Conservation – Badger Talks – UW–Madison

Teri Allendorf

mreinfeldt — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 16:25:51 +0000

Dr. Teri Allendorf is a conservation biologist who has worked on issues of local communities and conservation since 1994. She was a member of USAID’s Biodiversity Team, a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal, and has partnered with NGOs and communities on conservation issues in Nepal, Myanmar, China, and India. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in journals and taught courses at the University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Future Generations University, as well as short courses in India and Namibia. She has also consulted on biodiversity and forestry projects for USAID in Tanzania, Mozambique, Uganda, Nepal, Guatemala, and Guyana. Currently, she is the director of Community Conservation, based in Viroqua, WI.

This talk can also be offered in Nepali.

Yury Bukhman

mreinfeldt — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:34:28 +0000

Bioinformatician with >20 years of research experience in academia and the biotech industry. Interested in genomes, evolution, and the analysis and integration of high-throughput biological data. Earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from The Johns Hopkins University in 1998. Received postdoctoral training in Bioinformatics at Scripps Research Institute and Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. Contributed to peer reviewed studies in several fields of biomedical research, including mammalian genomics, insect ecology, bioenergy, molecular mechanisms of psychiatric disorders, breast cancer, proteomics, structural biology, and thermodynamics of RNA folding.

Dr. Bukhman’s talks can also be offered in Russian.

Joshua Calhoun

fpuleo — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 19:08:38 +0000

Joshua Calhoun is an Associate Professor of English at the UW-Madison who specializes in Shakespeare, 16th- and 17th-century poetry, and the history of media. As a Faculty Affiliate at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, he also teaches courses in the environmental humanities. In his teaching and research, he gets to explore three things he loves (and thinks everyone else should love, too): Shakespeare, old books, and nature. His work has appeared in Adirondack Life, Environmental Philosophy, Outside Magazine, PMLA, and Shakespeare Studies, and he recently published The Nature of the Page: Poetry, Papermaking, and Ecology in Renaissance England (UPenn Press, 2020).

Hilary Dugan

jbedermann — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 16:36:08 +0000

Dr. Dugan is a limnologist who studies how terrestrial and atmospheric changes, such as warming air temperatures or land use patterns, alter biogeochemical fluxes and aquatic processes in lakes. Her research sites span from Wisconsin to Antarctica.

Zach Feiner

mreinfeldt — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 18:45:50 +0000

Dr. Zach Feiner is a fisheries ecologist who studies fish populations in inland lakes, rivers, and the Great Lakes across the Upper Midwest. His research focuses on the dynamics and management of recreational fisheries, including who fishes, what they fish for, and how they value fishing, and how climate change is affecting our lakes, including the fish populations and communities that live in them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyDIgWlkC1o

Randy Jackson

mreinfeldt — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 19:05:23 +0000

Randy Jackson and his grassland ecology group study how carbon and nutrients flow into, within, and out of grassland ecosystems. Randy grew up in southern California, played baseball and earned a BS in Environmental Science at UC Riverside, an MS in Natural Resource Sciences at Humboldt State University, and a PhD in Ecosystem Science at UC Berkeley. He joined the Department of Plant & Agroecosystem Sciences at UW-Madison in 2003 as part of a 3-person “cluster hire” in Agroecology. Randy co-instructs Introduction to Agroecology and Agroecology Capstone. Randy co-leads the Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trial (WICST), a 32-year-old experiment in Arlington, WI. He also co-leads Grassland 2.0, which is working to transform agriculture in the upper Midwest to a system that provides for healthy products while cleaning water, reducing flooding, and supporting biodiversity.

Anupreksha Jain

mreinfeldt — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:32:20 +0000

Anupreksha is an entomology graduate student at UW-Madison, where she works with Dr. James Crall on global change and pollination ecology in agroecosystems. Her research uses computer vision based tools to investigate the mechanistic effects of anthropogenic stressors such as pesticide exposure and drought on pollinator behavior, health, and efficacy. She is originally from India, and earned a BS in Biological Sciences from Cornell University.

Ms. Jain’s talks can also be given in Hindi.

Olaf Jensen

mreinfeldt — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 19:51:51 +0000

Prof. Jensen is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison’s Center for Limnology. His research focuses on understanding the combination of human and ecological factors that contribute to sustainability of marine and freshwater fisheries. Dr. Jensen has conducted statistical analysis of fisheries around the world, field research on fisheries around the U.S. and has led ongoing research on endangered fishes of Mongolia for the past 15 years.

Prof. Jensen’s talks can also be offered in French.

Tony Johnson

mreinfeldt — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:08:25 +0000

Tony specializes in working lands forestry outreach, including agroforestry practices like forest farming. He coordinates Maple Syrup outreach and the Farms Branching Out grant project. Prior to joining Extension, Tony worked for the National Park Service, the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Army Corps of Engineers, and in private sector conservation. Tony earned a biology degree from UW–Milwaukee and a master’s in natural resources from Cornell University.

John J. Magnuson

fpuleo — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 17:30:05 +0000

John J. Magnuson is an aquatic ecologist and limnologist with a special interest in fish and fisheries ecology. His training is in fish and wildlife management, zoology, and oceanography. Current interests include: long-term ecological research on lake ecosystems, analyses of long-term lake ice time series, climate change impacts and adaptations, thermal ecology of fishes, landscape and invasion ecology of lakes.

Dr. Magnuson is now an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, residing in the Center for Limnology which he helped form in 1982, and was its first director. His students have received their graduate degrees in Zoology, Oceanography and Limnology, and Water Resources Management. He has had a strong interest in seeing science used in solving real world issues related conservation of species, climate change, and fisheries.

Testimonials

“Please keep speaking. You have a gift of gentle discourse, of humility, that helps the science go down much easier. Great job.” – John Bates, Author and WI Naturalist, Mercer, WI

“Thanks again for a wonderful presentation. I am so impressed with the crowd you drew for such a tiny town and a Saturday night.” – Susan Knight, Interim Director, Trout Lake Station, WI DNR