MADISON (WKOW) — The Department of Natural Resources and a team of UW-Madison students are set to begin separate studies of lakes in southern Wisconsin following the discovery of a new invasive species.
On September 11, a team of limnology students cast a net into Lake Mendotaâ??s University Bay and pulled out spiny water fleas. The discovery was a shock to limnology professor Jake Vander Zanden. The invasive species had earlier only been seen in Lake Michigan and portions of Ontario, Canada.