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Chin Wu

University of Wisconsin
1269D Engineering Hall
1415 Engineering Dr
Madison, WI 53706
chinwu@engr.wisc.edu
(608) 263-3078
http://www.engr.wisc.edu/cee/faculty/wu_chin.html

Research Projects

Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts WICCI

WICCI represents a unique and innovative process to develop a statewide climate change adaptation strategy. WICCI has formed through a non-bureaucratic, bottom-up approach to engage scientists, researchers and management agencies in understanding the impacts of climate change on communities and natural resources across the state, and to develop strategies to make them more resilient to climate change.

Crystal Lake Thermal Manipulation to Eradicate Invasive Rainbow Smelt

Rainbow smelt are an invasive fish species that was first detected in the Laurentian Great Lakes in the 1920’s and have since spread to numerous inland lakes. As of 2005, rainbow smelt have invaded 24 inland Wisconsin lakes and have the potential to spread to many more. In Wisconsin’s Northern Highland Lake District, rainbow smelt have been associated with several negative impacts on lake food webs.  For instance, rainbow smelt have been associated with shifts in zooplankton community structure, reductions in yellow perch densities, extirpation of ...

20 Year Energy Budget for Trout Bog

Water levels in several NTL-LTER study lakes reached historical lows during the summer of 2009, owing to general decreases in precipitation and increases in total evaporation during the ice-free seasons of 1998-2009. Balancing a water budget for temperate lakes is difficult, requiring detailed measurements of precipitation, groundwater fluxes and surface flows to estimate the amount of water lost through evaporation. The NTL-LTER Trout Bog site has long-term records of meteorological conditions, including terrestrial and solar radiation from ...

Changing Lake Variables

The overarching theme of this research is to determine how lake variables (e.g. ice cover, thermal structure, water level) have changed during the past century, and how they may continue to change under a changing climate. Currently, I am focusing on one dimensional and three dimensional hydrodynamic modeling of the NTL-LTER study lakes. Development of hydrodynamic models allows for understanding of lake dynamics that cannot be captured by field measurements, and also provides the ability to predict how changes in external ...

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Recent Publications

Read JS, Shade A, Wu CH, Gorzalski A, McMahon KD.  2011.  Gradual entrainment lake inverter (GELI): A novel device for experimental lake mixing. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. 9:14-28.
Read JS, Hamilton DP, Jones ID, Muraoka K, Winslow LA, Kroiss R, Wu CH, Gaiser E.  2011.  Derivation of lake mixing and stratification indices from high-resolution lake buoy data. Environmental Modelling & Software. 26:1325-1336.
Read JS, Hamilton DP, Jones ID, Muraoka K, Winslow LA, Kroiss R, Wu CH, Gaiser E.  2011.  Derivation of lake mixing and stratification indices from high-resolution lake buoy data. Environmental Modelling & Software. 26:1325-1336.
Kamarainen AM, Yuan H, Wu CH, Carpenter S.  2009.  Estimates of phosphorus entrainment in Lake Mendota: a comparison of one-dimensional and three-dimensional approaches.. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. 7:553-567.
Hanson PC, Carpenter S, Kimura N, Wu CH, Cornelius SP, Kratz TK.  2008.  Evaluation of metabolism models for free-water dissolved oxygen method in lakes. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. 6:454-465.
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Selected Datasets

North Temperate Lakes LTER: Spatial Variability of Wind Field at Lake Wingra (2004)
North Temperate Lakes LTER: Spatially Distributed Water Temperature (2004,2006) and Sediment Temperature (2006) of Lake Wingra
North Temperate Lakes LTER: Current Velocity of Lake Wingra (2004)
Lake Mendota Phosphorus Entrainment
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