It’s beginning to look a lot like the end of the year, and that means we’re looking back at some of the stories that shaped the Center for Limnology in 2017. It was a year of many changes, retirements, exciting research and well-deserved awards. You can read (and download) the entire newsletter in a PDF format here, or read below for some highlights.
Steve Carpenter Retires from CFL

“If you went to any freshwater research institute in the world,” says Jake Vander Zanden, new director of the CFL, “and asked the researchers there who the leading scientist was in their field, they would all say ‘Steve Carpenter.’ Steve helped change not only the way we study freshwater systems, but also how we manage them and work to conserve them.” Read more ->
Madison in Bloom: CFL Helps Get Algae on the Front Page

Laboratory for Limnology. West to the UW-Madison Rowing team’s boathouse and east all the way to James Madison Park, the calm waters of Lake Mendota looked just like teal-blue paint. The massive bloom of toxic blue-green algae was “the worst one I’ve seen in a long time,” says Carpenter, recently retired director of the CFL. In fact, the bloom was the largest to mar Mendota’s shoreline since the summers of 1993 and 1994. Read more ->
The Power of a Picture

Why? Because visuals—whether moving or still—transport us to the content of that image and increase our engagement with and enjoyment of it. Read more ->
Read the Newsletter in its entirety here: http://blog.limnology.wisc.edu/2017-newsletter-year-of-changes-at-the-cfl/