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The annual Arboretum Research Symposium celebrates research at the Arboretum with talks and posters by student researchers about their projects. The event is free and open to the public, no registration is required.This year’s presenters and topics are listed below. Please join us to learn about recent research and to support student and early-career researchers. Bring your curiosity and ask questions!
2025 TALKS
Panicle Hydrangeas for Pollinators
—Elizabeth Braatz, PhD student, UW–Madison Department of Integrative Biology
Mapping Walnut Tree Relations at the Arboretum Border
—Meg Wilson, PhD student, UW–Madison Department of Art History
Ecological Impacts of Invasive Golden Oyster Mushrooms
—Aishwarya Veerabahu, PhD student, UW–Madison Department of Botany
Monitoring Wild Pollinator Thermal Ecology Using AutoPollS: A Computer Vision–Powered Camera Trap
—Nicole DesJardins, Postdoctoral Fellow, UW–Madison Department of Entomology
Linking Chloride Dynamics in Lake Wingra with Climate Variability
—Lizzie Emch, MS, UW–Madison Center for Limnology
2025 POSTERS
Effects of Forestry Mowing and Prescribed Burning on an Oak Woodland Understory Plant Community
—Timothy Kuhman, Professor of Biology, Edgewood College Division of Biological Sciences, and Olivia Hebert and Cassie Radl, undergraduate students, Edgewood College
Supercool Winter Physiology: At What Temperature Do Trees Chill?
—Francisco Campos-Arguedas, PhD student, UW–Madison Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences
Wolves on the Landscape: Investigating the Effects of Selective Predation on the Spread of Chronic Wasting Disease in Wisconsin
—Michael Menon, PhD student, UW–Madison Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
Woody Invasive Survey in the Lost City Forest
—Maddalen Armstrong, Clare Ryan, Maddy Schultz, Frances Plese, and Noelle Hurst, undergraduate students, UW–Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
For more Arboretum learning opportunities, don’t miss our 2025 Winter Enrichment Lecture Series: https://arboretum.wisc.edu/learn/adult-education/winter-enrichment/
See more Arboretum events: https://arboretum.wisc.edu/visit/events/
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
UW-Madison Arboretum, 1207 Seminole Hwy,Madison, Wisconsin, United States
