Just in case you didn’t know, the CFL is on YouTube chronicling our adventures both in the field and in the lab. Here’s a new trailer for the WiscLimnology channel that we hope you’ll enjoy! On the channel, you’ll find playlists with headings like “Fish on the Run,” “Know Your Invasives,” “In the Lab,” and more …
The journal Science published an article online today that says civilization has crossed four of nine “planetary boundaries” due to human activity. According to an international team of 18 researchers, climate change, the loss of biosphere integrity, land-system change, and altered biogeochemical cycles (like phosphorus and nitrogen runoff) have all passed beyond levels that put humanity in a “safe …
BOULDER JUNCTION, WI — The Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is now accepting applications for our summer 2015 “artist-in-residence” fellowship at Trout Lake Station. The artist in residence program is designed for visual artists, writers and musicians who have specific interests in exploring the relationship between people, lakes and landscapes, as well …
In this addition of our weekly Q&A asking researchers what they’ve been up to and what they’ve learned, Brenda Pracheil, a former CFL post doc and current research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, talks fish earbones, coal ash, and environmental monitoring. Who are you, where are you from, and how did you get to …
Happy New Year’s Eve! We here at the Center for Limnology wish you a 2015 filled with opportunities to get out on your favorite lake, river, stream or wetland. As a final post of the year, below are snippets of our top 3 posts from the year. As usual, stories about ice and clear water …
You can’t go home again. While the sentiment means something a bit more figurative to those of us who traveled for the Holidays, for Great Lakes fishes the statement is all too literal. In fact, there are more than 275,000 reasons a fish might not make it “home.” This amazing animation is from our new …
The Center for Limnology‘s Holiday Party is tonight. It is also Fish Fry Day. This means an early Christmas present to you, our readers! Last year, our house band Phantom Midge emerged with a rockin’ set of songs. Enjoy this gift from the ghost of Christmas past!
Welcome to our weekly Q&A asking researchers what they’ve been up to and what they’ve learned. Today, Mike Braus, a graduate student at the UW–Madison’s Nelson Institute talks about lakes, rivers, climate change, and the tiny little microbes running the show. Who are you, where are you from, and how did you get here? I …
Last week, John Magnuson, director emeritus of the Center for Limnology, spoke at our weekly Wednesday seminar about lake ice trends in our warming world. In short, the onset and duration of lake ice cover in the northern hemisphere looks a lot like the infamous “hockey stick” showing the average rise in global temperature, except …
Happy Fish Fry Day folks! Before you tune out for the rest of the day and dream of delicious fried fillets of your favorite fish, we’d like to introduce you to a brand-new website all about the incredible journeys many fish make to feed and breed and survive. Called “Fish On the Run,” the site …