Titus Seilheimer, PhD - 20,000 Years in the Blink of an Eye: The Past, Present, and Future of the Great Lakes

Titus Seilheimer has been a fisheries specialist with Wisconsin Sea Grant since 2012 where he leads research, outreach, and education activities focused on Great Lakes fisheries and ecosystems. He has a B.A. in Biology from Lawrence University and a PhD. in biology from McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario) with a focus on fish habitat in Great Lakes coastal wetlands. Before joining Wisconsin Sea Grant, he worked as a research ecologist for the U.S. Forest Service’s Northern Research Station in St. Paul, Minnesota, developing water quality models for the Western Great Lakes. He led research on fish habitat in springs and the classification of river flow regimes at Oklahoma State University. He also assessed the impacts of flow regime change on fish assemblages at Cornell University. His past fish research has taken him to all five Great Lakes as well as the southern Great Plains. He has spent more than 100 days on Lake Michigan commercial fishing boats since 2015. He now lives in Manitowoc, Wisconsin where he enjoys time spent exploring the local coast with family and setting out on long bike rides with no planned route.