery management, food webs, social-ecological systems
Johnson , Robert
Assistant Scientist, Department of Integrative Biology
Research Topics: Aquatic ecology and biogeochemistry; Coastal marine ecosystems; Herbivory in tropical seagrass ecosystems
Karasov, William
Faculty, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
Knight, Susan
Interim Director, Trout Lake Research Station; Research Scientist, Center for Limnology
Research Topics: Aquatic Plant Identification and Outreach; Invasive aquatic plant research (Tolerance of invasive aquatic plants, testing biological control methods)
Kucharik, Chris
Faculty, Department of Agronomy
Research Topics: Agroecology, climate change, biogeochemical cycling, ecosystem modeling
Laboski, Carrie
Faculty, Department of Soil Science; Division of Extension
laboski@wisc.edu
Website
Research topics: Soil fertility/nutrient management, manure nutrient availability, soil testing, nutrient cycling and movement, enhancing nutrient use efficiency.
LaGro, James
Faculty, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture
Research Topics: Green infrastructure, low-impact development/stormwater management, groundwater contamination/risks from septic systems
Lakind, Alexandra
PhD Student, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies/School of Education, Water@UW Project Assistant
Larson, Rebecca
Faculty, Department of Biological Systems Engineering; Division of Extension
Lebowitz, Ben
Master's Student, Environment and Resources, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Research Topics: Political economy of water conservation in the American West: water policy, agricultural and water economics, environmental history
Lee, Carol Eunmi
Faculty, Department of Integrative Biology
carollee@wisc.edu
Website
Research Topics: Genetics of populations resistant to catastrophic change; rapid evolutionary responses to environmental change (biological invasions, climate change, oil spills, etc.)
Loheide, Steve
Faculty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Topics: Hydroecology, water in the environment, stream and riparian resoration, groundwater, hydrologic and ecologic consequences of climate change
Lottig, Noah
Research Scientist, Center for Limnology; Site Manager, North Temperate Lakes Long Term Ecological Research Program
nrlottig@wisc.edu
Website
Research Topics: Influence of hydroscape configuration on watershed carbon signatures, interactions between geomorphology and wrack disturbance in tidal creeks.
Majumder, Erica
Faculty, Assistant Professor of Bacteriology
Research Topics: Ecology of microplastics and Harmful Algal Blooms, Interactions of microplastics and microbial communities in wastewater treatment plants, bioremediation of heavy metal contaminated groundwater
McMahon, Katherine
Faculty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Topics: Water quality, eutrophication, wastewater treatment microbiology, environmental genomics, community assembly, bacteria-virus interactions
McShane-Hellenbrand, Karen
Faculty, Department of Dance
Research Topics: National Water Dance Project (Wisconsin statewide coordinator), arts integration curriculum development with water themes, site specific dance performance on or near waterways
Mehan, Sushant
Research Associate, Department of Biological Systems Engineering
Research Topics: watershed hydrology, hydro-informatics, hydro-climatology, and water quality modeling, assessment, and management
Monette, Richard
Faculty, Law School; Director, Great Lakes Indian Law Center
Research Topics: Water rights law (LAW 845), Indian and Federal Reserved Water Rights, legal counsel to parties in discussions or settlements of water rights
Moser, Anne
Senior Special Librarian and Education Coordinator, Wisconsin's Water Library
Research Interests: Art + science, Great Lakes Literacy, place-based education, children’s literature, water librarianship
Muldoon, Maureen
Hydrogeologist, Wisconsin Geological & Natural History Survey
Research Topics: Groundwater resources, groundwater quality, geology of aquifers, karst, monitoring fractured-rock aquifers
Nesper, Larry
Faculty, Department of Anthropology; Director, American Indian Studies Program
lnesper@wisc.edu
Website
Research topics: Great Lakes Indian law and politics in the federal Indian policy era of Self-determination (post-1960s); development of the tribal courts in Wisconsin
Noguera, Daniel
Faculty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
noguera@engr.wisc.edu
Website
Research Topics: Biological wastewater treatment, biological nitrogen and phosphorus removal, anaerobic digestion, drinking water, bioenergy, biotechnology
Noordyk, Julia
Water Quality and Coastal Communities Specialist, Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute
noordykj@uwgb.edu
Website
Research Topics: Great Lakes, coastal erosion, runoff and stormwater pollution, climate adaptation, community resiliency and sustainability
Notaro, Michael
Associate Director, Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research
