UW-Madison is an internationally-recognized center for water-related research, teaching, and outreach. Water@UW affiliated faculty and staff work in departments, colleges, and institutes across UW-Madison. Faculty emeritus are at the end of the page. To learn more about water research conducted at UW-Madison, visit our Water Story Map. This captures just a handful of recent projects that focus on community engagement. But there’s so much more! Check out our affiliate roster below if you want to know more about what we do.
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Samer Alatout
Position title: Faculty, Community and Environmental Sociology
Email:
snalatout
Research Topics: Science and technology studies; history and politics of fisheries science; history and politics of water sciences; water policymaking; water politics; political ecology; water justice; indigenous rights.
Karthik Anantharaman
Position title: Faculty, Bacteriology
Email:
karthik
Research Topics: Microbial and viral ecology, computational biology, biogeochemistry, long-term monitoring of viral ecology and evolution in freshwater and marine systems.
Christian Andresen
Position title: Faculty, Department of Geography
Email:
candresen
Research Topics: Arctic hydrology, ecology, wetlands, climate change, remote sensing and UAS (drones)
Robert Anex
Position title: Faculty, Department of Biological Systems Engineering
Research Topics: Biological systems analysis and assessment, life cycle assessment, techno-economic analysis
Michael Arnold
Position title: Faculty, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Research Topics: Advanced nanostructured materials for water purification and desalination
Francisco Arriaga
Position title: Faculty, Soil Science; Division of Extension
Email:
farriaga
Topics: Soil management in agroecosystems, soil health, soil hydrology, crop production, water quality.
Styliani Avraamidou
Position title: Faculty, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Email:
avraamidou
Research Topics: Circular economy, food-energy-water nexus, mathematical modeling and optimization, supply chain optimization
Ian G. Baird
Position title: Faculty, Geography
Email:
ibaird
Research Topics: Southeast Asia; Mekong River Basin; Mekong fish and fisheries; local ecological knowledge; political ecology of hydro power dams and fisheries in the Mekong Basin.
Nick Balster
Position title: 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
David Bart
Position title: 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
Adam Bechle
Position title: Coastal Engineering Outreach Specialist, Wisconsin Sea Grant
Email:
bechle
Outreach Topics: Great Lakes water levels, coastal erosion, and flooding.
Michael Bell
Position title: 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
Anna Bierbrauer
Position title: Faculty, Planning and Landscape Architecture
Email:
abierbrauer
Research Topics: Ecological design for stormwater management, urban political ecology, community-driven research, landscape and infrastructure narratives, environmental justice.
Hava Blair
Position title: Researcher and SnapPlus Lead, Soil and Environmental Sciences
Email:
hkblair
Research Topics: Nutrient management planning; conservation planning; runoff phosphorus; Phosphorus Index.
Paul Block
Position title: Faculty, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email:
paul.block
Research Topics: Hydroclimatology and water resources systems management; climate variability and season-ahead prediction; water quantity and water quality; disaster preparedness.
Eric Booth
Position title: Scientist II, Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences; Wisconsin Energy Institute
Email:
egbooth
Research Topics: Hydrologic impacts of climate and land-use; agroecosystems; water quality; flooding; wetland/stream restoration; fluvial geomorphology.
Katy Bradford
Position title: Water Action Volunteers Program Manager; Community Engaged Science and Education Program Manager, Division of Extension
Email:
katy.bradford
Dominique Brossard
Position title: Faculty, Department of Life Sciences Communication
Email:
dbrossard
Research Topics: Intersection of science, media and policy; risk communication.
Ann Buschhaus
Position title: GIS Researcher, State Cartographer's Office
Email:
buschhaus
Research Topics: Geospatial analysis, stormwater modelling.
Michael Cardiff
Position title: Faculty, Geoscience, Department Chair
Email:
cardiff
Research Topics: Groundwater aquifer management, human impacts on water quality and quantity.
Virginia (Ginny) Carlton
Position title: Education Outreach Specialist, Wisconsin Sea Grant
Email:
glcarlton
Research Topics: Environmental education, place-based education, adult education, Great Lakes literacy principles
Natalie Chin
Position title: Climate and Tourism Outreach Specialist, Wisconsin Sea Grant & Aquatic Sciences Center
Email:
nchin5
Research Topics: Actionable science, climate impacts, tourism and outdoor recreation.
