Most people think of green, algae-filled waters when talking about southern Wisconsin lakes. And, sure, these highly productive bodies are full of nutrients that run off from the landscape and feed huge algae blooms every …
Limnology 101
Someone Put the 25 Largest Lakes on Earth in One Map. So What, Exactly, is a Lake?
A couple of days ago the picture above caught our attention on Twitter and we retweeted it. The folks at a website called the Visual Capitalist had used a nifty online tool called “Slap It …
“Between Two Lakes” – UW-Madison Journalism Students Cap Off Semester with Multimedia Extravaganza
A few weeks back, the inboxes of faculty, staff and students at Hasler Lab were flooded with requests for interviews about our work on Madison’s lakes. As we tried to field as many requests as …
Video: Limnology 101 – Lake Stratification
CFL graduate student, Colin Smith, produced and narrated this first video in our new “Limnology 101” series. Here he explains why lakes separate into warm, upper layers and cold, bottom layers. Check it out! Stay …