FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: In attempts to predict what climate change will mean for life in lakes, scientists have mainly focused on two things: the temperature of the water and the amount of oxygen dissolved in …
Graduate Student Research
Video Review – 2013: Snail Crushing, Invasive IDing and Musky Jamming
In these last hours of 2013, we’re featuring some of our favorite (and most popular) CFL videos from the past year. To see all of our offerings, head to our YouTube channel. Crushing Snail Shells… …
Video: Crushing Snail Shells…for Science
Some Center for Limnology grad students recently returned from Georgia’s Sapelo Island. It’s part of the UW-Madison class, “Zoology 750: Problems in Oceanography.” All students have to create individual experiments for the trip. But only …
Limnology in Antarctica: Luke Winslow Heads Way Down South
by Luke Winslow Two weeks ago Saturday: I wake up at home, make some coffee and read The Economist. It is fall now and the temperature is cooler and pleasant. I have accepted that the …
Video: “Into the Rift” Will Chronicle CFL Research in Africa
Readers of this blog may already be aware that Pete McIntyre and a handful of his staff and students are undertaking a big research project in Tanzania. Now a new interactive website is in the …
Students in Sapelo: Limnology on “Island Time”
Last Friday, eight graduate students in the Zoology 750, “Problems in Oceanography” class piled into a couple of UW SUVs and drove south to Sapelo Island, which is just off the coast of Georgia. Each …
CFL Students Headed To Sapelo Island for Zoology 750
Yesterday afternoon, eight UW graduate students and two of the Center for Limnology fleet vehicles left on an 18-hour drive to Georgia. Their destination? Sapelo Island, a barrier island just off the Georgia’s coast. The …
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 …
Limnology in the Lab: Rolling Carbon Burritos
Limnologists aren’t always out in boats on calm, sunny days. (But sometimes we are!) While fieldwork is an essential part of collecting data, it’s often not the only step needed to turn that information into …
Fish Fry Day Goes Primitive
Happy Fish Fry Day, Folks! It’s the day when we (sometimes!) feature fish on the blog and any restaurant worth its salt features fish on the menu here in Wisconsin. Today we’re just going to …