The following Q&A of CFL professor, Pete McIntyre was recently featured on the Nature Conservancy’s “Cool Green Science” blog. More about the Lake T. snail project is here. by: Jenny Rogers For the past 20 years, biologist Pete McIntyre has traveled to Africa’s Lake Tanganyika, Earth’s second-largest freshwater lake by volume, to study freshwater snails …
by Mari N. Jensen and Adam Hinterthuer FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – The decrease in fishery productivity in Africa’s largest lake is a consequence of global warming rather than just overfishing, according to a report to be published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Lake Tanganyika, situated mainly between Tanzania …
Readers of this blog may already be aware that Pete McIntyre and a handful of his staff and students are undertaking a big research project in Tanzania. Now a new interactive website is in the works that will let folks at home follow along as the team plies the waters of Africa’s gigantic Lake Tanganyika. …
The CFL’s Ellen Hamann, lab manager for Pete McIntyre’s lab, has been back in Africa this summer, helping continue research on Lake Tanganyika. She sent in this note from the field before returning to Madison for fall semester. By Ellen Hamann For the past 48 hours, Benja (Ben Kraemer from Pete McIntyre’s lab) and I …
Field season is, of course, where the best photo ops and a lot of the fun of being a research scientist happens. If you’re a loyal reader of this blog, you’ll remember a handful of lively dispatches from the CFL’s Ellen Hamann as she worked this summer with the McIntyre lab on the Tanzania shoreline …
School is back in session, and Ellen is safely back on the shores of Lake Mendota, but before we wrap up our summer series on her adventures researching Lake Tanganyika for Pete McIntyre’s lab, here’s a final dispatch from Africa… The Final Push It’s my last week on Lake Tanganyika for the year, and Ben …
In the summer of 2012, a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Limnology and Wright State University in Ohio, will call the shores of Africa’s Lake Tanganyika home. The oldest and deepest of the African rift lakes, Tanganyika is a natural wonder under severe threat. What’s more, it’s near-shore ecosystem contains …