The water outside the window here at Hasler Lab is, well, hard. Sailboats are still stored for the winter and our pier is safely tucked away. But tomorrow is the first day of Spring and …
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Letting Kids Be Limnologists for a Day
Gloomy Monday got you down? Here’s something to cheer you up. Last Friday, 3rd graders from Arbor Vitae-Woodruff came out to Trout Lake Station for Schoolyard LTER, an annual educational event putting limnological tools into …
Wild Kingdom in Madtown: Tundra Swan Stopover
Last Sunday, CFL director, Steve Carpenter, happened to be out and about with his camera and spotting scope on the Lake Mendota shoreline. Out in the middle of the lake, where the ice edge met …
Another Year, Another Late Freeze on Lake Mendota
The view from Hasler Lab on Monday was one of windswept waves crashing into the ice-covered rocks of Lake Mendota’s southern shoreline. Not even a rim of pancake ice to slow their roll. Today the …
2012 In Review – Electrofishing, Pike-Hunting and The Return of Phantom Midge
2012 was a great year to be a limnologist. Center for Limnology researchers got out in the field to conduct interesting experiments in beautiful settings, papers published by both faculty and students received all sorts …
Center for Limnology Annual Newsletter
‘Tis the Season for the Center for Limnology’s annual newsletter. For a good look at some of the things we got up to this year, as well as faculty milestones, alumni news and grad student …
Wordless Wednesday – Take 7
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 …
Wordless Wednesday – Take 5
Another week, another winner in the Center for Limnology “Wordless Wednesday” photo caption contest! This week’s winner gets the gold for a clever combination of username “Ahab” and the following caption: “I’d rather harpoon a …
Wordless Wednesday – Take 4
The third installment of the “Wordless” Wednesday Photo Caption Contest didn’t disappoint, and this week the winner of our illustrious (and imaginary) is….well, they posted anonymously, so we have no idea but congratulations anon! Here’s …
Wordless Wednesday – Take 3
The second installment of the “Wordless” Wednesday Photo Caption Contest generated a lot of good submissions, but we’re giving the (imaginary) award this week to clever captioner, Denise Karns, whose title “center assistant” doesn’t begin …