CFL Wednesday Seminar * 12:05-12:55pm (CT)
Water Science Engineering Lab & Zoom
Join weekly email: send email to limnology@mailplus.wisc.edu with Subject: Add to seminar email list
NOTE: There is extensive construction in parking Lot 8 between the buildings.
View of CFL Hasler Lab (right) and Water Science and Engineering (left) from Lake Mendota.
Kaeser Scholars: Graduate students of the Freshwater and Marine Sciences program select the Kaeser scholars, allowing for a wide range of scientific interests to share in the decision-making process. The CFL then invites, schedules, and hosts the scholar who presents at a weekly seminar
***RISE-EARTH SPECIAL SEMINARS***
RISE-EARTH Aquatic Ecology Faculty Search Special Seminars listed below.
See each date for specific location. Zoom link is the same for all seminars listed below.
Spring 2026
- Jan 28: Jennifer Raynor, UW-Madison Natural Resources Economics – Eyes on the Ocean, How Satellite Vessel Tracking is Transforming Marine Conservation
- Feb 4: Zach Gajewski, UW-Madison Forest & Wildlife Ecology
- Feb 9, Mon: Marie Gutgesell, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung – From food webs to food systems: how diversity and structure govern stability in a changing world (RISE-EARTH Faculty Search Special Seminar * 12:00pm-1:00pm * 132 Noland Hall, 250 N. Mills St & Zoom)
- Feb 10, Tue: Marie Gutgesell, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung – Toward resilient freshwater and food systems: integrating research, teaching and community (RISE-EARTH Faculty Search Special Seminar * 11:00am-12:00pm * 102 Water Science and Engineering Lab, 660 N. Park St & Zoom)
- Feb 11, Wed: Holly Embke, U.S. Geological Survey – Understanding freshwater ecosystems, fisheries, and people in a changing world (RISE-EARTH Faculty Search Special Seminar * 12:00pm-1:00pm * 132 Noland Hall, 250 N. Mills St & Zoom)
- Feb 12, Thur: Holly Embke, U.S.Geological Survey – Co-producing resilient freshwater futures in complex socio-ecological systems (RISE-EARTH Faculty Search Special Seminar * 11:00am-12:00pm * 102 Water Science and Engineering Lab, 660 N. Park St & Zoom)
- Feb 16, Mon: Zachary Feiner, UW-Madison/Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources – Understanding interactions between fish and people from individuals to ecosystems (RISE-EARTH Faculty Search Special Seminar * 12:00pm-1:00pm * 132 Noland Hall, 250 N. Mills St & Zoom)
- Feb 17, Tue: Zachary Feiner, UW-Madison/Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources – Adaptation is key: translational ecology for the future of recreational fisheries management (RISE-EARTH Faculty Search Special Seminar * 11:00am-12:00pm * 102 Water Science and Engineering Lab, 660 N. Park St & Zoom
- Feb 18: Sarah Ramirez, UW-Madison CFL – The Role of Phenotypic Plasticity in the Adaptive Capacity of Fish and Wildlife and Implications for Management
- Feb 25: Sophia Skoglund, UW-Madison CFL – Capturing Lake Mendota Seasonal Phenology with an Airborne Hyperspectral Field Campaign
- Mar 4: Jasmine Childress, UW-Madison Forest & Wildlife Ecology – From Extinction to Colonialism: How Parasites and Pathogens Shape Our World
- Mar 11: Cody Quiroz (Exit Seminar), UW-Madison CFL – Characterizing Greenhouse Gas and Nutrient Dynamics in Dammed Streams
- Mar 18: Jaden Nguyen (Exit Seminar), UW-Madison CFL – Macrophytes Can Control Daytime Greenhouse Gas Concentration in Wisconsin River(s)
- Mar 25: Emma Marchisin (Defense Seminar), UW-Madison CFL – Investigating Timescale Variability in Lake Water Quality using Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning
- Apr 1: Spring Break
- Apr 8: Moira McCarthy (Defense Seminar), UW-Madison CFL – How Methane Changes During Lake Enrichment
- Apr 15: Danny Szydlowski (Exit Seminar), UW-Madison CFL – Climate alters resilience of lake primary production to short-term perturbations by weather and nutrients
- Apr 22: Lonnie Parry (Exit Seminar), UW-Madison CFL – Demographic, Behavioral, and Motivational Variation Among Anglers in Urban and Rural Recreational Fisheries
- Apr 29: Lucas Fischer (Exit Seminar), UW-Madison CFL – Thermal Physiology of Salmonids in the Sarufutsu Watershed, Japan
Fall 2025
- Sept 24: Quinn Smith, UW-Madison CFL – Juvenile Walleye (Sander vitreus) Foraging Behavior and Growth Under Varying Light and Water Conditions
- Oct 1: Cassie Ceballos, UW-Madison CFL – Exploring the ecological dynamics of newly flooded littoral habitat in Fish Lake, Wisconsin, USA
- Oct 8: Kathy Cottingham (Kaeser Scholar), Dartmouth – Why freshwater science matters: engagement beyond the iv(or)y tower
- Oct 15: Martina Rogers, UW-Madison Dept of Chemistry, Ben Smith and Sam Salemink-Harry, UW-Madison Fluid Mechanics in Environmental Processes Group – Waves and lakes: Winter mixing, light attenuation, and aerosolization
- Oct 22: Rachel Muir, UW-Madison Zoological Museum – Wonders Down Under – Freshwater Mollusks and Their Importance in Freshwater Ecosystems
- Oct 29: Thomas Detmer, Iowa State University – Warming Waters, Shifting Habitat, and Changing Angler Effort: Drivers of Yesterday’s Today’s and Tomorrow’s Fisheries
- Nov 5: Peter Raymond, Yale School of the Environment – Methane Emissions from Inland Waters
- Nov 12: Ali Milani, UW-Madison Aquatic Chemistry – Spatial trends of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in precipitation surrounding Lake Superior and Katie Hein, UW-Madison CFL – Unsolved mysteries of habitat in lakes: Does shoreland habitat restoration enhance diversity? Does Eurasian watermilfoil provide habitat benefits?
- Nov 19: Hannah Richerson, UW-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies – A mixed methods assessment of drinking water quality and effective communication of results on a federally-recognized Indian Reservation in Wisconsin & Jinhui Wang, UW-Madison Dept of iBio – Drivers of sediment organic matter and the influence of unvegetated patches within Thalassia testudinum meadows
- Nov 26: No seminar. Thanksgiving break
- Dec 3: Katie Hein, UW-Madison CFL – Climate change and Northwoods lakes: Planning now for future change
- Dec 10: George Brooks, UW-Madison CFL – Assessing the climate resiliency of midwestern fisheries