The Saint Louis River Estuary is a rare type of freshwater ecosystem that receives significant amounts of water from both the incoming rivers and Lake Superior. While estuaries are common along coastlines where rivers empty into the big blue sea, it’s less common to find a river running into a large-enough body of freshwater like …
Only 2.5% of all the water on earth is freshwater. 70% of that freshwater is frozen into glaciers and snowpacks in mountainous regions, leaving a tiny fraction of all water on earth available for every living thing that needs a drink. How do we protect and preserve this precious resource? Can a future featuring a …
Happy World Water Day! While we’ve got it pretty good in this country when it comes to clean and available water, getting to that point took a lot of political action, public pressure and well-crafted laws. In honor of that, we offer the video below on the history (and future) of Wisconsin’s water. UW Law …
This Monday, March 18th, the Center for Limnology lost a dear friend. Eugene Thurston “Tug” Juday passed away at Grace Lodge in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, which is also the city where he was born. While Tug served in the South Pacific during World War II and raised a family in Illinois, he never really left the …
The water outside the window here at Hasler Lab is, well, hard. Sailboats are still stored for the winter and our pier is safely tucked away. But tomorrow is the first day of Spring and that got us here at the Center for Limnology thinking about field season, and that seemed as good a reason …
When it comes to moving in to Wisconsin lakes, aquatic invasive species have a preferred mode of transport – one that often involves an outboard motor. Scientists at the UW–Madison Center for Limnology and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources are in the middle of a five year study exploring the spread and distribution of …
Gloomy Monday got you down? Here’s something to cheer you up. Last Friday, 3rd graders from Arbor Vitae-Woodruff came out to Trout Lake Station for Schoolyard LTER, an annual educational event putting limnological tools into kids’ hands. The results were, obviously, unbearably cute. Enjoy! Needless to say, we’re looking forward to next year’s Schoolyard and …
Tomorrow evening at the Minocqua Brewing Company, former CFL director, John Magnuson, will team will UW–Madison climate scientist, Ankur Desai, for our science cafe series “Science on Tap-Minocqua.” The topic tomorrow is climate change in Wisconsin. And one thing that will undoubtedly come up is an altered outdoor recreation landscape. Especially in winter. Yesterday, an …
We don’t want to start a fuss over here at the CFL blog, but the unmistakable beeping of a big yellow machine hard at work drew our attention outside this afternoon. It turns out that we were, thankfully, getting some of our snowed-in parking spots cleared out. Unfortunately, the end result was a big pile …
Last summer, scientists at the CFL launched an ambitious attempt to eradicate invasive rainbow smelt from Crystal Lake in northern Wisconsin. Last weekend, Zach Lawson and Page Mieritz went up north to sample for smelt as researchers look to see what effect the experiment has had on the population. According to CFL director, Steve Carpenter, …