Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, M.A., M.S., Ph.D.
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, Department of English
University of Wisconsin-Madison
cdruschke@wisc.edu | Google Scholar here.
Dr. Gottschalk Druschke uses her training in rhetoric to consider the logics and practices of freshwater management. Gottschalk Druschke has presented internationally on her work, published widely across rhetorical studies and environmental sciences, and received fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, US Environmental Protection Agency, and AAUW and funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Park Service. Her interdisciplinary work began with a B.A. in Social Work at the University of Iowa (1999), and a concentration in Gender and Women’s Studies and a fellowship in the NSF-IGERT program in Landscape, Ecological and Anthropogenic Processes at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2011), and continued with a M.S. in stream ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2021).

Ben Sellers
M.S. Student, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and Agroecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ben Sellers is longtime researcher and current M.S. student with the Headwaters Lab. His interests in ecology and remote sensing are driven by the stories aerial perspectives can tell about a landscape. His focuses are on environmental spectroscopy and stream monitoring. Ben is fascinated by the spatial relationships at play in rural areas, and his goal is to help land managers better understand their water and woods through aerial perspectives and cartography. Ben has a Bachelors of Science in Forest Science from UW-Madison. His favorite fish are sturgeon.

Lab alums

Liz Anna Kozik / Ph.D. in Environment & Resources (2023) / Dissertation: Re-Peopling Prairie: History, Ecology + How They Can Better Inform Prairie Science / Current: Research Coordinator, Rethinking Lawns, Chicago Botanic Garden and Freelance Science Illustrator.

Sydney Widell / M.S. in Freshwater & Marine Sciences (2023) / Current: Watershed Coordinator, Coon Creek Community Watershed Council, Inc.

Paige Stork / M.S. in Freshwater & Marine Sciences (2023) / Current: Technical Professional, Wood

Nina Delgadillo / B.S. in Environmental Science and Conservation Biology with a Certificate in Sustainability (2023) / Current: Digital Communications Coordinator, Milwaukee Water Commons

Amanda Rose Pratt / Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric (2023) / Dissertation: From Changing the World to Rhetorical Worldbuilding: Toward a Constitutive Theory of Transformative Psychedelic Rhetoric / Current: Assistant Professor of Rhetoric of Science, Kennesaw State University

Kassia Krzus Shaw / Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric (2023) / Dissertation: Ecological Restoration as Rhetorical Practice: Stories Landscapes & Multispecies Relations at the Former Badger Army Ammunition Plant / Current: Teaching Faculty III, School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jon Isaac / Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric (2022) / Dissertation: “The University Works Because We Do”: University Decision-Making and Rhetorics of Graduate Labor / Current: Assistant Teaching Professor, Program for Writing Across Campus, University of Washington

Emma Lundberg / Ph.D. in Environment & Resources (2021) / Dissertation: Managing Freshwater Resources: A Critical, Interdisciplinary Reimagining / Current: Aquatic Resiliency Scientist, Trout Unlimited

John Koban / Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric (2021) / Dissertation: Productive Dissensus: Toward a New Theory of Deliberative Rhetoric for Political Change / Current: Marketing and Communications Specialist, Synergy

Kevin Jones / Undergraduate researcher / University of Wisconsin-Madison 2019 / Current: Trout Stream Intern, Utah Division of Wildlife

Jamie Remillard / Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition (2017), University of Rhode Island / Research Assistant, National Park Service / Dissertation: Teaching Writing with Play: A Study of Community-Based Science Education in a National Park / Current: Assistant Professor, Worcester State University

David Weinberg / Undergraduate Research Scholar / University of Wisconsin-Madison (2019) / Current: Public Relations at ICF Next

Jon C. Vander Werff / Master of Environmental Science Management (2018), University of Rhode Island / Research Assistant, The Future of Dams / Current: Fisheries Biologist, Save the Sound-Connecticut Fund for the Environment

Valerie Preler / Master of Environmental Science and Management (2018), University of Rhode Island / Research Assistant, The Future of Dams / Current: Program Director, Block Island Maritime Institute

Jenna Morton-Aiken / Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition (2017), University of Rhode Island / Research Assistant, SciWrite@URI / Dissertation: Metadata and Relational Architecture: Advancing Arrangement, Agency, and Access with New Methodology / Current: Senior Associate Director for Writing and English Language Support, The Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Brown University

Paul McDivitt / Research Assistant, National Park Service / Current: Communication Specialist, College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, University of Minnesota

Kristen Hychka / Research Associate, National Park Service / Current: Postdoctoral Associate, New York State Water Resources Institute

Francesca Soluri / Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, NSF-EPSCoR (2016), University of Rhode Island

Hannah Dallas / Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, NSF-EPSCoR (2016), University of Rhode Island

Sara Randall / Research Assistant, The Future of Dams (2016)

Megan Skrip / Graduate Research Assistant, National Park Service (2015-2016) / Ph.D. 2016, Ecology and Ecosystem Sciences specialization / Current: Science Communicator, Center for Geospatial Analytics, NC State University

Alison Fisher / Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, NSF-EPSCoR (2015-2016), University of Rhode Island

Jay Peters / Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition (2015), University of Rhode Island / Dissertation: The Sentinelle Affair: A Case Study in Multilingual Language Practices / Current: Associate Professor, Department of English, Cal Poly

John Lee / Research Associate, National Park Service (2014-2015)

Lena Weiss / M.A. in Marine Affairs, Research Associate (2015)

Dylan Hogan / Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, NSF-EPSCoR (2015)