Well, it’s that time of the week again. The day in Wisconsin offers up its fabulous fish fry dinners and the day here at the blog where we celebrate some of our favorite fishes. If you missed the first installment of “Fish Fry Day,” you can learn more about that beautiful panfish, the pumpkinseed, by …
Here in Wisconsin, the end of the work week is often celebrated with a dinner of lightly battered, deep-fried deliciousness. We’re talking bluegill, perch, walleye and, for those not yet hip enough to eat our delectable native fish – cod. Here at the blog, we decided we’d celebrate the quintessential fish fry by taking some …
Happy World Water Day! While we’ve got it pretty good in this country when it comes to clean and available water, getting to that point took a lot of political action, public pressure and well-crafted laws. In honor of that, we offer the video below on the history (and future) of Wisconsin’s water. UW Law …
When it comes to moving in to Wisconsin lakes, aquatic invasive species have a preferred mode of transport – one that often involves an outboard motor. Scientists at the UW–Madison Center for Limnology and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources are in the middle of a five year study exploring the spread and distribution of …
We don’t want to start a fuss over here at the CFL blog, but the unmistakable beeping of a big yellow machine hard at work drew our attention outside this afternoon. It turns out that we were, thankfully, getting some of our snowed-in parking spots cleared out. Unfortunately, the end result was a big pile …
UPDATE: Due to the awesome amount of interest this post has generated, we thought we’d share last year’s more in-depth look at the late freeze AND a post on flu season and Lake Wingra to inject a bit more science into the proceedings! For the post you were linked to, read on: This Monday, I …
Field season is, of course, where the best photo ops and a lot of the fun of being a research scientist happens. If you’re a loyal reader of this blog, you’ll remember a handful of lively dispatches from the CFL’s Ellen Hamann as she worked this summer with the McIntyre lab on the Tanzania shoreline …
Last Sunday, CFL director, Steve Carpenter, happened to be out and about with his camera and spotting scope on the Lake Mendota shoreline. Out in the middle of the lake, where the ice edge met the open water, he spied a large gathering of migrating tundra swans. “There were several hundred of them in the …
The view from Hasler Lab on Monday was one of windswept waves crashing into the ice-covered rocks of Lake Mendota’s southern shoreline. Not even a rim of pancake ice to slow their roll. Today the lake is, well, a little calmer. But out in the middle of Madison’s main aquatic feature, the dark blue of …
MADISON – Water covers 70% of the earth’s surface, makes up the majority of our bodies, and its use, quality, and availability are some of the most critical issues facing our world today. Water is also a critical area of research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a fact that can sometimes be obscured, because water-related …