After their visit to North Creek, site reviewers gathered on the shores of Crystal Lake to hear about an ambitious whole-lake mixing project.
With a Gradual Entrainment Lake Inverter (or GELI) as a backdrop, the group hears about a whole-lake experiment to rid Crystal Lake of invasive rainbow smelt.
Jordan Read, a PhD candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering and the NTL Student Representative to the LTER Network, describes how GELI's will hopefully destroy the thermocline of Crystal Lake in warm weather months. By eliminating the cooler deep water habitat, researchers hope rainbow smelt will be unable to survive, leaving the native warm-water fish unscathed.
