If you head down to the shore of Lake Mendota today, you’ll notice you can see right down to the bottom. In fact, the current Secchi reading is seven meters, meaning you can get a …
Freshwater Futures – LTER Short Film Series
Check out this new trailer for a series of short films chronicling the research being done as part of the National Science Foundation’s Long-Term Ecological Research program (LTER). You may recognize some shots of Center …
We Have Liftoff on the Crystal Mixing Project
Over the last three years a group of CFL students, professors and staff have worked on an experiment near Trout Lake Station that, they hope, will eradicate rainbow smelt and restore populations of native fish, …
The Summer of ’59: Chasing White Bass Across Mendota
The pier is in. The ice is off. Fish migrations are already underway. And that means that the “open water” field season at the Center for Limnology is about to begin. Before I start filling …
Ice Off, Dock In
Yesterday afternoon, eight brave souls decided to abandon their desks and help CFL facility manager, Dave Harring, put the Hasler Lab dock out into Lake Mendota. It was an unusual sight for March 20th to …
And….We Have Ice-Off
While it wasn’t a record-setting early date for Lake Mendota to return to its more, um, liquid state this year, the official March 10th “ice-off” date is right in line with the long term trend …
Sorry, Mendota, Trout Lake Has the “Good” Ice
Last week, I ventured out on the ice of Lake Mendota as Ted Bier, senior research specialist for the North Temperate Lakes Long Term Ecological Research study (LTER), drilled through the ice to take samples …
Winter Sampling on Lake Mendota Yields Unusual Results
(Go Here to see Slideshow) On February 22nd, Ted Bier, senior research specialist for the North Temperate Lakes Long Term Ecological Research study (LTER) and Dave Harring, the Center for Limnology’s facility manager, walked a …
War Hazard Eliminated. Lake Effects Unknown?
Well, that’s one way of getting rid of surplus sodium. Thankfully, what is/isn’t an appropriate use of our freshwater lakes seems to have evolved a bit since the late 1940’s. The unfortunate scene of this …
In the Field with Zoology 511 – Ecology of Fishes
I recently spent an afternoon with the Ecology of Fishes class. Check out the video below!