Benjamin Collier
Position title: Faculty, Risk & Insurance
Email:
ben.collier
Research Topics: Severe climate risk, insurance markets, household finance, disaster recovery, sustainability.
Chad Cook
Position title: Land & Water Outreach Program Manager, Division of Extension, Natural Resources Institute
Email:
chad.cook
Outreach Topics: Water quality and non-point source pollution impacts, forestry outreach to landowners, citizen science, invasive species
Gavin Dehnert
Position title: Emerging Contaminants Scientist, Aquatic Sciences Center
Email:
dehnert2
Research Topics: PFAS, microplastics, pesticides, heavy metals
Jason Delborne
Position title: Faculty, LaFollette School of Public Affairs
Email:
delborne
Research Topics: Stakeholder and public engagement, governance of emerging technologies, environmental biotechnology, genetic biocontrol of invasive species, responsible innovation.
Ankur Desai
Position title: Faculty, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Email:
desai
Research Topics: Inland water biogeochemistry, surface-atmosphere exchange, ecosystem modeling, micrometeorology, climate change.
Ingrid Diran
Position title: Faculty, Department of English
Research Topics: Environmental humanities, critical race studies, and critical theory (especially biopolitics and Marxism).
Kevin Erb
Position title: Outreach Program Manager, Natural Resources Institute, Division of Extension
Email:
kevin.erb
Research Topics: Manure spills; manure application technology; manure and animal waste management; karst and groundwater.
Deanna Erickson
Position title: 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
Anna Fehling
Position title: Hydrogeologist, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey
Email:
anna.fehling
Research Topics: Groundwater resources, groundwater/surface water interaction, physical hydrogeology.
Zachary Feiner
Position title: Assistant Scientist & WDNR Research Liaison, Center for Limnology
Email:
zsfeiner
Research Topics: Fisheries and aquatic ecology, fisheries management, climate change, social-ecological dynamics, food webs, limnology
Michael Ferris
Position title: Faculty, Department of Computer Sciences; Director, Data Sciences Hub, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
Email:
ferris
Research Topics: Optimization modeling approaches for water management and energy applications.
Sarah FitzSimons
Position title: Faculty, Art
Email:
sfitzsimons
Research Topics: Public sculpture; Art and the environment; Site-specific sculpture; Sculpture participating in the hydrologic cycle.
Jeremy Foltz
Position title: Faculty, Agricultural & Applied Economics
Email:
jdfoltz
Research Topics: Economics of technology adoption; conservation agriculture; climate change; water and health outcomes.
Dante Fratta
Position title: 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
Ken Genskow
Position title: 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
Gretchen Gerrish
Position title: Trout Lake Station Director, Center for Limnology
Email:
ggerrish
Research Topics: Evolutionary ecology of aquatic invertebrates; zooplankton population and community ecology; life history evolution.
Matthew Ginder-Vogel
Position title: Faculty, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email:
mgindervogel
Research Topics: Environmental chemistry; biogeochemistry; water chemistry; X-ray absorption spectroscopy.
Tony Goldberg
Position title: Faculty, Pathobiological Sciences
Email:
tgoldberg
Research Topics: Ecology and epidemiology of infectious diseases of aquatic animals, with a focus on freshwater and marine fish and invertebrates.
Caroline Gottschalk
Position title: Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, English
Email:
cdruschke
Research Topics: Stream restoration, flooding, freshwater management, public engagement, narrative, Driftless Area.
Corbett Grainger
Position title: Faculty, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
Research Topics: Marine fisheries management including catch shares and rights-based management
Claudio Gratton
Position title: Faculty, Department of Entomology
Research Topics: Landscape ecology, insect ecology and food webs, lake-land linkages, agriculture, bioenergy
Jeffrey Hadachek
Position title: Faculty, Agriculture and Applied Economics Department
Email:
hadachek
Research Topics: Agricultural water use, nonpoint source pollution, conservation adoption, and policy analysis.
Steven Hall
Position title: Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences
Email:
steven.hall
Research Topics: Biogeochemistry, agricultural water quality, climate adaptation and mitigation in agricultural systems.
