Undergraduates:
Currently I have several undergraduate students working on research projects:
Laura Fischer
- Project: An analysis of Rush Lake using diatoms.
- Project: Assessing Lakes on the Menomonee Reservation for the introduction of wild rice.
- Funding- Contract with the Menomonee Indian Tribe
Laura Pickering
- Student coordinator for the multi-lab project:The effects of increased CO2 and litter on wetland plant communities.
- Funding: University of Michigan Biological Station- PURE program (competitive award)
- Project: Assessing Lakes on the Menomonee Reservation for the introduction of wild rice.
- Funding- Contract with the Menomonee Indian Tribe
Branden Dowd
- Project:The effects of invading Typha spp. on the periphyton biomass in a Great Lakes costal marsh.
- Funding: University of Wisconsin Faculty Development Grant; Loyolla University.
- Project: Assessing Lakes on the Menomonee Reservation for the introduction of wild rice.
- Funding- Contract with the Menomonee Indian Tribe
Graduate Students:
Melissa A. McGuire
Thesis project: Factors affecting the distribution of wild rice and the surrounding macrophyte community. Completed Masters in Spring 2003.
Funding:
- US-EPA
- Sokaogon Chippewa Community
- University of Wisconsin Faculty Development Grant
- University of Wisconsin Graduate Student Lab Attendant Stipend
- University of Michigan Biological Station
- Menomonee Tribe Environmental Department
Chris Kolasinski
Thesis project: To be determined.
Thomas Stone
Thesis project: To be determined.