Susan Swanson, Ph.D., is the Director of the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey (WGNHS) and State Geologist. She leads the staff at the WGNHS and connects with communities and partners across the state to …
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Cathy Techtmann
Cathy is a Professor of Community Resource Development and an Environmental Outreach State Specialist for the University of Wisconsin-Extension. She specializes in environmental interpretation, communication, and leadership development that make environmental issues “come alive” for …
Stanley Temple
Stanley (Stan) Temple is the Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in Conservation in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at UW–Madison. For 32 years he held the academic position once occupied by Aldo Leopold. He is …
Jacob Thebault-Spieker
Jacob Thebault-Spieker is an Assistant Professor in the iSchool at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at Virginia Tech, and earned his PhD from the University of Minnesota. His …
Adrian Treves
Adrian earned his PhD at Harvard University in 1997 and is a Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and director of the Carnivore Coexistence Lab since 2007. For the past 27 years, …
Tim Van Deelen
Tim Van Deelen is a professor of wildlife ecology having worked as a researcher in several conservation agencies in the Great Lakes region. His teaching and research focuses on the conservation, management, and ecology of …
Kevin Walters
Kevin Walters works in Public Affairs at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) where he has served as a researcher, historian, archivist, and executive communicator since 2011. He completed a PhD in history from the …
Michel Wattiaux
I grew up on a dairy farm and was a first-generation college student in Belgium. I came to the U.S. in 1985 and completed a PhD in ruminant nutrition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After …
Jeff Wendorf
As the Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association’s Vice President of Advancement, Jeff Wendorf is responsible for growing relationships with alumni, donors and organizations that support the achievement of engagement and fundraising goals. He oversees or …
Cody Wenthur
Dr. Cody Wenthur is an innovative, translational investigator in psychopharmacology who has been on the UW–Madison faculty since 2018. His work is focused on improving our understanding of the basis for beneficial and detrimental effects …
Amy Wiersma
Amy Wiersma is a hydrogeologist with the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey. She studies and maps groundwater resources at local and county scales, helping communities and decision-makers understand and use the results. She earned …
John Williams
John (Jack) Williams is Professor in Geography and a former director of the Center for Climatic Research at UW-Madison. He studies climate change and ecosystem responses to changing climates, using the end of the last …
Kelly Wright
Dr. Wright is a Black Biracial cisgender woman from Appalachia. She is an experimental sociolinguist researching the creation and maintenance of language ideologies over time and in real time. She is a scholar-activist conducting policy-driven …
Jerry Yin
Jerry Yin received his BA from Princeton University, his PhD from UW-Madison (molecular biology), and did post-doctoral work at MIT and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He was promoted to Assistant Professor at Cold Spring Harbor …
Tom Zinnen
Tom Zinnen was a Biotechnology Extension Specialist between 1991 and 2024. He also served as a Congressional Science Fellow in 2000–2001, and he was on loan to the National Science Foundation from 2008 to 2010 …
Lucas Zoet
Lucas (Luke) Zoet grew up in Michigan and was always interested in the landscapes of the upper Midwest. Through this interest he began studying glacial processes, first as an undergraduate at Michigan State University and …