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Global Change & Long-Term Ecology
Where Do All the Data Go?
by Corinna Gries For hundreds of years people have collected data on lakes. Ice on and ice off dates are probably the oldest data, but water temperature, water clarity, animal and plant species and abundance …
Slideshow: Sparkling Lake Rebounds from Invasion
A recent study authored by our former postdoc and PhD student, Gretchen Hansen, reports that an intensive invasive-species trapping experiment had paid off for Sparkling Lake in northern Wisconsin. Not only did our researchers put …
CFL in Africa: Fish Pee and After Hours Fieldwork
The CFL’s Ellen Hamann, lab manager for Pete McIntyre’s lab, has been back in Africa this summer, helping continue research on Lake Tanganyika. She sent in this note from the field before returning to Madison …
Muckraking Mendota: A Brief History of Fish
Last week, like every week this summer, I was out on the water looking for stories about Madison’s lakes. But, this time, I had company. One of the cooler summer jobs at the Center for …
Blog Redux: Time-Lapse Video: Latest Spring Thaw in 32 Years at Trout Lake
May 24, 2017 – As we struggle through a particularly cold and dreary May, it’s important to remember the little things – like the fact that, at about this time 4 years ago, Trout Lake …
Video: 2 Months Breaking Ice in Under 5 Minutes
While this isn’t news directly from the Center for Limnology, it is WAY cool and postdoc, Cayelan Carey’s, recent talk on (and love for) all things phytoplankton inspired us. Marine scientist/science writer, Cassandra Brooks, is …
A Look at Our Lakes on Earth Day
Happy Earth Day! Wisconsin, of course, is where it all began, thanks to former U.S. senator Gaylord Nelson’s vision. As we here at the blog mulled over an appropriate topic for an Earth Day post, …
Road Salt Turns Deep Water into “Low-Sodium Soup”
Before the ice melts off these lakes here in Madison (we will get ice-off this year, right???), we thought we’d share a report from our senior research technician, Ted Bier, who you may have seen …
April 9th Event – Our Freshwater Future: Peril and Promise
Only 2.5% of all the water on earth is freshwater. 70% of that freshwater is frozen into glaciers and snowpacks in mountainous regions, leaving a tiny fraction of all water on earth available for every …