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 …
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Welcome to Trout Lake: Introducing Summer Intern, Bethany Prochnow
Life Beneath the Snow and More Highlights from Science on Tap-Minocqua
Subnivium is a word you’ve probably never heard of, but it refers to a vast ecosystem across much of the world. Specifically, the small pocket of open space that develops each winter between the surface …
Want to Save Our Lakes? First, Find One to Love.
The question wasn’t all that surprising – “What can we, as individuals, do to help keep the Great Lakes clean?” It came from an audience member in Shannon Hall, the large theater space at UW-Madison’s …
Good Reads – Limnology Edition: Our Researchers Pick Some of Their Favorite Science-Themed Books
We realize that we’re offering a Summer Reading List just in time for fall, but our science communication intern asked folks for some book suggestions this summer and here’s what she found: by Sydney Widell …
Trout Lake Station’s 8th Annual Open House – August 3rd
BOULDER JUNCTION, WI – On Friday, August 3rd, the UW-Madison Center for Limnology will host its 8th annual Open House at Trout Lake Station, our research facility in Wisconsin’s beautiful Northwoods. Join us from 1 to 5 …
Weaving Water: Mary Burns Explores Women’s Roles as Water Stewards
For the last several years, the Center for Limnology’s Trout Lake Station has hosted an “artist-in-residence” program each summer. Our summer science communication intern spent a day with one of the 2018 artists, Mary …
WPR’s Larry Meiller Reflects on 51 Years On Air at Science on Tap-Minocqua
by Sydney Widell When talk show host Larry Meiller ventures up to the Northwoods, it’s usually to camp or fish. But on Wednesday, June 6th, the legend of Wisconsin airwaves spent the evening with Science …
Diatoms Prove That Not All Algae Are Ugly
Think algae are gross? A new website will make you take a closer look. Dedicated to Lake Mendota’s diatoms – single-celled members of the brown algae classification – the website serves as a field guide …
Massive Blue-Green Algae Bloom Stretches Across Lake Mendota
A couple of weeks ago, after yet another round of intense rain in the Madison area, we headed over to the website of the Wisconsin State Climatology office, curious if we were seeing more rain …