Month: September 2020

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, Minocqua Brewing Company!) we can at least get cool research on your radar and let you ask experts questions about …

Virtual Summer Still Made a Real-World Impact on Undergraduate Researchers

Like most things in 2020, summer at Trout Lake Station was very different this year. Normally, a handful of graduate students and several dozen mostly UW–Madison undergrads would spend summer living on station and conducting field work on everything from declining walleye populations in Northwoods lakes to making batteries out of bog water. But this …

Learn Your Lakes. What’s a Watershed?

Last week was the first time in a while that hunkering down at home for days on end was a response to weather and not a decision driven by spiking COVID numbers. Here in south/central Wisconsin, it was day after day of gray skies and persistent rain and the perfect conditions to ponder profound questions. …