Name | Degree | Areas of Interest | Campus |
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Zac Aanerud | Ph.D. | Nutrient management in Southwestern Minnesota corn fields, with the specific interest in understanding the nitrogen cycle |
Twin Cities |
Alia Benedict | Ph.D. | Studying freshwater food webs, with a focus on how changing winters will affect lower trophic levels in Minnesota lakes |
Duluth |
Lauren Borst | M.S. | Watershed science and management |
Twin Cities |
Katie Bruesewitz | M.S. | Dietary habits of an underperforming walleye population on a northern Minnesota reservoir. |
Duluth |
Benjamin Bugno | M.S. | Erosional processes of rivers on the north shore of Lake Superior |
Duluth |
Jake Callaghan | Ph.D. | Duluth | |
Bella Callery | M.S. | Detection and transportation of Chronic Wasting Disease in sediments |
Twin Cities |
Shauna Capron | M.S. | Tribally directed research on surface water-groundwater interactions within Wild Rice/Manoomin/Psiη lakes |
Twin Cities |
Maya Casey | M.S. | Exploring cyanobacterial diversity across the Great Lakes |
Duluth |
Zixuan Chen | Ph.D. | Reactive transport modeling of nitrate |
Twin Cities |
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 |
Ashlyn Cowgill | Ph.D. | Twin Cities | |
Zihang Ding | Ph.D. | Data-driven Science, Hydrological and hydraulic modeling |
Duluth |
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 |
Isabel Dunn | M.S. | Assessing the effectiveness of Great Lakes coastal wetland restoration |
Duluth |
Bradly Evraets | M.S. | Hydrology |
Duluth |
Levi Feucht | M.S. | Winter fisheries dynamics in inland Minnesota lakes |
Duluth |
Michael Frett | M.S. | Utilizing fish sensory physiology to manage the spread of invasive species |
Duluth |
David Gallagher | M.S. | Characterizing fish communities of Isle Royale's inland lakes using conventional methods and eDNA |
Duluth |
Leah Glimsdal | M.S. | Investigating invasive fish physiology, predator prey relationships, and possible management techniques |
Duluth |
Jasper Goldstein | M.S. | Determining how turbulence in water flow negatively affects zebra mussels |
Twin Cities |
Morgann Gordon | M.S. | Using an underwater autonomous glider and fluoroprobes to assess physical and fluorescent properties of deep chlorophyll layers in Lake Michigan and how it relates to optics, HABs, and aquatic food webs |
Duluth |
Mason Hoffman | M.S. | Developing an assay for the detection of environmental DNA from aquatic invasive plants in the upper Mississippi River basin |
Twin Cities |
Kristin Huelsbeck | M.S. | Aquatic invasive species, specifically invasive zooplankton |
Duluth |
Vadym Ianaiev | Ph.D. | Duluth | |
Lauren Isbell | M.S. | Comparing zooplankton assemblages at Isle Royale National Park |
Duluth |
Kevin Jennings | M.S. | Investigating interactions between native and nonnative fish |
Duluth |
Mariel Jones | Ph.D. | Examining the intricacies of spring and winter hydrological effects in Minnesota headwaters and peatland landscapes |
Twin Cities |
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 |
Anu Li | Ph.D. | Detection and tracing of chronic wasting disease through hydrological transport vectors |
Twin Cities |
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 |
Emma MacNeill | Ph.D. | Examining modern and paleo-phytoplankton in the Great Lakes |
Duluth |
Kaitlyn Madden | M.S. | Efficiency of different eDNA methods for invasive species detection in lakes and streams |
Twin Cities |
Philip Margarit | Ph.D. | Using groundwater modeling tools to investigate both the impact of intensive agriculture in the Pineland Sands Aquifer region's water quality and quantity and the impacts of regional groundwater flow and active drainage network dynamics on baseflow recession, solute, and heat transport |
Twin Cities |
Samantha McClung | M.S. | Tracing how that PFAS moves through rivers, streams, and other hydrologic systems |
Duluth |
Elise McKeever | Ph.D. | Thinning trees in a coast redwood dominated forest affects forest hydrology and watersheds. |
Duluth |
Chloe Mellgren | M.S. | Investigating the interactions of tire wear particles and their associated chemical contaminants on aquatic systems |
Duluth |
Ian Mundy | Ph.D. | Duluth | |
Michael Nagel | M.S. | Temporal/seasonal changes to crustacean zooplankton species found in a ballast-rich port using contemporary and historical samples |
Duluth |
Kaela Natwora | Ph.D. | Nutrient dynamics and community structure that prompt and support harmful algal blooms (HABs) |
Duluth |
Anthony Okoboshi | Ph.D. | Studying the impact of winter severity on different trophic levels, aiming to understand how seasonal changes influence the structure of food webs in these systems |
Duluth |
Anna Peterson Bauman | M.S. | Impacts of lake associations on water quality |
Duluth |
Lucas Roessler Caram | M.S. | Urban watershed management to improve and protect local water bodies |
Twin Cities |
Josh Schrope | M.S. | Investigating the sublethal impacts of deicing salts on fish behavior |
Duluth |
Abigail Smason | Ph.D. | Metagenomic techniques to track harmful algal blooms in Lake Superior and the St. Louis Estuary |
Duluth |
Jillian Sweet | M.S. | Applied research into aquatic plants and lake restoration strategies |
Twin Cities |
Liana Sweezer | M.S. | Duluth | |
Molly Tilsen | M.S. | Using a data-driven approach to networks and dynamics to suggest management strategies for controlling the spread of aquatic invasive species in the Upper Mississippi River Basin |
Twin Cities |
Angela Tippery | M.S. | Extraction and analysis of microplastic samples of multiple sizes from Lake Superior waters |
Duluth |
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 |
Lien Tran | M.S. | Linkage between methanogenesis and the nitrogen cycle in Minnesota's freshwater wetland ecosystem |
Duluth |
Jack Vannurden | M.S. | Conditioning of bighead and silver carp to concurrent acoustic and carbon dioxide deterrents |
Duluth |
Charles Vaughan | M.S. | Studying population demographics and dynamics of Bowfin, Gar, Carpsuckers, Buffalo, and Redhorse species in the St. Croix, Minnesota, and Mississippi rivers |
Duluth |
Lauren Votava | M.S. | Bioaccumulation of Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in Great Lakes sediment and benthic organisms |
Duluth |
Aidan Waterhouse | M.S. | Using a multi-gear survey approach to improve abundance estimates of pelagic and demersal coregonines on the Great Lakes |
Duluth |
Quinn Whiting | Ph.D. | Study of organic contaminants in Lake Superior sediments |
Duluth |
Lauren Willman | M.S. | Investigating invasive fish physiology and related management techniques |
Duluth |
Erika Winner | M.S. | Effects of landscape properties on the drought resilience of forested watersheds in northern California |
Duluth |
Jules Witts | Ph.D. | Investigating how communities are heard and can organize to improve access to resources and achieve greater equity in the decision-making process |
Duluth |
Limeimei Xu | Ph.D. | Twin Cities |