Trent Wickman, PE

Contact

trwickma@mtu.edu
906-487-3527
Dow 857

Assistant Teaching Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering

MS,Environmental Engineering, Michigan Technological University
BS, Environmental Engineering, Michigan Technological University
BS, Biology, Michigan Technological University

Teaching Interests

The impacts of air pollution on soil, water, and ecosystems in the northern forests
Air quality regulatory analysis of new and expanding industrial sources
Smoke forecasting for prescribed and wildfires
Mercury cycling and statewide TMDLs
Environmental regulations and policy
Intersection of environmental policy/politics/psychology/philosophy
Science communication to the general public

Research Interests

Mercury, eutrophication, and brownification in inland forested lakes
Fire ecology and management
Tribal partnerships

Recent Publications

Bertolet, Brittni L., Jessica R. Corman, Nora J. Casson, Stephen D. Sebestyen, Randy K. Kolka, and Emily H. Stanley. 2018. “Influence of Soil Temperature and Moisture on the Dissolved Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus in Organic Matter Entering Lake Ecosystems.” Biogeochemistry 139 (3): 293–305.
Corman, J. R., B. L. Bertolet, N. J. Casson, S. D. Sebestyen, R. K. Kolka, and E. H. Stanley. 2018. “Nitrogen and Phosphorus Loads to Temperate Seepage Lakes Associated With Allochthonous Dissolved Organic Carbon Loads.” Geophysical Research Letters 45 (11): 5481–90.
Gabriel, Mark C., Randy Kolka, Trent Wickman, Ed Nater, and Laurel Woodruff. 2009. “Evaluating the Spatial Variation of Total Mercury in Young-of-Year Yellow Perch (Perca Flavescens), Surface Water and Upland Soil for Watershed–Lake Systems within the Southern Boreal Shield.” Science of the Total Environment 407 (13): 4117–26.
Gabriel, Mark, Randy Kolka, Trent Wickman, Laurel Woodruff, and Ed Nater. 2012. “Latent Effect of Soil Organic Matter Oxidation on Mercury Cycling within a Southern Boreal Ecosystem.” Journal of Environment Quality 41 (2): 495.
Kolka, Randall K., Charlotte E. Riggs, Edward A. Nater, Trent R. Wickman, Emma L. Witt, and Jason T. Butcher. 2019. “Temporal Fluctuations in Young-of-the-Year Yellow Perch Mercury Bioaccumulation in Lakes of Northeastern Minnesota.” Science of The Total Environment 656 (March): 475–81.
Nikolai, Stephen J., Trent R. Wickman, Randall K. Kolka, and Mark Gabriel. 2009. “Fire Effects on Lake Ecosystems: Water Chemistry and Zooplankton Community Structure.”
Riggs, Charlotte E., Randall K. Kolka, Edward A. Nater, Emma L. Witt, Trent R. Wickman, Laurel G. Woodruff, and Jason T. Butcher. 2017. “Yellow Perch (Perca Flavescens) Mercury Unaffected by Wildland Fires in Northern Minnesota.” Journal of Environmental Quality 46 (3): 623–31.
Rose, Lucy A, Nancy Serediak, Randall K Kolka, and Trent R Wickman. 2025. “Hydrologic and Landscape Drivers of Seepage Lake ANC Status in Northern Wisconsin, USA.” Lakes & Reservoirs: Research & Management 30(1) Jan/Dec; 1–13.
Sebestyen, Stephen D., Donald S. Ross, James B. Shanley, Emily M. Elliott, Carol Kendall, John L. Campbell, D. Bryan Dail, et al. 2019. “Unprocessed Atmospheric Nitrate in Waters of the Northern Forest Region in the U.S. and Canada.” Environmental Science & Technology 53 (7): 3620–33.
Serediak, Nancy A, R K Kolka, and T R. Wickman. 2016. “The Chemical Extremes Project and Field Validation of the Acid Input Model – Is Climate Change the New Acid Rain?” Presented at the 36th International Symposium of the North American Lake Management Society, November.
Wickman, Trent R. 1996. “Modeling and Measurement of Nitrogen Diagenesis and Ammonia Release from the Sediments of a Hypereutrophic Lake.” M.S. Thesis, Michigan Technological University.
Witt, E. L., R. K. Kolka, E. A. Nater, and T. R. Wickman. 2009. “Influence of the Forest Canopy on Total and Methyl Mercury Deposition in the Boreal Forest.” Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 199 (1–4): 3–11.
Witt, Emma L., Randall K. Kolka, Edward A. Nater, and Trent R. Wickman. 2009. “Forest Fire Effects on Mercury Deposition in the Boreal Forest.” Environmental Science & Technology 43 (6): 1776–82.
Witt, Emma, Ed Nater, Randy Kolka, and Trent R. Wickman. 2006. “Influence of Fire on Total and Methyl Mercury Deposition in Boreal Landscapes.” Eighth International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Madison, Wisconsin, August 6–11, 2006: Abstracts.