Based in the Department of Biological Sciences at The University of Notre Dame, the Lodge Lab is a group of graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, visiting scholars and staff, led by Professor David Lodge. The Lodge Lab group examines the many ways that human activities change the habitats that provide people with drinking water, recreation, fisheries, and valuable biodiversity.  Our research efforts are as far away as Zambia, Africa and as close as the St. Joseph River at our own back door.  We work closely with managers and stakeholders far and wide to ensure that our research is relevant and useful to society.