Emerit Affiliates

Steve Ackerman

Professor Emerit, former Director of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research

Research Topics: Links between radiation balance and other climate variables such as clouds, aerosols, water vapor and surface properties. Theoretical models and observational research.

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Mary Anderson

Professor Emerit, Geology and Geophysics

Research Topics: Computer modeling of groundwater systems, geological characterization of heterogeneity, groundwater-lake systems

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Anders Andren

Professor Emerit, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director Emerit, Aquatic Sciences Center

Research Topics: Aquatic chemistry, remediation of contaminated water and sediments, Great Lakes contaminants, fisheries, invasive species, lake levels, aquaculture, Wisconsin groundwater issues.

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David E. Armstrong

Professor Emerit, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Environmental Chemistry & Technology Program

Research Topics: Aquatic chemistry, chemical limnology, nutrient cycles in lakes, chemical contaminants in aquatic systems

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Jean Bahr

Research Topics: Interactions between physical and chemical processes that control mass transport in groundwater

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William Bland

Professor Emerit, Soil Science

Research topics: Agroecology, soil physics, plant water use, irrigation, agricultural weather information

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James Bockheim

Professor Emerit, Soil Science

Research Topics:  Carbon pools in soils of arctic Alaska, soil formation in Antarctica, sand-wedge casts and paleoenvironments in Patagonia, biogeochemistry of canopy gaps in Upper Michigan and soil properties for predicting age of faults in southern California

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Ken Bradbury

Professor Emerit, Department of Extension & Department of Geoscience

Research Topics: Groundwater movement, viruses in groundwater systems, hydrogeology of Wisconsin, wellhead protection, and groundwater recharge

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Steve Carpenter

Free Range Scientist; Professor Emerit, Department of Integrative Biology & Director, Center for Limnology

Research Topics: Aquatic Ecology, limnology, carbon cycle, eutrophication, food webs, phosphorus, land-water linkages, ecosystem models, social-ecological systems

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Gene Clark

Emerit Coastal Engineering Specialist, Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute

Research Topics: Coastal engineering & resiliency, dangerous currents & beach safety, design and efficiency of ports, harbors, and marinas.

Thomas Cox

Professor Emerit, Agricultural & Applied Economics

Research Topics: Inter-regional analysis of domestic and international dairy policy, world dairy trade issues, marketing and production economics, nonparametric and econometric methods, analysis of demand, efficiency, technical change.

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Calvin DeWitt

Emerit Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

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.

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John Exo

Emerit Scientist and Water Quality Programs Coordinator

Research Topics: Groundwater nitrates from agriculture; Coordinate CALS & Extension outreach and response to challenges of nitrates from agriculture


Laura Good

Emerit Research Scientist, Soil Science

Research Topics: Nutrient management planning, conservation planning, runoff phosphorus, Phosphorus Index.

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Linda Graham

Emerit Professor, Botany

Research Topics: Algae, bryophytes, periphyton, bacterial-autotroph associations, humic lakes, cellulose, technological applications of eukaryotic autotrophs

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James Hurley

Emerit Director, Aquatic Sciences Center; Emerit 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.

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William Karasov

Emerit Professor, Forest & Wildlife Ecology

Research Topics: Ecotoxicology and physiology of wild animals.

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Susan Knight

Emerit Research Scientist, Center for Limnology, Trout Lake Station

Research Topics: Aquatic plant community composition, diversity, ecology, bogs & peatlands, bladderworts, aquatic invasive plants

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Tim Kratz

Emerit Research Scientist, Director of Trout Lake Research Station

Research Topics: Regional lake ecology and long-term ecological change

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James LaGro

Professor Emerit, Planning and Landscape Architecture

Research Topics: Green infrastructure, low-impact development/stormwater management, groundwater contamination/risks from septic systems.

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Sharon Long

Emerit Director, Applied Environmental Microbiology, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene; Professor Emerit, Soil Science

Research Topics: Monitoring waterborne pathogens, microbial water contamination, source water protection, watershed management, methods of pathogen enumeration, bio-terrorism preparedness

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John J. Magnuson

Emerit Professor of Zoology Director of the Center for Limnology

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.

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Richard Monette

Emerit Professor, Law School

Research Topics: Water rights law (LAW 845), Indian and Federal Reserved Water Rights, legal counsel to parties in discussions or settlements of water rights.

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Larry Nesper

Emerit Professor, Anthropology & American Studies

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.

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Brian Ohm

Emerit Professor, 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

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John Panuska

Research Topics: Water quality modelling, runoff, erosion, phosphorus loading.

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Ned Paschke

Emerit Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Research Topics: Water and wastewater engineering, analysis and improvement of water and wastewater systems.

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Ken Potter

Emerit faculty, Department of Civil and Environment Engineering

Research Topics: Hydrological Modeling and Design, Stormwater, Estimation of Hydrologic Risk, Restoration of Aquatic Systems

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Bill Provencher

Emerit Professor, Agricultural & Applied Economics

Research Topics: Environmental and resource economics, dynamics of resource use, value of ecosystem goods and services, management of freshwater resources, land use policies

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Janet Silbernagel

Emerit Professor, Landscape Planning and Architecture

Research Topics: Building tools for community engagement, spatial literacy, scenario design and evaluation for landscape conservation.

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Jim Skinner

Emerit Professor, Chemistry

Research Topics:  Dynamics of condensed phase systems, time-dependent phenomena in liquids, supercritical fluids, crystalline and amorphous solids.

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William Sonzogni

Emerit Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Topics: Fate and transport of toxic contaminants, analytical chemistry of pollutants, chemical limnology, water resources management, environmental toxicology.

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Joy Zedler

Emerit Professor, Botany

Research topics: Restoration ecology, wetland ecology, reestablishment of rare plants, interactions of native and exotic species, adaptive management

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In Memoriam

Brian Gould

Professor emeritus, agricultural and applied economics

Research Topics: Dairy marketing, dairy price risk management, applied econometrics, and the determinants of food purchase behavior

James F. Kitchell

Arthur Hasler Professor Emerit of Zoology and Emerit Faculty, Center for Limnology
Research Topics: Food web interactions and fisheries, Lake ecosystems, Marine ecosystems, Climate change effects on Lake Superior