by Aaron Koning “At the next site we’ll have to be careful to avoid the elephants” warned my field assistant, Witu. His words would have struck me more soundly if I hadn’t come across the …
Month: March 2014
Thickest Lake Ice in Decades May Last Into Spring
Ted Bier, our senior research specialist for the Long-Term Ecological Research program, was recently photographed on Lake Monona holding this massive chunk of ice in front of the Madison skyline. That picture led to the …
Fish Fry Day Video: Hidden Rivers of Southern Appalachia
Happy Fish Fry Day! Thanks to our invasive species specialist, Carol Warden, for pointing this amazing trailer from Freshwaters Illustrated out to us. Who knew that Southeastern U.S. rivers rival coral reefs for color? We …
Spring Snowmelt Creates Short-Lived Ecosystems and “Master Survivalists”
Yesterday, we stumbled upon a beautiful post from “The Smaller Majority” blog about fairy shrimp, vernal pools, and the lengths organisms go to to survive in the ephemeral aquatic ecosystems that form when the winter …
Winter Writing Retreat Spurs Productivity and Pizza-Making
by Nora Casson What makes a group of limnologists head into the woods in the dead of winter? In the case of the students and post-docs in Emily Stanley’s lab, it was a need to …