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January Freeze Dates Becoming the Norm for Madison Lakes

Posted on January 12, 2022

When Lake Monona in Madison, Wisconsin froze over a few days after New Year’s Eve, it marked the beginning of “ice season,” a time of year when (once the ice gets thick enough, of course) …

Posted in Learn Your Lakes, LTERTagged climate change Wisconsin, ice fishing, ice skating, lake ice, Lake Mendota, Lake Monona, Madison lakes

Is Tiny Find in Lake Mendota a Silver Lining for a Declining Species?

Posted on September 20, 2021

Earlier this summer, Alice Ogden-Nussbaum was checking on a gill net she had set a day earlier in Lake Mendota’s deepest waters. As she rolled the curtain of net up out of the lake, a …

Posted in Fish, Learn Your Lakes, LTERTagged cisco, lake herring, Lake Mendota, lter, Madison fishing, Wisconsin fishes

Clear Water? Yes. Green Scum? Also yes. What’s Going on Out There?

Posted on May 14, 2021

by Jake Vander Zanden  — You may have noticed that, In the last week or so, the Madison lakes have been crystal clear, with visibility of up to 30 feet recorded in Lake Mendota by …

Posted in Ecological Processes, Learn Your LakesTagged clear water, Jake Walsh, Lake Mendota, Lake Monona, Madison algae bloom, Wisconsin lakes

Study Finds Link Between Climate Change and Longer “Dead Zones” in Lakes

Posted on March 15, 2021

A new study in the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences is linking climate change to yet another environmental impact – longer lasting “dead zones” In lakes. According to the study, warm summer weather is …

Posted in Ecological Processes, Learn Your LakesTagged climate change impacts, dead zone, fish kills, lake anoxia, Lake Mendota, Robert Ladwig

Study: Stories of Invasive Species Often Begin with Undetected “Sleeper Populations”

Posted on February 17, 2021

When an invasive species overruns an ecosystem, it is often assumed that the organism recently arrived at its new home and rapidly took over. But a report published in the journal, BioScience, says that many …

Posted in Invasive Species, Learn Your LakesTagged BioScience, invasive species, Jake Vander Zanden, Lake Mendota, Mike Spear, spiny water flea, Zebra mussel

Winter in Wisconsin: Life on Ice

Posted on January 15, 2021

For those of us lucky enough to live where our lakes freeze in the winter, one of the true joys of the season is getting out on the ice. Suddenly, a space that was only …

Posted in Learn Your Lakes, Limnology 101Tagged frozen lake, lake ice, Lake Mendota, Lake Monona, Madison lakes, Wisconsin winter

Will Madison’s Lakes Get Ice for Christmas?

Posted on December 21, 2020

If you’ve been checking the forecast for Christmas Eve here in Wisconsin, you’ve no doubt seen that a bit of a cold snap is on its way. While the past several days have hovered just …

Posted in Learn Your LakesTagged lake ice, Lake Mendota, Madison lake freeze, Madison lakes, Wisconsin winter

Learn Your Lakes. What’s a Watershed?

Posted on September 18, 2020

Last week was the first time in a while that hunkering down at home for days on end was a response to weather and not a decision driven by spiking COVID numbers. Here in south/central …

Posted in Learn Your Lakes, Limnology 101Tagged Lake Mendota, Mississippi River, Rock River, waters of Wisconsin, watershed, Wisconsin watersheds, Yahara Lakes

Guest Post: An Invasive Species and An Education on An Ever-Changing Lake

Posted on August 26, 2020

by Julia Buskirk – In 2015, Petra Wakker began her college experience alongside Lake Mendota. She was no stranger to this waterway—before walking alongside the lake on her way to classes at UW-Madison, Wakker had …

Posted in Learn Your LakesTagged Holding History, invasive species, Julia Buskirk, Lake Mendota, Petra Wakker, Water Lines, zebra mussels

Socially Distanced Science: Head-Hunting at Home!

Posted on July 27, 2020

Back in March of this year, just as it was becoming clear that “business as usual” was about to be a thing of the past, Petra Wakker walked into Room 101 of Hasler Lab and …

Posted in Ecological Processes, Hasler Lab, Learn Your LakesTagged lake flies, Lake Mendota, midges, paleolimnology, Petra Wakker, science at home, socially distant science
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