Following up on our call for political officials in Wisconsin to start taking climate change seriously, here is a post originally published in September of 2016 about one of the potential impacts global warming will have on Wisconsin and Midwest lakes. For more, check out the researchers’ amazing website! Climate change is predicted to alter …
Happy New Year! We here at the CFL hope you had a fantastic holiday season and are rested and recharged for 2017. We’re excited to see what the year will bring but, before we start posting awesome articles about amazing science, we thought we’d share our New Year’s Resolution. In 2017, We Resolve to Speak …
by Mari N. Jensen and Adam Hinterthuer FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – The decrease in fishery productivity in Africa’s largest lake is a consequence of global warming rather than just overfishing, according to a report to be published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Lake Tanganyika, situated mainly between Tanzania …
by Steve Carpenter Around the Baltic Sea in Sweden there are dozens of abandoned Viking settlements. The odd thing about these sites is that they lie a few kilometers inland. The Vikings were seafaring people, and the settlements have the remains of large sea-going ships. Anders Celsius, a prolific scientist who, among other things, invented …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MADISON, WI — In 1442, fifty years before Columbus “sailed the ocean blue,” Shinto priests in Japan began keeping records of the annual freeze dates of a nearby lake. Along a Finnish river, starting in 1693, local merchants recorded the date the ice broke up each spring. These two observations are the …
by Steve Carpenter If climate change was the star of the recently concluded Paris Climate Conference (COP21), ecology played a key supporting role. At COP21, 195 nations agreed to hold global warming below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) and, by 2050, to reduce emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases to a level that land and …
MINOCQUA, WI – On Wednesday, October 7th at 6:30pm, guests at the Minocqua Brewing Company will be able to raise a pint and raise their hands to ask a Nobel Prize-winning scientist about one of the biggest issues of our time. Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be …
It’s Fish Fry Day, when Wisconsin puts fish on the menu and we serve up some delectable fish facts on our blog. Today we want to point you toward a Q&A with a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fisheries scientist who is trying to track where fish move as ocean waters warm. In case you expected something …
Last week, John Magnuson, director emeritus of the Center for Limnology, spoke at our weekly Wednesday seminar about lake ice trends in our warming world. In short, the onset and duration of lake ice cover in the northern hemisphere looks a lot like the infamous “hockey stick” showing the average rise in global temperature, except …
A recent spate of stories has folks in Madison talking about their lakes. The charge of limnological news is being led by The Cap Times and their reporter, Jessica VanEgeren, and Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism reporter, Kate Golden. The series, called “Murky Waters,” began with a look at algal and bacterial water quality issues …