If you’ve been checking the forecast for Christmas Eve here in Wisconsin, you’ve no doubt seen that a bit of a cold snap is on its way. While the past several days have hovered just …
Year: 2020
Algae Blooms Aren’t Just for Summer
Earlier this month, Richard “Dick” Lathrop, a long-time limnologist and honorary fellow at the Center for Limnology headed out to Devil’s Lake in Devil’s Lake State Park to take a sample of an algae bloom. …
At Trout Lake Station, Artist Finds Real-Life Inspiration for Her Abstract Work
Since 2013, the CFL has hosted painters, photographers, weavers and poets at Trout Lake Station as part of our “Drawing Water” Artist-In-Residency program. The following is a post from Katherine Steichen Rosing, a Madison-based artist …
Socially Distant Science: How COVID Complicated Summer 2020 Research
This article first appeared in our 2020 Annual Newsletter. Earlier this summer, Ted Bier was out on Lake Monona with the Madison skyline bobbing in the background collecting samples for the North Temperate Lakes (NTL) …
Happy Thanksgiving from the CFL!
Happy Thanksgiving to all our readers! Here’s an ode to aquatic gratitude by John Bates, a poet from the LTEArts exhibit. Pilgrimage Let us bless the humility of water, Always willing to take the shape …
Video: Past, Present and Future of Key Piece of the Great Lakes Food Web
by Moira Harrington, Wisconsin Sea Grant In a new video released today, Wisconsin Sea Grant illuminates the varied coregonines, a sudfamily of fish commonly known as cisco, which have pulsed through Great Lakes waters for …
More Children and Youth Drowning as Warming Temperatures Create Unstable Lake Ice
by Sandra McLean, York University and Adam Hinterthuer, UW-Madison FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: – Most projections about the dangers of climate change focus on excessive heat as a pressing threat to human lives. But, according to …
‘Epic’ Summer Road Trip Reveals the Big Impact Small Streams Have on Great Lakes
MADISON – In the summer of 2018, Rob Mooney, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for Limnology, set out on an epic road trip around Lake Michigan. Mooney was no stranger to …
Science on Tap is Back! Here Are Three Videos to Celebrate
On a cold, snowy February in 2013, a standing-room only crowd packed the upper level of the Minocqua Brewing Company to hear about science in the Northwoods. And, ever since, we have devoted the first …
Join Us (Virtually) for the Return of Science on Tap – October 7th!
It’s official! Science on Tap-Minocqua is back after our long COVID-induced hiatus. While we still aren’t able to get everyone together for a cozy science cafe in a shared communal space (we’ll be back someday, …