Trout Lake Station summer science communication intern, Maddie Gamble, spent time with the station’s pelagic food web crew. She put together this photo essay about their work. All words and pictures: Maddie Gamble (NOTE: All pictures show IRB-certified field technicians and researchers)
This article first appeared in our 2020 Annual Newsletter. Earlier this summer, Ted Bier was out on Lake Monona with the Madison skyline bobbing in the background collecting samples for the North Temperate Lakes (NTL) Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) project. It was Bier’s 18th year with the NTL-LTER but, like most things in 2020, …
by Cassie Gauthier – Each individual lake is like its own “mini world.” They all are unique in their shape, size, water depth, water temperature, and plant and animal composition. Often, the current conditions of a lake can tell the story of the lake’s past, and how it could look in the future. Each individual …