Department of Natural Science
Edgewood College
Madison, Wisconsin
The Wingra Watershed
1. Landscape and land use
Salt use and soil pollution (Sapon & Zellner 2006)
2. Climate and weather
a. Climate
b. Weather and urban heat islands: How much do temperature patterns differ on a micro scale as a result of land use differences within the watershed? Is there a local urban "heat island" effect?
c. Edgewood Campus heat island 2003-2004 student study
3. People
4. Energy and Transportation
a. Lighting and light pollution
b. Bike trails
c. Edgewood campus tansportation (2003-04 student study)d. Campus vehicle emissions (2003-04 student study)
e. Mazzuchelli energy use (2004-05 student study)
f. Mazzuchelli energy use (Krause & Rickleman 2006)
g. Campus lighting (Januchowski, Lohaus, McDonnell 2006)
5. Food
a. Tomatoes: local versus industrial (Collins 2005)
b. Community gardens (Ough and Young 2006)
6. Recycling
a. Edgewood campus recycling (Eddington, Hensgen, Pagel, Zimmer 2005)
b. Edgewood campus recycling (Enzler, Fischer, Teale 2006)
c. Edgewood campus recycling (Abel, Clum, Gluzinski, Stephens 2006)
d. Edgewood campus recycling (Accola, Conlin, Harris 2006)
Useful Resources
Friends of Lake Wingra
Madison and Midwest U.S.
weather information
University of
Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum
U.S. Geological Survey "Science in Your
Watershed"
U.S. Geological Survey - Water Resources
in Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Limnology
Wisconsin Department of Natural
Resources
Wisconsin Geological and Natural
History Survey