Happy New Year’s Eve! We here at the Center for Limnology wish you a 2015 filled with opportunities to get out on your favorite lake, river, stream or wetland. As a final post of the year, below are snippets of our top 3 posts from the year. As usual, stories about ice and clear water …
You can’t go home again. While the sentiment means something a bit more figurative to those of us who traveled for the Holidays, for Great Lakes fishes the statement is all too literal. In fact, there are more than 275,000 reasons a fish might not make it “home.” This amazing animation is from our new …
The Center for Limnology‘s Holiday Party is tonight. It is also Fish Fry Day. This means an early Christmas present to you, our readers! Last year, our house band Phantom Midge emerged with a rockin’ set of songs. Enjoy this gift from the ghost of Christmas past!
Welcome to our weekly Q&A asking researchers what they’ve been up to and what they’ve learned. Today, Mike Braus, a graduate student at the UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute talks about lakes, rivers, climate change, and the tiny little microbes running the show. Who are you, where are you from, and how did you get here? I …
Last week, John Magnuson, director emeritus of the Center for Limnology, spoke at our weekly Wednesday seminar about lake ice trends in our warming world. In short, the onset and duration of lake ice cover in the northern hemisphere looks a lot like the infamous “hockey stick” showing the average rise in global temperature, except …
Happy Fish Fry Day folks! Before you tune out for the rest of the day and dream of delicious fried fillets of your favorite fish, we’d like to introduce you to a brand-new website all about the incredible journeys many fish make to feed and breed and survive. Called “Fish On the Run,” the site …
Happy Fish Fry Day! This week, we’re bringing you an excellent roundtable discussion about Great Lakes fisheries via the program, “Great Lakes Now Connect.” If you’ve ever wondered about the past, present or future of fish in the Great Lakes, this is a good start! In the video, our post doc, Solomon David (who spends …
Welcome to our weekly Q&A asking researchers what they’ve been up to and what they’ve learned. Today, special guest, Stephanie Hampton, talks about working in Siberia on the world’s oldest and deepest lake. Hampton is the CFL’s fall Kaeser Scholar. Who are you, where are you from, and how did you get there? Hampton: I’m …
Solomon David spoke at the CFL last week about the November migrations of the Great Lakes populations of whitefish. We started thinking about ways to spread the message that keeping fish “on the move” is crucial to their survival. Here’s an animated attempt: Let us know what you think in the comments. This was a …
Last month, Illinois Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologists on a routine patrol of the North Shore Channel, a straight as an arrow, concrete-lined tributary of the Chicago River, made a surprising find. They gave the water a jolt with their electrofishing equipment and, there, north of downtown Chicago and right downstream from a Red …