A University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher says states should be looking to the skies in order to save fish. Brenda Pracheil, a postdoctoral fellow at the UW-Madison Center for Limnology, thinks it’s time for fish to …
Wordless Wednesday – Take 3
The second installment of the “Wordless” Wednesday Photo Caption Contest generated a lot of good submissions, but we’re giving the (imaginary) award this week to clever captioner, Denise Karns, whose title “center assistant” doesn’t begin …
Ecosystems on the Brink – CFL in Scientific American
The October 2012 issue of Scientific American is out and it features a nice article on ecosystem regime shifts, CFL experimental workhorses Peter and Paul Lakes, and our director, Steve Carpenter. Ecosystems on the Brink …
Wordless Wednesday – Take 2
We have a winner! Our first-ever “wordless Wednesday” caption contest garnered a handful of great submissions, but none better (in our humble opinion) than this caption offered up by Aaron Conklin of the UW …
Fishing in the Dark
A few weeks ago, a team of students and staff headed out on Lake Mendota well after sundown. The group was taking a yearly census of fish populations in Lake Mendota, one of several Wisconsin …
Introducing “Wordless” Wednesdays!
Hello There Loyal Blog Reader (and/or Brand-New Visitor!) We here at the Center for Limnology are committed to bringing you all the best we have to offer, from just-published research, to an inside look at …
Crystal Lake: Are Invasive Smelt on Their Way Out?
Back in 2009, a team of engineers and scientists affiliated with the Center for Limnology had a crazy idea – they wanted to see if they could manipulate an entire lake to kill off an …
CFL in Africa: Wrapping Up Another Season on Lake Tanganyika
School is back in session, and Ellen is safely back on the shores of Lake Mendota, but before we wrap up our summer series on her adventures researching Lake Tanganyika for Pete McIntyre’s lab, here’s …
Limno in the Lab: Measuring Tiny Helmets and Microscopic Tail Spines
Sure, we get to do some awesome fieldwork in the name of science, but what we do with all those samples and data sets once we’re back in the lab is just as important.To give …
Another Summer Opening Our Doors
After last year’s big turn out for Trout Lake Station’s inaugural open house, we here at the Center for Limnology decided we were on to something. It seems that the people of Wisconsin are curious …