University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: July 2016

Up In the Air: Understanding Lake Mendota’s Climate Contributions

On a hot, windy morning in late June, Ankur Desai and other members of his lab took their first steps to bridging a big gap in data between the aquatic and atmospheric sciences, as they set out in a cherry picker for a leisurely ride down the Lakeshore Path. Jonathan Thom and David Reed, two …

6th Annual Trout Lake Open House – August 4th!

BOULDER JUNCTION, WI – The UW-Madison Center for Limnology will host its 6th annual open house at the Trout Lake Research Station on Friday, August 4th. From 1 to 5pm, visitors will get a first-hand look at what research is going on at the station this summer, as well as meet the scientists and students …

Notes from the Northwoods: Putting Aquatic Plant IQ to the Test

This summer, Anna Krieg, an undergraduate at Arizona State University, will spend a few months in a much wetter habitat as the CFL’s summer outreach intern at our Trout Lake Station. These are her Notes from the Northwoods: by Anna Krieg – On June 28th, 25 people climbed into 6 boats and set off to …

Wisconsin’s Shrinking Panfish & New Fisheries Management Policy

Happy Fish Fry Day! Enjoy this post from the Long Term Ecological Research Network. by Terra Alpaugh Between 2013 and 2015, Andrew Rypel traveled the state of Wisconsin attending public meetings led by state and local fisheries staff— always with a set of graphs in hand. These graphs showed the steady decline in the size …