June 24th dawned warm and clear and it was obvious that we’d picked a beautiful day to open our doors to the public. By the time we wrapped things up at 6pm, nearly 300 people …
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Boats, Bucky & Babcock Ice Cream: 5th Annual Hasler Lab Open House
MADISON – For more than 120 years, scientists at the UW-Madison’s Center for Limnology have studied the waters around Madison, the state and the world. They’ve helped build much of our knowledge about how freshwater …
Field Samples: How Fish Find Their Niche
Field Samples is a Q&A with aquatic researchers. Today the incomparable John Magnuson talks about research on how fish find their niche. John will give a public lecture today at noon in the Water Science & …
Art Hasler, Bluntnose Minnows and How Salmon Get Back Home
Happy Fish Fry Day! It’s the day that, like restaurants across Wisconsin, we put fish on our menu. Today’s main course – bluntnose minnows. As we tackle the “Fishes of Wisconsin” challenge, striving to write …
Rollin’ on the River: High-Speed Limnology on the Mighty Mississippi
A new study says that, despite dozens of locks and dams and backwater habitats that slow it’s flow, the Upper Mississippi River isn’t good at retaining the nitrates that run into its waters from intensively …
Website Aims to Get Madison Lakes on the Map and in the Forecast
MADISON, WI – Imagine packing the car, herding your family on board and heading to the lake – only to find green, scummy water or a closed beach at your destination. Up until now, it’s …
Limno-Week: Four Center for Limnology Public Events in Three Days!
Summer is our field season, which means you’ll see a lot more “UW-Limnology” boats out on Wisconsin waters. But it’s also when we ramp up our outreach programming. This is an especially busy week as, …
Video: Up-Close Look at Lake Mendota Water Clarity
On June 4th, after a week of clear-water conditions in Lake Mendota, some of us here at Hasler Lab decided that our window for swimming in clear water was closing. So we decided to take …
Monitor Mendota: Water Clarity, Daphnia on the Rebound
Last week on this blog, we wondered if Lake Mendota’s clear water phase was a thing of the past. You see, last year, the algae-eating native zooplankton, daphnia pulicaria were so diminished by predation from the …
All Aboard! 4th Annual Hasler Lab Open House
Join us FRIDAY, JUNE 12th for the Hasler Lab Open House! If you’re …