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 two Elaphas along the banks of the Ngao River while conducting snorkel surveys a day earlier. The two captive individuals …
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 following story on The Capital Times website: How thick is the ice on Madison’s lakes? Researcher Ted Bier almost didn’t …
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 can’t wait to see the whole video series.
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 snow pack melts. It’s an amazing piece full of stunning photography via Piotr Naskrecki, an entomologist, photographer and author based …
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 embrace cabin fever, shut ourselves in and get a lot of work done. A few weeks ago, eight of us …