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Jordan Read

University of Wisconsin
1261 Engineering Hall
1415 Engineering Dr
Madison, WI 53706
jsread@wisc.edu
(651) 895-9864
http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~jsread/

Research Projects

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 ...

Crystal Lake Mixing

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are conducting a whole-lake mixing experiment on Crystal Lake (Vilas County, WI) to eradicate an invasive fish from the lake. Rainbow smelt invaded Crystal Lake in the early 1980s, and a sharp decline in native yellow perch populations followed shortly thereafter. To specifically target this invasive for removal from the lake, researchers are taking advantage of the smelt's need for cold water habitat in a lake with no other cold water fishes. The Crystal Lake Mixing scientists will experimentally mix the lake to remove this cold water habitat, stressing the rainbow smelt beyond the limits of survival.

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Recent Publications

Gaeta JW, Read JS, Kitchell JF, Carpenter SR.  2012.  Eradication via destratification: whole-lake mixing to selectively remove rainbow smelt, a cold-water invasive species. Ecological Applications. 22:817-827.
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.
Shade A, Read JS, Welkie D, Kratz TK, Wu CH, McMahon KD.  2011.  Resistance, resilience, and recovery: aquatic bacterial dynamics after water column disturbance. Environmental Microbiology. 13:2752–2767.
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.
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Selected Datasets

Eradication via destratification: whole-lake mixing to selectively remove rainbow smelt, a cold-water invasive species.
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