Paul Hanson
Position title: Research Professor, Center for Limnology
Research Topics: Aquatic ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry, focusing on modeling water quality and carbon dynamics; knowledge guided machine learning; long-term ecological research
Gregory W. Harrington
Position title: Faculty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email:
gwharrin
Research Topics: Chemistry of drinking water treatment and distribution, removal of waterborne pathogens and microbes during drinking water treatment and distribution, mathematical modeling
David Hart
Position title: 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)
David Hart
Position title: Hydrogeologist/Geophysicist
Email:
djhart
Research Topics: Borehole geophysics, flow logging, groundwater/surface water interaction, ground source geothermal, depth to bedrock
Jennifer Hauxwell
Position title: Associate Director of Research, Aquatic Sciences Center
Email:
jennifer.hauxwell
Research Topics: Effects of nutrient loading on aquatic environments, aquatic plant ecology and management, water resource and fisheries management, research program administration
Melanie Hebl
Position title: Assistant Director of Research Collaboration, Sustainability Research Hub
Email:
melanie.hebl
Research Topics: Sustainability funding landscape, research administration, research development, research collaboration, finding funding, teaming, external relations
Karina Heim
Position title: Coastal Training Program Coordinator, Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve
Email:
karina.heim
Research Topics: Coastal issues, Lake Superior, resilience, wetlands, communication. community engagement, indigenous knowledge/history/culture.
Katie Hein
Position title: Aquatic Research Scientist, UW Trout Lake Station, Center for Limnology
Email:
clhein
Research Topics: Limnology; lake level fluctuations; aquatic plant communities; climate impacts and adaptation; lakeshore habitat.
Leah Horowitz
Position title: Faculty, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Email:
lhorowitz
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
Sara Hotchkiss
Position title: Faculty, Botany; Center for Climatic Research
Email:
shotchkiss
Research topics: Ecology; paleoecology; climate change; disturbance; and effects of extreme events on aquatic ecosystems and their watersheds.
Jessica Hua
Position title: Associate Professor, Forest and Wildlife Ecology Department
Email:
jhua23
Research Topics: Ecology and Evolution, Disease Ecology, Ecotoxicology, Herpetology, Science Communication
Jingyi Huang
Position title: Faculty, Soil Science
Email:
jhuang426
Research Topics: Remote sensing, proximal soil sensing, machine learning, soil physics, soil modeling.
Anthony Ives
Position title: Faculty, Integrative Biology
Email:
arives
Research Topics: Aquatic ecology and evolution, food web interactions, population and ecosystem dynamics.
Randy Jackson
Position title: Faculty, Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences
Email:
rdjackson
Research Topics: Grassland ecology – How does configuration, composition, and management of crops, pastures, prairies, savannas, and wetlands affect their structure and function?
Peter Jaeger
Position title: Outreach Program Manager, Chemistry
Email:
pfjaeger
Research Topics: Analytical Chemistry, Community Engagement, Education.
Olaf Jensen
Position title: Faculty, Center for Limnology and Department of Integrative Biology
Email:
ojensen
Research Topics: Fish ecology, fishery management, food webs, social-ecological systems.
Rhiannon Jerch
Position title: Faculty, Agricultural & Applied Economics
Email:
rhiannon.jerch
Research Topics: Economics of cities, infrastructure, and environmental regulation.
Robert Johnson
Position title: Faculty, Department of Integrative Biology
Email:
robert.a.johnson
Research Topics: Aquatic ecology and biogeochemistry; Coastal marine ecosystems; Herbivory and disturbance in tropical seagrass ecosystems.
Margaret Kalcic
Position title: Faculty, Biological Systems Engineering
Email:
mkalcic
Research Topics: Agricultural conservation effectiveness, drainage and water quality, agricultural hydrology, watershed modeling, human dimensions of watershed management.
Eric Kastelic
Position title: Graduate Student, Geological Engineering
Email:
ekastelic
Research Topics: Groundwater recharge, Great Lakes Water Levels, Plant water use, Remote sensing of evapotranspiration, Karst hydrogeology, Impact of undergraduate researches experiences.
Chris Kucharik
Position title: Faculty, Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences
Email:
kucharik
Research Topics: Climate and land management change impacts to food-energy-water nexus; ecological modeling; urban heat islands; nitrogen cascade; weather and soil monitoring.
Carrie Laboski
Position title: 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.
Rebecca Larson
Position title: Professor and Extension Specialist, Nelson Institute for Environmental Sociology
Email:
rebecca.larson
Research Topics: Agricultural runoff, manure management.
Jessica LeClair
Position title: Faculty, School of Nursing
Email:
jessica.leclair
Research Topics: Public health, environmental justice, planetary health, transdisciplinary community-engaged research.
Carol Eunmi Lee
Position title: 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.)
