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… for Science Grad students Sam Oliver and Luke Loken set up a Medieval torture device in the Hasler Lab basement. …
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 inland waters. Enjoy! On the twelfth day of Christmas, a canal brought to me: Canals have been a significant source …
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 them (with apologies to Daft Punk). Happy Holidays! -Your friends at the CFL
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 same calendar year! (Not all that unusual, but still cool.) While the freeze comes nearly a month earlier than the …
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 us (and you), despite these poor excuses, there have been some cool limnological links on the web lately. So, while …
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 been seen for 100 years. One of the scientists featured in that article is Solomon David, a post doctoral researcher …
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 one required “The Crusher” CFL grad student, Alex Latzka, also shot some video of Samantha Oliver’s experiment and turned it …