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Ice Data from Early “Citizen Scientists” Confirms Warming Since Industrial Revolution

Posted on April 26, 2016

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 …

Posted in Faculty Research, Global Change & Long-Term EcologyTagged climate change, ice cover, John Magnuson, Lake Suwa, Nature Research Reports, Sapna Sharma

Ice is Nice: Three Perks to the Polar Vortex

Posted on January 28, 2014

We get it. It is cold. Face (and mind) numbingly cold. But that’s not an “all bad” thing. There’s a lot to like about a real winter. And it begins with ice. Here are three …

Posted in Fishing, Boating & Water Recreation, Hasler Lab, Trout Lake StationTagged Center for Limnology, ice caves, ice cover, ice fishing, polar vortex, Wisconsin

CSI: Lake Monona Edition – Open Water in Negative Temps?

Posted on January 23, 2013

Over here at the CFL, all the talk has been about the ice covering Lake Mendota. That’s all well and good, but it’s diverted attention from something happening on the other side of the isthmus …

Posted in Global Change & Long-Term Ecology, Hasler Lab, Q&ATagged Center for Limnology, ice cover, Lake Monona, late freeze, Madison, open water

Another Year, Another Late Freeze on Lake Mendota

Posted on January 2, 2013

The view from Hasler Lab on Monday was one of windswept waves crashing into the ice-covered rocks of Lake Mendota’s southern shoreline. Not even a rim of pancake ice to slow their roll. Today the …

Posted in CFL History, Global Change & Long-Term Ecology, Hasler LabTagged global warming, ice cover, lake ice, Lake Mendota, limnology, UW Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Madison

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