The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and The Nature Conservancy are currently undertaking a very hands-on project for invasive species control. The program also points to a question resource managers are currently asking – when …
Year: 2013
Fish Fry Day: Video Explains Earbones
Just thought we’d share this excellent little animation explaining what an otolith is and what one can tell fisheries researchers. Credit goes to the folks at “From Reefs to Rivers,” Florida’s Fisheries blog for this …
Limnology in Antarctica: Luke Winslow Heads Way Down South
by Luke Winslow Two weeks ago Saturday: I wake up at home, make some coffee and read The Economist. It is fall now and the temperature is cooler and pleasant. I have accepted that the …
Video: “Into the Rift” Will Chronicle CFL Research in Africa
Readers of this blog may already be aware that Pete McIntyre and a handful of his staff and students are undertaking a big research project in Tanzania. Now a new interactive website is in the …
Are We Thinking About Invasives All Wrong?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Gretchen Hansen, 608.221.6330, Gretchen.Hansen@wisconsin.gov Zebra mussels. Asian carp. Kudzu. Chances are you recognize these names as belonging to invasive species — plants or animals that are relocated from their native habitat …
Students in Sapelo: Limnology on “Island Time”
Last Friday, eight graduate students in the Zoology 750, “Problems in Oceanography” class piled into a couple of UW SUVs and drove south to Sapelo Island, which is just off the coast of Georgia. Each …
CFL Students Headed To Sapelo Island for Zoology 750
Yesterday afternoon, eight UW graduate students and two of the Center for Limnology fleet vehicles left on an 18-hour drive to Georgia. Their destination? Sapelo Island, a barrier island just off the Georgia’s coast. The …
Study Wants to Put Freshwater Ecosystems on the Policy Map
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – When it comes to economic growth and environmental impacts, it can seem like Newton’s third law of motion is the rule – for every action, there is an equal and opposite …
Early Warning Indicators Predict Ecological “Cliff”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Day after day, the buoy bobbed at the surface of Peter Lake. Every five minutes, 288 times a day, instruments in the water silently recorded samples without creating so much as a …
Fish Fry Day: Fish Q? There’s an App for That
Happy Fish Fry Day! Restaurants around Wisconsin are warming up the deep fryers for our weekly feast and we’re putting fish on the menu here at the blog. Today’s special is an all-you-can-eat buffet of …