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A page within River Studies Center

Center Director

Eric Strauss  Profile of Eric Strauss

Specialty areas:

Limnology, Stream and River Ecology, Water Quality

Associate Director

Colin Belby  Profile of Colin Belby  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Geomorphology, River Systems, Water Resources, Environmental Contamination, Geospatial Field Mapping and GIS

Leadership Team

Bonnie Bratina  Profile of Bonnie Bratina

Specialty areas:

Microbial ecology, Aquatic microbiology, Biogeochemistry

Adam Driscoll  Profile of Adam Driscoll  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Food and Agriculture, The Environmental Impacts of Agriculture, Online Pedagogy

Kristofer Rolfhus  Profile of Kristofer Rolfhus

Specialty areas:

Environmental and analytical chemistry

David Schumann  Profile of David Schumann  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Fisheries ecology and management, interactions among species, conservation biology, movement ecology. 

Contact me if you have any interest in undergraduate or graduate (MS) research in these fields!

Meredith Thomsen  Profile of Meredith Thomsen

Specialty areas:

Academic leadership; graduate program support; credit and non-credit outreach program development. Primary contact for thesis/dissertation; graduate faculty status. 

Membership

Jeannette Armstrong  Profile of Jeannette Armstrong  Jeannette Armstrong saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Learning Sciences
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Cosmopolitan Literacies
Critical Literacies
Community Literacies
Reading Instruction 

 

Rupsa Bhowmick  Profile of Rupsa Bhowmick  Rupsa Bhowmick saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Climatology, meteorology, natural hazards and extreme events, risk assessment, GIScience, machine learning

Joan Bunbury  Profile of Joan Bunbury  Joan Bunbury saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Paleoclimatology, biogeography, freshwater environments

Gargi Chaudhuri  Profile of Gargi Chaudhuri  Office hours

Specialty areas:

GIS, Remote Sensing, Urban Analytics, and Machine Learning. 

Jason Freund  Profile of Jason Freund  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Stream Ecology, Fisheries Ecology, Trout Stream Habitat Management, Interactions of Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems

Kelly Gorres  Profile of Kelly Gorres

Specialty areas:

Biochemistry, Virology, Reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus

Arthur Grupe Ii  Profile of Arthur Grupe Ii

Specialty areas:

Mycology, fungal biodiversity, truffles, fungal symbiosis, plant-fungal interactions, co-cropping economic nut trees with truffles, and fungal ecology. Please contact me if you have any interest in undergraduate or graduate research in these or other areas.

Tisha King Heiden  Profile of Tisha King Heiden

Specialty areas:

Reproductive physiology, reproductive toxicology, and developmental toxicology.  

Peter Marina  Profile of Peter Marina  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Urban Ethnography, Critical & Cultural Criminology, Deviance & Transgression, Race & Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, Human Rights Policing, Sociology of Culture, Social Inequalities, Travel and Tourism, Urban Sociology, Hispanic Immigration, among other topics.

Niti Mishra  Profile of Niti Mishra  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Remote Sensing, Cartography, GIScience

James Peirce  Profile of James Peirce  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Mathematical Ecology and Differential Equations

Brian Pompeii  Profile of Brian Pompeii  Office hours

Specialty areas:

My specialty areas include water resource management, environmental justice, sustainability, and hazards. 

Alysa Remsburg  Profile of Alysa Remsburg  Alysa Remsburg saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

service learning, forest ecology, dragonfly and damselfly ecology, forest and riparian socio-ecological systems, conservation biology

Daniel Sambu  Profile of Daniel Sambu  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Water Resources, Natural Hazards, Sustainable Development, Environmental Conservation, Community Livelihood, Conservation photography

Gregory Sandland  Profile of Gregory Sandland

Specialty areas:

Host-parasite interactions, life-history evolution, disease ecology, invasive species dynamics, mathematical biology, toxicology

Adam Schneider  Profile of Adam Schneider

Specialty areas:

Parasitic plants
Native plants of Wisconsin
Plant taxonomy and systematics
Natural history collections
Citizen science (e.g. iNaturalist)
Currently seeking undergraduate and graduate research students.

Kelly Sultzbach  Profile of Kelly Sultzbach  Office hours

Specialty areas:

20th Century British & American Literature, Environmental Literature, Environmental Justice, Ecocriticism, Animal Studies, Climate Literature, Questions of Place and Identity, Law and Literature

Ross Vander Vorste  Profile of Ross Vander Vorste  Office hours

Specialty areas:

aquatic invertebrates, freshwater ecology, disturbance ecology, community ecology, conservation biology

Chad Vidden  Profile of Chad Vidden

Specialty areas:

  • Intersections of mathematics and AI / big data
  • Machine learning, AI, and data science with applications in various fields of study
  • Applied mathematics, numerical analysis, and computational mathematics
  • Undergraduate research