Abigail Lewis traveled all across the United States for college and graduate school, and she ended up researching lakes in her own hometown.
Abigail Lewis traveled all across the United States for college and graduate school, and she ended up researching lakes in her own hometown.
For one of her graduate research projects, Lewis analyzed 656 lakes across five continents with an international research team. The lakes in her hometown of Waukesha, Wisconsin, were among those included.
“To look back and pull together these two parts of my life has been really satisfying,” said Lewis, who will earn her Ph.D. in biological sciences this spring.
In a paper recently published in Global Change Biology, Lewis and her team provide empirical evidence supporting a theory that low deep-water oxygen concentrations in a given year perpetuate a continued cycle of low oxygen, also known as anoxia, in following years. This is known as a positive feedback.
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