Readers of this blog may be startled to log on today and find no inquisitive young mind querying aquatic scientists about our inland waters. Maybe it’s because we’re on the COVID-19 version of summer break. Maybe we haven’t been advertising enough. Whatever the reason for the sudden drought of new questions, we know it’s NOT …
It turns out that not even a global pandemic can stop summer from coming. And that means we get to welcome an undergraduate student to our ranks as our summer science communication intern. While Cassie won’t be staying on station at Trout Lake this summer, she’s got plans to safely share all sorts of our …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Anglers often lament how hard it can be to land a fish for dinner, but the tougher job usually falls to fisheries managers, who have set sustainable catch limits for the fishes we love to harvest. Traditionally, the size of a fish population is estimated using “mark and recapture” studies. To get …
After a week of our walleye research in the news, it made us think back on past posts. Then we stumbled upon this one from 2013 when, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologist, Kurt Welke, poured more than a quarter of a million fish into our boat slip here at Hasler Lab. Enjoy! …
CFL grad student, Emily Whitaker tows David Buoy toward shore. Photo: E. Whitaker Yesterday we caught a slight break in our string of cold, windy days and researchers here from the UW- Madison Center for Limnology and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences were able to head out onto Lake Mendota to retrieve our invaluable …
Necessity, of course, is the mother of invention. And scientific fieldwork is often the mother of necessity. Researchers are constantly having to invent new ways to collect data in challenging environments. What follows is a running diary of a marathon day of monitoring carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and testing new equipment on Lake Mendota. But, …
A few weeks back, the inboxes of faculty, staff and students at Hasler Lab were flooded with requests for interviews about our work on Madison’s lakes. As we tried to field as many requests as possible, it became apparent that what we were dealing with was one ambitious class project – an online news magazine …
(This article was originally published on news.wisc.edu) It’s been nearly six months since Steve Carpenter officially stepped down as director of the UW–Madison Center for Limnology. Yet, despite updating his resume with the title “free-range scientist,” he is still trying to figure out how to not come in to the office. “One thing I’m working …
Happy Holidays, blog readers! We hope you had a fun, productive and meaningful 2017. As we head off into our holiday break, here is a gift from us, a look at 12 blog posts from this year that were big hits with our readers. In 2018 we’re hoping to revamp the blog and get more …
It’s beginning to look a lot like the end of the year, and that means we’re looking back at some of the stories that shaped the Center for Limnology in 2017. It was a year of many changes, retirements, exciting research and well-deserved awards. You can read (and download) the entire newsletter in a PDF …