Jessica (Jess) Briggs
Advisor: Grace Wilkinson
Research interests include biogeochemical cycling, changes in ecosystems across time and space, and anthropogenic impacts on water bodies.
Tyler Butts
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
Advisors: Eric Roden & Matthew Ginder-Vogel
Investigating effects of influxes of particulate organic matter in riverbed sediment
Cassandra (Cassie) Ceballos
Advisor: Emily Stanley
Research interests include biogeochemical cycling, phytoplankton community structure and function, and the relationship between bacteria and algal blooms.
Adrianna Gorsky
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
Elliot Hendry
Advisor: Sara Hotchkiss
Research interests include paleolimnology, carbon storage/cycling in freshwater ecosystems, evolution of aquatic ecosystems
Amanda Kerkhove
Advisors: Zach Finer and Olaf Jensen
I examine the social-ecological systems of recreational ice fishing.
Krystyn Kibler
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
Advisor: Karthik Anantharaman
Research interests include investigating the ecological function of microbes and viruses in marine and freshwater ecosystems.
Marguerite (Maggie) Langwig
Advisor: Karthik Anantharaman
I use bioinformatics to understand microbial ecology and viruses in marine and freshwater environments.
Ben Martin
Advisor: Jake Vander Zanden
Spiny Water Flea and its impact on predator-prey relationships
Joe Mrnak
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
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Advisor: Emily Stanley
Comparison of temporal and spatial dynamics of algal blooms
Lindsay Platt
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
Advisor: Tony Goldberg
My research interests involves investigating the decline of mussels in the river ecosystem
Nicholas (Nick) Scheel
Advisor: Trina McMahon
My research interests involve freshwater microbial ecology and mercury methylation.
Ella Schmidt
Advisor: Trina McMahon
My research focuses on spring turnover in polymictic lakes and the impact of warming temperatures.
Quinn Smith
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.
Paige Stork
Advisor: Caroline Gottschalk Druschke
Hydrologic and hydraulic dynamics of flooding and flood resilience, watershed modeling and metamodeling, rural water resources management and policy
Daniel (Danny) Szydlowski
Advisor: Grace Wilkinson
Investigates drivers of change in lakes such as climate change and invasive species, along with ecosystem resilience to these forces.
Jess Turner
Advisor: Ankur Desai
Estimating net ecosystem exchange of gases from wetlands using low-cost measurements of aquatic processes
Sydney Widell
Advisor: Caroline Gottschalk Druschke
I study the relationships between stream restoration and flooding in Southwestern Wisconsin