I recently spent an afternoon with the Ecology of Fishes class. Check out the video below!
Hasler Lab
Rare Footage of E. A. Birge in His ‘Natural Habitat’
Thanks to our friends at the UW-Madison archives, the forefather of modern limnology, E.A. Birge, is on YouTube! For your viewing pleasure, We present this 30 second silent film of Birge in his campus lab …
Lake Wingra’s Complicated Relationship with Wisconsin’s Flu Season
Several years ago, Jon Temte, a professor in the UW-Madison Department of Family Medicine, got interested in the variation of flu season from year to year in Wisconsin. He brought an undergraduate student into the …
Climate change & variability: where does 2011’s late freeze rank?
We here at the CFL have been eagerly awaiting word so we could anoint the winner of our annual Lake Mendota “Ice On” pool. Well, the state climatology office has made it official – our …
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 …
What Do Round Gobies Mean for Great Lake Streams?
The round goby has dramatically altered Great Lake food webs since it was first discovered in Lake St. Clair in 1990. But the aggressive invasive has spread beyond the blue borders of our Great Lakes. …