Full project descriptions here.
| Project Code | Mentor | Campus | Affiliation/Department | Email Address | Project Title |
| EAU-1 | David Lonzarich | UW-Eau Claire | Biology | Lonzard@uwec.edu | Deep-water mosses in WI lakes |
| GRB-1 | Michael Holly | UW-Green Bay | Resch School of Engineering | hollym@uwgb.edu | Reactive Media for the Removal of Phosphorus from Agricultural Runoff |
| GRB-2 | Amy Carrozzino-Lyon | UW-Green Bay | Natural and Applied Sciences | carrozza@uwgb.edu | Wetland ecology and restoration on the Green Bay west shore & Lake Michigan |
| GRB-3 | Emily Tyner | UW-Green Bay | Director of Freshwater Strategy | tynere@uwgb.edu | Science communication, public engagement, and technical writing in support of the designation of the Bay of Green Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve |
| LAC-1 | Tisha King-Heiden | UW-La Crosse | Biology | tking-heiden@uwlax.edu | Using small fish models to study endocrine disruptors |
| LAC-2 | Ross Vander Vorste | UW-La Crosse | Biology | rvandervorste@uwlax.edu | Aquatic invertebrate productivity and biodiversity in threatened river floodplain habitats |
| LAC-3 | Bonnie Jo Bratina | UW-La Crosse | Microbiologu | bbratina@uwlax.edu | The effect of Dispersit, a surfactant, on the microbial community in Myrick Marsh |
| LAC-4 | Penelope K. Hardy | UW-La Crosse | History | phardy@uwlax.edu | Inland waterways in the long 19th century: A global history of science, technology, and medicine in primary sources |
| MAN-1 | Kevin Cullen | UW-Manitowoc / Wisconsin Maritime Museum | Wisconsin Maritime Museum | kcullen@wisconsinmaritime.org | Maritime Artifact Advanced Imaging Project |
| MAN-2 | Russ Green | NOAA National Marine Sanctuary | NOAA | russ.green@noaa.gov | Diving into History: A Research Scholar Opportunity at the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary |
| MIL-1 | Junjie Niu | UW-Milwaukee | Materials Science and School of Freshwater Sciences | niu@uwm.edu | Groundwater/drinking water purification by removing PFAS molecules |
| MIL-2 | Dong Fang Deng | UW-Milwaukee | School of Freshwater Sciences | dengd@uwm.edu | Nutritional strategies to reduce water pollution in fish farming |
| MIL-3 | John Berges | UW-Milwaukee | Biological Sciences and Freshwater Sciences | berges@uwm.edu | Hemimysis: an invader with diverse places in the Lake Michigan food web |
| MIL-4 | Woonsup Choi | UW-Milwaukee | Department of Geography | choiw@uwm.edu | Investigating Human Impacts on Hydrological Drought |
| MSN-1 | Jingyi Huang | UW-Madison | Soil Science | jhuang426@wisc.edu | High-resolution soil moisture mapping with citizen science and Artificial Intelligence |
| MSN-2 | Eric Roden | UW-Madison | Geoscience | eroden@geology.wisc.edu | Biogeochemistry of hydromorphic soils and riverbed sediments |
| MSN-3 | Christopher Zahasky | UW-Madison | Geoscience | czahasky@wisc.edu | Impacts of stream-groundwater exchange on contaminant transport in the environment |
| MSN-4 | Trina McMahon | UW-Madison | Civil and Environmental Engineering / Bacteriology | trina.mcmahon@wisc.edu | Impacts of invasive zebra mussels on cyanobacterial communities |
| MSN-5 | Haoran Wei | UW-Madison | Civil and Environmental Engineering | haoran.wei3@wisc.edu | PFAS Sensors for Water Quality Monitoring |
| MSN-6 | Sarah Janssen | UW-Madison | U.S. Geological Survey/ University of Wisconsin-Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | sjanssen@usgs.gov | Examining Mercury Adsorption and Transport on Microplastics in Freshwater Environments |
| MSN-7 | Jessica Hua | UW-Madison | Forest and Wildlife Ecology | jhua23@wisc.edu | Pond Soundscapes: Understanding how human activities influence the ecology of pond communities through sound and machine learning |
| MSN-8 | Steven Loheide | UW-Madison | Civil and Environmental Engineering | loheide@wisc.edu | Relationship between engineering design of stormwater retention ponds, surrounding land use and land cover, and in-pond and downstream ecosystem services |
| MSN-9 | Michael Cardiff | UW-Madison | Geoscience | cardiff@wisc.edu | Supercharging recharge: Economics and efficiency of rural drywells for enhancing groundwater quantity and quality |
| MSN-10 | Christy Remucal | UW-Madison | Civil & Environmental Engineering | remucal@wisc.edu | Investigation of organic contaminant transformation by manganese oxides for water treatment applications |
| MSN-11 | Erica Majumder | UW-Madison | Bacteriology | emajumder@wisc.edu | Hitching a ride: Microplastic & Harmful Algal Bloom interactions |
| MSN-12 | Andrea Hicks | UW-Madison | Civil and Environmental Engineering | hicks5@wisc.edu | Sustainable Aquaculture and Aquaponics |
| MSN-13 | Steven Loheide | UW-Madison | Civil and Environmental Engineering | loheide@wisc.edu | Investigation of groundwater changes in South Central, WI. |
| MSN-14 | Grace Wilkinson | UW-Madison | Center for Limnology | gwilkinson@wisc.edu | Investigating how storms drive greenhouse gas production in urban ponds |
| MSN-15 | Matthew Ginder-Vogel | UW-Madison | Civil and Environmental Engineering | mgindervogel@wisc.edu | Factors Controlling Environmental Arsenic Speciation and Transport |
| MSN-16 | Grace Bulltail | UW-Madison | Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies | bulltail@wisc.edu | Developing experimental and analytical framework for wetlands water quality in Wisconsin |
| OSH-1 | Greg Kleinheinz | UW-Oshkosh | Engineering and Engineering Technology and Environmental Research and Innovation Center | kleinhei@uwosh.edu | Microplastics sampling and analysis of Great Lakes surface water |
| OSH-2 | Carmen Ebert | UW-Oshkosh | Environmental Research & Innovation Center | ebertc@uwosh.edu | Microbiological Assessment of Select Lake Michigan Beach Waters |
| SUP-1 | Kaitlin Reinl | UW-Superior | Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve, UW-Madison Division of Extension Natural Resources Institute | kreinl@wisc.edu | Evaluating techniques for effective in situ algal abundance monitoring in the St. Louis River Estuary |
Program Contact:
Dr. James Hurley
UW-Madison
1975 Willow Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1103