"A plea for simplicity: noble gas tracers in conventional and unconventional aquatic systems"

"An integrative investigation of sources, fate and transport of bacteria in Milwaukee coastal beaches"

"Graphene-based FET Platform for Low-cost Detection of Chemicals and Bacteria in Water"

"Yellow perch genetics: working towards science-based fishery management and aquaculture practices"

"Management of Limited Water Resources: The Israeli Experience"

"Nearshore Benthic Oxygen Dynamics in Lake Michigan "

"Changes in the Lake Michigan Food Web Structure as Revealed by Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes"

"Characterization of Faecal Pellet Processes"

"Evaluating drivers of ecosystem change in Oneida Lake: analysis of a 50 year time series"

"Early warnings of regime shifts in ecosystems: Prospects and limitations"

"From Regional Climate to Invasive Species: The Lake Effect"

"Seasonal to decadal variability in dissolved organic matter and its interaction with microbial lineages: Insight gained from an oceanic time series."

"Interannual variability and trend of Great Lakes ice: Connection to the atmospheric teleconnection patterns."

"Impacts of climate change on food web interactions"

""

"Fate and Distribution of Deepwater Horizon Oil"

"Risk perception, risk communication, and the health of the Great Lakes"

"Mercury is everywhere--why should we care?"

"Winter dynamics of benthos, trout diets & growth in streams of SE Minnesota"

"Hormones and the Environment: Can there be population stability in the face of endocrine disruption?"

"How do environmental groups influence Clean Water Act compliance and facilitate water quality improvements?"

"Milwaukee Cryptosporidium Outbreak"

"The Production and Use of Single Cell Protein from Food Processing By-products in Feeds for Aquaculture "

"Mathematical modelling of CI inducing Wolbachia infection dynamics"

"Contaminant Transport Pathways from Sanitary Sewers To Deep Aquifers in an Urban Area"

"Aesthetics, convenience, safety, and suffocation: Urban influences on aquatic toxicity and stream water quality"

"Assuring Accessible, Affordable, High Quality U.S. Public Higher Education in the 21st Century"

"Defining Environmental Policy as a Program Analyst in NOAA Research"

"Sustainability Planning at the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District"

"Water Resource Management: Taking a Holistic Approach to Monitoring and Assessment Programs"

"Is our demand for green technologies enough to ensure sustainable development?"

"Developing environmental health indicators for tracking human health impacts: case studies in GI illness, disinfection by-products, and mercury in fish"

"Aquatic Photochemistry"

"Reduced Sulfur Compound Transformations in Freshwater Hydrothermal Vents: The Smell of Success!"

"Introduction to general concepts in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and an exploration of its applicability in Freshwater Sciences "

"Circulation, carbon cycling and invasive species in Lake Superior"

"Finding patterns of metal-biota interactions in the sea"

"SoundCItizen: citizen science and pollution"

"Organic Carbon Cycling on Timescales of Minutes to Decades: Regional and Global Importance"

"Chemistry and biology of Nitric oxide species in signaling"

"MECHANISMS DRIVING PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON (POC) FLUX IN THE OCEAN "

"Evaluating the impact of climate warming on Lake Michigan stratification"

"the testing of calendars"

""Research Experience for Undergraduates REU-2011 FINAL PRESENTATIONS" "

"COPEPODS IN 3-D"

"Hummingbirds are (pretty much) amphibians and nectar-feeding bats are (by and large) hummingbirds"

"The Ecology of Hydrocarbon Degradation in Gulf Beach Sands Impacted by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill"

"Pathogens and Their Indicators in Beach Sands: Sources, Fate, and Transport"

"Methods, molecules and models: assessing drivers of cyanobacterial community composition and toxin production in time and space "

"Microbial diversity and the Rare Biosphere"

"Aggregation, reactivity, and toxicity of fullerene-based nanomaterials"

"Environmental Analysis using Electrochemistry "

"Properties of Internal Poincaré Waves in Lake Michigan"

"Physical Processes in Large & Small Lakes"

"Waterborne disease and climate change"

"Environmental Algal Toxin Surveillance, Exposure Assessment, and Diagnostic Tools for Detecting Chronic Disease"

"Harmful Algal Blooms in the Great Lakes"

"The Influence of Surface Atmospheric Stability on Air-Water Interface Modeling"

"Supply and Sink of Zooplankton in the Ocean: the Role of Currents and Behavior"

"Extracellular electron transport: geochemistry leading microbiology to an important place (again!) "

"Controlling eutrophication along the freshwater-marine continuum: Why the need for dual nutrient (N and P) reductions?"

