Excuse us for tooting our own horn here, but the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters just announced the addition of seven distinguished people to its Wisconsin Academy Fellows roster. Our very own John …
Year: 2014
Fish Fry Day: It’s Lake Sturgeon Season on Lake WInnebago!
Happy Fish Fry Day! Not only is it today the day restaurants put delectably fried fish on their menus, it’s also the eve of the Lake Winnebago Sturgeon Spearing season! Luckily, we happen to know …
Slideshow: “Kids on Ice” for Annual Winter Limnology Program
Over the course of four Saturdays, from January 25th – February 15th, Center for Limnology graduate students are instructing a group of middle school students on the fundamentals of how limnologists do their research on …
Fish Fry Day: Sturgeon Take the Elevator & Climate Change Ruins Everything
Happy Fish Fry Day! Battered, fried deliciousness will on Wisconsin menus this evening, so consider this an appetizer. Before you tuck in to a plate of bluegill, perch, walleye or (if you must) cod, here …
CSI Limnology: Team-Building Crucial for “Team Science”
by Samantha Oliver Around the world, more and more scientists are working together to answer some of our biggest biological and ecological questions. Science is often seen as a private enterprise carried out in an …
Ice is Nice: Three Perks to the Polar Vortex
We get it. It is cold. Face (and mind) numbingly cold. But that’s not an “all bad” thing. There’s a lot to like about a real winter. And it begins with ice. Here are three …
Scenarios: Using Science Fiction to Think About the Future
by Jenny Seifert Change is constant and inevitable—in jobs, in relationships, in business, and in nature. It can make us feel downright powerless to realize that nothing is certain. So why even bother trying to …
Study IDs 10-year Water Level Cycle in Great Lakes, Says Current Lows Buck Trend
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact Carl Watras, 715-356-9494, cjwatras@facstaff.wisc.edu BOULDER JUNCTION, WI – For at least the last seventy years, lakes and aquifers in northern Wisconsin have followed the same pattern – after higher than average …
Fish Fry Day: Sifting Through Seagull “Deposits” for Fish Facts
We apologize for the unsavory nature of this post on the day we celebrate Wisconsin’s fabulous fried fish culinary tradition, but we promise to leave out the gory details! After a summer spent in the …
Fish Forced into “Hunger Games” When Lakes Lose Trees
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: In attempts to predict what climate change will mean for life in lakes, scientists have mainly focused on two things: the temperature of the water and the amount of oxygen dissolved in …