mnotaro@wisc.edu
Website
Research Topics: Land-atmosphere interactions, global and regional climate modeling, climate change in the Great Lakes Basin, lake-effect snow, lake levels, dust storms
Ohm, Brian
Faculty, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture; Division of Extension
Research Topics: Water law, including the Public Trust doctrine, riparian rights, coastal hazards, floodplain/shoreland zoning, stormwater ordinances, wetland ordinances
Ozdogan, Mutlu
Faculty, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
ozdogan@wisc.edu
Website
Research topics: Remote sensing, hydrology, land-use/land-cover change
Parker, Dominic
Faculty, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
Research Topics: Economics of ground and surface water conservation, commercial fishery management
Paschke, Ned
Program Director, Department of Engineering Professional Development
Research Topics: Water and wastewater engineering, analysis and improvement of water and wastewater systems
Peckarsky, Bobbi
Honorary Fellow, Department of Integrative Biology, Department of Entomology
peckarsky@wisc.edu
Website
Research Topics: Ecology of stream-dwelling organisms, evolution of predator-prey and grazer-algal interactions, invertebrates as indicators of stream water quality
Phaneuf, Dan
Faculty, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
dphaneuf@wisc.edu
Website
Research Topics: Environmental economics with specific expertise in non-market valuation; applied econometrics
Power, Rebecca
Director, North Central Region Water Network
Research Topics: Nutrient management, climate and water, soil health and water, youth water stewardship, harmful algal blooms, green infrastructure, university extension, watershed management, watershed leadership, water policy
Preston, Daniel
Faculty, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
Research Topics: Freshwater ecology, food webs, host-parasite interactions, species invasions, environmental change
Provencher, Bill
Faculty, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
rwproven@wisc.edu
Website
Research topics: Environmental and resource economics, dynamics of resource use, value of ecosystem goods and services, management of freshwater resources, land use policies
Pujara, Nimish
Faculty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Topics: Environmental fluid mechanics, nearshore hydrodynamics, turbulent and multiphase flows, flow-biota interactions, water wave mechanics, coastal processes, experimental methods
Qin, Mohan
Faculty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Topics: Sustainable wastewater treatment, brackish water desalination
Ramage, Hannah
Monitoring Coordinator, Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve
Raynor, Jennifer
Assistant Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
Remucal, Christy
Faculty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Topics: Photochemical processes in natural waters, metal redox cycling, reactive oxygen species production, contaminant transformation
Rissman, Adena
Faculty, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
arrissman@wisc.edu
Website
Research Topics: Natural resource policy design and implementation, ecological outcomes of resource policy, social and legal adaptation to environmental change
Robbins, Paul
Director, Nelson Institute for Envrionmental Studies
Research Topics: Human behavior (homeowner practices related to water quality), urban water management (mosquito habitat and breeding sites)
Robertson, Morgan
Faculty, Department of Geography
Research Topics: Wetland restoration, Clean Water Act, environmental markets, wetland and habitat credit policy
Roden, Eric
Faculty, Department of Geoscience
eroden@geology.wisc.edu
Website
Research Topics: Sediment biogeochemistry; physiology and ecology of anaerobic microorganisms; microbial iron redox cycling; microbial mineral transformations
Ruark, Matt
Faculty, Department of Soil Science; Division of Extension
Research Topics: Efficient use and management of fertilizers and manures to reduce losses to surface and groundwater
Sapper, Becky
Director, Wisconsin Master Naturalist Program, Natural Resources Institute, Division of Extension
Outreach Topics: Master Naturalist, volunteer management, stakeholder engagement, program facilitation, citizen science, invasive species, freshwater estuaries
Sarzaeim, Parisa
Research Associate, PhD, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Research Topics: Water Resources Quality and Quantity Assessment, Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence Applications in Earth Sciences, Climatic Geospatial Analysis, Water Resources Management and Governance in US Tribal Lands
Scanlan, Melissa
Faculty affiliate UW-Madison Law School, Director of the Center for Water Policy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences
Research Topics: water law and policy, climate change, administrative agencies, political economy, Great Lakes, Diversity-Equity-Inclusion, and social-ecological systems.
