Peter Levi is a freshwater ecosystem ecologist passionate about teaching, field and laboratory research, and science communication and outreach. His research investigates how changes to lakes, streams, and reservoirs have cascading impacts on other processes within these ecosystems—whether those changes are natural (e.g., seasonal) or anthropogenic (e.g., land-use change). He has worked on and in water from the Laurentian Great Lakes to Denmark and salmon-filled streams of Alaska to wetlands with crocodiles in Ghana. Between earning his undergraduate degree from Lawrence University and attending graduate school at the University of Notre Dame, Peter spent three years as an environmental educator, working at outdoor schools from Maine to southern California to the Florida Keys. Prior to joining the Burke Center at Northland, Peter was an Associate Professor of Environmental Science & Sustainability at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
Courses offered:
From Freshwater Shores to Shining Saltwater Seas: An investigation of environmental crises along the Mississippi River and beyond — with Tom Fitz and Titus Seilheimer
If These Waters Could Talk: Exploring the natural history, ecology, and economics of Lake Superior — with Tom Fitz and Titus Seilheimer
