oferrell

Ankur Desai, AOS professor and chair, has been named the recipient of the 2025 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Sulzman Award for Scientific Excellence through Education and Mentoring.

Water. Fire. Air. When it comes to today’s biggest environmental challenges, these are the elements at the heart of the issues. Meet three L&S experts who are at the top of their field in finding sustainable solutions.

UW-Madison researchers, who study Wisconsin’s lakes, are grappling with uncertainty as cuts to the National Science Foundation (NSF) could threaten decades of freshwater research.

The National Ground Water Association and Groundwater Foundation has selected Steven Loheide as the 2026 Darcy Distinguished Lecturer.

Katherine (Trina) McMahon will present “Ecogenomics of freshwater lake bacteria“ as part of the School of Freshwater Sciences Fall colloquium. March 10 @ 3pm

Love the Great Lakes? Join Allison Devereaux as she explores the largest freshwater system on earth. Unsalted: a podcast for people who live, work and play on the Great Lakes.

The 2024 Yentsch-Schindler Early Career Award was presented to Dr. Hilary Dugan for her exceptional, balanced contributions to our understanding of salinization of freshwater ecosystems and winter limnology, and for her commitment to scientific mentorship and impact-creation via proactive, open-science translation to resource managers and the public. The award was presented to Dr. Dugan at the 2024 ASLO Summer Meeting in Madison, WI, USA.

The 2024 John H. Martin Award was presented to “Lake metabolism: Relationships with dissolved organic carbon and phosphorus” by Hanson et al. for showing that lakes experience seasonal net heterotrophy, except in cases of high phosphorus and high primary production. The Martin Award was presented to Dr. Paul Hanson (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Limnology) on behalf of the co-authors during the 2024 ASLO Summer Meeting in Madison, WI, USA in June.