Since 2013, the CFL has hosted painters, photographers, weavers and poets at Trout Lake Station as part of our “Drawing Water” Artist-In-Residency program. The following is a post from Katherine Steichen Rosing, a Madison-based artist …
Science Communication
Science on Tap is Back! Here Are Three Videos to Celebrate
On a cold, snowy February in 2013, a standing-room only crowd packed the upper level of the Minocqua Brewing Company to hear about science in the Northwoods. And, ever since, we have devoted the first …
Join Us (Virtually) for the Return of Science on Tap – October 7th!
It’s official! Science on Tap-Minocqua is back after our long COVID-induced hiatus. While we still aren’t able to get everyone together for a cozy science cafe in a shared communal space (we’ll be back someday, …
Virtual Summer Still Made a Real-World Impact on Undergraduate Researchers
Like most things in 2020, summer at Trout Lake Station was very different this year. Normally, a handful of graduate students and several dozen mostly UW-Madison undergrads would spend summer living on station and conducting …
Summer Intern Hopes Her Virtual Work Leads to Real-Life Connections to Wisconsin Lakes
Although Cassie Gauthier never got to visit Trout Lake Station and had to do all of her work from her parent’s house this summer, she still managed to share so much of what we do …
Trout Lake Station Announces “Virtual Open House” – An Interactive Scavenger Hunt on Vilas County Lakes
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Boulder Junction, Wis. – The word “canceled” is far too common these days in Wisconsin’s Northwoods. Thanks to the current global coronavirus pandemic, events like Cranberry Fest, classic car shows and music …
Trout Lake Station Collaborates with Artist Weaving Works on Women and Water
by Cassie Gauthier – Water is where life first began. It is where organisms ranging from microscopic zooplankton to giant whales call home. It can be slow moving in streams where tall plants grow above …
Introducing our (Virtual) Summer Science Communication Intern!
It turns out that not even a global pandemic can stop summer from coming. And that means we get to welcome an undergraduate student to our ranks as our summer science communication intern. While Cassie …
Guest post: Hot take on our planet – freshwater biodiversity
Our friends at the Fisheries Blog do good work – you should check them out. Here’s a post from past CFL postdoc, Solomon David, on how nature documentaries seem to ignore freshwater systems and why …