You can't control what you can't find: Detecting invasive species while they're still scarce
- Written by Jake Walsh, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
There are 130 billion gallons of water in Wisconsin's Lake Mendota, and now, trillions of spiny water fleas.Corey Coyle/Wikimedia, CC BYMost of the 10,000 ships lost to the bottom of the Great Lakes in wrecks over the past 400 years are still lost – hidden somewhere in 6 quadrillion gallons of water. Finding anything in a lake is a lesson in...