"Robot Explorers of the Deep:Transforming our View of the Ocean"

"Water & Human Health: Environmental Health Research"

"How advancements in natural water biogeochemistry hinge on the development of analytical tools: examples from amino acids, sugars and food web dynamics"

"Development and Applications of an UnderWater Particle Image Velocimetry (UWPIV) System "

"Groundwater is not isolated! (interactions with surface water and ice) "

""

2010 REU Students
Alexandra Atkinson
Bonnie Blalock
Melinda Brown
Lisa De Guire
Nash Hall
Daniel Monge
Molly Ramsey
William Swinsburg
Bailey Zhao

Click Here for Complete Presentation List

"Research Experience for Undergraduates REU-2010 FINAL PRESENTATIONS"

"The biogeochemistry and physics of sandy sediments -- fast recycling in an infrequently studied environment"

"Novel ingredients and formulation strategies for aquafeed development"

"Thresholds for opportunistic disease in yellow perch exposed to oil sands process-affected waters"

"The Wave Glider: An Innovative Platform for Persistent Ocean (and Great Lakes) Presence"

"Uranium and Thorium in Lake Baikal"

"Giant Sulfur Bacteria: Polymorphic Agents of Phosphorite Formation"

"GEODOME PRESENTATION GeoDome is a portable immersive environment that uses interactive visualization technology to explore Earth and space science data. "

"iRobot Maritime Research and the Future of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles"

"REU 2009 FINAL POSTER PRESENTATION"

"Development of an Amphibious Robot for Environmental Monitoring""

"Water Security and Water Quality Monitoring using unique on-line toxicity sensors combined with traditional chemical techniques."

"Milwaukee: A City Built on Water"

"Euphausiids and Sills, Jacks and Oil Rigs: Interactions between Marine Organisms and Abrupt Features in the Coastal Ocean"

"Multi-scale spatial structure in Mysis diluviana populations"

"Swimming, feeding and the evolution of medusae"

Dr. Cheryl A. Murphy
Assistant Professor
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Michigan State University

"" Stock specific lipid mobilization patterns and reproductive investment in lake trout ""

Dr. Dermott Diamond
National Centre for Sensor Research
Dublin City University

"Molecular Switches and Stimuli-Responsive Materials: The Key to Next Generation Autonomous Sensing Platforms for Long-Term Environmental Chemo/Bio-Monitoring"

"The neural toxicology of nicotine in developing zebrafish"

"Ph. D. Defense: "Modeling the Population Dynamics and Sustainability of Lake Sturgeon in the Winnebago System, Wisconsin""

"Art, Ecology and Social Change"

Dr. J. Val Klump
Senior Scientist
Great Lakes WATER Institute
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

"What’s going on in Green Bay? Particle dynamics, hypoxia and biogeochemical cycling ­ is it climate, ecology, nutrient loading or what? ...High particle loading from Camp Weasel!"

"The reproductive biology of siscowet lake trout and the role of genes in determining lake trout phenotypes"

"Identification of Bacterial DNA Markers for the Detection of Human and Cattle Fecal Pollution "

Dr. William L. Holahan
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

"Some Elements of the Economics of Water"

Josh Foster
Manager, Climate Adaptation
Center For Clean Air Policy

"“The Urban Leaders Adaptation Initiative”"

"Impact of Dams and Contaminants on Salmon in the Pacific Northwest"

"NSF-- RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES"

"Great Lakes Climate Change Thermodynamic Impacts Assessment"

"Hot days in the Southern ocean: Climate Change and the Biological Response along the Antarctic Peninsula"

"Oscillations in Great Lakes Water Levels -- Causes, Consequences and Commentary"

"From Moths to Mountains: Examples of Isotopic Probes for the Study of the C-cycle."

"Elevated Atmospheric CO2 and the Prolonged Permian-Triassic Biotic Crisis"

"But is it toxic? Assessing the distribution of toxic Microcystis and environmental factors controlling microcystin production using genetic analyses "

"Rock, Water, Critters: Ecology of Submerged Sinkholes in Lake Huron "

"Sustainable Design On Milwaukee Public TV: Behind the Scene With Healthy Style"

"REU POSTER PRESENTATIONS"

"Biochemical composition of the shell and tissue of Dreissena bugensis (Quagga mussel) from southern Lake Michigan"

"Biogeochemical processes in lakes: bridging macro- and microscales"

"Domestication and selective improvement of aquaculture species: lessons from striped bass"

"Particle movement in shallow aquatic systems & how to measure it"

"The Role of Algal- Associated Bacteria in Nutrient Cycling and Climate Regulation"

"Wireless Underwater Communications"

Dr. Steven W. Wilhelm
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology
The University of Tennessee

"Molecular approaches to understanding toxic cyanobacterial ecology and diversity"

Shannon Davis-Foust
Fisheries Management Technician
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Graduate Student in Biological Sciences

"Drumming out the truth in Lake Winnebago: Are 'Lucky Stones' more than just Lucky? "

Jim Waples
UWM Great Lakes WATER Institute

"Applied Alchemy 101: The Age of Tap Water"

"Maintaining a competitive edge: Toward a behavioral ecology of learning in fish, reptiles and insects."

