2022 Student Artists- Cameo Boyle, Catherine Nelson, & Libby Hetzel

Catherine Nelson

"Hi! My name is Catherine Nelson, and I'm a sophomore studying Environmental Science and Studio Art at St. Norbert College. I create artwork that brings communities closer to the natural world and to each other. I'm excited to learn about wild rice and the ecological community at Trout Lake Station and to develop my artmaking skills through this internship! I'm also looking forward to spending lots of time outdoors, hiking and learning from the natural world."

Cameo Boyle

"My name is Cameo Boyle. I’m a sophomore at Nicolet College studying studio art. Watercolor is a challenging art medium where I have been happily pursuing different techniques. Along with a continued interest in art, I look forward to broadening my horizons while developing new relationships and skills related to natural resources at Trout Lake Station."​

Libby Hetzel

"There is so much to gain from engaging artistic faculties of the mind in our pursuit of science, and vice versa. I am thrilled to spend the summer examining the cross section of art and science—my truest passions."

2019 Student Artists- Roger Ort and Julia Buskirk

Prior to the beginning of the Art and Science mentoring program, summer research intern Roger voluntarily and informally engaged with the Artists in Residence at Trout Lake Station while summer research intern Julia learned to unite her interests in science and writing.

​Our goal is for our new interns to experience lasting impacts like those of Ort's and Buskirk’s, which will provide the groundwork for supporting future intern engagement at the boundary of art and science.

Roger Ort


​​Equal parts comic artist and microbiologist, my scientific interests deeply influence my art, and vice-versa. My interests in geology, biology, and chemistry have led me to develop a fascination with the ideas of biogeochemical cycling, the water cycle, and the concept of geologic time. My artistic appreciations for color and light have similarly prompted my academic interest in the vibrant biofilms of iron-oxidizing bacteria and the properties of thin-film interference.
 
My current work, "To Whom I Owe Water", admires the hydrologic cycle, celebrates the women conservationists who have protected and cared for this water on its journey, and reflects on my experiences in the Northwoods of Wisconsin as a field biologist and intern at Trout Lake field station in the Summer of 2019.

Julia Buskirk

I’d always loved art and writing, and was very interested in science, but I never really thought I could unite those two passions until my summer at Trout Lake Station. Witnessing the art and writing being created by the Communications Intern and the Artists in Residences showed me how I could connect the two and certainly inspired me to pursue science communication.

Buskirk’s experience at TLS continues to expand and grow, as she has also founded the Flow Microgrant through the Center for Humanities and Water@UW-Madison, which is further encouraging science and art partnerships by pairing undergraduate artists with water researchers across the UW
system.