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Beneath the Surface, Long-Term Lake Monitoring Reveals the Drama of a Food Web in Flux

Posted on March 14, 2022

Seen from shore, it doesn’t look like a lot is going on in Trout Lake in northern Wisconsin. Aside from windy days that shove waves against its mostly wooded shoreline, the lake presents, more often …

Posted in Ecological Processes, Learn Your Lakes, LTERTagged ASLO, Ben Martin, food web, limnology, North Temperate Lakes, NTL LTER, regime shift, trohpic cascade

Our Top 5 Posts of 2021: Dead Zones, Sleeper Populations & Good News on Algae Blooms

Posted on January 3, 2022

Happy New Year! Here’s hoping 2022 trends upward a little more steeply than the past couple of years. We here at the Center for Limnology are excited to share even more freshwater news, research and …

Posted in Learn Your Lakes, Limnology 101, UncategorizedTagged algae blooms, dead zones, Great Lakes, limnology, water protectors, year end lists

Our Science Communication Intern is Back “On Station” at Trout Lake – This Time In Person!

Posted on May 24, 2021

by Cassie Gauthier I woke up around 6:00 am for my first day of work this summer. Not because the drive was far – it’s just a little under 20 minutes and I didn’t need …

Posted in Science Communication, Trout Lake StationTagged limnology, Northwoods, science communication, Trout Lake Station

Socially Distant Science: How COVID Complicated Summer 2020 Research

Posted on December 1, 2020

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) …

Posted in Hasler Lab, Trout Lake StationTagged FIsh Lake, Joe Mrnak, limnology, lter, NTL LTER, socially distant science, Sparkling Lake, summer 2020 fieldwork, Ted Bier

Virtual Summer Still Made a Real-World Impact on Undergraduate Researchers

Posted on September 25, 2020

Like most things in 2020, summer at Trout Lake Station was very different this year. Normally, a handful of graduate students and several dozen mostly UW-Madison undergrads would spend summer living on station and conducting …

Posted in Science Communication, Trout Lake StationTagged limnology, Trout Lake Station, undergraduate research, UW-Madison, virtual fieldwork

Water We Talking About? Nothing – Please Send Questions!

Posted on July 17, 2020

Readers of this blog may be startled to log on today and find no inquisitive young mind querying aquatic scientists about our inland waters. Maybe it’s because we’re on the COVID-19 version of summer break. …

Posted in Water We Talking About?Tagged Center for Limnology, freshwater science, kids science, limnology, scicomm, Water We Talking About?, Wisconsin Idea

Water We Talking About? Water, The Moon, and Catching Catfish

Posted on May 22, 2020

Happy Friday! It’s that time again – when kids across Wisconsin (and the country, really) sending questions and we track down real-life scientists to answer them. This week Wisconsin’s leading fish expert and a  – …

Posted in Water We Talking About?Tagged channel catfish, John Lyons, limnology, Maggie Turnbull, moon, sturgeon, water on Earth, Water We Talking About?, world's largest fish

Water We Talking About? A Pennsylvania Pond Infested with “Fleas”

Posted on April 24, 2020

We realize we’ve all lost track of time as we continue to flatten the COVID-19 curve but, trust us, it’s Friday. And that means it’s time for Water We Talking About? Kids have questions and …

Posted in Ecological Processes, Graduate Student Research, Water We Talking About?Tagged ask a scientist, clear water phase, daphnia, limnology, Mike Spear, water fleas, Water We Talking About?

Towing for Tiny invasives

Posted on August 14, 2019

Our summer science communication intern is back at it again. This week, Bethany Prochnow headed out into the field with a team of researchers looking for a tiny invasive crustacean…

Posted in Graduate Student Research, Trout Lake StationTagged Ben Martin, Bethany Prochnow, Boulder Junction, Escanaba Lake, featured, invasive species, limnology, Nebish Lake, Northwoods, Sci Comm, spiny water flea, Trout Lake Station

More Than Just Muck -What Can Bugs Tell Us About the State of a Lake?

Posted on June 27, 2019

Bethany Prochnow, our summer scicomm intern is back at it. Here’s a look at one undergrad’s deep dive into the bottom of a lake.

Posted in Trout Lake Station, Uncategorized, Undergraduate ResearchTagged limnology, lter
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