Note: this post is from our friends over at the “Yahara in situ” blog: Meet Sally Younger. She won our first ever Our Waters, Our Future writing contest, which sought short, sci-fi stories about positive …
Year: 2016
Water, Women and Fisheries: CFL Researcher Awarded “Seed Grant” from Global Health Institute
Bordered by Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, Lake Victoria is the world’s largest tropical freshwater lake and boasts one of the largest freshwater fisheries in the world. 30 million people live around its shores. It is …
CFL at Shedd Aquarium: World Fish Migration Day, May 21st!
This coming Saturday is World Fish Migration Day and, from 10am to 4pm, visitors who come to Chicago’s famed Shedd Aquarium will get more than just the usual stunning displays of amazing aquatic life – …
Guest Post: Earth’s Current Sea Change a Warning to “Respect the Slow”
by Steve Carpenter Around the Baltic Sea in Sweden there are dozens of abandoned Viking settlements. The odd thing about these sites is that they lie a few kilometers inland. The Vikings were seafaring people, …
New Zealand Q&A: Jake Vander Zanden Talks Dead Zones, Cows & Haka Dances
Earlier this year, Jake Vander Zanden rented his house out in Madison, packed his things, and headed with his family for a sabbatical in New Zealand. Under the auspices of a Fulbright scholarship, Jake is …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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. …
Art Hasler’s Son Blogs His Dad’s Biography
We here at the Center for Limnology are, of course big fans of Art Hasler. The man not only got the building we call home built in the first place, he also help bring limnology at …