Environmental Sustainability – 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.

Timothy Baye

jbedermann — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:17:00 +0000

Tim Baye is a Professor of Business Development/Energy Finance & State Energy Specialist, University of Wisconsin. His research and educational programs serve energy industry executives, professionals and policy leaders. He has over 30 years’ experience in industrial renewable energy projects and policy, in education, executive and advisory capacities.

Gary Brown

jnweaver — Mon, 01 May 2017 20:33:09 +0000

Gary A. Brown, PLA, FASLA has been with the University of Wisconsin for 38 years before retiring in February 2023. After serving for 15 years with the UW System as a landscape architect and facilities planner, his travels around the state’s 26-campus system brought him back to his alma mater, UW-Madison. He served as the director of Campus Planning and Landscape Architecture for 23 years, overseeing the development and implementation of the 20-year campus master plan on this spectacular 938-acre university campus. He also served as the university’s historic preservation officer, environmental affairs officer, and was the inaugural director of the university’s 300-acre Lakeshore Nature Preserve. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture from UW-Madison and was inducted as a Fellow with the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2004 for his administrative works. During retirement, he serves as a trustee on the Wisconsin Union Association board and is writing a book on the history of those who planned the UW-Madison campus from 1848 to 2023 in celebration of the university’s 175^th anniversary.

Tom Bryan

jbedermann — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 17:48:05 +0000

Tom Bryan has worked with the GreenHouse Learning Community since 2011 and is currently the program coordinator and greenhouse manager there. He graduated from the Nelson Institute’s Environment and Resources Ph.D. program in 2019 where he assessed the environmental impacts of meals and diets. His primary role on campus is to serve students who are interested in sustainability and food systems.

Ankur Desai

jnweaver — Mon, 01 May 2017 20:52:11 +0000

Ankur Desai is a Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the UW–Madison. He studies how ecosystems respond to climate variability and how the climate responds to ecological patterns and processes.

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.

Tom Eggert

jnweaver — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 20:17:35 +0000

Tom has been at the forefront of business and sustainability for the last twenty-five years, both teaching classes in sustainability at the University of Wisconsin and founding and serving as the Executive Director of the WI Sustainable Business Council. Tom taught the first classes on campus in sustainability and later was a co-developer of the graduate certificate in Business, Environment and Social Responsibility (BESR) at the WI School of Business. He has written and spoken extensively on the changing role of business in society, corporate social responsibility, socially responsible investing, divestment, and on how the private sector can lead in responding to generational challenges such as climate change. Growing out of his interest in sustainability, Tom founded the non-profit “Wisconsin Microfinance”. Wisconsin Microfinance’s programs provide people living in areas where access to capital is severely limited ACCESS to financial and support services needed to lift their families out of poverty.

Shelby Ellison

mreinfeldt — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:04:02 +0000

Dr. Shelby Ellison is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She received a B.S. in Genetics at UW-Madison, a Ph.D. in Genetics at UC-Davis and was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at UW-Madison. Her research interests include preserving, characterizing, and utilizing genetic diversity to develop new alternative crops that meet the needs of farmers while considering environmental implications. She is also interested in how human interactions with plants, through domestication and breeding, have altered the plant genome and how we can use these selection signatures to trace domestication and improvement throughout history. Dr. Ellison is leading a nationwide effort to collect feral cannabis germplasm to help rebuild the new US hemp seedbank. She is also a member of the Midwestern Hemp Reseach Collaborative which trials high cannabinoid, grain and fiber hemp cultivars for regional adaptation.

Steven Hall

mreinfeldt — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 21:08:23 +0000

Our research and extension program aims to understand and improve the environmental impacts of agriculture on water quality and climate change adaptation/mitigation. To this end, our work particularly focuses on the role of soils in storing, transforming, and cycling nutrients and pollutants. Steven completed a PhD from the University of California-Berkeley and BS and MS degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining UW, he was faculty at Iowa State University and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Utah.

Brad Herrick

jbedermann — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 22:07:42 +0000

Brad Herrick holds a B.A. in Biology from Luther College and an M.S. in Ecosystems Studies from UW-Green Bay. Brad Herrick is the Ecologist and Research Program Manager at the UW-Madison Arboretum and a PhD candidate in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. His research interests include plant community ecology, invasion biology, and environmental monitoring. He also assists in developing long-term restoration plans for Arboretum lands. Recently he has been investigating the biology, ecology, and control mechanisms of the non-native, invasive jumping worm.