The question wasn’t all that surprising – “What can we, as individuals, do to help keep the Great Lakes clean?” It came from an audience member in Shannon Hall, the large theater space at UW-Madison’s Memorial Union, and it was directed at Dan Egan, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter-turned-author who was on campus discussing his …
by Chelsey Blanke Last week, students in UW-Madison’s Ecology of Fishes lab course had the privilege of visiting WDNR’s Nevin Fish Hatchery, just a 15-minute drive from campus. Field trips are a major component of the course’s content and this was the first time it’s included a hatchery tour. Fish hatchery and stocking operations are …
Down in the basement of the Water Sciences and Engineering Lab, right next door to us here at the Center for Limnology, sits an aquatic ecosystem with one crazy food web. In the experimental habitat, four different species of fishes – zebrafish, guppies, bluegill and fathead minnows – are feasting on a scientifically measured diet …