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Patrick Eagan

Patrick Eagan

Professor, engineering professional development, Fellow Office of sustainability,Chair Environment and Resources Program

Conceives, plans, conducts, evaluates professional education programs and conducts research on industrial/municipal environmental engineering, design, management and water resources

Samuel Dennis Jr.

Samuel Dennis Jr.

Associate professor, landscape architecture

Expert on landscape architecture, community design, children's environments, nature play, and the built environment and health

Steve Ackerman

Steve Ackerman

Professor, atmospheric and oceanic sciences; director, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies

Expert on satellite meteorology and climatology, weather, atmospheric optics

Tom Eggert

Tom Eggert

Emeritus, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies; Founder, Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council

Expert on sustainability, corporate responsibility and socially responsible investing. Also UN Sustainable Development goals, sustainability reporting and microfinance.

Ken Albrecht

Ken Albrecht

Professor, plant and agroecosystem sciences, environmental studies

Expert on forage/pasture management and cropping systems

Calvin DeWitt

Calvin DeWitt

Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

Expert on land stewardship, purchased development rights, local government environmental policy, wetland ecology, environmental stewardship, faith-based stewardship

Paul Williams

Paul Williams

Professor emeritus, plant pathology; director, Wisconsin Fast Plants Program and Rapid Cycling Brassica Collection

Use of special plants as teaching vehicles in school and college, and in plants for research.

Bruce Christensen

Bruce Christensen

Professor, pathobiological sciences

Expert on mosquito-borne diseases and tropical parasitology

Caitilyn Allen

Caitilyn Allen

Professor, plant pathology; science adviser to dean of International Studies

Expert on plant diseases caused by bacteria, tropical plant diseases, genetic engineering for plant disease control, women in science issues

James  LaGro Jr.

James LaGro Jr.

Professor, urban and regional planning, Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

Expert on urban planning and design, land use policy, and sustainably built environments

Natalia de Leon

Natalia de Leon

Professor, plant and agroecosystem sciences, Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment

Expert on plant breeding and quantitative genetics

Jeri Barak

Jeri Barak

Assistant professor, plant pathology

Expert on human bacterial pathogens in association with plants, Salmonella enterica lifestyle outside a warm-blooded host

Charles Czuprynski

Charles Czuprynski

Professor, pathobiological sciences; director, Food Research Institute

Expert on host defense against microbial infection and on foodborne disease

David Hart

David Hart

Senior Scientst, UW Sea Grant Institute

Expert on geospatial technologies, coastal management, and urban and regional planning

Amy Charkowski

Amy Charkowski

Associate professor, plant pathology; administrative director, Wisconsin Seed Potato Program

Expert on soft rot bacteria, seed potato production and potato pathogen detection

Volker Radeloff

Volker Radeloff

Professor, forest and wildlife ecology

Expert on conservation biology, threats to biodiversity by land use and especially housing development, wildland fire

Joe Lauer

Joe Lauer

Professor, plant and agroecosystem sciences

Expert on corn production, transgenic crops and cropping systems in the Midwest U.S.

Toni Ziegler

Toni Ziegler

Distinguished Scientist; Emeritus, Wisconsin National Primate Research Center

Expert on neuroendocrinology of male parental care in primates and on methods to measure neurologically active hormones

Edwin Eloranta

Edwin Eloranta

Senior scientist, Space Science and Engineering Center

Expert in the design, construction and application of laser radars for studies of atmospheric boundary layers, aerosols, clouds and radiation

Sara Hotchkiss

Sara Hotchkiss

Assistant professor, botany

Paleoecology and history of vegetation

Evelyn Howell

Evelyn Howell

Professor and chair, landscape architecture

Design, restoration, management and conservation of Midwestern native plant communities

Brian Ohm

Brian Ohm

Professor, planning and landscape architecture

Expert on land use and planning law

Elliott  Sober

Elliott Sober

Professor, philosophy; affiliate professor, educational policy studies

Philosophy of science, particularly concerning evolutionary biology and probability

Michael Thomas

Michael Thomas

Associate professor, bacteriology

Expert on developing new antibiotics using metabolic engineering of bacteria, and the identification of new antibiotics using nontraditional approaches

Scott Sanford

Scott Sanford

Senior outreach specialist, biological systems engineering

Expert on energy conservation for agricultural enterprises, renewable energy, biomass energy

Katherine McMahon

Katherine McMahon

Associate professor, civil and environmental engineering, bacteriology

Expert in microbial ecology, limnology, water quality, wastewater treatment, environmental genomics, ecosystem microbiology

Michel Wattiaux

Michel Wattiaux

Professor, dairy science

Expert in link between nutrition and environmental impact of dairy cattle, scholarship of teaching and learning, international dairy agriculture

Richard Amasino

Richard Amasino

Professor, biochemistry; member, Genome Center of Wisconsin

Expert in plant biochemistry, bioenergy, regulation of flowering, and genetically modified organisms (GMO).

Alfonso  Morales

Alfonso Morales

Associate professor, urban and regional planning

Expert on public markets, entrepreneurship and business formation, urban agriculture

Timothy  Allen

Timothy Allen

Professor, botany

Biological theorist of complexity working in ecological economics

Ray Guries

Ray Guries

Professor, forest and wildlife ecology

Knowledgeable about conservation and management of forest resources, especially the management of forest genetic resources and tree breeding

Terence Barry

Terence Barry

Senior scientist, animal sciences

Expert on fish endocrinology and aquaculture

Gerald Kulcinski

Gerald Kulcinski

Associate dean for research, engineering; director, Fusion Technology Institute

Expert on the design of magnetic/inertial fusion reactors, nuclear materials, space technology, and environmental effects of nuclear energy

David Mladenoff

David Mladenoff

Professor, conservation, forest and wildlife ecology

Ecology and sustainability of forests, effects of climate change, forest management and carbon sequestration

Steph Tai

Steph Tai

Professor, law school

I study the interaction between scientific research and environmental law and food safety regulation.

Richard Lathrop

Richard Lathrop

UW-Madison honorary fellowships: Center for Limnology, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

Experience with water quality, eutrophication, restoration and management of lakes; nonpoint pollution; and climate change impacts in Wisconsin

Philipp Simon

Philipp Simon

Professor, plant and agroecosystem sciences

Expert on plant breeding and genetics

Patrick Walsh

Patrick Walsh

Professor emeritus, biological systems engineering

Attorney and engineer with expertise in energy and environmental policy

Daniel Noguera

Daniel Noguera

Professor, civil and environmental engineering

Expert in biological wastewater treatment, activated sludge, nutrient removal, energy recovery from waste, next generation biofuels.

Rodney Stevenson

Rodney Stevenson

Professor, business, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

Expert on public utility regulation and energy policy