When we arrived at the Minocqua Brewing Company that cold and snowy February night back in 2013, we weren’t sure what to expect from our first-ever science cafe event. “Science on Tap-Minocqua,” the brainchild of …
CFL In The News
Thickest Lake Ice in Decades May Last Into Spring
Ted Bier, our senior research specialist for the Long-Term Ecological Research program, was recently photographed on Lake Monona holding this massive chunk of ice in front of the Madison skyline. That picture led to the …
A Word About This Winter: Trends and Variability
Sure it’s been a long winter, but we were surprised when all that lake ice recently got political here in Wisconsin. In January, State representative Mark Pocan told the legislature that, “Ice fishermen are already noticing …
Slideshow: LTER Winter Sampling on “Unusually” Thick Ice
Remember the polar vortex? It was just a vague memory before we stumbled across the following post from our archives. Perhaps we had blocked out memories of the winter of subzero temps cold enough to …
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 …
LimnoLinks: Limnology Around the Web
We here at the blog are currently working on getting lots of end-of-year stuff done (i.e. planning the annual CFL Holiday Party!) and, well, good blog posts take time. And, also, it’s COLD! Lucky for …
Early Warning Indicators Predict Ecological “Cliff”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Day after day, the buoy bobbed at the surface of Peter Lake. Every five minutes, 288 times a day, instruments in the water silently recorded samples without creating so much as a …
CFL in the News
Your trusty blog editor is taking an ill-advised road trip to Portland for a wedding this week, so we apologize for the delay in programming. In the last couple of weeks, though, we’ve seen a …
Road Block: Study Maps Stream Barriers in Great Lakes Basin
Over the last several years, state agencies and environmental non-profit organizations have targeted dam removal as a way to quickly improve the health of aquatic ecosystems. Dams keep migratory fish from swimming upriver to spawn, …
“Lean In” to Limnology: A History of Aquatic Ecologists
Earlier this month, CFL graduate student and Wisconsin DNR research scientist, Alison (Ali) Mikulyuk received the 2013 Wisconsin Lake Stewardship Award along with her colleagues Martha Barton, Michelle Nault, & Kelly Wagner for their work …