The Great Lakes Consortium for Oceans and Human Health Graduate Training Program
The Laurentian Great Lakes contain nearly 20% of the Earth’s fresh surface water and provide drinking water to nearly 40 million people. Despite their size, they are sensitive to urbanization and the subsequent rapid deterioration brought on by pollution and human alterations. Restoration and stewardship of the Great Lakes will require sound science to inform policy and management decisions.
The Great Lakes Consortium for Oceans and Human Health (OHH) Graduate Training Program will produce the next generation of OHH scientists specifically trained to address basic and applied research questions on freshwater systems and will generate relevant knowledge and tools that will contribute to public health, water resource management and policy.
Graduate mentors for the program are part of a consortium of faculty and scientists from the School of Freshwater Science and College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, and the College of Engineering and Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Students will be engaged in multidisciplinary/multi-investigator projects that have grown from OHH research conducted by the consortium’s principal investigators and NOAA scientists at the OHH Centers of Excellence located at the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory and the Pacific Northwest Fisheries Science Center.
The training program is for doctoral students and consists of formal courses taken at either UW-Milwaukee or UW-Madison campuses as part of their graduate curriculum; research training for thesis projects; consortium-wide group activities; and internships with organizations involved in setting policy and developing management strategies.
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Research areas of the faculty are broad and encompass anthropogenic impacts on aquatic systems such as emerging contaminants, pathogens and consequences of climate change; physical and ecological modeling; and sentinel aquatic organisms to assess and predict ecosystem health. Projects include modeling hydrodynamics and sediment movement, molecular based detection strategies, gene expression studies in aquatic organisms, and ecological assessments. These studies offer a view of human impacts on the ecosystem and the resultant negative consequences for humans. Marine technology and global genomics are major experimental platforms with which these problems are investigated (i.e. field and laboratory based), and are unique strengths of the consortium researchers.
Individuals interested in applying to this Ph.D. training program should contact Margret Petrie for application instructions, which includes providing a brief description of their past educational experience and their research interests as they relate to oceans and human health.
Participating Faculty:
School of Freshwater Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Frederick William Goetz, Professor
Sandra L. McLellan, Associate Professor
Rebecca D. Klaper,Associate Professor
Michael J. Carvan, Associate Professor
J. Val Klump, Professor
James T. Waples, Associate Scientist
Department of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Hector R. Bravo, Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Katherine D. McMahon, Associate Professor
Chin H. Wu, Professor
Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Jonathan A. Patz, Professor
Other Institutional Partners:
Center of Excellence for Great Lakes and Human Health, NOAA/Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
David Schwab, Senior Scientist
Gary Fahnenstiel, Senior Scientist
