Happy Holidays from us here at the CFL and the brilliant folks at the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute (especially Tim Campbell), who put together a delightful ode to some less-than-delightful residents of our inland waters. Enjoy! On the twelfth day of Christmas, a canal brought to me: Canals have been a significant source …
This holiday season (and Fish Fry Day!), we’re giving you a not-quite-Christmas carol courtesy of the Center for Limnology’s house band – Phantom Midge. It’s a song about big fish and the folks who chase them (with apologies to Daft Punk). Happy Holidays! -Your friends at the CFL
As you now probably know, the Wisconsin State Climatologist’s office has officially called it – Lake Mendota achieved “ice on” this Monday, December 16th. And that means our iconic lake has frozen twice in the same calendar year! (Not all that unusual, but still cool.) While the freeze comes nearly a month earlier than the …
We here at the blog are currently working on getting lots of end-of-year stuff done (i.e. planning the annual CFL Holiday Party!) and, well, good blog posts take time. And, also, it’s COLD! Lucky for us (and you), despite these poor excuses, there have been some cool limnological links on the web lately. So, while …
Last week, an excellent article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel covered some great news – lake whitefish are migrating inland to spawn and, in many cases, fish were running up into tributaries where they hadn’t been seen for 100 years. One of the scientists featured in that article is Solomon David, a post doctoral researcher …
Some Center for Limnology grad students recently returned from Georgia’s Sapelo Island. It’s part of the UW–Madison class, “Zoology 750: Problems in Oceanography.” All students have to create individual experiments for the trip. But only one required “The Crusher” CFL grad student, Alex Latzka, also shot some video of Samantha Oliver’s experiment and turned it …
With apologies to the Syfy network and its outstanding ability to combine species into preposterous science fiction specials, we’re showcasing these videos our post doc, Solomon David, recently took with colleagues from the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. It’s an embarrassment of fishy riches for the Thanksgiving holiday. Lurking in the waters of a Chicago harbor, …
Folks over at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources have an excellent blog called “Live from the Lakes” featuring a series called “Lake of the Month” and, this month, that lake will be no stranger to anyone who follows our work. Sparkling Lake, up in Vilas County, received a nice write-up, featuring research spearheaded by …
As you may have heard, this is the week we here in America reserve for stuffing our faces with no shame whatsoever as we give thanks to some hardy souls that braved harsh winters before central heating and gore-tex was even a thing. In the spirit of this glorious holiday, we’re asking you to share …
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and The Nature Conservancy are currently undertaking a very hands-on project for invasive species control. The program also points to a question resource managers are currently asking – when it comes to Eurasian water milfoil, is the current chemical cure worse than the disease? CFL grad student and WDNR …