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A Watershed Moment | Great Lakes at a Crossroads

Jake Vander Zanden knows how tricky it can be to discover a new invasive species ? not just in the Great Lakes but in relatively tiny inland lakes as well. The professor at the University of Wisconsin’s renowned Center for Limnology has an office on the shore of Lake Mendota. Limnology is the study of inland lakes, and that makes Mendota one of the most exhaustively studied water bodies on the globe.