Dr. Hilary Dugan, Assistant professor at the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. A Winter's Tale of Wisconsin Lakes Historically, limnologists have dedicated their efforts to studying lakes in the summer, while overlooking winter. Winter field work is challenging. Most lakes in the United States and Canada, however, freeze over for at least part of the winter. A bias for summer research has left gaps in knowledge on lake chemistry and biology under ice. More pressingly, with anticipated changes in environmental conditions, there is a need for information on how lakes and reservoirs function in the winter for a more complete understanding of lakes. This knowledge is also critical to future management of freshwater resources in a future with shorter winters and less lake ice. This talk will focus on what we’ve learned from winter limnological research taking place on Wisconsin lakes, and will include recent results from a a whole-lake manipulation where we removed all of the snow from the surface of a north temperate bog lake in northern Wisconsin.
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