Graduate Students

Jessica (Jess) Briggs

Research interests include biogeochemical cycling, changes in ecosystems across time and space, and anthropogenic impacts on water bodies.

Tyler Butts

tjbutts@wisc.edu

Advisor: Grace Wilkinson

Research interests include ecosystem science, food webs, and community ecology. Specifically, I am interested in the interaction between lake food webs and ecosystem resilience

Marissa Cartwright

cartwright5@wisc.edu

Advisors: Eric Roden & Matthew Ginder-Vogel

Investigating effects of influxes of particulate organic matter in riverbed sediment

Cassandra (Cassie) Ceballos

ceceballos@wisc.edu

Advisor: Emily Stanley

Research interests include biogeochemical cycling, phytoplankton community structure and function, and the relationship between bacteria and algal blooms.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Emch

emch@wisc.edu

Advisor: Hilary Dugan

Research interests focused on salination of lakes and rivers around Madison, WI.

Adrianna Gorsky

agorsky@wisc.edu
Research Profile

Advisor: Hilary Dugan

Examining greenhouse gas emissions and other aquatic processes during ice-on and ice-off periods of north temperate lakes

Elliot Hendry

ehendry@wisc.edu

Advisor: Sara Hotchkiss

Research interests include paleolimnology, carbon storage/cycling in freshwater ecosystems, evolution of aquatic ecosystems

Amanda Kerkhove

kerkhove@wisc.edu

Advisors: Zach Finer and Olaf Jensen

I examine the social-ecological systems of recreational ice fishing.

Krystyn Kibler

kjkibler@wisc.edu

Advisor: Trina McMahon

My research interests involve the complexities of phytoplankton community structure, spatial and temporal variations in an algal bloom, and seasonal influences of HABs.

Katherine (Katie) Klier

kklier@wisc.edu

Advisor: Karthik Anantharaman

Research interests include investigating the ecological function of microbes and viruses in marine and freshwater ecosystems.

Marguerite (Maggie) Langwig

langwig@wisc.edu

Advisor: Karthik Anantharaman

I use bioinformatics to understand microbial ecology and viruses in marine and freshwater environments.

Bennett McAfee

bmcafee@wisc.edu

Advisor: Paul Hanson

Research interests include applying machine learning to the process of collecting and analyzing limnological data.

Joe Mrnak

mrnak@wisc.edu

Research Profile

Advisor: Jake Vander Zanden

Food web interactions following a reintroduction of native Cisco in 2 north temperate lakes containing invasive Rainbow Smelt

David Ortiz

dortiz4@wisc.edu
Research Profile

Advisor: Emily Stanley

Comparison of temporal and spatial dynamics of algal blooms

Lindsay Platt

lrplatt@wisc.edu

Advisor: Hilary Dugan

My research interests lie at the intersection of data and water science, mainly data-driven modeling for large-scale aquatic science.

Jordan Richard

jcrichard2@wisc.edu

Advisor: Tony Goldberg

My research interests involves investigating the decline of mussels in the river ecosystem

Nicholas (Nick) Scheel

nscheel@wisc.edu

Advisor: Trina McMahon

My research interests involve freshwater microbial ecology and mercury methylation.

Ella Schmidt

eschmidt9@wisc.edu

Advisor: Trina McMahon

My research focuses on spring turnover in polymictic lakes and the impact of warming temperatures.

Quinn Smith

qcsmith2@wisc.edu

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Advisor: Jake Vander Zanden

Investigating the confluence of factors associated with walleye fisheries of the Upper Great Lakes region that are performing better than expectations given climate change.