Current Stories
Under Pressure: Study Finds that Fishing, Not Warming, is Currently Having a Greater Impact on Our Recreational Fisheries
By Adam Hinterthuer – A new study has found that, when it comes to our freshwater fisheries, recreational anglers currently have a greater impact on fish populations than climate change. And that may be good …
October 2, 2025
Tale of Two Fishes: Experiment Finds Wildly Different Outcomes for Cool-Water Species in Warming Waters
by Adam Hinterthuer – When Holly Embke was a graduate student at the UW-Madison’s Center for Limnology, she began an extremely labor-intensive research project – one that required catching and removing as many warm-water fishes …
September 8, 2025
Summer Fellow Recap: Kayla Bain
Back in April, 109 donors (and some generous matching grants) helped us raise $32,240 dollars during the UW-Madison’s annual “Day of the Badger” fundraising campaign. Every dollar went to our Student Support Fund and gave a …
August 26, 2025
Summer Fellowship Recap: Ellie Carrothers
This spring, 109 donors (and some generous matching grants) helped us raise $32,240 dollars during the UW-Madison’s annual “Day of the Badger” fundraising campaign. Every dollar went to our Student Support Fund and gave a …
August 22, 2025
Summer Fellowship Recap: Emily Ledin
Back in April, 109 donors (and some generous matching grants) helped us raise $32,240 dollars during the UW-Madison’s annual “Day of the Badger” fundraising campaign. Every dollar went to our Student Support Fund and gave …
August 19, 2025- Older Posts
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