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.
Mary Anderson
Professor Emerit, Geology and Geophysics
Research Topics: Computer modeling of groundwater systems, geological characterization of heterogeneity, groundwater-lake systems
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.
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
Jean Bahr
Research Topics: Interactions between physical and chemical processes that control mass transport in groundwater
William Bland
Professor Emerit, Soil Science
Research topics: Agroecology, soil physics, plant water use, irrigation, agricultural weather information
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
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
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
Gene Clark
Emerit Coastal Engineering Specialist, Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute
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.
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.
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.
Linda Graham
Emerit Professor, Botany
Research Topics: Algae, bryophytes, periphyton, bacterial-autotroph associations, humic lakes, cellulose, technological applications of eukaryotic autotrophs
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.
William Karasov
Emerit Professor, Forest & Wildlife Ecology
Research Topics: Ecotoxicology and physiology of wild animals.
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
Tim Kratz
Emerit Research Scientist, Director of Trout Lake Research Station
Research Topics: Regional lake ecology and long-term ecological change
James LaGro
Professor Emerit, Planning and Landscape Architecture
Research Topics: Green infrastructure, low-impact development/stormwater management, groundwater contamination/risks from septic systems.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
John Panuska
Research Topics: Water quality modelling, runoff, erosion, phosphorus loading.
Ned Paschke
Emerit Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Topics: Water and wastewater engineering, analysis and improvement of water and wastewater systems.
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
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
Janet Silbernagel
Emerit Professor, Landscape Planning and Architecture
Research Topics: Building tools for community engagement, spatial literacy, scenario design and evaluation for landscape conservation.
Jim Skinner
Emerit Professor, Chemistry
Research Topics: Dynamics of condensed phase systems, time-dependent phenomena in liquids, supercritical fluids, crystalline and amorphous solids.
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.
Joy Zedler
Emerit Professor, Botany
Research topics: Restoration ecology, wetland ecology, reestablishment of rare plants, interactions of native and exotic species, adaptive management
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