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Great Lakes WATER Institute

VAL KLUMP, Director

WATER Scientists
CARMEN AGUILAR Associate Scientist. Major areas: biogeochemistry, freshwater and marine environments.
PATRICK D. ANDERSON Researcher. Major areas: analytical chemistry, chemical limnology.
HARVEY A. BOOTSMA Associate Scientist. Major areas: tropical ecology, nutrient dynamics, trophic dynamics, algal ecology.
FRED P. BINKOWSKI Senior Scientist. Major areas: fisheries biology, ecology, aquaculture.
ARTHUR S. BROOKS Professor, Department of Biological Sciences. Major areas: aquatic ecology, limnology.
MICHAEL J. CARVAN Assistant Scientist. Major areas: molecular mechanisms of toxicity, sensitivity/resistance to environmental chemicals, environmental biomonitoring.
DOUGLAS S. CHERKAUER Professor, Department of Geosciences. Major areas: hydrogeology, environmental geology.
THOMAS R. CONSI Associate Scientist. Major area: aquatic robotics.
RUSSELL L. CUHEL Senior Scientist. Major areas: physiological ecology of aquatic microorganisms, undergraduate research opportunities.
FREDERICK W. GOETZ Senior Scientist. Major areas: fish innate immunity, growth and reproduction.
TIMOTHY J. GRUNDL Professor, Department of Geosciences. Major areas: aqueous geochemistry, hydrogeology.
TOM HANSEN Senior Information Processing Consultant. Major areas: database and information systems, computer networking, multimedia authoring, web design.
JOHN JANSSEN Senior Scientist. Major areas: fisheries biology, Great Lakes fishery.
JERRY L. KASTER Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences. Major areas: freshwater and marine invertebrate biology.
REBECCA KLAPER Shaw Assistant Scientist. Major area: Ecology, ecological and environmental genomics.
J. VAL KLUMP Senior Scientist, Great Lakes WATER Institute and Senior Scientist and Adjunct Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Geosciences. Major areas: biogeochemistry, chemical limnology and oceanography.
SANDRA MCLELLAN Associate Scientist. Major areas: bacterial genetics, environmental toxicology.
ROBERT W. PADDOCK Researcher. Major areas: water chemistry, analytical chemistry.
DAVID H. PETERING Professor, Department of Chemistry and Director, Marine and Freshwater Biomedical Sciences Center. Major areas: biochemistry of metal metabolism and toxicology.
J. RUDI STRICKLER Shaw Distinguished Professor, Department of Biological Sciences. Major areas: limnology, biological oceanography, zooplankton ecology, biomechanics.
HENRY TOMASIEWICZ Assistant Scientist. Major areas: developmental neurobiology, environmental toxicology, evolutionary cell biology.
AVA UDVADIA Assistant Professor. Major areas: cellular and molecular, neuroscience.
JAMES T. WAPLES Shaw Associate Scientist. Major areas: biogeochemistry, carbon cycling, radio chemistry.
DANIEL N. WEBER Assistant Scientist. Major areas: behavioral toxicology, neurobehavioral toxicology, environmental education.
Scientists Emeritus [back to top]
BRUCE E. BROWN Professor Emeritus, Department of Geosciences. Major areas: geochemistry, mineralogy.
DAVID N. EDGINGTON Professor Emeritus, Department of Geosciences. Major areas: geochemistry, limnology, oceanography.
CLIFFORD H. MORTIMER Distinguished Professor Emeritus. Major area: physical limnology of the Great Lakes.
CHARLES C. REMSEN Professor Emeritus, Department of Biological Sciences. Major areas: microbial ecology, aquatic biology, structure and function of microorganisms, biogeochemistry.
Research Staff [back to top]
GILES GOETZ Assistant Researcher. Major areas: Bioinformatics and cluster computing.
KRIS KOSTERETZ Research Specialist. Major area: Fish Biology.
JEFFREY NUESE Research Specialist.
BETH PEARSON Research Specialist.
