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 Year. According to a new study in Nature Microbiology, researchers found that through the course of a year, most individual …
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 first met undergraduate invasive species technician Joey Munoz, he had a pile of live zebra mussels in front of him …
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 of the Long-Term Ecological Research crew. Trout Lakes Station’s LTER Crew consists of three members: Jean Traudt, who specializes in …
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
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 string of temperature sensors that will record real-time measurements of water temperatures all winter long – even under the ice …
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 much attention as they deserve. Emily Stanley, professor in the department of integrative biology at the University of Wisconsin and …
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 remarkable, silver-scaled find surfaced – one that made Alice reach for her phone and excitedly text a photo to her …
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) Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) project. It was Bier’s 18th year with the NTL-LTER but, like most things in 2020, …
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.
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 boat, Miriam Burgos pointed low at the horizon. “Do you see it?” she gasped. I followed her finger toward the …