As fall gives in to winter, we thought we’d hold the long cold season off a bit more with a tale from open water days and the warming months of spring… A number of years ago, CFL senior research technician, Ted Bier, got a call from a friend who had just biked in to campus …
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 lakes that make up a study area of the National Science Foundation-funded Long-Term Ecological Research program, or LTER. There are …
Hello There Loyal Blog Reader (and/or Brand-New Visitor!) We here at the Center for Limnology are committed to bringing you all the best we have to offer, from just-published research, to an inside look at our labs, to virtual “ride-alongs” with teams out doing field work. But we acknowledge the regularity of such content has been …
This summer, a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for Limnology and Wright State University in Ohio, are on the shores of Africa’s Lake Tanganyika, the oldest and deepest of the African rift lakes. Understanding how “Lake T” works is imperative in order to protect its remarkable biodiversity ( there are more …
“Alright. Who is ready to get messy?” Zach Lawson’s question is greeted with incredible enthusiasm. It is all-hands-on-deck in the wet lab and, today, everyone is sorting bugs. Ten undergraduate students crowd around two small tables, armed with small plastic sampling bottles and metal tweezers. They meticulously sift through plastic tubs of sand, muck and …
All summer long, Trout Lake Station outreach assistant, Ali Branscombe will be bringing you stories from the field. Join Ali as she follows researchers slogging through wetlands, boarding boats, and wrangling fish, bringing you – Limnology in Action. It is a cold morning with scattered showers and random peeks of sunshine between the dark clouds. …