Zoology 911 Wednesday Seminar * 12:05-12:55pm (CT)
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Spring 2025 at Water Science Engineering Lab & Zoom
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
Spring 2025
- Jan 22: Nick Scheel, UW-Madison Applied and Aquatic Microbiology McMahon Lab – The case of the disappearing mussels & Krys Kibler, UW-Madison Applied and Aquatic Microbiology McMahon Lab – Cyanobacteria diversity through the lens of shotgun metagenomics
- Jan 29: Helen Schlimm, UW-Madison CFL Research Spec/Outreach Coord – Deepening Community Participation in Science Through the CFL Community Water Monitoring Network & Emma Pellegrino, UW-Madison Molecular & Environmental Toxicology – Title TBA
- Feb 5: Steve Carpenter, UW-Madison CFL – Reflections from the First Global Assessment of Ecosystems’ Benefits for People & Doug Beard, USGS National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center –Large-Scale Ecosystem Assessments: Lessons learned from IPBES to inform future approaches
- Feb 12: Anuj Karpatne, Virginia Tech Computer Science
- Feb 19: Sophia Skoglund, UW-Madison CFL Hanson Lab & Ella Schmidt, UW-Madison UW-Madison Applied and Aquatic Microbiology McMahon Lab
- Feb 26: Karletta Chief, The Univ of Arizona. (CFL Rising Tide Scholar Seminar Series – The goal of the CFL Rising Tide Seminar series is to showcase the work of scholars who have made notable contributions to diversity, equity, and includion in environmental science through their research, teaching, and professional service.)
- Mar 5: Gavin Dehnert, UW-Madison Wisconsin Sea Grant – Eagle Health Project
- Mar 12: Jackie Lemaire, UW-Madison UW-Madison Applied and Aquatic Microbiology McMahon Lab & Joo Young Bang, UW-Madison Fluid Mechanics in Environmental Processes Group
- Mar 19: Grace Wilkinson, UW-Madison CFL
- Mar 26: Spring break, no seminar
- Apr 2:
- Apr 9: Holly Kindsvater, Virginia Tech
- Apr 16: Brandon Gerig, UW-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences
- Apr 23: Charlie Dougherty, UW-Madison CFL Dugan Lab
- April 30: Adrianna Gorsky, UW-Madison CFL Dugan & Stanley Labs(Exit seminar)
Fall 2024
- Sept 25: Marie-Elodie Perga, Univ of Lausanne, Sabbatical Visitor at CFL – The forgotten piece of lakes’ carbon cycle
- Oct 2: Steven Hall, UW-Madison Dept of Plant & Agroecosystem Sciences – Another nitrogen paradox: addressing chronic nitrogen depletion in high-input agricultural systems
- Oct 9: Zach Feiner, UW-Madison CFL – Climate adaptation in Wisconsin fisheries or: How I learned to stop worring and love bluegill
- Oct 16: Rhiannon Jerch, UW-Madison Dept of Agricultural & Applied Economics – Urban Growth and Water Infrastructure
- Oct 23: Quinn Smith, UW-Madison CFL Vander Zanden Lab – Spatial evaluation of walleye oxy-thermal habitat in a north-temperate lake
- Oct 30: Amina Pollard, US Environmental Protection Agency, (CFL Kaeser Scholar) – The power and potential of large-scale monitoring data
- Nov 6: Karson Cisneros, Fishing for Tomorrow: The People and Processes Driving Sustainable Fisheries Management in the Mid-Atlantic and Beyond
- Nov 13: Jenna Swenson, UW-Madison Dept of Civil & Enviornmental Engineering – Investigating the oxidation of phenolic contaminants by manganese oxides in natural waters and Eric Kastelic, UW-Madison Geological Engineering – Trees and Groundwater: First Field Season at the Ridges Sanctuary
- Nov 20: Jess Briggs, UW-Madison CFL Wilkinson Lab – Storms as drivers of abrupt ecological change in algal biomass in urban pond ecosystems
- Nov 27: Thanksgiving break, no seminar
- Dec 4: Lizzie Emch, UW-Madison CFL Dugan Lab – Understanding Chloride Dynamics in Lake Wingra through Climate Drivers
- Dec 11: Bennett McAfee, UW-Madison CFL Hanson Lab – Cyborg Mendota: Advancing Understanding of Lake Water Quality with Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning