University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Letting Kids Be Limnologists for a Day

Gloomy Monday got you down? Here’s something to cheer you up. Last Friday, 3rd graders from Arbor Vitae-Woodruff came out to Trout Lake Station for Schoolyard LTER, an annual educational event putting limnological tools into kids’ hands. The results were, obviously, unbearably cute. Enjoy! Needless to say, we’re looking forward to next year’s Schoolyard and …

Another Year, Another Late Freeze on Lake Mendota

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 …