A recently published video on YouTube chronicles the struggles of Ito, or the Sakhalin taimen. Like many tales of struggling species of fish, the Japanese rivers Ito call home have been reengineered by humans and …
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CFL Student Wins Award for Bringing Her Research Down to Earth
Earlier this winter, Center for Limnology graduate student, Sophia Skoglund, stepped up to a scaled-down version of NASA’s “Hyperwall” presentation screen in a cavernous room of the New Orleans Convention Center. Skoglund was there to …
Where Does Lake Mendota’s 2025 Freeze Date Rank in the 170-Year Record?
It’s official! Just as we were waking up from ringing in the New Year, the Wisconsin State Climatology Office declared January 1, 2026 as the date that Lake Mendota officially froze for the 2025/26 winter …
Be Careful on Frozen Lakes – Especially During “Shoulder Season”
Yesterday evening as sunset was casting a rosy pink band of light across the frozen surface of Lake Monona near Olbrich Park, two people skated across its newly frozen surface. This morning, a semi-frozen Lake …
Alumni @ Work: See What Some Recent CFL Grads Were Up To in 2025!
Earlier this fall, we asked some of the Center for Limnology’s alumni from the last several years to send us updates on what they were working on these days. A couple of those updates ended …
Happy Thanksgiving from the Center for Limnology!
We hope everyone gets to spend this holiday surrounded by friends and family and enjoy good food and good company – preferably not too far from your favorite body of water. 2025 has been an …
Walleye in the Weeds: Study Explores Impact of Aquatic Plants on Survival of Popular Fish Species
by Adam Hinterthuer – Walleye are a culturally and economically important species of game fish across the Midwest, and a species that is struggling to adapt to warmer lakes. As scientists, fisheries managers, Tribes and …
Under Pressure: Study Finds that Fishing, Not Warming, is Currently Having a Greater Impact on Our Recreational Fisheries
By Adam Hinterthuer – A new study has found that, when it comes to our freshwater fisheries, recreational anglers currently have a greater impact on fish populations than climate change. And that may be good …
Tale of Two Fishes: Experiment Finds Wildly Different Outcomes for Cool-Water Species in Warming Waters
by Adam Hinterthuer – When Holly Embke was a graduate student at the UW-Madison’s Center for Limnology, she began an extremely labor-intensive research project – one that required catching and removing as many warm-water fishes …
Summer Fellow Recap: Kayla Bain
Back in April, 109 donors (and some generous matching grants) helped us raise $32,240 dollars during the UW-Madison’s annual “Day of the Badger” fundraising campaign. Every dollar went to our Student Support Fund and gave a …