Susan Knight, PhD

Susan Knight is an honorary fellow, retired aquatic biologist and researcher at University of Wisconsin-Trout Lake Station Center for Limnology. She works on many aspects of lake ecology, with an emphasis on aquatic plants. She is finishing work on the effects of milfoil weevils on Eurasian water-milfoil. She has also worked on the the phenology of aquatic plants and the ecophysiology of bladderworts.

Susan is interested in the diversity of aquatic plants in our freshwater systems.  Aquatic plants are critical to the lake ecosystem, offering aesthetic beauty, habitat, erosion control, sediment stabilization, oxygenation and nutrient modulation in all waters.  Susan has a special fondness for pondweeds but her favorite plants are bladderworts.

Susan also has an interest in wild rice, an aquatic grass revered by the Ojibwe and prized by all. As an annual plant it must reseed itself every year and will have years of abundance and years of scarcity. Susan is involved in the WDNR’s Strategic Analysis of Wild Rice, as a prelude to creating a Wild Rice Management Plan for Wisconsin.

Courses offered:

Bogs and Beavers – with Jenna Malinowski

Exploring the Wild Undeveloped Lakes of Iron County: Moose Lake – with John Bates

Exploring the Wild Undeveloped Lakes of Iron County: Frog Lake – with John Bates