Water Sciences – Badger Talks – UW–Madison

Kenneth Bradbury

fpuleo — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 21:02:16 +0000

Kenneth Bradbury served as the Director of the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, and as Wisconsin’s State Geologist. He received a PhD in Geology from UW–Madison and has worked on groundwater issues in Wisconsin for over 30 years.

Steve Carpenter

jnweaver — Wed, 03 May 2017 01:20:55 +0000

Dr. Carpenter has worked on water quality and fisheries problems of Wisconsin’s lakes since 1974. He was a co-founder of the Resilience Alliance for studies of social-ecological change. He served as a co-chair of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the first global evaluation of the services that people obtain free from nature. Dr. Carpenter is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Eric Carson

jbedermann — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:09:17 +0000

Eric Carson is a geologist with the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey and a professor at UW-Madison. His research focuses on how landscapes evolve over geologic time and, particularly, processes associated with rivers, floods, and the last glaciation in Wisconsin.

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.

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.

Moira Harrington

jbedermann — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 17:39:08 +0000

Moira Harrington is thrilled to work for two programs–Sea Grant and the University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute–that promote the sustainable use of Wisconsin’s water resources, with a special focus on groundwater and the Great Lakes. As a communicator, Moira tells those water stories through social media, video, podcasting and print and web content.

Jingyi Huang

mreinfeldt — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 20:04:21 +0000

I am an associate professor from the Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, UW-Madison. My research, education, and outreach programs focus on integrating sensing technologies and models, including artificial intelligence, to improve the understanding of terrestrial water, carbon, nutrient, and energy cycles and sustainable natural resources management under climate change and human activities.

A speaker fee applies.

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.

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.

Allison Jonjak

mreinfeldt — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 15:54:07 +0000

Allison grew up on a cranberry marsh founded by her grandfather in 1939. Studying ag engineering and soil chemistry, she worked with row crop farmers until the University of Wisconsin created a Cranberry Outreach Specialist position. This allowed Allison to return to her favorite state and work keeping a tight feedback loop between growers and researchers of her favorite crop.

Allison’s talks can also be offered in Polish.