Grace Wilkinson is an associate professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and the Center for Limnology. She is a limnologist and ecosystem ecologist whose research is focused on the dynamic links between lakes and their surrounding landscapes, including the consequences for water quality, nutrient cycling, ecosystem resilience and food webs. Her group uses a combination of whole-lake experiments, comparative lake surveys and long-term data to understand how lakes are changing and provide policy-relevant information for protecting our freshwater resources. Before joining the Department of Integrative Biology and Center for Limnology at UW–Madison in January 2021, she was an assistant professor at Iowa State University from 2017-2020.
A word from Dean Eric M. Wilcots:
It is clear that Professor Wilkinson has established herself as a leader for whole-ecosystem experiments, and, as her productivity accelerates, she has positioned herself to take over the legacy of whole-lake manipulations put in place by some of her predecessors.