Graduate Students

Emma Blackford

eblackford@wisc.edu
Advisor: Paul Block
Research focuses on developing hydroclimatic statistical models to predict lake water quality and conditions leading to cool-water fish stress and vulnerability on a subseasonal-to-seasonal scale.

Jessica (Jess) Briggs

jtbriggs@wisc.edu

Research Profile

Advisor: Grace Wilkinson

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

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.

Charlie Dougherty

cedougherty@wisc.edu
Advisor: Hilary Dugan
Research interests include freshwater salinization in the upper Midwest and transformation of lake physical structure from climate change in Antarctic lakes.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Emch

emch@wisc.edu

Advisor: Hilary Dugan

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

Lucas Fischer

ljfischer2@wisc.edu
Advisor: Olaf Jensen
My Research interests are measuring and analyzing respiration of an endangered salmonid relative in remote river systems of northern Japan in response to climate change.

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

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

Svyettlana (Lonnie) Parry

sparry@wisc.edu
Co-Advisors: Feiner & Jensen
My research interests focus on the human dimensions of fisheries management and investigating the allocation of research and funding for angler groups on Lake Michigan.

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.

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.

Sophia Skoglund

skskoglund@wisc.edu
Advisor: Paul Hanson
Modeling lake water quality across space and time with the help of machine learning and remote sensing

Quinn Smith

qcsmith2@wisc.edu

Research Profile

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.

Daniel (Danny) Szydlowski

dszydlowski@wisc.edu

Research Profile

Advisor: Grace Wilkinson

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