by Stephanie Januchowski-Hartley “What kind of fish might migrate up rivers in your region?” I asked Junior School students at Erskine Stewart’s Melville (ESMS) in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. “Salmon”, said one. “Trout”, offered another. “Yes, those are both migratory fishes,” I responded. “But, what about eels?” “No way! Eels?” I was inspired to visit ESMS …
Obviously Lake Mendota is still frozen over here in the Spring of 2014. But, two years ago, Madison lakes had officially opened up (i.e. thawed) on March 10th and, by early April, we were writing what proved to be one of the most popular posts in CFL blog history. Since we’ve been dreaming of spring …
Excuse us for tooting our own horn here, but the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters just announced the addition of seven distinguished people to its Wisconsin Academy Fellows roster. Our very own John Magnuson is one of them. According to the Wisconsin Academy, it’s fellows are individuals who have shown “extraordinary levels of …
We get it. It is cold. Face (and mind) numbingly cold. But that’s not an “all bad” thing. There’s a lot to like about a real winter. And it begins with ice. Here are three things to celebrate during the winter that brought “polar vortex” into our vocabulary! 1. Ice Caves For the first time …
Some Center for Limnology grad students recently returned from Georgia’s Sapelo Island. It’s part of the UW–Madison class, “Zoology 750: Problems in Oceanography.” All students have to create individual experiments for the trip. But only one required “The Crusher” CFL grad student, Alex Latzka, also shot some video of Samantha Oliver’s experiment and turned it …
Readers of this blog may already be aware that Pete McIntyre and a handful of his staff and students are undertaking a big research project in Tanzania. Now a new interactive website is in the works that will let folks at home follow along as the team plies the waters of Africa’s gigantic Lake Tanganyika. …
Last Friday, eight graduate students in the Zoology 750, “Problems in Oceanography” class piled into a couple of UW SUVs and drove south to Sapelo Island, which is just off the coast of Georgia. Each student in the group will spend a week working on an individual research project and, as they go, they’re sending …
Yesterday afternoon, eight UW graduate students and two of the Center for Limnology fleet vehicles left on an 18-hour drive to Georgia. Their destination? Sapelo Island, a barrier island just off the Georgia’s coast. The crew was headed down as part of the Zoology 750 class project. The course is titled “Problems in Oceanography” and, …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Day after day, the buoy bobbed at the surface of Peter Lake. Every five minutes, 288 times a day, instruments in the water silently recorded samples without creating so much as a ripple. But, beneath the surface, Peter Lake was in turmoil. The buoy was busy documenting massive change. In a new …
Happy Fish Fry Day! Restaurants around Wisconsin are warming up the deep fryers for our weekly feast and we’re putting fish on the menu here at the blog. Today’s special is an all-you-can-eat buffet of ichthyological goodness, thanks to an awesome new (and free) app for your smartphone, “Wisconsin Fish” From trophy muskies to the …