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- Alexis Wellman, A Wisconsin community reduces stream water phosphorus and grows momentum for conservation agriculture MS 2026 Environment & Resources (MS seminar 27 May 2026)
- Ashley Becker Steele, Reimagining agriculture in the Midwest US: Exploring environmental and social solutions to better support farmers, communities, and the environment PhD 2025 Environment & Resources (PhD seminar 9 Dec 2025)
- Mpumelelo Ncwadi, It takes a commons: Decolonizing South Africa’s Eastern Cape with agroecology. PhD 2025 Environment & Resources (PhD seminar 13 Nov 2025)
- Mia Keady, Thinking like a prairie: Soil carbon to perennial conservation. PhD 2025 Environment & Resources (PhD seminar 14 Aug 2025)
- Angela Leon Tinoco, Microbial-derived residues and their role in carbon stabilization and aggregate formation in southern Wisconsin cropping systems. PhD 2025 Agronomy (PhD seminar 2 May 2025)
- Jacob Henden, Classifying management of Wisconsin pastures using time series satellite imagery. MS 2024 Environment & Resources
- Brooke Bembeneck, MS 2024 Agroecology (non-thesis option)
- Carly Huggins, Onto greener pastures with rotational grazing of cover crops. MS 2023 Agroecology
- Clarissa Dietz, Grain and forage cropping systems typical of the upper Midwest except grazed pasture lose soil organic carbon over 30 years. MS 2022 Agroecology
- Ashley Becker, Pastures with managed grazing have more surface-soil carbon than row crops. MS 2021 Environment & Resources
- Greta Landis, Evaluating tools and tradeoffs for successful grazing partnerships on Wisconsin public grasslands. PhD 2020 Environment & Resources
- Alden Dirks, The ubiquitous unseen: Nitrogen amendment of switchgrass has site-specific effects on arbuscular mycorrhizal diversity and relative abundance. MS 2019 Agroecology
- Anna Cates, Cover crop effects on the carbon cycle. PhD 2018 Agronomy
- Adam von Haden, Mechanisms of ecosystem carbon storage and stability in temperate bioenergy cropping systems. PhD 2017 Environment & Resources
- Laura Smith, Nitrogen conservation in perenial grasses managed for bioenergy production. PhD 2017 Environment & Resources
- David Duncan, Linking soil microbiology and environmental conditions to variability in nitrous oxide production in bioenergy cropping systems. PhD 2016 Agronomy
- Greta Landis, Evaluating grazing partnerships on Wisconsin’s public grasslands: Adaptive collaboration in agroecology research. MS Agroecology 2016
- Maddy Raudenbush, Midge carcasses alter the structure and function of plant and soil communities in Icelandic heathlands. MS Zoology 2014
- Erica Diehl, A decision support tool for improving landscape configuration. MS Environment & Resources 2014
- Craig Maier, Cows in the prairies, prairies in the fields: Interactions between plant diversity and rotational grazing in reconstructed tallgrass prairies. MS Environment & Resources 2014
- Andy Jakubowski, Improving the viability and sustainability of perennial grasses for bioenergy. PhD Plant Breeding & Plant Genetics 2014
- Brianna Laube Duran, Nitrogen pollution and productivity in bioenergy grasslands: Do diversity and fertilizer management matter? MS Environment & Resources 2013
- Laura Smith, Perennial grass systems for bioenergy: Should we fertilize with N? MS Agroecology 2012
- Sue Chamberlain, Persistence and productivity of native warm-season grass ecotypes and cultivars under managed grazing in southern Wisconsin. MS Environment & Resources 2011
- Nadia Alber, Extent of defoliation and leaf developmental stage effects on productivity of cool-season pasture grasses under managed grazing in southern Wisconsin. MS Environment & Resources 2011
- David Duncan, Driftless Area meadow fescue: Introduction history, genetic structure, and management recommendations. MS Agroecology 2009
- Gary Oates, Ecosystem response of cool-season grass pasture to management for livestock in southern Wisconsin. PhD Environment & Resources 2009
- Herika Kummel, Potential C sequestration increases with C4 grass abundance in restored prairie of southern Wisconsin. MS Agroecology 2009
- Sarah Stackpoole, Nitrogen cycling in the cranberry agroecosystem: The importance of ericoid mycorrhizal fungi and organic nitrogen pools. PhD Horticulture 2008
- Emma Bouressa, Burning and grazing cool-season pastures to promote persistence of native, warm-season grasses. MS Conservation Biology & Sustainable Development 2008
- Julie Doll , An agroecological approach to incorporating native warm-season grasses into Wisconsin farms. PhD Agronomy 2008
- Ellen Hamingson, Restoration of agricultural wetlands invaded by Phalaris arundinacea (Reed Canary Grass): Control techniques, plant community environmental factors, and landowner concerns. MS Conservation Biology & Sustainable Development 2007
