Happy Fish Fry Day! Just like many Wisconsin restaurants, we’ve got fish on the menu today. The special? Suckers with a side of steelhead. Watch as CFL graduate student, John Rodstrom, and post-doc, Allison Moody, …
Post Doc Research
Fish Fry Day: Biology and Neutrons Collide to Unlock Secrets of Fish Ear Bones
by Sean Simoneau, Oak Ridge National Laboratory simoneausm@ornl.gov December 20, 2016—Scientific discovery can come from anywhere, but few researchers can say the answers to their questions would come from the pea-sized bones in the head …
Water, Women and Fisheries: CFL Researcher Awarded “Seed Grant” from Global Health Institute
Bordered by Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, Lake Victoria is the world’s largest tropical freshwater lake and boasts one of the largest freshwater fisheries in the world. 30 million people live around its shores. It is …
Guest Post: Adventures with Bowfin, North America’s Underdog(fish)
The folks at the Nature Conservancy’s “Cool Green Science” blog have invited our postdoc, Solomon David, to write about primitive fishes for them – here’s his latest post: It’s a fish that lived alongside dinosaurs, …
Fish Fry Day: If You Build It, Will Pike Come?
For many species of fish, spring spawning migrations are a crucial part of their life cycle. They swim upstream to habitat both more suitable for them to deposit eggs and where young fish that hatch …
Fish Fry Day: Getting “Biggest Bang for Your Buck” in Conservation
by Kelly April Tyrrell A few years ago, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Limnology created the first map of all the road crossings and dams blocking the tributary rivers that feed the …
Field Samples: Studying Fish Migrations in Great Lakes Streams
Field Samples is a weekly Q&A asking researchers what they’ve been up to and what they’ve learned. Today, Lake Superior State University professor, Ashley Moerke, talks about her time on sabbatical studying Great Lakes fish migrations at the …
“When” – Not Just “Where” – Key Question for Species Abundance
When it comes to studies of species abundance, scientists have spent a lot of time looking into where, exactly, particular plants or animals thrive or survive in a particular ecosystem. But, harnessing the relatively recent rise …
Field Samples: Restoring the Flow for Great Lakes’ Migratory Fishes
Field Samples is a weekly Q&A asking researchers what they’ve been up to and what they’ve learned. Today, post doctoral researcher, Allison Moody, talks dams, road culverts and getting migratory fish moving again. Who are you, where …
Study Finds Ancient Aquifer Under Antarctic Lake
Despite existing in the extreme cold desert of Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys, there is liquid water beneath the permanently frozen surface of one of the valley’s largest lakes. A new study published in Geophysical Research Letters …