Susan Knight
Commentator - Field NotesSusan Knight works for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Limnology at Trout Lake Station and collaborates closely with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. She is involved in many aspects of aquatic plants, including aquatic plant identification workshops and research on aquatic invasive plants. She is especially fond of bladderworts.
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In this month’s Field Notes, Susan Knight looks at the thin ice situation this year, and discusses why ice is so cool.What a crazy year for ice. As you…
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Botany of Thanksgiving Everyone has their own list of things to be grateful for at Thanksgiving. Along with your thoughts of turkey and football, take a…
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Susan Knight of UW-Madison’s Trout Lake Station is enjoying her summer by doing aquatic plant surveys, and she may be coming to your lake soon.She tells…
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Years ago Dave Daniels from Rhinelander heard of a research project that really interested him, but he never heard what came out of the project so he sent…
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For this month's Field Notes feature, Susan Knight discusses Wild Rice, and its amazing transformation from spring to fall.It’s almost spring. You can…
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In this month's installment of Field Notes, Susan Knight discusses the importance of seedbanks - in the past and in the future - for the survival of our…
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With Christmas on the horizon, many of us are thinking about gift giving.In this month's installment of Field Notes, Susan Knight discusses the virtues of…
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In this month's episode of Field Notes, Susan Knight of UW-Madison’s Trout Lake Station describes an unusual growth pattern of an aquatic plant,…
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In this month's episode of Field Notes, Susan Knight of UW-Madison’s Trout Lake Station talks about that annoying summer problem, “Swimmer’s Itch” and how…
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It’s the second Tuesday of the month, which is when we check in with our commentators in the field.In this month’s episode of Field Notes, Susan Knight of…