by Cassie Gauthier – When you think of a beautiful natural area, what do you imagine? Maybe you think of a lake at the top of a mountain with clear water and tall pine trees …
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Socially Distanced Science: Head-Hunting at Home!
Back in March of this year, just as it was becoming clear that “business as usual” was about to be a thing of the past, Petra Wakker walked into Room 101 of Hasler Lab and …
Guest Post: How Madison’s Lakes Came to Be
Holding History, a UW-Madison-based project, helps students explore how cultural knowledge is made and preserved and share what they learn with broader audiences. Their series, Water Lines, is produced by 2019 Trout Lake Station summer …
Guest Post: Why Lake Mendota is Both First (and Fourth) in the Yahara Chain of Lakes
Holding History, a UW-Madison-based project, helps students explore how cultural knowledge is made and preserved and share what they learn with broader audiences. Their series, Water Lines, is produced by 2019 Trout Lake Station summer …
Learn Your Lakes: Spring Runoff and Nutrient Loading
This weekend, my family and I went on a drive. These days, any chance to leave the house while still practicing safe social distancing feels like a blessing and this drive felt especially so. There …
Learn Your Lakes: Midges, Not Mosquitoes or Mayflies, Give Us Spring’s First Swarms
(A version of this post first appeared on the blog on May 18, 2017) As we wrote last week, our waters are warming here in Wisconsin (and, in fact, all across the Northern Hemisphere) and …
Learn Your Lakes: Fish on the Move
Ah, it’s mid-April in Wisconsin and, right on cue, snow popped back up in the forecast and temperatures this week are going to struggle to get above freezing. Spring, it seems, is on hold for …
Learn Your Lakes: Spring Turnover
Here in Wisconsin, like a lot of places, we are waiting for the reliably warm days of Spring. In the meantime, we’re seeing a lot of days with persistent, chilly winds. Stowing the winter gear …
Slideshow: LTER Winter Sampling on “Unusually” Thick Ice
Remember the polar vortex? It was just a vague memory before we stumbled across the following post from our archives. Perhaps we had blocked out memories of the winter of subzero temps cold enough to …