The CFL’s Ellen Hamann, lab manager for Pete McIntyre’s lab, has been back in Africa this summer, helping continue research on Lake Tanganyika. She sent in this note from the field before returning to Madison for fall semester. By Ellen Hamann For the past 48 hours, Benja (Ben Kraemer from Pete McIntyre’s lab) and I …
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 a final dispatch from Africa… The Final Push It’s my last week on Lake Tanganyika for the year, and Ben …
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 rift lakes. Understanding how “Lake T” works is imperative in order to protect its remarkable biodiversity ( there are more …