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 …
CFL in Africa – Cooking Snails: Just Add Isotopes
This summer, a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Limnology and Wright State University in Ohio, are on the shores of Africa’s Lake Tanganyika, the oldest and deepest of the African …
Limnology in Action: Taking Crayfish for a Walk
It is not every day that you get to take a crayfish for a walk on a leash. Well, unless you are part of Alex Latzka’s research team. “This is going to be the best …
CFL in Africa – Not Your “Typical” Day at the Lake
In the summer of 2012, a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Limnology and Wright State University in Ohio, will call the shores of Africa’s Lake Tanganyika home. The oldest and …