Facilities at Trout Lake Station
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 Our all-season laboratory is a two-story structure with more than 7,500 sq. ft. of space located close to the shore of Trout Lake. The upper floor contains a chemistry laboratory and five research laboratories, which are equipped with gas, natural and heated well water, compressed air, electricity and water from Trout Lake. One laboratory is designed for super-clean conditions necessary for trace metal sample processing. The upper floor also contains a library and multipurpose room, a small conference room, offices, and a computer room. Computers at the station are joined by a local area network and can remotely access Center for Limnology file server . The lower floor of the station provides space for field gear storage, sample processing, aquarium facilities, and a primary production incubation lab. Light can be controlled in the aquarium room and light and temperature can be controlled in the three refrigerator-sized incubators. One laboratory is available for radioisotope. Critical equipment at the laboratory is serviced by a backup generator. Five service buildings at the station provide facilities for equipment and vehicle storage. Year-round housing at the station provides space for 37 people and a total of 48 during May-October. The housing units all have internet access via a wireless connection.
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 Trout Lake Station is well equipped to provide access for researchers to nearly any aquatic site in the lake district. Major field gear includes: four-wheel-drive trucks, an ATV, numerous boats equipped with motors and trailers, and four canoes. Scuba gear is also available A snowmobile, ice drills, snowshoes, and insulated field boxes are available for winter limnology.. We have most standard collecting gear for general limnological work including peristaltic pumps with in-line filtration, meters and probes to measure light (PAR and full spectral characteristics), temperature and oxygen in situ, plankton samplers, trawls, fyke nets, gill nets, seines and electrofishing gear.
Cost for lab use is $5.00 per day. This fee is waived for UW-Madison environmental science researchers. To arrange space please contact Susan Knight.
For further information contact Susan Knight . 
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 Our laboratories are equipped with fume hoods, two systems to provide high-quality purified water suitable for chemical sample processing, drying ovens, a muffle furnace, balances, pH meters, a spectrophotometer, fluorometer, gas chromatographs configured for greenhouse gas analysis, and a liquid scintillation counter. A set of three light-and temperature-controlled incubators are available for experimental projects and culture maintenance. We have 6 dissecting and 2 compound microscope stations . Two dissecting scopes are equipped with a digital camera and computerized measurement and counting system. . A Zeiss inverted microscope is equipped for epifluorescence. The laboratory has a series of large fiberglass holding tanks, four 75-gallon fiberglass aquaria, assorted small aquaria, and a controlled-temperature incubation system for primary production measurements. Portable generators and pumps allow the use of holding tanks at remote sites throughout the region. In addition, a wide variety of other analytical equipment is available on the Madison campus.
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