University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: April 2016

Our Next ‘Science on Tap’ Could Change Your Life: May 4th

By now you’ve heard all about our amazing science cafe series, Science on Tap-Minocqua, at the Minocqua Brewing Company on the first Wednesday of each month. In addition to the big crowds and good beer, the event is a chance to take part in a discussion and ask questions about some awesome, enlightening topics. In …

Ice Data from Early “Citizen Scientists” Confirms Warming Since Industrial Revolution

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MADISON, WI — In 1442, fifty years before Columbus “sailed the ocean blue,” Shinto priests in Japan began keeping records of the annual freeze dates of a nearby lake. Along a Finnish river, starting in 1693, local merchants recorded the date the ice broke up each spring. These two observations are the …

Field Samples: How Humans Are Changing What’s in Our Water

Field Samples is a Q&A with presenters at our weekly Wednesday seminar. Today CFL grad student, Samantha Oliver, will talk about how humans changes to the landscape have drastically altered nutrient flows into lakes.  Who are you, where are you from, and how did you get here?    I’m Samantha Oliver, and I’m originally from …

Field Samples: What Do Fish Do When People Move Into the Neighborhood?

Field Samples is a Q&A with presenters at our weekly Wednesday seminar. Today one of the CFL’s newest grad students, Martin Perales, will talk about his summer project exploring the impacts of lake development on fish populations.  Who are you, where are you from, and how did you get here?     I’m Martin Perales and I dragged …

Fish Fry Day: Mapping the Movements of Migrating Fish

It’s a cold, overcast day at the end of March and Petrifying Springs Park is brown and leafless – still waiting on its spring greenery. Which means it’s a great day to find some fish here where Pike Creek flows into the Pike River. Specifically, John Rodstrom, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Limnology, …