Nan Li
Position title: Associate Professor, Life Sciences Communication
Email:
nan.li
Research Topics: Science, environmental, and risk communications; public engagement; science art.
Steve Loheide
Position title: Faculty, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email:
loheide
Research Topics: Ecohydrology; ecosystem engineering; groundwater; modeling; evapotranspiration; remote-sensing; agrivoltaics.
Noah Lottig
Position title: 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.
Erica Majumder
Position title: Faculty, Bacteriology
Email:
emajumder
Research Topics: Aquifer bioremediation; clogs and contaminants in sewerage systems.
Yashar Makhtoumi
Position title: Honorary Fellow (former Postdoctoral Research Associate)
Email:
makhtoumi
Research Topics: Hydrology and biogeochemistry, Water resource management, Land use and climate change
Carrie Malone
Position title: Outreach Specialist
Email:
carrie
Research Topics: Coastal resilience, hazard mitigation planning, community-based participatory research
Trina McMahon
Position title: Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Bacteriology
Email:
trina.mcmahon
Research Topics: Water quality, eutrophication, wastewater treatment microbiology, environmental genomics, community assembly, bacteria-virus interactions
Jen McNelly
Position title: Natural Resources Groundwater Educator; Wood County; Division of Extension
Email:
jennifer.mcnelly
Research Topics: Groundwater and drinking water quality and quantity in Central Wisconsin; watershed management of groundwater resources.
Karen McShane-Hellenbrand
Position title: Teaching Faculty; Dance
Email:
kmhellen
Research Topics: Arts Integration Curriculum focusing on the arts, academics, and environmental education; water protection advocacy; National Water Dance.
Alison Mikulyuk
Position title: Research Program Coordinator
Email:
alison.mikulyuk
Research Topics: Aquatic plant ecology & management, aquatic invasive species, surface water restoration, art-science collaboration, interdisciplinary research.
Anne Moser
Position title: Senior special librarian, Wisconsin Water Library and education coordinator, Wisconsin Sea Grant
Email:
akmoser
Research Interests: Art + science, Great Lakes Literacy, place-based education, children’s literature, water librarianship.
Maureen Muldoon
Position title: Hydrogeologist, Wisconsin Geological & Natural History Survey
Email:
muldoon
Research Topics: Groundwater resources, groundwater quality, geology of aquifers, karst, monitoring fractured-rock aquifers.
Athena Nghiem
Position title: Faculty, Geoscience
Email:
anghiem
Research Topics: Groundwater quality and sustainability, arsenic contamination in groundwater, trace element cycling across reservoirs, coupled biogeochemical and redox cycles, data-driven and modeling approaches to biogeochemistry, mineralogy, and hydrology.
Hannah Nicklay
Position title: Monitoring Coordinator, Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve
Email:
hannah.ramage
Research Topics: Water quality, wetland ecology, fisheries.
Daniel Noguera
Position title: 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
Julia Noordyk
Position title: Water Quality & Coastal Communities Specialist, Wisconsin Sea Grant
Email:
jnoordyk
Website
Research Topics:Environmental behavior and communication; green infrastructure; flood resiliency.
Michael Notaro
Position title: Director, Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research
Email:
mnotaro
Research Topics: Regional and global climate modeling, land-atmosphere interactions, climate change impacts on the Great Lakes, K-12 science education and STEM, youth citizen science
Jason Otkin
Position title: Faculty, Space Science and Engineering Center, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
Email:
jasono
Research Topics: Flash droughts, drought monitoring, remote sensing, land-atmosphere interactions, agriculture, evapotranspiration.
Mutlu Ozdogan
Position title: 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
Dominic Parker
Position title: Faculty, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
Research Topics: Economics of ground and surface water conservation, commercial fishery management
Bobbi Peckarsky
Position title: Honorary Fellow, Departments of Integrative Biology & Entomology
Email:
peckarsky
Research Topics: Life history, behavior, population and community ecology of stream-dwelling organisms; predator-prey, grazer-algal and parasite-host interactions; bioindicators; Didymo.
Dan Phaneuf
Position title: Henry C. Taylor Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
Email:
dphaneuf
Research Topics: Valuing environmental resources, water quality policy, integrated assessment modeling.
Inna Popova
Position title: Faculty, Soil Science
Email:
ipopova
Research Topics: Environmental soil science, organic chemicals pollution, pollution leaching, biowastes, agricultural chemicals.
