When the results of the Asahi Glass Foundation’s 31st “Blue Planet Prize” were announced last week, the list of winners was short. One was the King of Bhutan. The other was the former director of …
Awards & Milestones
Grace Wilkinson Named Early Career Fellow by Ecological Society of America
Center for Limnology assistant professor, Grace Wilkinson, has been elected an “early career fellow” by the Ecological Society of America (ESA). Wilkinson joins eight other ecologists from around the country in the prestigious fellowship program …
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 …
Emily Stanley Named a 2018 Fellow by the Ecological Society of America
Pardon us while we brag a bit, but Center for Limnology professor, Emily Stanley, was just named a 2018 fellow by the Ecological Society of America and, well, we think that’s a pretty big deal! …
Emily Stanley Awarded the 2018 G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Emily Stanley, professor at the Center for Limnology and department of Integrative Biology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is the 2018 recipient of the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award from the Association …
Guest Post: Q & A with “Our Waters, Our Future” Fiction Contest Winner
Note: this post is from our friends over at the “Yahara in situ” blog: Meet Sally Younger. She won our first ever Our Waters, Our Future writing contest, which sought short, sci-fi stories about positive …
Water, Women and Fisheries: CFL Researcher Awarded “Seed Grant” from Global Health Institute
Bordered by Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, Lake Victoria is the world’s largest tropical freshwater lake and boasts one of the largest freshwater fisheries in the world. 30 million people live around its shores. It is …
The Bold Prediction on Lake Michigan’s Sport Fishery That, Unfortunately, Was Proven Right
by Steve Carpenter Every moment, our brains make predictions of what we will next encounter in our lives based on our lifetime of experiences. As our experiences are updated, our brain adjusts and accounts for …
Announcing “Our Waters, Our Future” Writing Contest
Water is essential to our lives and those of future generations, but big changes, like a warming world, are bringing big challenges. Imagining positive futures for our waters and communities and sharing those visions is …
Magnuson Named 2014 Wisconsin Academy Fellow
Excuse us for tooting our own horn here, but the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters just announced the addition of seven distinguished people to its Wisconsin Academy Fellows roster. Our very own John …