by Christina Weatherford – I’ll admit, I was hesitant to accept the offer of being the communications intern on station this summer. It was daunting, flying from San Francisco to a tiny airport in northern Wisconsin – heading to a place I’d never been before with people I’d never met. Leaving behind all my friends …
Like most people who choose to live in Wisconsin’s Northwoods, water holds a sacred place in Mary Burns’ life. The Manitowish River runs by the cabin her grandparents once owned – the place she now calls both home and art studio. Water is a common thread that runs through her career as a weaver and …
by Cassie Gauthier – Water is where life first began. It is where organisms ranging from microscopic zooplankton to giant whales call home. It can be slow moving in streams where tall plants grow above the water and turtles bask in the sun on fallen logs, or fast moving through rapids where salmon are seen …
Ever since Hasler Lab Coordinator, Kelly O’Ferrell, launched our “Art @ Hasler” series, beautiful exhibitions of aquatic-themed art have graced our walls. The current series of photographs by Stuart Deets is especially profound, as is his essay on their creation and their meaning. Pictures & words by Stuart Deets (originally posted at Medium.com) Part One …
Several months ago, Kelly O’Ferrell, the Hasler Lab coordinator here at the Center for Limnology had the brilliant idea to beautify the cinder-block hallways by turning our stairwell into a rotating exhibition of local artists. So Kelly put out a call to any artist working with aquatic themes. The results have been striking. We …
Below is an excellent article from Isthmus.com on CFL research professor, Paul Hanson, and the music he hears (and makes) in science. By Allison Geyer. Data collected from sensors on a buoy in Lake Mendota map the ebb and flow of the algal blooms that each year turn the lake green with phytoplankton. A look …