In these last hours of 2013, we’re featuring some of our favorite (and most popular) CFL videos from the past year. To see all of our offerings, head to our YouTube channel. Crushing Snail Shells… …
Year: 2013
The 12 Days of Aquatic Invasive Species Christmas
Happy Holidays from us here at the CFL and the brilliant folks at the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute (especially Tim Campbell), who put together a delightful ode to some less-than-delightful residents of our …
WORLD PREMIERE! Phantom Midge Music Video
This holiday season (and Fish Fry Day!), we’re giving you a not-quite-Christmas carol courtesy of the Center for Limnology’s house band – Phantom Midge. It’s a song about big fish and the folks who chase …
Lake Mendota’s Freeze Earliest in… well…Three Years
As you now probably know, the Wisconsin State Climatologist’s office has officially called it – Lake Mendota achieved “ice on” this Monday, December 16th. And that means our iconic lake has frozen twice in the …
LimnoLinks: Limnology Around the Web
We here at the blog are currently working on getting lots of end-of-year stuff done (i.e. planning the annual CFL Holiday Party!) and, well, good blog posts take time. And, also, it’s COLD! Lucky for …
Fish Fry Day: Whitefish Runs Return to Wisconsin Rivers
Last week, an excellent article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel covered some great news – lake whitefish are migrating inland to spawn and, in many cases, fish were running up into tributaries where they hadn’t …
Video: Crushing Snail Shells…for Science
Some Center for Limnology grad students recently returned from Georgia’s Sapelo Island. It’s part of the UW-Madison class, “Zoology 750: Problems in Oceanography.” All students have to create individual experiments for the trip. But only …
Fish [Black] Fry Day Video: “FIsh-nados” Lurk Off Chicago Shoreline
With apologies to the Syfy network and its outstanding ability to combine species into preposterous science fiction specials, we’re showcasing these videos our post doc, Solomon David, recently took with colleagues from the Shedd Aquarium …
Live from the Lakes! CFL Featured on the WDNR Blog
Folks over at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources have an excellent blog called “Live from the Lakes” featuring a series called “Lake of the Month” and, this month, that lake will be no stranger …
Limnology in the Kitchen: Share Your Recipes!
As you may have heard, this is the week we here in America reserve for stuffing our faces with no shame whatsoever as we give thanks to some hardy souls that braved harsh winters before …