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Muckraking Mendota: “Take this fish and look at it”

Posted on September 13, 2013

Louis Agassiz was an early prominent ichthyologist (someone who studies fish) at Harvard in the mid-1800s. When one of his graduate students, Samuel Scudder, showed up for his first day, Agassiz told him to take …

Posted in Fish, Fish Fry Day, Hasler Lab, Muckraking MendotaTagged bluegill, crappie, Emily Hilts, Lake Mendota, Louis Agassiz, muckraking Mendota, naturalist

Muckraking Mendota: Mouthing Off (with Fish)

Posted on September 6, 2013

Last fall, as I moved in to a new house, I asked my parents (who are regular patrons of rummage sales) to look for a taxidermied fish. When they scrounged up a musky, with its …

Posted in Fish, Fish Fry Day, Hasler Lab, Muckraking MendotaTagged Center for Limnology, Emily Hilts, fish ecology, Lake Mendota, lter, Madison, muckraking Mendota

Muckraking Mendota: The Water/Land Interface

Posted on July 14, 2013

by Emily Hilts So far this summer, I’ve either stayed below the surface of Mendota’s waters or perched on top of the lake in a boat. Which means, of course, that I’ve been missing big …

Posted in Ecological Processes, Hasler Lab, Muckraking Mendota, Wildlife & WaterfowlTagged Center for Limnology, Emily Hilts, Madison, muckraking Mendota, wetlands

Muckraking Mendota: Breaking the Surface Barrier

Posted on June 19, 2013

by Emily Hilts While walking along the lakeshore to my first day of work, I spotted a smallmouth bass hanging out in the rocky shallows of Lake Mendota. After watching for a minute, it finally …

Posted in Fish, Fishing, Boating & Water Recreation, Hasler Lab, Muckraking MendotaTagged bass, Center for Limnology, Emily Hilts, Lake Mendota, muckraking Mendota, smallmouth bass

Muckraking Mendota: Learning to Love a Lake

Posted on June 12, 2013

This summer, UW-Madison undergrad, Emily Hilts, will be exploring Lake Mendota and the other Yahara lakes and writing a running diary of sorts detailing what she finds. Stay tuned for more great posts from her …

Posted in Ecological Processes, Hasler Lab, Muckraking MendotaTagged Center for Limnology, Emily Hilts, Lake Mendota, Madison, muckraking Mendota

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