Stephen R. Carpenter

Stephen Russell Carpenter
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison
Scientific career
ThesisSome environmental impacts of mechanical harvesting of nuisance submersed vascular plants (1979)

Stephen Russell Carpenter (born July 5, 1952) is an American lake ecologist who focuses on lake eutrophication which is the over-enrichment of lake ecosystems leading to toxic blooms of micro-organisms and fish kills.