Following up on our posts of Lake Mendota freezing while Monona flirted with open water, Ted Bier, the Long-Term Ecological Research team’s senior research specialist, sent in this photo. It shows Ted a few winters back drilling a hole through twenty inches of ice on Lake Monona, while open water laps at the edge in …
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 – Lake Monona is refusing to freeze. UPDATE: Matt Schwei reports that, ow that the temps have moved to being …
Another week, another winner! Blog follower “Gator” heaves a last-second desperation shot at the buzzer and wins it all (note: “it” ain’t much!) with the caption: The Carp Curl Since the “fish weighs more than you do” jokes were flying during the taking of that shot, we had to give a nod to anything referencing …
As fall gives in to winter, we thought we’d hold the long cold season off a bit more with a tale from open water days and the warming months of spring… A number of years ago, CFL senior research technician, Ted Bier, got a call from a friend who had just biked in to campus …