CHRISTOPHER REES Research Specialist. Major areas: molecular toxicology, differential gene expression, fish reproduction, environmental education.
ANGELA SCHMOLDT Research Specialist.
CRYSTAL SIMCHICK Research Specialist.
DON SZMANIA Research Specialist. Major areas: biogeochemistry, fisheries.
KIM WECKERLY Senior Research Specialist. Major area: biogeochemistry.
STEVEN E. YEO Associate Researcher. Major areas: aquaculture, fisheries biology.
Postdoctoral Fellows [back to top]
SABRINA MUELLER-SPITZ Post Doctoral Scientist.
Affiliated Scientists [back to top]
JOHN A. BERGES Assistant Professor, Department of Biology. Major areas: Phytoplankton and Zooplankton Ecophysiology and Biochemistry.
HECTOR R. BRAVO Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering.
ERIK R. CHRISTENSEN Professor, Department of Civil Engineering. Major area: environmental engineering.
MARY LYNNE PERILLE COLLINS Professor, Department of Biological Sciences. Major area: microbial physiology.
TIMOTHY J. EHLINGER Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences. Major areas: ecology and evolutionary biology of fishes, trophic structure and species interactions.
PETER GEISSINGER Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry.
REINHOLD J. HUTZ Professor, Department of Biological Sciences. Major areas: reproductive toxicology, xenobiotic estrogens.
JONATHAN D. KAHL Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences.
JIN LI Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering.
MATTHEW L. RISE Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair in Marine Biotechnology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
PAUL J. ROEBBER Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences.
ALAN W SCHWABACHER Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry.
KYLE SWANSON Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences.
ANASTASIOS TSONIS Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences.
ERICA B. YOUNG Assistant Professor, Department of Biology. Major Area: algal and plant ecophysiology
Graduate Students [back to top]
SHANNON DAVIS-FOUST Janssen Lab
JENNIFER FORECKI Udvadia Lab
DAVID GRONQUIST Bootsma Lab
MICHAEL GRZYBOWSKI Goetz Lab
DENA HAMMOND Udvadia Lab
CHRIS HOUGHTON Janssen Lab
YINGFENG JI Consi Lab
BRANDON KUSIK Udvadia Lab
QING LIU Carvan Lab
BRIAN MAYBRUCK Bootsma Lab
SUSAN MILLER Carvan Lab
WENDY OLSON Bootsma Lab
DAN ROSAUER Goetz Lab
MARCIA SILVA McLellan Lab
Undergraduate Students [back to top]
SAM BINGHAM IT Specialist
CAITLIN CARLSON McLellan Lab
JESSI CHEPP McLellan Lab
DANA DIRKINTIS Udvadia Lab
JEFF ECKLUND McLellan Lab
KAYLA HEDTKE Fish Lab
COLIN HEMPEL Udvadia Lab
ANDREW MEYER Fish Lab
JOHN SCHAFER Bootsma Lab
JESSICA VANDEWALLE McLellan Lab
LAURA VRANEY NIEHS Lab
KENDRICK WALL Bootsma Lab / Carvan Lab
JUSTIN WERNECKE Goetz Lab
WATER Institute Administrative and Support Staff [back to top]
Assistant Director for Operations: Jack Orchard
Communications Specialist: Jennifer Yauck
Financial Specialist: Joan Flores
Financial Specialist: Linda Horbinski
Fisheries Laboratory: Fred Binkowski
Instrument Shop: Greg Barske
Instrument Shop: Randy Metzger
Laboratory Manager: Christopher Ney
Information Processing Consultant: Tom Hansen

R/V Neeskay: Gregory Stamatelakys, Captain

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources [back to top]
TOM BURZYNSKI
BRAD EGGOLD Southern Lake Michigan Fisheries Supervisor.
PRADEEP HIRETHOTA Sr. Fisheries Biologist.
CHERYL PETERSON
JIM THOMPSON
USDA ARS Aquaculture Cooperative [back to top]
BRIAN SHEPHERD Research Physiologist. GLAC/ARS/USDA. Major areas: endocrinology and physiology.
Wisconsin Sea Grant [back to top]
JAMES F. LUBNER Education Specialist. UW Sea Grant Institute. Major area: Great Lakes education.
US EPA R/V Lake Guardian [back to top]
BOB CHRISTENSEN
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