University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tag: fieldwork

Meet Audrey: Trout Lake Station’s Summer Science Communication Intern

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 – When I came across the position for Science Communication Intern at Trout Lake Station, I was thrilled. I am …

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 specialized sensors to detect chlorophyll in the water column. The event was attended by researchers at all levels – from …

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 living in the six cabins, working in the lab, and taking trips to nearby lakes both at day and night …

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! by Sydney Widell – “The thought of this breakfast is what’s kept me going,” said Brian Schlaff, when we arrive …

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 to live and work. Now I can offer the same assessment – it has not only met, but far exceeded …

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 that got us here at the Center for Limnology thinking about field season, and that seemed as good a reason …

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 rift lakes. Understanding how “Lake T” works is imperative in order to protect its remarkable biodiversity ( there are more …

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 – Limnology in Action. It is a cold morning with scattered showers and random peeks of sunshine between the dark clouds. …