Over here at the CFL, all the talk has been about the ice covering Lake Mendota. That’s all well and good, but it’s diverted attention from something happening on the other side of the isthmus – Lake Monona is refusing to freeze. UPDATE: Matt Schwei reports that, ow that the temps have moved to being …
The University of Wisconsin’s Trout Lake Station and Kemp Natural Resources Station are announcing a new monthly event called “Science on Tap” at the Minocqua Brewing Company. For several decades, both research stations have studied the land and lakes of Wisconsin’s Northwoods. Too often, says Trout Lake Station director, Tim Kratz, that research has been …
UPDATE: Due to the awesome amount of interest this post has generated, we thought we’d share last year’s more in-depth look at the late freeze AND a post on flu season and Lake Wingra to inject a bit more science into the proceedings! For the post you were linked to, read on: This Monday, I …
In 1990, a small stowaway was dumped from the ballast tank of an ocean-going freighter into the waters of the St. Clair River, joining more than 180 other non-native species in the Great Lakes. Two decades later, the round goby, an aggressive, voracious, bottom-dwelling fish has invaded all five Great Lakes and has had profound …
Field season is, of course, where the best photo ops and a lot of the fun of being a research scientist happens. If you’re a loyal reader of this blog, you’ll remember a handful of lively dispatches from the CFL’s Ellen Hamann as she worked this summer with the McIntyre lab on the Tanzania shoreline …
Last Sunday, CFL director, Steve Carpenter, happened to be out and about with his camera and spotting scope on the Lake Mendota shoreline. Out in the middle of the lake, where the ice edge met the open water, he spied a large gathering of migrating tundra swans. “There were several hundred of them in the …
The view from Hasler Lab on Monday was one of windswept waves crashing into the ice-covered rocks of Lake Mendota’s southern shoreline. Not even a rim of pancake ice to slow their roll. Today the lake is, well, a little calmer. But out in the middle of Madison’s main aquatic feature, the dark blue of …
2012 was a great year to be a limnologist. Center for Limnology researchers got out in the field to conduct interesting experiments in beautiful settings, papers published by both faculty and students received all sorts of media attention, and, perhaps most important, the CFL band, Phantom Midge, once again rocked the Christmas party. As we …
MADISON – As the federal government builds on its $1 billion investment to clean up and restore the Great Lakes, an international research consortium has developed innovative new maps of both environmental threats and benefits to help guide cost-effective approaches to environmental remediation of the world’s largest fresh water resource. Writing this week (Dec. 17, …
‘Tis the Season for the Center for Limnology’s annual newsletter. For a good look at some of the things we got up to this year, as well as faculty milestones, alumni news and grad student profiles, you can find a PDF of the 2012 newsletter (as well as copies of past newsletters) right here. If …