Trout Lake Station’s summer scicomm intern doesn’t restrict herself to only following our water-related endeavors. Find out why Bethany was tromping through the woods before dawn!
Graduate Student Research
Catching Up with the Crayfish Crew
Trout Lake Research Station isn’t just reserved for University of Wisconsin research. We let freshwater scientists from all over spend some time in the Northwoods to run their experiments. Bethany Prochnow spent an afternoon with …
Assessing How Long Chemicals Linger in Lakes
Our summer science communication intern is at it again – this time looking at a project tracking how long chemicals we use to keep lakes weed-free lingers in the environment. Enjoy!
How We Use Our Land Shapes Streams’ Big Role in Greenhouse Gas Emissions
by Sam Blackburn – If you were to ask someone where climate change-causing greenhouse gases come from, they’d probably say cars, air travel, or manufacturing. Someone from Wisconsin might even say dairy farms. It’s unlikely, …
Promising New Tool for Ice Safety – Sensors Used to Study Soil
Every winter, as lakes and rivers freeze over in the colder reaches of the Northern Hemisphere and again when they thaw in the spring, anglers and skaters and snowmobilers all start asking the same question …
“David Buoy” Wraps Up 11th Year Monitoring Lake Mendota
Yesterday we caught a slight break in our string of cold, windy days and researchers here from the UW- Madison Center for Limnology and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences were able to head out …
UW-Madison Undergrads Cast a Wide Net to Catch Ecological Change on McDermott Lake
Over the course of the last four months, PhD student Holly Embke and her team of undergraduate researchers have systematically removed more than 80,000 bass and panfish from McDermott Lake in southern Iron County as …
80,000 Fish Later, Researcher Wraps Up Summer Season of “Bass-Walleye” Study
by Sydney Widell – Holly Embke’s Subaru is nearly packed and, besides a few boxes, her desk is vacant. In a few hours, she’ll be leaving Trout Lake Station and driving home to Madison – …
Forensic Fishing: Using eDNA to Track Fish Populations
by Sydney Widell – At the start of every fishing season, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources embarks on the arduous task of setting catch limits on the state’s popular game fish like walleye. In …
Out of the Woods, Into the Trees: Trout Lake Research on the Streets of Fond du Lac
This is Part 3 of a 3-Part series on an ambitious summer research project exploring how trees manage their water supplies and respond to drought. You can read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. …