Carpenter receives national lake research award

Limnology professor Steve Carpenter recently received the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award for excellence in lake research from the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography.

This mid-career award has been presented annually since 1982 to recognize excellence in any aspect of limnology or oceanography.

Carpenter, also a zoology professor, has been on UW–Madison’s Center for Limnology faculty since 1989. His work has extended from lake primary producers and ecosystem modeling to developing new techniques for assessing food-web interactions. He has made seminal advances to the understanding of interactions among consumers, nutrients, and physical processes in the dynamics of lake food webs. His work has also built important bridges between fundamental limnology and issues of lake management.

Carpenter received his masters and Ph.D. from UW–Madison. He was on the faculty of Notre Dame University from 1979 to 1989.