by Luke Loken Autumn is typically associated with fall colors, pumpkin spice lattes, and cool temperatures. However this year, much of the Midwest has been stuck in summer-like conditions. And these record temperatures come with …
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Trout Lake Research Rewind: Bog Walks, Lab Work & Wild Rice
by Riley Steinbrenner Week One One of the first things I did up north was walk on water–well, on a bog, that is! TLS Interim Director Susan Knight took CFL outreach/communications specialist Adam Hinterthuer and …
Bass Set to Win, Walleye Lose Under Warming Projections
Following up on our call for political officials in Wisconsin to start taking climate change seriously, here is a post originally published in September of 2016 about one of the potential impacts global warming will …
Notes from the Northwoods: Electrofishing on Allequash Lake
This summer, Anna Krieg, an undergraduate at Arizona State University, will spend a few months in a much wetter habitat as the CFL’s summer outreach intern at our Trout Lake Station. Enjoy her Notes from …
Fish Fry Day Video: Walleye on the Run
While our post doctoral researcher, Solomon David, prefers more primitive fishes, like the northern pike he was recently catching, tagging and studying during their annual spring migration run, he also stumbled across (okay, waded into) …
Fish Fry Day: Sturgeon Take the Elevator & Climate Change Ruins Everything
Happy Fish Fry Day! Battered, fried deliciousness will on Wisconsin menus this evening, so consider this an appetizer. Before you tuck in to a plate of bluegill, perch, walleye or (if you must) cod, here …
2012 In Review – Electrofishing, Pike-Hunting and The Return of Phantom Midge
2012 was a great year to be a limnologist. Center for Limnology researchers got out in the field to conduct interesting experiments in beautiful settings, papers published by both faculty and students received all sorts …
Fishing in the Dark
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 …
Crystal Lake: Are Invasive Smelt on Their Way Out?
Back in 2009, a team of engineers and scientists affiliated with the Center for Limnology had a crazy idea – they wanted to see if they could manipulate an entire lake to kill off an …