Happy New Year! Here’s hoping 2022 trends upward a little more steeply than the past couple of years. We here at the Center for Limnology are excited to share even more freshwater news, research and more with you in the year to come but, before we get to brand-new content, let’s look back at some …
Tourist towns along the Lake Michigan shoreline love to proclaim the giant body of water “Unsalted and Shark-Free.” The slogan is plastered on t-shirts, magnets and bumper stickers but, according to a study published December 15th in the journal, Limnology and Oceanography Letters, only one of those claims holds water. Combined, the Great Lakes make …
by Moira Harrington, Wisconsin Sea Grant In a new video released today, Wisconsin Sea Grant illuminates the varied coregonines, a sudfamily of fish commonly known as cisco, which have pulsed through Great Lakes waters for 12,000 years. Due to human influences, the fork-tailed fish are diminished in number and range, and display less diverse forms. …
MADISON – In the summer of 2018, Rob Mooney, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for Limnology, set out on an epic road trip around Lake Michigan. Mooney was no stranger to the drive. In fact, he had already completed eight circuits of the lake over the previous two years as he …
It’s official! Science on Tap-Minocqua is back after our long COVID-induced hiatus. While we still aren’t able to get everyone together for a cozy science cafe in a shared communal space (we’ll be back someday, Minocqua Brewing Company!) we can at least get cool research on your radar and let you ask experts questions about …
A couple of days ago the picture above caught our attention on Twitter and we retweeted it. The folks at a website called the Visual Capitalist had used a nifty online tool called “Slap It On a Map!” to cram the twenty five largest lakes on Earth onto the U.S. and Canada’s square chunk of …
By Ryan Smazal, Wisconsin Historical Society; and Sara Fox, University of Wisconsin-Extension As many might know, the Great Lakes house about a fifth of the freshwater supply for the entire world. A less commonly known fact is that the Great Lakes contain more than 700 shipwrecks. Among those shipwrecks live over 3,500 plant and animal …
by Cheryl Reitan & Adam Hinterthuer Duluth, MN – In September of 2014, fifty-eight scientists gathered to discuss the most pressing research needs in the Great Lakes region. Even though the five lakes contain nearly one-fifth of all the world’s available fresh water and supply that water to more than 35 million people across two …
As the year winds to a close, we’re taking a look back at some of the the CFL’s most popular blog posts from 2016. Here’s one originally published on March 21st about our researchers calculating the cost of a tiny invasive species and finding a very big impact. MADISON – A new study shows we’ve …
Happy Fish Fry Day, when Wisconsin (and your trusty blog) put fish on the menu. Today’s offering – Ellen Hamann’s excellent post, originally written for the Canadian Science Publishing website on her “Fish on the Run” project. Enjoy as a scientist delves into the world of outreach and kinda, sorta likes it! So, you wrote …