Mohan Qin
Position title: Faculty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Topics: Sustainable wastewater treatment, brackish water desalination
Jennifer Raynor
Position title: Faculty, Forest and Wildlife Ecology
Email:
jennifer.raynor
Research Topics: Economics of fisheries and ocean management.
Catherine Reiland
Position title: Assistant Vice Provost, Office of the Provost
Email:
creiland
Research Topics: Performance studies, water narratives, tourist productions, visual cultures, photography, museum studies, and memory.
Kait Reinl
Position title: Research Coordinator, Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve
Email:
kreinl
Research Topics: Data science, aquatic ecology, algal blooms, cyanobacteria, water quality.
Christy Remucal
Position title: Faculty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Topics: Photochemical processes in natural waters, metal redox cycling, reactive oxygen species production, contaminant transformation
Adena Rissman
Position title: 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
Paul Robbins
Position title: Director, Nelson Institute for Envrionmental Studies
Research Topics: Human behavior (homeowner practices related to water quality), urban water management (mosquito habitat and breeding sites)
Morgan Robertson
Position title: Faculty, Department of Geography
Email:
mmrobertson
Research Topics: Market-based environmental policy in the US and Europe, environmental offsets, wetland history and mitigation policy.
Eric Roden
Position title: Faculty, Geoscience
Email:
eroden
Research Topics: Soil and sediment biogeochemistry, microbial ecology, iron redox cycling, microbial mineral transformations, reactive transport modeling.
Matt Ruark
Position title: Faculty, Soil Science
Email:
mdruark
Research Topics: Nitrogen and phosphorus management of major field crops of Wisconsin; balancing optimum production and losses to the environment.
Becky Sapper
Position title: Director, Wisconsin Master Naturalist Program, Natural Resources Institute, Division of Extension
Email:
becky.sapper
Melissa Scanlan
Position title: UW-Madison Law School Faculty Affiliates, Director of the Center for Water Policy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences
Email:
scanlamk
Website
Research Topics: Water law and policy, coastal resilience, water infrastructure, water management, public trust rights.
Titus Seilheimer
Position title: Fisheries Outreach Specialist, Wisconsin Sea Grant
Email:
tseilheimer
Research Topics: Aquatic ecology, fish ecology, food webs, Great Lakes, fisheries, restoration, streams, coastal wetlands.
Bret Shaw
Position title: Faculty, Life Science Communications; Environmental Communication Specialist, Division of Extension
Email:
brshaw
Research Topics: Social marketing; outreach; aquatic invasive species; aquatic plant management; promoting natural shorelines; communicating about PFAS contamination of drinking water; sustainable agricultural practices to protect water quality.
Manish Singh
Position title: Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email:
manish.singh
Research Topics: Network flow analysis and optimization, pump scheduling, coupled water-electricity networks.
Doug Soldat
Position title: Faculty, Department of Soil Science; Division of Extension
Research Topics: Lawn and turfgrass maintenance, environmental impacts of turfgrass management, soil phosphorus, Pb-contaminated soils
Amy Stambach
Position title: Faculty, Department of Anthropology, Nelson Institute Center for Culture, History, and Environment
Emily Stanley
Position title: Faculty, Center for Limnology, Integrative Biology
Email:
ehstanley
Research Topics: Aquatic ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry; focusing in streams and lakes; computational limnology, and long-term ecological research.
Andrew Stevens
Position title: Faculty, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
Email:
awstevens
Research Topics: Agricultural and food economics.
Ryan Stowe
Position title: Faculty, Chemistry
Email:
rstowe
Research Topics: Community-engaged teaching & learning, justice-centered science teaching, epistemological messaging
Paul Stoy
Position title: Professor, Biological Systems Engineering
Email:
pcstoy
Research Topics: Evapotranspiration from natural and managed ecosystems, evaporation/transpiration partitioning, regional climate processes, ecohydrology
Rahul Sujanani
Position title: Faculty, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Email:
rsujanani
Research Topics: Membrane separations, polymeric materials, water treatment, critical mineral recovery.
Sue Swanson
Position title: Director and State Geologist, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, Division of Extension
Email:
sue.swanson
Research Topics:Groundwater-surface water interactions, springs, groundwater quality, groundwater flooding.
