Weekly Seminar & Kaeser Scholar

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View of CFL Hasler Lab (right) and Water Science and Engineering (left) from Lake Mendota.
Water Science and Engineering Lab (left) and Hasler Lab (right) taken from Lake Mendota.

CFL Wednesday Seminar * 12:05-12:55pm (CT)

Water Science Engineering Lab Room 102 & Zoom

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.


  • Sept 23: Dick Lathrop, Retired Research Scientist, WI DNR – Long-Term Changes in Seasonal Water Temperatures in Lake Mendota and Trout Lake: Wisconsin’s Sentinels of Lake Warming
  • Sept 30: Max Wilkinson & Quinn Smith, UW–Madison – A Brief History of Aquatic Coarse Woody Habitat in North-Temperate Lakes: Applications to Fisheries Management
  • Oct 7: Dr. Runlong Yu, Univ of Alabama – AI for Scientific Discovery in an Open World: Learning Structure in Complex Natural Systems
  • Oct 14: Dr. Chaoqun “Crystal” Lu, UW–Madison – Where Does the Nitrogen Go?–From Crop Production to Downstream Water Quality
  • Oct 21: Karen Alofs, Kaeser Scholar, Univ of Michigan – Will lake and stream fishes respond similarly to environmental change?
  • Oct 28: Dr. Margaret Zimmer, UW–Madison – Advancing our understanding of headwater systems through data synthesis and team science
  • Nov 4: Bobbi Peckarsky, UW–Madison – How have 50 years of Research at the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab contributed to the Foundations of Stream Ecology?
  • Nov 11: Zach Feiner, UW–Madison,
  • Nov 18: Emma Blackford, UW–Madison
  • Nov 25 – Thanksgiving Break
  • Dec 2
  • Dec 9

Spring semester break

  • Jan 20
  • Jan 27
  • Feb 3: Warren Porter, UW–Madison – 3D modeling of climate change effects on small lake temperatures and circulation patterns using CFD and Niche Mapper.
  • Feb 10: Adam Heathcote, Science Museum of Minnesota
  • Feb 24
  • Mar 3
  • Mar 10
  • Mar 17
  • Mar 24: Spring Break
  • Mar 31
  • Apr 7
  • Apr 14
  • Apr 21
  • Apr 28