Mike Miller

I am a stream ecologist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in Madison.  My primary program responsibilities relate to stream and watershed assessment and management, with a focus on statewide probabilistic surveys and data interpretation. More recently I have been conducting surveys of neonicotinoid insecticide contamination of streams, advancing the use of UAVs and image classification tools to identify and quantify landscape features related to streams and wetlands, and developing an automated light trap to identify and quantify adult aquatic insects.  I teach stream ecology and watershed management at the University of Wisconsin, work with many citizen scientists, and am a co-author of A Field Guide to Wisconsin streams. When not thinking, talking, or writing about streams I can often be found getting out-witted by trout with pea-sized brains while fly fishing in Wisconsin’s Driftless Area ecoregion.