Last Thursday, UW Chancellor David Ward hosted a reception for the winners of the 2012 Academic Staff Excellence Awards. Susan Knight, Trout Lake Station’s interim director and outreach specialist, was one of the eight award …
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Smallmouth Bass: One Hazard of Fieldwork in Wisconsin Lakes
Center for Limnology grad student, Gretchen Hansen, took this video from a past summer’s field season up in Vilas County. While we’ll honor the tradition of fishermen not sharing their favorite spots, it’s safe to …
Freshwater Futures – LTER Short Film Series
Check out this new trailer for a series of short films chronicling the research being done as part of the National Science Foundation’s Long-Term Ecological Research program (LTER). You may recognize some shots of Center …
We Have Liftoff on the Crystal Mixing Project
Over the last three years a group of CFL students, professors and staff have worked on an experiment near Trout Lake Station that, they hope, will eradicate rainbow smelt and restore populations of native fish, …
The Summer of ’59: Chasing White Bass Across Mendota
The pier is in. The ice is off. Fish migrations are already underway. And that means that the “open water” field season at the Center for Limnology is about to begin. Before I start filling …
In the Field with Zoology 511 – Ecology of Fishes
I recently spent an afternoon with the Ecology of Fishes class. Check out the video below!