by Riley Steinbrenner “Just a little bit more!” UW-Madison undergrad, Ishita Aghi, yelled from the front end of the electrofishing boat as Matt Chotlos, another UW undergrad, slowly backed up the only diesel fleet truck …
Month: July 2017
Trout Lake Research Rewind: Fyke Nets & Native Mussels
by Riley Steinbrenner Week Seven This summer, CFL graduate students Martin Perales and Holly Embke are busy catching fish on their two study lakes–Sandy Beach Lake and McDermott Lake in Iron County–using a lot of …
Off The Reel: Sampling “Trout Tower” with Sydney & Camryn
by Riley Steinbrenner It was 7:50 when I woke up one Friday morning to my phone’s alarm blaring the most obnoxious tone available via iOS. EEE-EEE-EEE. After realizing I indeed wasn’t on a submarine at …
Trout Lake Research Rewind: Catching & Counting Invasive Rusty Crayfish
by Riley Steinbrenner Week Five It’s that time of the summer when independent, undergraduate research projects are underway! For my housemate, UW biology undergraduate Matt Chotlos, invasive rusty crayfish has been the focus of his. …
Mark Your Calendars! Aug. 4th: Trout Lake’s 7th Annual Open House
BOULDER JUNCTION, WI – On Friday, August 4th, the UW-Madison Center for Limnology will host its 7th annual Open House at the Trout Lake Research Station. Join us from 1 to 5 pm for a chance to …
The Center for Limnology Is 35 and We Got a Webcam!
Happy Day-After-Independence Day! Over the weekend (July 1st to be exact), we celebrated the 35th Birthday of the Center for Limnology. Yes, we’ve been studying our lakes since 1895 and, yes, Trout Lake Station was …
Off The Reel: A “Bog Baptism” with Kaela
by Riley Steinbrenner Her first day on the job, I found my housemate Kaela Amundson—a microbiology undergraduate at UW-Madison—hunched over a blacktop counter in the station’s main lab next to a cranking, electric-mixer-sized machine that …