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Michael Notaro
Director and Scientist III, Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research
Expertise: regional climate modeling, climate education, Great Lakes climate change, land-atmosphere interactions, lake-effect snow, ecological impacts of climate change, dust storms

Joy Zedler
Professor Emerita, botany
Expert on wetland restoration and ecology, reestablishment of native plants, and the interaction of native and exotic species
Adrian Treves
Professor of environmental studies
Coexistence between people and wildlife worldwide, especially wolves, bears and big cats. Constitutional and public trust protections for the environment.

Vicki Bier
Professor, industrial and systems engineering; director, Center for Human Performance and Risk Analysis
Expert on risk analysis and decision analysis, as applied to nuclear power safety, homeland security and critical-infrastructure protection

Dominique Brossard
Professor and Chair, Department of Life Sciences Communication
Expert on media, science and policy; science and social media; public understanding of science; risk communication; science and fake news


William Cronon
Professor emeritus, history, geography, environmental studies
Expert on history of environment, conservation and environmentalism, U.S. West, public lands

Timothy Van Deelen
Professor, Forest and Wildlife Ecology
Expert in conservation and management of large mammals and mammal communities in the Great Lakes region (e.g., deer, wolves and black bears).

Lisa Naughton
Professor, Geography
Expert on biodiversity conservation, land use and protected areas in tropics, protecting rain forests to slow climate change

Tracey Holloway
Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
Expert on air pollution, energy and environment, air quality and public health, and science careers

Susan Paskewitz
Professor, entomology
Expert on biology and control of insects that transmit human and animal diseases, including malaria, West Nile virus, Lyme disease
Stanley Temple
Professor emeritus, forest and wildlife ecology, environmental studies
Expert on birds, wildlife, endangered species, wildlife conservation, biodiversity, conservation biology, ecology and Aldo Leopold

Grant Petty
Professor, atmospheric science
Expert on satellite remote sensing of the atmosphere and atmospheric radiative transfer

Jonathan Martin
Professor, atmospheric and oceanic sciences
Expert on mid-latitude weather systems: snowstorms, severe thunderstorms, can comment on climate change and global warming

Clifford Thurber
Professor emeritus, geoscience
Expert on earthquakes and fault zones; volcanoes; and seismic monitoring of nuclear explosions


Bret Shaw
Associate Professor, Life Sciences Communication; Environmental Communicatoin Specialist, UW-Extension
Expert on social marketing and communication related to environmental campaigns, eHealth for disease management

Kurt Sladky
Clinical professor and section head, zoological medicine, surgical sciences
Expert in zoological medicine (zoo animals, wildlife and non-domestic pets) and conservation medicine (ecosystem and global health)

John (Jack) Williams
Professor, geography
Expert on global warming and ecological responses to climate change, past and future
Christopher Velden
Senior researcher, Space Science and Engineering Center
Expert on hurricane research, and environmental satellite techniques/applications to tropical cyclones

Peter (Pete) Nowak
Professor emeritus, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Expert in the complex relations between Wisconsin agriculture and soil and water resources

Timothy Donohue
Professor, bacteriology; director, Wisconsin Energy Institute
Expert on biofuels and bio-based renewable energy technologies

Kenneth Potter
Professor emeritus, civil and environmental engineering
Expert on flooding and storm water management

Paul Wilson
Professor, engineering physics; Chair, Energy Analysis and Policy Graduate Certificate
Expert on sustainable nuclear energy, energy policy, radiation transport in nuclear systems

Anna Pidgeon
Professor, forest and wildlife ecology
Expert on avian ecology, conservation and Wisconsin wildlife

Douglas Reinemann
Professor and CALS Associate Dean for Outreach and Extension
Expert on rural energy, energy sustainability (renewable and bio-energy), milking, stray voltage

Richard Lindroth
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, Dept. Entomology
Expertise in ecological effects of climate change, insect pests of deciduous forests, general ecology
Paul Zedler
Professor, environmental studies
Pure and applied plant community and population ecology and related environmental topics

Jake Vander Zanden
Associate professor, zoology, Center for Limnology
Aquatic ecologist, limnologist, conservation biologist

Michael Corradini
Professor, engineering physics; chair, Energy Institute
Nuclear engineer with research interests focused on thermal hydraulics and multiphase flow for nuclear safety

Randall Jackson
Professor, plant and agroecosystem sciences, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Expert on community and ecosystem ecology in grasslands managed for grazing and/or prairie

Chris Kucharik
Professor, plant and agroecosystem sciences and Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment
Expert on agroecosystems, agroclimatology, soil carbon sequestration, ecological modeling, water resources, climate change, and extreme weather

David Mickelson
Emeritus professor, geology and geophysics
Expert on glacial deposits and shoreline processes

Claudio Gratton
Associate professor, entomology
Expert on arthropod food web ecology at the landscape scale

Carol Lee
Professor, Integrative Biology
Research focuses on evolutionary and physiological mechanisms that enable organisms to invade new environments or respond to climate change

Pupa Gilbert
Professor, physics
Expert on biomineralization, color, spectromicroscopy, soft-x-rays, physics in the arts

Phillip Pellitteri
Faculty associate, entomology
Expert in insect identification and insect and tick biology

Brent McCown
Professor, horticulture; associated faculty, Nelson Institute and Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
Propagation, breeding, growth and production of woody perennial horticultural crops including fruits and ornamentals (shrubs and trees)

Warren Porter
Professor, zoology
Expert on climate change effects on animals, subtle biological effects of pesticides and early detection of infection
John Magnuson
Professor emeritus, zoology and limnology
Aquatic ecologist and limnologist, trained in fish and fisheries ecology, taught ecology of fishes and limnology