Before the ice melts off these lakes here in Madison (we will get ice-off this year, right???), we thought we’d share a report from our senior research technician, Ted Bier, who you may have seen …
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“Weird” Ice The Norm for Madison Lakes
Following up on our posts of Lake Mendota freezing while Monona flirted with open water, Ted Bier, the Long-Term Ecological Research team’s senior research specialist, sent in this photo. It shows Ted a few winters …
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 …
Fishing in the Dark
A few weeks ago, a team of students and staff headed out on Lake Mendota well after sundown. The group was taking a yearly census of fish populations in Lake Mendota, one of several Wisconsin …
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 …