August 2025
Welcome to the Mensinger Lab Megan Lambie! She will be starting as a MSc student in the Integrated Biosciences Program.
Our undergraduate BURST students, Ellie and Noah, did an awesome job presenting their BURST summer research at the SCSE poster session.
March-April 2025
Congrats to Leah and Michael for completing their master's thesis defense!
Welcome to our lab Noah Boecker and welcome back Ellie Meythaler! Both undergraduates will be doing research during the summer, under Sami and Lauren, for UMD's BURST program.
January 2025
Our Leah Glimsdahl did a successful talk at the Biology Seminar Series about her research. Tune in later this month for our other Mensinger lab seminar from Michael Frett!
Congrats to Jack Vannurden for moving to the Twin Cities campus after the spring semester to continue our carp research -- more details to come!
August 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Noland Michels on his successful Dissertation defense! Noland will be moving on to the USGS Tunison Lab of Aquatic Science and SUNY Oswego working on the reintroduction of native coregonines in Lake Erie.
Mensinger Lab welcomed Lauren Willman, Sami Awwad, Kevin Jennings, and Jack Vannurden as new MSc students at the University of Minnesota Duluth in the Water Resources Science and Integrated Biosciences programs
May 2023
Congratulations to Jackie Culotta on his successful Master's defense!
August 2022
Mensinger Lab welcomed Leah Glimsdahl as a new MSc student at the University of Minnesota Duluth in the Water Resources Science program
January 2022
Congratulations to Maya Enriquez on her successful Master's defense! Maya will be continuing on to complete her PhD at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in Dr. Suzanne McGaugh
August 2021
Mensinger Lab welcomed Josh Schrope as a new MSc student at the University of Minnesota Duluth in the Water Resources Science program
August 2020
Mensinger Lab welcomed Jackie Culotta as a new MSc student at the University of Minnesota Duluth and Noland Michels as a PhD student
July 2020
Cavefishes arrived in the Mensinger Lab! Maya Enriquez will be testing for a difference between the hearing abilities of surface and cave populations with the collaboration of Dr Suzanne McGaugh for the Twin Cities campus
February 2020
As part of her masters project, Emily deployed some hydrophones in the Boundary Waters Wilderness Area.
January 2020
The Mensinger Lab attended the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Austin, Texas.
December 2019
The Mensinger Lab entered the Biology Department's Holiday Door Decorating contest and won best Biology themed door!
November 2019
The Mensinger Lab had a lovely Thanksgiving dinner together!
Ros Putland published two papers this month: soundscape of freshwater lakes (Ecological Informatics) and a review of the use of acoustic deterrents on fishes (Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries)
October 2019
The Mensinger Lab helped at the annual UMD American Fisheries Society Beach Clean Up at Park Point
The Mensinger Lab participated in the 1st Annual Biology Pumpkin Carving contest!
September 2019
Lily Hall received the Ernest and Tyyne Niemi Scholarship from UMD
The Mensinger lab went out on the Blue Heron to talk to animal physiology students about the effect of noise on aquatic life.
The Mensinger lab welcomed Maggie Stahley and Dan Hebeisen as undergraduate researchers!
August 2019
LJ Rogers started his PhD at the University of Washington, working in the Sisneros Lab.
Alayna Mackiewicz started her PhD at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, working in the Lohman lab.
Dr. Ros Putland was awarded a Mistletoe Research Fellowship and traveled to Singapore to participate in a startup collaboration.
July 2019
The Mensinger lab walked in the Marine Biological Laboratory's 4th of July Parade
June 2019
Nora Curtis started her NSF REU program at the Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole
Lily Hall started her UROP program at UMD
Maya Enriquez started her masters program at UMD working in the Mensinger lab!
May 2019
Dr. Mensinger led "Field Studies in Marine Biology" course to Friday Harbor, WA
LJ, Alayna, Nora and Ros traveled to Woods Hole to start summer experiments
April 2019
Noland Michels was awarded "Outstanding Biology TA Award"
Alayna Mackiewicz recieved the "Excellence in Research and Academics Award" from UMD
March 2019
The entire lab participated in a UMD STEM event focused on local youth outreach
February 2019
Hydrophones were retrieved from under the ice in Barrs Lake.
January 2019
Alayna Mackiewicz, Emily Fleissner and Loranzie Rogers presented at the Society for Integrative Biology Conference in Tampa Florida
December 2018
Dr. Ros Putland attended the Acoustical Society of America Conference and met up with lab alumni Kelsie Murchy who is doing a PhD at Uni. of Victoria.
November 2018
Emily Fleissner and Ros went to Ilinois to film jumping carp!
October 2018
Mensinger lab took the Animal Physiology class out on RV Blue Heron to learn about the effect of noise on aquatic life.
September 2018
Fieldwork continues with invasive species removal of round gobies at Lake Superior, collecting sound data out on the lakes via canoe and measuring bat sounds with the Animal Physiology class at Bagley Nature Center
August 2018
Noland Michels has been out electrofishing for Johnny darters and mottled sculpin with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
Ros and LJ attended the National American Fisheries Society Meeting in Atlantic City, NJ.
July 2018
Dr. Rosalyn Putland and Andy Nissen have been collecting hydrophones from Lock and Dam 5 in Minnesota
June 2018
The Mensinger lab helped man the registration desks at the International Charr Symposium being held in Duluth, MN.
May 2018
Dr. Mensinger led "Field Studies in Marine Biology" course to Woods Hole, MA
April 2018
LJ Rogers was named a recipient of the NSF GRFP! Check out this link to read more. The Mensinger lab took a trip to Minnesota zoo as part of the Comparative Animal Physiology course at UMD
March 2018
The Mensinger lab has been busy doing fieldwork to collect sound recordings under the ice in Minnesota lakes. The lab also helped at this years UMD STEM event focused on local youth outreach .
February 2018
The Mensinger Lab welcome Julie Butler as a visiting scientist working on African cichlid visual sensitivity. The lab attended the Minnesota American Fisheries Socity conference in Rochester, MN.
January 2018
Dr. Ros Putland joined the Mensinger lab
2019 photographs
Video showcasing UMD's research vessel the Blue Heron
2018 photographs
Video showcasing UMD Bulldog Alayna Mackiewicz