MADISON – The shade of a single tree can provide welcome relief from the hot summer sun. But when that single tree is part of a small forest, it creates a profound cooling effect. According …
Month: March 2019
Can UW Researcher and Freshwater Zooplankton “Make Our Planet Great Again?”
by Kelly April Tyrrell – Plankton, says the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Carol E. Lee, are cows of the sea. These tiny marine organisms eat algae and in turn, fish eat the plankton. If plankton become …
In Managing the World’s Fisheries, Scientists Angle for More Attention to “Fishing for Fun”
MADISON – When we think about the world’s fisheries, the images that readily spring to mind are big ships hauling nets full of wriggling fish up from the depths of a lake or an ocean. …
Thanks to 11-Year-Old Henry Foster, Arkansas Will Soon Have a State Fish
Happy Friday everyone. Here’s a fun story for you – an 11-year-old’s long quest to get a state fish for Arkansas has finally paid off! Yesterday, Henry Foster (along with his supportive mother and sidekick …
Promising New Tool for Ice Safety – Sensors Used to Study Soil
Every winter, as lakes and rivers freeze over in the colder reaches of the Northern Hemisphere and again when they thaw in the spring, anglers and skaters and snowmobilers all start asking the same question …
Video Uses Virtual Reality to Talk Ice Safety
The “ice off” pool has officially opened here at the Center for Limnology, which means we’re all waiting to see when Lake Mendota will thaw this spring. (The forecast indicates it won’t be this week, …
Someone Put the 25 Largest Lakes on Earth in One Map. So What, Exactly, is a Lake?
A couple of days ago the picture above caught our attention on Twitter and we retweeted it. The folks at a website called the Visual Capitalist had used a nifty online tool called “Slap It …