Tag: science outreach

Live and In-Person (Again) – Center for Limnology Open Houses!

Would you like to learn more about our lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands? Do you love freshwater? How about swimming or fishing or Babcock Dairy ice cream? If your answer is yes to any of these questions, then mark your calendar for our summer Open Houses! Hasler Lab Open House – Madison – Friday, June …

Explore Our Community’s Smaller Water Bodies at “Pond Exploration Days”

Anyone who lives in the Madison metropolitan area is familiar with Lake Mendota and Lake Monona, the two large bodies of water that frame the city skyline. But there are more modest freshwater systems that also define our landscape – the ponds scattered throughout urban parks and suburban neighborhoods.  While Lake Mendota is often described …

Save The Dates! Center for Limnology Annual Open Houses

Would you like to learn more about our lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands? Do you love freshwater? How about swimming or fishing or Babcock Dairy ice cream? If your answer is yes to any of these questions, then mark your calendars for our summer Open Houses! Hasler Lab Open House – Madison – Friday, June …

Day of the Badger: 3 Reasons to Support the Center for Limnology

Tomorrow, as you may have heard, is the first ever “Day of the Badger” a one-day UW–Madison fundraising spree and our little center is one of the participants. We’re raising money to increase our outreach efforts and our ability to give undergraduate students world-class, hands-on research experience on Wisconsin waters. Here are three reasons you …

Field Samples: The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Science

Field Samples is a Q&A with researchers presenting at our weekly Wednesday seminar. Today the CFL’s distinguished research professor, Paul Hanson, will use music as a science communication tool. Tune in online for the live creation of a musical piece on harmful algal blooms! We’ll also live Tweet – #cflseminar  Who are you, where are you from, and …

Trout Lake Station’s 5th Annual Open House!

It’s that time of year again – as July gives way to August, we’re spiffing up our research station and ordering tubs of Babcock ice cream for our annual open house and ice cream social. If you’ll be in the Minocqua area next Friday, July 31st, come on by between 1-5pm and board a boat, take …

Slideshow: “Kids on Ice” for Annual Winter Limnology Program

Over the course of four Saturdays, from January 25th – February 15th, Center for Limnology graduate students are instructing a group of middle school students on the fundamentals of how limnologists do their research on frozen waters.     The program is part of the larger University of Wisconsin’s Saturday Enrichment Program. Over the course …