Lab News

At the 2025 Upper Midwest Invasive Species Conference (UMISC), our Masters student Molly Tilsen won the People's Choice Award for "Best Communication of Science" for her interactive piece Land of 10,000 Lakes. Follow the link to read more about it.

Galia, Emily, and Momo sample a frog at Eastman Nature Center, June 2025. They were joined by Ethan O'Brien from MAISRC and Dr. Jennifer Lamb from St. Cloud University.  If you would like to contribute your own amphibian data, check out the Student Network for Amphibian Pathogen Surveillance (SNAPS) page for information on how you can join. To learn more about what we're testing for, visit this MAISRC Research page!

Our graduate student Molly Tilsen's presentation "A predictive boater network for prioritizing Minnesota's aquatic invasive species prevention," won one of the two best student presentation awards at the American Fisheries Society's annual meeting in February 2025. Congratulations Molly!