University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tag: field research

Socially Distant Science: Coronavirus Means Summer at Trout Lake Looks Different This Year

by Cassie Gauthier – If you were to walk around Trout Lake Station on the first week of June most summers, you would find 40 or so people arriving on station for a summer of living in the six cabins, working in the lab, and taking trips to nearby lakes both at day and night …

Limnology in Action: Like Baking a Cake in a Lake

Besides the rowboat being pulled across a grid of buoys, the surface of Peter Lake is calm. But, just 5 meters below the surface, a full experiment is under way. “Annndddd…. There is C-13 spilling out down there!” shouts Grace Wilkinson. Looking into the water doesn’t do any good, the carbon-isotope tracer that Wilkinson and …