Current Research at Kemp
Kemp Station supports two long-term research projects on it’s property:
Long-term Bat Monitoring Station
In addition, each year, Kemp Station supports numerous research projects on a variety of topics related to Wisconsin’s natural resources. The list below shows projects, project leaders and their associations for the current calendar year. Projects are added to this list throughout the year.
Project Title | Name | Department & University or Agency |
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Wood Turtle Conservation | Badje, A. | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources |
Latitudinal clines in behavior and allele frequency of Nicrophorus orbicollis | Benowitz, K. | Austin Peay State University, Biology |
KNRS Deer Exclosures: Evaluation of Ecological Impacts | Bowe, S. | UW-Madison, Kemp Natural Resources Station |
Understanding Stress Development in Vacuum Dried Hardwood Lumber | Bowe, S. | UW-Madison, Forest and Wildlife Ecology |
A comparison of Warp in Conventional Steam Dried vs. Vacuum Dried Hardwood Lumber | Bowe, S. | UW-Madison, Forest and Wildlife Ecology |
Understanding Kiln Drying Capacity in the Lake States | Bowe, S. | UW-Madison, Forest and Wildlife Ecology |
Understanding Log and Lumber Imports into China - Federal State Market Incentive Program | Bowe, S. | UW-Madison, Forest and Wildlife Ecology |
2022 Wisconsin Paper Converters Survey | Bowe, S. | UW-Madison, Forest and Wildlife Ecology |
Wisconsin 2022 Logger Survey | Bowe, S. | UW-Madison, Forest and Wildlife Ecology |
Walleye and Yellow Perch Recruitment in Northern Wisconsin lakes | Dembkowski, D. | UW-Stevens Point Cooperative Fishery Research Unit |
Effect of large-scale removal on centrarchid growth and recruitment | Dembkowski, D. | UW-Stevens Point Cooperative Fishery Research Unit |
Walleye thermal ecology | Dembkowski, D. | UW-Stevens Point Cooperative Fishery Research Unit |
Chequamegon Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study Core Site Cluster | Desai, A. | UW-Madison, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences |
Impact of Exotic Invading Invertebrates on the Lake Michigan Plankton Foodweb | Engevold, P. | UW-Milwaukee, Biological Sciences |
Patterns of white spruce cone production near the southern range limit. | LaMontagne, J. | DePaul University, Biological Sciences |
Novel interactions in novel conditions: consequences of disrupting historical plant-fungal interactions for tree response to climate change | Lankau, R. | UW-Madison, Plant Pathology |
Glacial Geology Sample Collection in Green Bay Lobe, Wisconsin | Marcott, S. | UW-Madison, Geosciences |
Long-term Research on Behavior and Ecology of Common Loons | Piper, W. | Chapman University, Biological Sciences |
WDNR Black Bear Diet and Litter Survey | Price Tack, J. | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources |
Human threats to biodiversity | Radeloff, V. | UW-Madison, Forest & Wildlife Ecology |
Analysis of threats by invasive insect pests | Raffa, K. | UW-Madison, Entomology |
Forest Health Workshop | Raffa, K. | UW-Madison, Entomology |
Golden-winged Warbler survival and population viability analysis | Roth, A. | University of Maine, Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology |
Phenological Measurements to Improve Understanding of Spring and Autumn Atmosphere-Biosphere Interactions | Schwartz, M. | UW-Milwaukee, Geography |
White Pine Health Studies | Stanosz, G. | UW-Madison, Forest and Wildlife Ecology |
Collaborative Research: Creating Earth’s earliest continents—an integrated investigation of the growth and modification of western Australia’s Pilbara | Tikoff, B. | UW-Madison, Geoscience |
NEON Great Lakes Domain Ecological Monitoring | Weishampel, P. | NEON Great Lakes Domain |
Long-Term Bat Monitoring Station | White, John Paul | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources |
Wisconsin Insect Biodiversity Survey | Young, D. | UW-Madison, Entomology |
KMP566 "Forest Vegetation and Management" (as established by James H Zimmerman in 1979) | Zimmerman, E. | UW-Madison, Botany |
Susceptibility of ruffed grouse populations to past and projected impacts of a rapidly changing Wisconsin winter | Zuckerberg, B. | UW-Madison, Forest & Wildlife Ecology |