University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tag: whole-lake experiment

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 part of a whole-lake experiment studying the way those species interact with the lake’s declining walleye population. But in a …