University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: January 2013

CFL Reunion: International Edition

 Grad student, Aaron Koning, and faculty member, Pete McIntyre, are currently conducting fieldwork in Thailand where they’re looking at fish migrations in the Mekong River and its tributaries.The Mekong is a critically important fishery for millions of people, supplying food and commerce. Aaron sends in this note about a mini CFL reunion. Lat week, Pete …

“Making Merit” in the Mekong Delta

Not everyone at the CFL is braving subzero temperatures this winter. Faculty member, Pete McIntyre, is currently working in balmier weather, conducting fieldwork with grad student, Aaron Koning in Thailand, They are looking at fish migrations in the Mekong River and its tributaries. The Mekong, which flows through parts of China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia …

Introducing “Science on Tap”

The University of Wisconsin’s Trout Lake Station and Kemp Natural Resources Station are announcing a new monthly event called “Science on Tap” at the Minocqua Brewing Company. For several decades, both research stations have studied the land and lakes of Wisconsin’s Northwoods. Too often, says Trout Lake Station director, Tim Kratz, that research has been …

Study Documents Round Goby’s Rapid Invasion of Wisconsin Streams

In 1990, a small stowaway was dumped from the ballast tank of an ocean-going freighter into the waters of the St. Clair River, joining more than 180 other non-native species in the Great Lakes. Two decades later, the round goby, an aggressive, voracious, bottom-dwelling fish has invaded all five Great Lakes and has had profound …

Limno in the Lab – Scientists Sorting Snails

Field season is, of course, where the best photo ops and a lot of the fun of being a research scientist happens. If you’re a loyal reader of this blog, you’ll remember a handful of lively dispatches from the CFL’s Ellen Hamann as she worked this summer with the McIntyre lab on the Tanzania shoreline …

Wild Kingdom in Madtown: Tundra Swan Stopover

Last Sunday, CFL director, Steve Carpenter, happened to be out and about with his camera and spotting scope on the Lake Mendota shoreline. Out in the middle of the lake, where the ice edge met the open water, he spied a large gathering of migrating tundra swans. “There were several hundred of them in the …