Experts Directory

Atapattu, Sumudu

Director of Research Centers and Senior Lecturer at UW Law School and Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. Research Topics: International environmental law, environmental rights, climate change and human rights, sustainable development and right to water.

Azevedo-Casey, Emily

Phd Student, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Research Topics: Water quality policy, stakeholder engagement, watershed planning, adaptive governance, boundary work, social ecological systems, power dynamics, climate change.

Block, Paul

Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering. Research topics: Hydrologic forecasting and integration into decision models, tools for managing climate variability and change, addressing water quality and quantity extremes, risk, reliability, and uncertainty

Byrnes, Tyler

PhD Candidate, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Research Topics: water quality trading, environmental politics, environmental policy, nonpoint nutrient pollution, public lands, science communication

Foltz, Jeremy

Professor, Agriculture & Applied Economics. Research Topics: Environmental policy, technology adoption, agricultural policy, land and nutrient use.

Genskow, Ken

Professor, Environmental Planning and Policy, UW-Extension Specialist, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies Affiliate. Research Topics: watershed management, rural water quality, green infrastructure, groundwater, collaborative governance, hazard mitigation plan

Harrahy, Elisabeth

Associate professor of biology. Research interests: occurrence, persistence, and toxicity of contaminants (pesticides, nutrients, blue-green algal toxins, pharmaceuticals and personal care products and heavy metals) in aquatic ecosystems.

Holifield, Ryan

Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Studies, Center for Water Policy Scholar (2017). Research Topics: Environmental governance, environmental justice.

Jablonski, Marissa

Executive director of the Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin. She is an accomplished water engineer, environmental advisor, and plastics-reduction expert who has worked in more than 45 countries.

Kinzelman, Julie

Associate Lecturer, Sustainable Management Department. Research Topics: Coastal resiliency, coastal management, water resource management, climate change, coastal restoration, delivery of ecosystem services.

Kleinheinz, Greg

Viessmann Chair, Professor, & Director of Environmental Research and Innovation Center. Research interests: microplastics, Great Lakes marine debris, sustainable stormwater technologies, well water monitoring, cyanobacterial toxins, microbial indicators of recreational/drinking water quality.

Lazkano, Itziar

Associate Professor, Economic. Research topics: Environmental, resource and energy economics.

McLellan, Sandra

Professor in the School of Freshwater Sciences. Research interests: bacterial genetics, fecal pollution, fate and transport of bacteria, pathogens in the environment and beach closing. 

Orlofske, Jessica

Associate professor of biology. Research interests: invertebrate ecology and conservation, aquatic ecology, wildlife parasitology and biostatistics.

Price, James

Assistant Professor, School of Freshwater Sciences. Research Topics: Nonmarket valuation, benefit-cost analysis, source water protection, municipal water supply and demand, urban flooding.

Rissman, Adena

Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of the Human Dimensions of Ecosystem Management, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology. Research Topics: Natural resources and environmental policy, human dimensions of ecosystem management, private land conservation, publi

Robertson, Morgan

Associate Professor, Geography. Research Topics: Environmental credit markets, Clean Water Act wetland policy.

Roebber, Paul

Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Mathematics, Center for Water Policy Scholar (2016). Research Topics: Climate change, weather systems, weather forecasting, data analytics, machine learning.

Scanlan, Melissa

Professor, Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair in Water Policy and director of the Center for Water Policy at UW-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences. Affiliated faculty at UW-Madison Law School. Lead PI for UW Water Policy Network.

Seligman, Amanda

Professor, History. Research Topics: Race, public policy, community organization, Chicago & Milwaukee.

Skidmore, Marin

Post-doctoral Research Associate. Research Topics: Environmental policy, agricultural policy, land and nutrient use

Stoll, John

Professor, Economics. Research Topics: Environmental valuation, resource policy, economic impact, recreation/tourism, avitourism, endangered species.

Suppes, Laura

Associate Professor, Environmental Public Health Program; Steering Committee, UW Water Policy Network. Research Topics: Chemical and biological hazards in water, impact on human health, quantitative microbial risk assessment.

TenEyck, Matthew

Director of the Lake Superior Research Institute. Research interests:  additive toxicity of chemicals to freshwater species, the toxic effects of several ballast water treatments systems to freshwater species, bioaccumulation, aquatic invasion ecology . 

Tyner, Emily

Director of freshwater strategy. Professional interests: Bay of Green Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve designation; informal water education and outreach; developing and managing citizen science programs; public engagement in science decision-making; public understanding of science.

Wasley, James

Director of the Institute for Ecological Design and Professor, School of Architecture and Urban Planning; Center for Water Policy Scholar (2017). Research Topics: Green/ Blue Infrastructure, Architecture/ Landscape Architecture/ Urban Design of Ecological Waterscapes

Webb, Kenneth

Associate Researcher, Biology. Research Topics: Aquaculture, larval fish physiology, sustainable agriculture/water use.