Graduate Students

ealbright2@wisc.edu

Advisor: Grace Wilkinson

Lake biogeochemical cycles, sediment-water interactions, and the functional roles of aquatic plant communities

jtbriggs@wisc.edu

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Advisor: Grace Wilkinson

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

vbutitta@wisc.edu
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Advisor: Emily Stanley

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

cartwright5@wisc.edu

Advisors: Eric Roden & Matthew Ginder-Vogel

Investigating effects of influxes of particulate organic matter in riverbed sediment

addelany@wisc.edu

Advisor: Paul Hanson

Interests include lake and environmental modeling, freshwater and climate interactions, and environmental data management

hembke@wisc.edu

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Advisor: Jake Vander Zanden

Food web interactions following the removal of centrachids in a north temperate lake

agorsky@wisc.edu
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Advisor: Hilary Dugan

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

ehendry@wisc.edu

Advisor: Sara Hotchkiss

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

kerkhove@wisc.edu

Advisors: Zach Finer and Olaf Jensen

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

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.

kklier@wisc.edu

Advisor: Karthik Anantharaman

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

langwig@wisc.edu

Advisor: Karthik Anantharaman

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

bemartin@wisc.edu

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Advisor: Jake Vander Zanden

Spiny Water Flea and its impact on predator-prey relationships

mrnak@wisc.edu

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Advisor: Jake Vander Zanden

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

dortiz4@wisc.edu
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Advisor: Emily Stanley

Comparison of temporal and spatial dynamics of algal blooms

arexroade@wisc.edu
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Advisor: Emily Stanley

Greenhouse gas emissions and biogeochemical cycles in river systems

jcrichard2@wisc.edu

Advisor: Tony Goldberg

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

nscheel@wisc.edu

Advisor: Trina McMahon

My research interests involve freshwater microbial ecology and mercury methylation.

eschmidt9@wisc.edu

Advisor: Hilary Dugan

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

maggie.shaw@wisc.edu

Advisor: Olaf Jensen

Behaviors and population dynamics of fishes

esocha2@wisc.edu

Advisor: Hilary Dugan

My research explores plankton ecology under ice in north temperate lakes.

msolokas@wisc.edu

Advisor: Olaf Jensen

Examining the effects of environmental stress on fishery systems

pstork@wisc.edu

Advisor: Caroline Gottschalk Druschke

Hydrologic and hydraulic dynamics of flooding and flood resilience, watershed modeling and metamodeling, rural water resources management and policy

dszydlowski@wisc.edu

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Advisor: Grace Wilkinson

Investigates drivers of change in lakes such as climate change and invasive species, along with ecosystem resilience to these forces.

ptran5@wisc.edu

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Advisor: Trina McMahon

Bioinformatics and aquatic microbial ecology

dtrovillion@wisc.edu

Advisors: Emily Stanley & Dan Preston

My research focuses on how urban development, water quality and invasive species shape aquatic communities.

aatrudeau@wisc.edu

Advisor: Olaf Jensen

Recreational fisheries management and social-ecological systems

jlturner4@wisc.edu

Advisor: Ankur Desai

Estimating net ecosystem exchange of gases from wetlands using low-cost measurements of aquatic processes

widell@wisc.edu

Advisor: Caroline Gottschalk Druschke

I study the relationships between stream restoration and flooding in Southwestern Wisconsin