All summer long, Trout Lake Station outreach assistant, Ali Branscombe will be bringing you stories from the field. Join Ali as she follows researchers slogging through wetlands, boarding boats, and wrangling fish, bringing you – …
Ecological Processes
Tracking Northern Pike in Green Bay
CFL grad student, Dan Oele, is trying to see if pike return to their “birthplace” to spawn or if any ol’ tributary will do. Thanks to funding from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Oele is …
Smallmouth Bass: One Hazard of Fieldwork in Wisconsin Lakes
Center for Limnology grad student, Gretchen Hansen, took this video from a past summer’s field season up in Vilas County. While we’ll honor the tradition of fishermen not sharing their favorite spots, it’s safe to …
Madison Lakes Have an Early “Spring Cleaning”
If you head down to the shore of Lake Mendota today, you’ll notice you can see right down to the bottom. In fact, the current Secchi reading is seven meters, meaning you can get a …
Freshwater Futures – LTER Short Film Series
Check out this new trailer for a series of short films chronicling the research being done as part of the National Science Foundation’s Long-Term Ecological Research program (LTER). You may recognize some shots of Center …
We Have Liftoff on the Crystal Mixing Project
Over the last three years a group of CFL students, professors and staff have worked on an experiment near Trout Lake Station that, they hope, will eradicate rainbow smelt and restore populations of native fish, …
Winter Sampling on Lake Mendota Yields Unusual Results
(Go Here to see Slideshow) On February 22nd, Ted Bier, senior research specialist for the North Temperate Lakes Long Term Ecological Research study (LTER) and Dave Harring, the Center for Limnology’s facility manager, walked a …
In the Field with Zoology 511 – Ecology of Fishes
I recently spent an afternoon with the Ecology of Fishes class. Check out the video below!
The Curious Case of the American Eel
When most people think of eels, they immediately turn their thoughts to the ocean. Perhaps, even, to the “electrical” variety. But there was a time in this country when eels inhabited nearly every river and …
Animal Planet: Lake Mendota Edition
An interesting scene has been playing out in Lake Mendota lately. Right outside the doors to Hasler Lab, common loons and common mergansers are busy fishing all day long. In January, this is undoubtedly easier …