Happy Fish Fry Day, the weekly holiday where our fair state (always) puts fried fishes on the menu and we here at the CFL (sometimes) put fishes on the blog. Summer’s drawing to a close and it’s time to resume our “Fishes of Wisconsin” challenge. Without further ado, I give you – the bullhead minnow. …
by Jenny Seifert The future of the Yahara Watershed takes center stage in a new documentary born of a partnership between the UW–Madison’s Water Sustainability and Climate project (WSC) and Wisconsin Public Television (WPT). Called “Yahara Watershed: A Place of Change,” the show will debut on Thursday, September 1st at 7:30pm on WPT. Nearly five-years …
We’re going to admit that we still favor the more life-like illustrations of the gigantic “Fishes of Wisconsin” folder but, well, you have to give props to biodiversity! Presenting the Freshwater Fish of America, perhaps the only fish-related poster you will ever need. (Excepting that Wisconsin one, of course!) Details about the poster are here. …
The following Q&A of CFL professor, Pete McIntyre was recently featured on the Nature Conservancy’s “Cool Green Science” blog. More about the Lake T. snail project is here. by: Jenny Rogers For the past 20 years, biologist Pete McIntyre has traveled to Africa’s Lake Tanganyika, Earth’s second-largest freshwater lake by volume, to study freshwater snails …
We had the pleasure this summer to welcome Anna Krieg to a summer spent living, working and playing in Wisconsin’s Northwoods. To say the lake-studded landscape was new to the Arizona resident would be an understatement. We think we made a positive impression, anyway! Here is Anna’s recap of her time up at the CFL’s …
by Mari N. Jensen and Adam Hinterthuer FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – The decrease in fishery productivity in Africa’s largest lake is a consequence of global warming rather than just overfishing, according to a report to be published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Lake Tanganyika, situated mainly between Tanzania …
On a hot, windy morning in late June, Ankur Desai and other members of his lab took their first steps to bridging a big gap in data between the aquatic and atmospheric sciences, as they set out in a cherry picker for a leisurely ride down the Lakeshore Path. Jonathan Thom and David Reed, two …
BOULDER JUNCTION, WI – The UW–Madison Center for Limnology will host its 6th annual open house at the Trout Lake Research Station on Friday, August 4th. From 1 to 5pm, visitors will get a first-hand look at what research is going on at the station this summer, as well as meet the scientists and students …
This summer, Anna Krieg, an undergraduate at Arizona State University, will spend a few months in a much wetter habitat as the CFL’s summer outreach intern at our Trout Lake Station. These are her Notes from the Northwoods: by Anna Krieg – On June 28th, 25 people climbed into 6 boats and set off to …
Happy Fish Fry Day! Enjoy this post from the Long Term Ecological Research Network. by Terra Alpaugh Between 2013 and 2015, Andrew Rypel traveled the state of Wisconsin attending public meetings led by state and local fisheries staff— always with a set of graphs in hand. These graphs showed the steady decline in the size …