Izabela Szlufarska
Position title: Faculty, Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Research Topics: Water/mineral interfaces, surface chemistry, interaction of water with nanomaterials, nanofluidics, molecular simulations
Beth Tellman
Position title: Assistant Professor, Nelson Institute for Envrionmental Studies
Email:
beth.tellman
Research Topics: Flooding, remote sensing, machine learning, human-environment interactions, environmental justice, sustainability, transformation, community engagement
Manny Teodoro
Position title: Faculty, LaFollette School of Public Affairs
Email:
mteodoro
Research Topics: Utility management, regulation, communication, governance, environmental justice.
Anita Thompson
Position title: Faculty, Biological Systems Engineering
Email:
amthompson2
Research Topics: Hydrology; water quality; sediment & nutrient transport; stormwater; erosion; modeling; cold season processes; watershed engineering & management.
Philip Townsend
Position title: 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
Monica Turner
Position title: 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
Lyn van Swol
Position title: Professor, Communication Arts
Email:
vanswol
Research Topics: Effective advice communication, social influence and persuasion, environmental communication, ground water, PFAS communication
Jake Vander Zanden
Position title: Director, Center for Limnology; Faculty, Department of Integrative Biology
Email:
mjvanderzand
Research Topics: Aquatic ecology, limnology, fish ecology, food webs, aquatic invasive species, conservation biology
Steve Vavrus
Position title: 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
Howard Veregin
Position title: Wisconsin State Cartographer, Geography
Email:
veregin
Research Topics: GIS, habitat mapping, coastal hazards, flood risk, suitability modeling, social and economic impacts, community engagement and outreach.
Dan Vimont
Position title: Faculty, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Email:
dvimont
Research topics: Climate science, ocean / atmosphere interactions, regional climate change and impacts
Wei Wang
Position title: Faculty, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Email:
wwang745
Research Topics: Marine robotics, underwater perception, across-domain robots, and bioinspired robots.
Yi Wang
Position title: Associate Professor, Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences
Email:
wang52
Research Topics: Irrigation management of sustainable vegetable crop production, with a focus on variable rate irrigation and other irrigation best management practices
Haoran Wei
Position title: Faculty, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email:
haoran.wei3
Research Topics: Emerging contaminants, sensing technology, water treatment.
Amy Wiersma
Position title: Hydrogeologist, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey
Email:
amy.wiersma
Research Topics: Groundwater resources, groundwater quality, geochemistry, isotopes.
Grace Wilkinson
Position title: Faculty, Center for Limnology
Email:
gwilkinson
Research Topics: Harmful algal blooms, ecosystem resilience, nutrient cycling, aquatic food webs.
Amy Workman
Position title: Director
Email:
amy.workman
Research Topics: Environmental education, place-based education, watershed, volunteer management, program facilitation, citizen science, invasive species, freshwater ecology, Wisconsin River, adult education, youth education
Daniel Wright
Position title: Faculty, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email:
danielb.wright
Research Topics: Extreme rainfall and flooding; climate change impacts on the hydrologic cycle; flood risk management.
Chin Wu
Position title: Faculty, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email:
chinwu
Research Topics: Coastal processes, engineering, resilience, and sustainability; physical limnology; surface wave dynamics and air-sea interactions.
Yiying Xiong
Position title: Associate Director, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Institute
Email:
yiying.xiong
Research Topics: Hydropower engineering, pumped-storage, dam safety, dam removal, fish passage, hydrology and hydraulics, climate change, biofuel.
Christopher Zahasky
Position title: 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
Victor M. Zavala
Position title: Baldovin-DaPra Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Email:
victor.zavala
Research Topics: Energy, engineering, modeling, resource recovery, wastewater, communication, economics, environmental justice, sustainability, indigenous knowledge.
Xia Zhu-Barker
Position title: Assistant Professor, Soil Science
Email:
zhubarker
Research Topics: Soil Biogeochemistry, Land Management, and Environmental Sustainability: Nitrogen and carbon biogeochemical cycles; Greenhouse gas (CH4, N2O)and air pollutant (NH3, NOx) emissions; Nitrate leaching; Innovative manure and nutrient utilization; Composting; Climate change mitigation and adaptation; Dairy environmental sustainability; Novel methods in isotopic techniques; Mechanistic exploration of soil-plant-microbe interactions; Process-based modelling.
Margaret Zimmer
Position title: Assistant Professor, Soil Science
Email:
margaret.zimmer
Research Topics: Watershed hydrology, water quality, water quantity, surface water-groundwater interactions.
Water@UW-Madison has benefitted from the work of a number of past affiliates, many of which are still active in the water space. Here is a list of our Emerit Faculty if you’d like to reach out!