Down in the basement of the Water Sciences and Engineering Lab, right next door to us here at the Center for Limnology, sits an aquatic ecosystem with one crazy food web. In the experimental habitat, …
Year: 2015
Unexpected Find Under the Ice for Lake Mendota Researchers
Last Wednesday, a couple of researchers ventured out onto frozen Lake Mendota to drill through the ice and take their yearly winter samples for the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project. A surprise awaited them as …
Fish Fry Day: Shad, Like Ships, Use Locks to Get Upstream
Happy Fish Fry Day, when, like any good Wisconsin restaurant, we put fish on the menu. Today’s post is shared with permission from The Nature Conservancy‘s “Cool Green Science” blog. Thanks, TNC! New Research Makes …
Field Samples: Restoring the Flow for Great Lakes’ Migratory Fishes
Field Samples is a weekly Q&A asking researchers what they’ve been up to and what they’ve learned. Today, post doctoral researcher, Allison Moody, talks dams, road culverts and getting migratory fish moving again. Who are you, where …
Study Finds Ancient Aquifer Under Antarctic Lake
Despite existing in the extreme cold desert of Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys, there is liquid water beneath the permanently frozen surface of one of the valley’s largest lakes. A new study published in Geophysical Research Letters …
Field Samples: The Art (and Science) of Wrangling ‘Big Data’
Field Samples is a weekly Q&A asking researchers what they’ve been up to and what they’ve learned. Today, information manager/data scientist extraordinaire, Corinna Gries, talks the brave new world of “big data.” Who are you, where are you …
Fish Fry Day: How Do Fish Live Under the Ice?
While we’ve been spared (so far) by any sort of climate shenanigans like a polar vortex this winter, our lakes have had a nice thick cover of ice on for a month or more. And …
Field Samples: Spiny Water Fleas, Lake Mendota, and Green Water
Field Samples is a weekly Q&A asking researchers what they’ve been up to and what they’ve learned. Today, CFL grad student, Jake Walsh, talks Lake Mendota and the invasive spiny water flea. Who are you, where …
Fish Fry Day: Fish Move as Oceans Warm
It’s Fish Fry Day, when Wisconsin puts fish on the menu and we serve up some delectable fish facts on our blog. Today we want to point you toward a Q&A with a National Oceanic and …
Center for Limnology on YouTube
Just in case you didn’t know, the CFL is on YouTube chronicling our adventures both in the field and in the lab. Here’s a new trailer for the WiscLimnology channel that we hope you’ll enjoy! On …