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Lake Loop: Bacteria in Lake Mendota Repeat A Cycle of Evolution Year After Year

Posted on January 6, 2025

Like Bill Murray in the movie Groundhog Day, bacteria species in a Wisconsin lake are in a kind of endless loop that they can’t seem to shake. Except in this case, it’s more like Groundhog …

Posted in Learn Your Lakes, LTERTagged lake ecology, Lake Mendota, lter, microbial ecology, microbial evolotion, microbial observatory, Trina McMahon, viral evolution

Unthreading the Mussel Mystery: Part 3

Posted on August 5, 2024

We’re back with CFL postdoc Tyler Butts and his team as they explore how invasive species interact with eutrophic lakes. As you may have noticed, they are a dedicated crew! by Madelyn Anderson – When I …

Posted in Invasive Species, LTER, Post Doc ResearchTagged Grace Wilkinson, invasive species, Lake Mendota, long-term ecological research, lter, NTL LTER, Trina McMahon, Tyler Butts, zebra mussels

A Day in the Life of the Long-Term Research Crew

Posted on July 17, 2024

by Audrey Hoey-Kummerow – Arriving at Allequash Lake early in the morning, I was filled with excitement and curiosity. I was about to get a front-row seat to the work that goes into being part …

Posted in LTER, Trout Lake StationTagged Allequash Lake, Audrey Hoey-Kummerow, long-term ecological research, lter, Trout Lake Station

Fieldwork Photo Essay: Long-Term Ecological Research on Wisconsin Lakes

Posted on July 19, 2023

Trout Lake Station summer science communication intern, Maddie Gamble, spent time with the station’s long-term ecological research field crew. She put together this photo essay about their work. All words and pictures: Maddie Gamble 

Posted in LTER, Science Communication, Trout Lake StationTagged ecology, limnology, Long Term Ecological Research, lter, Trout Lake Station, UW-Madison

Boat Frozen to Trailer? Just Another Day in the Field for North Temperate Lakes LTER!

Posted on December 1, 2021

On the last day of November, Carol Warden and Paul Schramm, research specialists for the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research project (NTL-LTER), headed out to the deepest part of Trout Lake to deploy a …

Posted in LTER, Trout Lake StationTagged Carol Warden, lter, Northwoods, Paul Schramm, Trout Lake, Vilas County, Winter Limnology

Guest Post: In the Right Place All the Time – Greenhouse Gas Research and NTL-LTER

Posted on October 19, 2021

By Lori Balster. Originally published in Environmental Monitor, October 12, 2021 While researchers all over the globe have been studying greenhouse gases, there are still some areas in the field that have not received as …

Posted in Emily Stanley, LTERTagged climate change, greenhouse gases, lfreshwater science, lter

Is Tiny Find in Lake Mendota a Silver Lining for a Declining Species?

Posted on September 20, 2021

Earlier this summer, Alice Ogden-Nussbaum was checking on a gill net she had set a day earlier in Lake Mendota’s deepest waters. As she rolled the curtain of net up out of the lake, a …

Posted in Fish, Learn Your Lakes, LTERTagged cisco, lake herring, Lake Mendota, lter, Madison fishing, Wisconsin fishes

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

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

Fish by the Light of the Blood Moon: Late-Night Research on Northwoods Lakes

Posted on August 27, 2018

Night was falling quickly over Big Muskellunge Lake. The pink glow of sunset was fading to grey, and a damp wind that cut through my thin raincoat had kicked up over the water. On our …

Posted in Fish, LTER, Trout Lake StationTagged electrofishing, Long Term Ecological Research, lter, Noah Lottig, Pam Montz, walleye, Wisconsin fishing, yellow perch
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