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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Northwoods Lakes Without Winter Ice? Full-Lake Study Peers Into Potential Future
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:53
	Publish Date:		2020-01-16 04:58:40
	Description:		An amphibious vehicle called an Argo has eight wheels, two treads, floats on water, and can go just about anywhere. Has Noah Lottig found a place it can’t access? “Not yet. We’ve tried. We have not found a place where this will not go yet,” said Lottig, an assistant scientist at the UW-Madison Trout Lake Station in Boulder Junction. A fifteen-minute ride on the Argo allows Lottig and two graduate students to access an undeveloped, frozen bog near Sparkling Lake in Vilas County. Lottig has been here plenty with the Argo, hooking a snowplow to its front. “Within 24 hours of a one-inch-or-greater snowfall happening, we’re out here with snowblowers and plows and clearing all the snow off the lake to simulate what a lake might experience if we didn’t experience winter as we know it now,” he said. Clearing snow is the closest Lottig and fellow researchers can get to a completely ice-free winter lake. Both let plenty of sunlight through to the water underneath. The project is a response to a
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