"Changes in planktonic diatoms, water transparency and nutrient concentrations in Hatchery Bay, western Lake Erie, after the establishment of the zebra mussel"

"Ecological Vacuum"

"From Cells to Watersheds: Bridging the Gap "

"Modeling Bacterial Transport in Coastal Waters "

Dr. James Cervino
Pace University

"The Links between Coral Yellow Band Disease and thermal stress in the Pacific and Caribbean"

Dr. CHANGSHENG CHEN
School of Marine Science and Technology
University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth

"An Integrated Unstructured Grid Finite-Volume Coastal Ocean Model System (FVCOM): Validation and Application to Great Lakes "

Dr. Charles Trick
Beryl Ivey Chair for Ecosystem Health, Schulich School of Medicine
Professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science
University of Western Ontario, Canada

"The battle for iron and the shaping of (phytoplankton) communities"

Dr. Paul Collodi POSTPONED
Purdue University

"Gene targeting in zebrafish: Trying to teach a new dog an old trick"

Dr. Jian Sheng
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

"Experimental Investigation of Near Wall Flow Using Digital Holography"

Dr. Bess Ward
Department Chairman
Professor of Geosciences (Biological Oceanography)
Princeton University

"Seasonal variation of phytoplankton community composition and gene expression evaluated using functional gene microarrays "

Dr. Olivier Leupin
Department of Water Resources and Drinking Water
Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (EAWAG)
Geochemist
Visiting scientist @ UWM / USGS

"Arsenic Crisis in South Asia: Arsenic Removal at the Household Level "

"REU PROGRAM 2006 FINAL POSTER PRESENTATION"

"Modeling the population dynamics and sustainability of the lake sturgeon population in the Lake Winnebago System "

"Initialization of ammonia and nitrite biodetoxification in a Recirculating Aquaculture System."

"DON as a source of bioavailable N for phytoplankton "

"Synechococcus spp.: Foundation of the Oceanic Food Chain."

"Adventures in Isotopia: The Wide Pacific and Beyond "

"Phytoplankton in Lake Winnipeg: recent changes"

"Health Implications of Fecal Bacteria at Great Lakes Beaches "

"Experimental Investigation of Plume Dispersion in a Turbulent Boundary Layer and Implications for Plume Tracing"

"Co-evolution of reproductive strategies & the immune system: Why a shark model?"

"What networks have to do with climate?"

"Seasonal and Interannual Dynamics of Plankton and Nutrients at Fox Point, Lake Michigan 1998-2002."

"Fish n’ Chips: Genes, Brains, and Social Behavior in African Cichlid Fish"

"Underwater Exploration with Aquatic Robots"

"Irish Experience of Enforcing Environmental Law "

"Regulation and Dysregulation of Aromatase and Estrogen Receptor Genes in Fishes"

"Ramblings about algae in the Great Lakes"

"Climate and Wine: Potential Impacts in a Warmer World"

"New problems regarding circulation in Lake Superior"

" Next-generation Water Monitoring with Micro-analytical Systems "

"Monitoring is Boring Only If You Don't Look at the Data. Lake Michigan 1998-2002."

"Characterizing the role of myostatin in fish and invertebrate growth."

"Angiogenesis in an Adult Zebrafish Tail Fin System"

"Using Genomics Tools to Address Salmonid Health Issues."

"Harness Microbial Metabolic Potential for Drug Discovery and Development"

"An ultra-high pH extreme environment in California: implications for the early Earth. "

"The Quagga Mussel Invasion of Western Lake Michigan: The Leading Edge."

"One Million Copepods Equals one Kitchen Blender: Mixing Ideas at the Biology - Physics Interface"

"Marine Education: Bringing Marine Science into the Classroom "

"Arginine Vasotocin and Pheromone Signalling in the Red-Legged Salamander, Plethodon shermani."

"Good Sediment Pollution: Is Black Carbon (BC) Sequestering Toxic Organic Contaminants?"

"Dancing in the Dark: Chemosynthesis and Symbiosis at Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents"

"SAR11: ECOLOGY AND GENOMICS OF A UBIQUITOUS MARINE BACTERIUM. "

"C:N:P in lake and ocean systems - Redfield today"
[Click Here for Video, 102 M]

"Where the Carbon Goes in Boreal Lakes"
[Click Here for Video, 60 M]

"What do we know about groundwater in southeastern Wisconsin? Part II."

"What do we know about groundwater in southeastern Wisconsin? Part I."

"Changes in Size Frequency Distributions of Plankton at Green Can Shallow Station"

"The Daphnia Genomics Project"

"Modeling thermal structure, circulation, and larval fish transport in Lake Michigan"

"Reactive oxygen species in marine chemistry and toxicology: two examples."

"Death and the Algae: the enigma of phytoplankton mortality in aquatic ecosystems."

"The 1998 El Niño in Lake Michigan: Delayed Spring Production Maximum Associated With Larval Perch Recruitment Success"

"CARDIOVASCULAR cDNA MICROARRAYS: A Platform for Exploration of Molecular Mechanisms of Developmental Toxicity in Zebrafish"