College of Letters & Science
Research Aquatic Biology, Ecology Google Scholar My research seeks to understand how human interactions with freshwater ecosystems, including fishing, lake and fisheries management practices, and climate change, alter evolutionary and ecological processes in inland lakes, rivers, and the Great Lakes. By understanding these responses, we can develop new approaches and practices for fisheries management in …
Research Aquatic Biology, Biodiversity, Conservation Biology, Ecology, Plant Behavior Google Scholar Research in my lab explores aquatic ecosystem ecology across both marine and freshwater environments, focusing on seagrasses and aquatic macrophytes. Combining observational field studies and manipulative experiments, we investigate how environmental stressors and disturbances shape the structure and functioning of aquatic ecosystems, with a …
Research Aquatic Biology, Ecology Google Scholar Grace Wilkinson is a limnologist and ecosystem ecologist who studies how lakes are responding to environmental change. Her research examines how interactions between lakes and their surrounding landscapes shape water quality, nutrient and greenhouse gas cycling, harmful algal blooms, and ecosystem resilience. Her lab combines long-term observations, comparative surveys, …
Research Animal Behavior, Aquatic Biology, Bioinformatics, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Genetics/Genomics, Microbiology/Immunology, Molecular Biology, Physiology Google Scholar My team uses an integrative approach, drawing from practically every biological discipline, to describe the process of adaptation via natural selection. Most of our current research focuses on coevolution between threespine stickleback fish and tapeworm parasites, but we are …
Research Aquatic Biology, Ecology Google Scholar Hilary Dugan is a limnologist and Associate Professor at the Center for Limnology, where she studies how climate change and human activities alter lake ecosystems. Her research combines long-term ecological datasets, high-frequency sensor observations, spatial analysis, and data science to understand changes in water quality, lake physics, and ecosystem …
Research Aquatic Biology, Conservation Biology, Ecology Google Scholar We study freshwater ecosystems and the factors that degrade them. Our work often adopts a food web approach and involves integrating physical, chemical, and biological aspects to understand these systems. Our goal is to produce innovative and useful research aimed at improving our understanding of freshwater ecosystems, …
Research Aquatic Biology, Biodiversity, Evolutionary Biology, Genetics/Genomics, Physiology Google Scholar Research in my laboratory focuses on evolutionary mechanisms that enable rapid adaptation to environmental change, including biological invasions, climate change, and pollution. My research program integrates evolutionary genetics/genomics and physiology in an ecological context in order to gain core insights into mechanisms that enable expansions …
Research Aquatic Biology, Biodiversity, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology Google Scholar I study ecology and evolution using both theoretical and experimental approaches. My two main research projects involve the ecological-evolutionary dynamics of pea aphids and their parasitoids, and the population and ecosystem dynamics of midges in Lake Mývatn, Iceland. But projects in my lab expand well beyond …