The third installment of the “Wordless” Wednesday Photo Caption Contest didn’t disappoint, and this week the winner of our illustrious (and imaginary) is….well, they posted anonymously, so we have no idea but congratulations anon! Here’s what he/she wrote : ““Nemo the Diving Horse” looks for work on macrophyte survey.” The real caption is now attached …
A University of Wisconsin–Madison researcher says states should be looking to the skies in order to save fish. Brenda Pracheil, a postdoctoral fellow at the UW–Madison Center for Limnology, thinks it’s time for fish to garner the same protection afforded migratory birds. Migratory birds are protected by the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, …
The second installment of the “Wordless” Wednesday Photo Caption Contest generated a lot of good submissions, but we’re giving the (imaginary) award this week to clever captioner, Denise Karns, whose title “center assistant” doesn’t begin to describe everything she does here at Hasler Lab. Denise wrote in with this gem: “It would have been easier …
The October 2012 issue of Scientific American is out and it features a nice article on ecosystem regime shifts, CFL experimental workhorses Peter and Paul Lakes, and our director, Steve Carpenter. Ecosystems on the Brink by Carl Zimmer Peter lake lies deep in a maple forest near the Wisconsin-Michigan border. One day in July 2008 …
We have a winner! Our first-ever “wordless Wednesday” caption contest garnered a handful of great submissions, but none better (in our humble opinion) than this caption offered up by Aaron Conklin of the UW Sea Grant Institute: Earlier this week, CFL researchers laid a nefarious and impossible-to-spot trap for the Mad City Ski team. …
A few weeks ago, a team of students and staff headed out on Lake Mendota well after sundown. The group was taking a yearly census of fish populations in Lake Mendota, one of several Wisconsin lakes that make up a study area of the National Science Foundation-funded Long-Term Ecological Research program, or LTER. There are …
Hello There Loyal Blog Reader (and/or Brand-New Visitor!) We here at the Center for Limnology are committed to bringing you all the best we have to offer, from just-published research, to an inside look at our labs, to virtual “ride-alongs” with teams out doing field work. But we acknowledge the regularity of such content has been …
Back in 2009, a team of engineers and scientists affiliated with the Center for Limnology had a crazy idea – they wanted to see if they could manipulate an entire lake to kill off an invasive fish without harming the lake’s native fish. (The usual method for eradicating an invasive species is poisoning the entire …
School is back in session, and Ellen is safely back on the shores of Lake Mendota, but before we wrap up our summer series on her adventures researching Lake Tanganyika for Pete McIntyre’s lab, here’s a final dispatch from Africa… The Final Push It’s my last week on Lake Tanganyika for the year, and Ben …
Sure, we get to do some awesome fieldwork in the name of science, but what we do with all those samples and data sets once we’re back in the lab is just as important.To give you a fuller sense of what it means to study limnology, we bring you a new series complementing our stories …