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Cool Weather Means Clear Waters for Wisconsin Lakes

Posted on May 13, 2020

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 …

Posted in Ecological Processes, Hasler Lab, Limnology 101Tagged algae, clear water, daphnia, Lake Mendota, Lake Monona, water clarity, Wisconsin fishing

Someone Put the 25 Largest Lakes on Earth in One Map. So What, Exactly, is a Lake?

Posted on March 1, 2019

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 …

Posted in Hasler Lab, Limnology 101Tagged Great Lakes, lake definition, world's largest lakes

“Between Two Lakes” – UW-Madison Journalism Students Cap Off Semester with Multimedia Extravaganza

Posted on May 11, 2018

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 …

Posted in Hasler Lab, Limnology 101Tagged Between Two Lakes, Center for Limnology, limnology, UW-Madison Journalism School

Video: Limnology 101 – Lake Stratification

Posted on January 20, 2016

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 …

Posted in Ecological Processes, Graduate Student Research, Limnology 101, OutreachTagged Colin Smith, Lake Mendota, limnology, Limnology 101, Stratification, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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