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 required.
Please join us at the Visitor Center to learn about recent research and support student researchers. Bring your curiosity and ask questions! The 2026 symposium presenters and topics are listed below:
TALKS (PART I)
Arboretum research program update
—Dr. Jared Beck, Research Ecologist, UW–Madison Arboretum
Vertical distribution dynamics of grassland pyrogenic carbon one year post-fire
—Mengmeng Luo, PhD candidate, Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, UW–Madison
The role of environmental heterogeneity in maintaining leaf chemical diversity in prairie populations of wild bergamot
—Linden Taylor, PhD candidate, Department of Botany, UW–Madison
POSTER SESSION
Investigating the reproductive cycle and distribution of new non-native Asian earthworms in the Midwestern US
—Andrea Rodriguez Quiros, Hilldale Fellow, Conservation Biology & Environmental Studies, Department of Botany, UW–Madison
More than mushrooms: educational and community outcomes of a student-organized mycoblitz
—George Meindl, Associate Teaching Professor, and Kiki Liss-‘s-Gravemade, undergraduate student, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, UW–Madison
Woody invasive species monitoring in Noe Woods
—Cooper Rosin, Lecturer, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UW–Madison, and Capstone students
Determining invasive Asian jumping worms’ survivability in aquatic environments
—Claire Foote, undergraduate student, Biological Systems Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, UW–Madison
TALKS (PART II)
Seven decades of change at Faville Prairie
—Sam Anderson, PhD candidate, Department of Botany, UW–Madison
Supercool winter physiology: at what temperature do trees chill?
—Francisco Campos-Arguedas, PhD candidate, Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences, UW–Madison
Does selective deer browsing promote soil homogenization in forest ecosystems of Wisconsin?
—Aundrea Taylor, MS student, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, UW–Madison
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For more Arboretum learning opportunities, don’t miss our ongoing 2026 Winter Enrichment Lecture Series: arboretum.wisc.edu/learn/adult-education/winter-enrichment/
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