Graduate
Graduate students at the CFL (pictured above from Sept 2024) are typically affiliated with the Department of Integrative Biology (formerly Zoology) or the Freshwater and Marine Sciences Program. All graduate student applications and deadlines are administered through these programs and departments.
If you are interested in working with faculty at the CFL, we suggest you email prospective advisors. When contacting CFL faculty, please attach a CV and provide a brief statement of your research interests and why you think the research program of the prospective advisor might be a good match.
Many resources are available for funding your graduate school education beyond teaching and research assistantships. If you qualify for any external or internal UW fellowships, we suggest you note this in your correspondence with potential advisors.
CFL Code of Conduct
The Center for Limnology is committed to the full inclusion of individuals with disabilities. Our Hasler Laboratory and Trout Lake Station facilities were built before the Americans with Disabilities Act and are not fully ADA accessible. If you have questions about accommodations to participate in any outreach or department event, please email or call Monet Hutchins at the Hasler Lab (monet.hutchins@wisc.edu or 608-262-2009) or Gretchen Gerrish at Trout Lake Station (ggerrish@wisc.edu or 608-890-4763).
Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW–Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background—people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.
-Institutional Statement on Diversity, 201