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 it comes to Eurasian water milfoil, is the current chemical cure worse than the disease? CFL grad student and WDNR …
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 little tidbit of science communication. We here at the CFL use otoliths for lots of research, especially on freshwater fish …
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 trip to Antarctica probably won’t happen as a result of the government shutdown. I’m mentally preparing for a slightly less …
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 works that will let folks at home follow along as the team plies the waters of Africa’s gigantic Lake Tanganyika. …
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 to a foreign land, only to prove so prolific that they take over their new home. Except that’s not how …
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 student in the group will spend a week working on an individual research project and, as they go, they’re sending …
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 crew was headed down as part of the Zoology 750 class project. The course is titled “Problems in Oceanography” and, …
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 reaction. In most cases, the economy prospers and the environment suffers. A team of UW-Madison researchers is hoping to help …
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 ripple. But, beneath the surface, Peter Lake was in turmoil. The buoy was busy documenting massive change. In a new …
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 ichthyological goodness, thanks to an awesome new (and free) app for your smartphone, “Wisconsin Fish” From trophy muskies to the …