Name | Degree | Areas of Interest | Campus | |
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Zac Aanerud | M.S. | Nitrogen cycle in corn fields in Lamberton, MN |
Twin Cities | [email protected] |
David Adams | M.S. | Duluth | ||
Grace Andriacchi | M.S. | Quantify and delineate local geological and hydrogeological features in the Lake Nokomis area that may be causing perched groundwater conditions and affiliated issues impacting nearby properties. |
Twin Cities | [email protected] |
Nichole Angell | M.S. | Understanding the costs and effectiveness of various aquatic invasive species prevention techniques to inform managers how to better place their limited prevention resources across the Minnesotan landscape |
Twin Cities | [email protected] |
Abigail Armstrong Latanich | M.S. | Using eDNA and microscopy in mesocosm studies to investigate efficacious detection and monitoring methods of aquatic invasive species establishment from ballast water |
Duluth | [email protected] |
David Baldus | M.S. | Effects of stream restoration projects on the ecological health of North Shore streams through nutrient uptake dynamics |
Duluth | [email protected].edu |
Matthew Belanger | M.S. | Investigating how the use of livestock manure fertilizers affect chloride concentrations in Minnesota waters |
Twin Cities | [email protected] |
James Moe Benda | Ph.D. | Duluth | [email protected] | |
Alia Benedict | Ph.D. | Functional roles of lower trophic levels in winter food webs |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Elizabeth Boor | M.S. | Investigating Chemicals of Emerging Concern (CECs) and their impact on septic wastewater treatment |
Twin Cities | [email protected] |
Katie Bruesewitz | M.S. | Dietary habits of an underperforming walleye population on a northern Minnesota reservoir. |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Jake Callaghan | Ph.D. | Duluth | [email protected] | |
Zixuan Chen | Ph.D. | Reactive transport modeling of nitrate |
Twin Cities | [email protected] |
Sarah Clauss | M.S. | Examining the spread of didymo (considered an aquatic nuisance species) throughout the streams that feed into Lake Superior and how it affects the biological communities in affected streams |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Megan Corum | M.S. | Examining predatory zooplankton densities along a depth gradient across a day/night and seasonal scale |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Kelly Duhn | M.S. | Understanding how wetland fungalbiome influences nutrient cycling, especially as it relates to wild rice and the restoration of degraded or dominant species-shifted habitats. |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Mark Ellman | M.S. | The diets and causes of mortality of freshwater fish in winter lake ecosystems |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Bradly Evraets | M.S. | Hydrology |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Levi Feucht | M.S. | Duluth | [email protected] | |
Adam Frankiewicz | M.S. | Duluth | [email protected] | |
Michael Frett | M.S. | Utilizing fish sensory physiology to manage the spread of invasive species |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Leah Glimsdal | M.S. | Investigating invasive fish physiology, predator prey relationships, and possible management techniques |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Erica Green | Ph.D. | Observations of wind driven internal waves and turbulence in Lake Superior |
Duluth | gr[email protected] |
Kaitlyn Hembre | M.S. | Evaluating the relationship between macrophytes and water quality in the Twin Cities metro area |
Twin Cities | [email protected] |
Audrey Huff | Ph.D. | Effects of benthic communities on nutrient cycling in large lake ecosystems |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Vadym Ianaiev | Ph.D. | Duluth | [email protected] | |
Mariel Jones | Ph.D. | Examining the intricacies of spring and winter hydrological effects in Minnesota headwaters and peatland landscapes |
Twin Cities | [email protected] |
Andy Kasun | M.S. | The interplay of watershed history and fluvial equilibrium through use of remote sensing/mapping, sediment budgets, and sediment provenance and tracing. |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Payton Kittaka | M.S. | Investigating alkalinity, pH, and pCO2 in bodies of water around Minnesota |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Britta Larson | M.S. | Examining the microbial and geochemical requirements of wild rice to aid in restoration. |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Jeremy Laurich | M.S. | Investigating the effects of environmental growing conditions on the nutrient content of wild rice seeds |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Xiang Li | Ph.D. | Leveraging big data to improve streamflow prediction and to understand baseflow recessions |