Seilheimer, Titus
Fisheries Outreach Specialist, Wisconsin Sea Grant
tseilheimer@aqua.wisc.edu
Website
Research Topics: Great Lakes ecology and fisheries, food web change, fish ecology, fish habitat, aquatic invasive species, wetland ecology
Shaw, Bret
Faculty, Department of Life Science Communications; Division of Extension
Research Topics: Social marketing, outreach, aquatic invasive species, promoting natural shorelines
Silbernagel, Janet
Faculty, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture; Design Strategist, Division of Continuing Studies
jmsilber@wisc.edu
Website
Research Topics: Landscape ecology and conservation strategies, scenario modeling and geospatial analysis of landscape conservation strategies
Soldat, Doug
Faculty, Department of Soil Science; Division of Extension
Research Topics: Lawn and turfgrass maintenance, environmental impacts of turfgrass management, soil phosphorus, Pb-contaminated soils
Stambach, Amy
Faculty, Department of Anthropology, Nelson Institute Center for Culture, History, and Environment
Stanley, Emily
Faculty, Center for Limnology, Department of Integrative Biology
Research Topics: Aquatic ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry, focusing in streams and lakes; computational limnology, long-term ecological research
Steele, Jeffery
Water Quality Specialist, Environmental and Occupational Health, University Health Services
Areas of Expertise: water and human health including stormwater monitoring, groundwater quality, recreational swimming water, blue-green algae, legionella in water distribution systems, and drinking water quality
Stern, Noah
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Bacteriology
Research Topics: dissolved and particulate organic carbon, microbial metabolism, hyporheic zone.
Stevens, Andrew
Faculty, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
Research Topics: Applied agricultural policy, food policy, groundwater, agriculture.
Stoy, Paul
Associate Professor, Biological Systems Engineering
Research Topics: Evapotranspiration from natural and managed ecosystems, evaporation/transpiration partitioning, regional climate processes, ecohydrology
Szlufarska, Izabela
Faculty, Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Research Topics: Water/mineral interfaces, surface chemistry, interaction of water with nanomaterials, nanofluidics, molecular simulations
Teodoro, Manny
Faculty, LaFollette School of Public Affairs & Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Research Topics: Governance, management, regulation, water/sewer pricing, affordability, environmental justice.
Thompson, Anita
Faculty, Department of Biological Systems Engineering
Research Topics: Hydrology, water quality, runoff, sediment/nutrient/pathogen transport, stormwater management, erosion control, SWAT and WEPP modeling
Townsend, Philip
Faculty, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
ptownsend@wisc.edu
Website
Research Topics: Remote sensing and imaging spectroscopy, forest ecosystem dynamics, watershed hydrology and modeling, spatial analysis
Turner, Monica
Faculty, Department of Integrative Biology
turnermg@wisc.edu
Website
Research topics: Spatial heterogeneity in ecological systems, natural disturbances and ecosystems, fire ecology, western conifer forests, effects of climate and land-use change
Valentine, Jamie
Masters Student, Urban and Regional Planning
Research Topics: intersections of land use, infrastructure with planning and design, water and energy
Van Matre, Brianna
M.S. Student, Department of Life Sciences Communication, Water@UW Executive Committee member
Research Topics: behavior change, risk perception, and environmental communication regarding sustainability, wildlife, natural resources, and conservation.
Vander Zanden, Jake
Director, Center for Limnology; Faculty, Department of Integrative Biology
Research Topics: Aquatic Ecology, limnology, fish ecology, food webs, aquatic invasive species, conservation biology
Vavrus, Steve
Research Scientist, Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research
Research Topics: Lake ice, sea ice, climate change, glaciers, floods, Great Lakes, seasonal rainfall forecasting, lake-effect snowfall, snow cover, extreme weather, Yahara Watershed
Vimont, Dan
Director, Nelson Institute for Climatic Research; Faculty, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
dvimont@wisc.edu
Website
Research topics: Mechanisms of climate variability and change, weather-climate interactions, global and regional impacts of climate change
Wang, Yi
Faculty, Department of Horticulture; Division of Extension
Research Topics: Irrigation management of sustainable vegetable crop production, with a focus on variable rate irrigation and other irrigation best management practices
Wei, Haoran
Faculty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Topics: Emerging contaminants, Sensing technology, Water treatment
Wilkinson , Grace
Faculty, Freshwater and Marine Sciences
Research Topics: Integrative Biology; Aquatic-terrestrial linkages, lake biogeochemistry, aquatic food webs
Wright, Daniel
Faculty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
danielb.wright@wisc.edu
Website
Research Topics: Flood risk estimation and management, modeling of extreme rainfall, climate change impacts on hydrologic extremes, natural hazards modeling
Wu, Chin
Faculty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
chinwu@engr.wisc.edu
Website
Research Topics: Environmental fluid mechanics and limnology, surface wave dynamics, sediment transport, environmental monitoring, groundwater-surface water interactions
Xiong , Yiying
Associate Director, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Institute
Research Topics: Hydropower Engineering, Dam Safety, Dam Removal, Fish Passage, Hydrology and Hydraulics, Climate Change.
