Gretchen Gerrish News Today

Artist Mary Burns of Mercer uses a high-tech jacquard loom to create stunning portraits that for the next two months are at the James Watrous Gallery at Overture Center.

BOULDER JUNCTION, Wis. (WJFW) - For over 100 years, the Trout Lake Station has been providing long term environmental research to lakes, rivers, and other waterways around the Northwoods. Gretchen

By the end of last month, northern Wisconsin had already reached the ‘severe or ‘very severe’ annual winter index thresholds set by the Wisconsin DNR for the first time since 2013

Trout Lake Station holds decades of data, reveals long-term trends in invasive rusty crayfish species

The Northwoods is home to two University of Wisconsin Field Stations.The work being done at them is the focus of this week’s Science on Tap Minocqua.

Swans may not be the most important factor in the decline of wild rice, but there is no doubt that the number of swans has increased on our Northwoods lakes. How did this happen?

According to researchers from Trout Lake Station, the difference in ice off dates from one year to the next has become more extreme in the past ten years. That has consequences for lake ecosystems.

Where has all of the wild rice gone? Researchers seek clues for the drastic drop in crop acreage over the last several years.

Gretchen Gerrish works for UW-Madison's Trout Lake Station through the Center for Limnology. She studies how evolutionary and ecological processes interact to allow natural systems to deal with change over time.