We are thrilled to, once again, host an aspiring undergraduate science communicator on station this summer. We’ll let Audrey introduce herself and look forward to following her adventures on our northern lakes! by Audrey Hoey-Kummerow …
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Monitoring Manoomin: A Collaborative Study on Wild Rice Lake
When you think of science what comes to mind? Is it data or measurements? Research? What about people? Science is so much more than research and numbers–it’s about people and places, too. Our wild rice project here on station is a testimony to that.
Breaking Down Barriers: Trout Lake Station Gives Summer Field Crews a Boost with “LimnoLaunch”
By Christina Weatherford On May 26th and 27th, Trout Lake Station made waves – literally and figuratively – with the first-ever LimnoLaunch. This all-hands-on-deck, two day training covered everything from driving a boat to using …
Socially Distant Science: Coronavirus Means Summer at Trout Lake Looks Different This Year
by Cassie Gauthier – If you were to walk around Trout Lake Station on the first week of June most summers, you would find 40 or so people arriving on station for a summer of …
Pre-Dawn Fieldwork, Pancakes and Pixels: Study Aims to See the Forests and the Trees
This is Part 2 of a 3-Part series on an ambitious summer research project exploring how trees manage their water supplies and respond to drought. Part 1 is here and Part 3 is coming soon! …
Sapelo Island Storify: Limno Went Down to Georgia
[View the story “UW-Madison Students On “Island Time,” Part 1″ on Storify]
A Final Farewell to the Northwoods
by Aisha Liebenow Once I heard that I was going to be working for the CFL up north this summer, all I kept hearing about Trout Lake Station was what a great place it is …
Slideshow: In The Field with Zoology 315
The water outside the window here at Hasler Lab is, well, hard. Sailboats are still stored for the winter and our pier is safely tucked away. But tomorrow is the first day of Spring and …
CFL in Africa – Cooking Snails: Just Add Isotopes
This summer, a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Limnology and Wright State University in Ohio, are on the shores of Africa’s Lake Tanganyika, the oldest and deepest of the African …
Limnology In Action: Gas In The Water, Carbon in the Sky
All summer long, Trout Lake Station outreach assistant, Ali Branscombe will be bringing you stories from the field. Join Ali as she follows researchers slogging through wetlands, boarding boats, and wrangling fish, bringing you – …