Zahasky, Christopher
Faculty, Department of Geoscience Affiliate Faculty, Geological Engineering & Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Research Topics: Contaminant hydrogeology, experimental hydrogeology, water-energy nexus, sustainable energy resources
Emeritus Faculty
Mary Anderson
Professor Emerita, Geology and Geophysics
andy@geology.wisc.edu
website
Research Topics: Computer modeling of groundwater systems, geological characterization of heterogeneity, groundwater-lake systems
Anders Andren
Professor Emeritus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director Emeritus, Aquatic Sciences Center
awandren@aqua.wisc.edu
website
Research Topics: Aquatic chemistry, remediation of contaminated water and sediments, Great Lakes contaminants, fisheries, invasive species, lake levels, aquaculture, Wisconsin groundwater issues
David E. Armstrong
Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Environmental Chemistry & Technology Program
dearmstr@wisc.edu
website
Research Topics: Aquatic chemistry, chemical limnology, nutrient cycles in lakes, chemical contaminants in aquatic systems
Steve Carpenter
Free Range Scientist; Emeritus Faculty, Department of Integrative Biology; Emeritus Director, Center for Limnology
srcarpen@wisc.edu
website
Research Topics:Aquatic Ecology, limnology, carbon cycle, eutrophication, food webs, phosphorus, land-water linkages, ecosystem models, social-ecological systems
Gene Clark
Emeritus Coastal Engineering Specialist, Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute
Research Topics: Coastal engineering & resiliency, dangerous currents & beach safety, design and efficiency of ports, harbors, and marinas
Calvin DeWitt
Professor Emeritus, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
cbdewitt@wisc.edu
website
Research Topics: redox potentials at water/peat interface in wetland ponds, evaluation of negative skewness in ectotherm thermoregulation, ecosystem modeling, highway impacts on wetlands,wetland formation
Sharon Long
Emerita Director, Applied Environmental Microbiology, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene; Emerita Faculty, Department of Soil Science
slong@wisc.edu
Website
Research Topics: Monitoring waterborne pathogens, microbial water contamination, source water protection, watershed management, methods of pathogen enumeration, bio-terrorism preparedness
John J. Magnuson
Professor Emeritus of Zoology and Director Emeritus of the Center for Limnology
jjmagnus@wisc.edu
website
Research Topics: Long-term ecological research on lakes, analyses of lake ice time series, climate change impacts and adaptations, thermal ecology of fishes, landscape and invasion ecology of lakes.
Ken Potter
Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environment Engineering
kwpotter@wisc.edu
website
Research Topics: Hydrological Modeling and Design, Stormwater, Estimation of Hydrologic Risk, Restoration of Aquatic Systems
Jim Skinner
Professor Emeritus, Chemistry
jlskinner@uchicago.edu
website
Research Topics: Dynamics of condensed phase systems, time-dependent phenomena in liquids, supercritical fluids, crystalline and amorphous solids
William Sonzogni
Professor Emeritus, Civil and Environmental Engineering
sonzogni@gmail.com
website
Research Topics: Fate and transport of toxic contaminants, analytical chemistry of pollutants, chemical limnology, water resources management, environmental toxicology
In Memoriam
James F. Kitchell
Arthur Hasler Professor Emeritus of Zoology, Faculty, Center for Limnology
Research Topics: Food web interactions and fisheries, Lake ecosystems, Marine ecosystems, Climate change effects on Lake Superior