Twin Cities | [email protected] |
Denver Link | M.S. | Zebra mussels affects on walleye food webs in Minnesota lakes to aid agencies and lake associations in management decisions. |
Twin Cities | [email protected] |
Brianna Loeks Johnson | Ph.D. | Microbial manipulations of nitrogen in freshwaters to better understand how to manage for the negative impacts of excess nutrients in lakes. |
Twin Cities | [email protected] |
Reane Loiselle | M.S. | Using stoichiometry and genomics to assess limiting factors for diverse Great Lakes algal blooms and their associated toxins |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Leslie Ludtke | Ph.D. | Groundwater modeling of the Pineland Sands aquifer region to better understand the impacts of intensive irrigation on nearby water bodies and wild rice populations. |
Twin Cities | [email protected] |
Emma MacNeill | Ph.D. | Examining modern and paleo-phytoplankton in the Great Lakes |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Philip Margarit | Ph.D. | Development of groundwater modeling tools to assess the efficacy of agricultural best management practices in southeastern Minnesota. |
Twin Cities | [email protected] |
Rob McManus | M.S. | Understanding how/if akinetes play a role in promoting Harmful Algal Blooms in Lake Superior |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Elise Miller | Ph.D. | Thinning trees in a coast redwood dominated forest affects forest hydrology and watersheds. |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Ashley Murr | M.S. | Analyzing the diel vertical migration patterns of zooplankton in Lake Superior using ADCP intensity data |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Kaela Natwora | Ph.D. | Nutrient dynamics and community structure that prompt and support harmful algal blooms (HABs) |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Mohamed Ouarani | Ph.D. | Working in collaboration with Mohamed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P, Morocco) on the use of integrated hydrological modeling for sustainable water resources management in arid coastal regions. |
Twin Cities | [email protected] |
Anna Peterson | M.S. | Impacts of lake associations on water quality |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Daniel Sandborn | Ph.D. | Chemical limnology/oceanography along the continuum from large lakes to the global ocean |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Benjamin Schleppenbach | M.S. | Inventory of spawning redd locations and habitat partitioning among salmonid species in the Bois Brule River, WI |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Josh Schrope | M.S. | Investigating the sublethal impacts of deicing salts on fish behavior |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Claire Simmerman | Ph.D. | Twin Cities | [email protected] | |
Bailey Tangen | M.S. | Assess the soil response to rainfall under soil health and conventional management systems, estimate field working days and their economic impacts under soil health and conventional management systems, and explore the importance of field working days for farmer quality of life and stress levels. |
Twin Cities | [email protected] |
Victor Teng | Ph.D. | Test whether using hydrological modeling can downscale the total water storage anomalies monitored by the Gravity Recovery Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE). Currently using machine learning algorithms to simulate the storage-discharge relation with Hydrological Simulation Program-Fortran (HSPF) |
Twin Cities | [email protected] |
Anna Totsch | M.S. | Determine effects of lake character and seasonality on AIS detections probability using eDNA. Optimize field and lab methods for maximizing detection probability of multiple AIS. |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Karina Weelborg | Ph.D. | Potential of wood as a water quality BMP in biochar stormwater filters and a woodchip denitrifying bioreactor |
Twin Cities | [email protected] |
Quinn Whiting | Ph.D. | Study of organic contaminants in Lake Superior sediments. |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Molly Wick | Ph.D. | Human well-being benefits of water resource management, including how aspects of place and personal identity influence benefits experienced by community members. |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Anu Wille | Ph.D. | Detection and tracing of chronic wasting disease through hydrological transport vectors |
Twin Cities | [email protected] |
Erika Winner | M.S. | Effects of landscape properties on the drought resilience of forested watersheds in northern California |
Duluth | [email protected] |
Limeimei Xu | Ph.D. | Twin Cities | [email protected] |