This year marks the second season for our ambitious winter limnology experiment up in Vilas County. In case you missed our initial post about why in the world someone would spend all winter plowing a …
Winter Limnology
Why Do We Say Lake Mendota is Frozen Before it’s Fully Frozen?
This weekend, the Center for Limnology Twitter account was tagged in a post from the UW Department of Emergency Medicine’s chief flight physician and pilot, Mike Abernethy, who had been flying a helicopter over Lake …
Why Did These Freshwater Scientists Spend Their Winter Plowing a Bog?
As March gives way to April, spring is springing throughout Wisconsin. Boats are again braving the waves of lakes down south, while ice is slowly melting away in the half-frozen lakes of the Northwoods. As …
Guest Post: How Do Fish Handle Cold Water?
Each winter people ask us what, exactly, is everything doing down under that ice? As those ice fishing shanties dotting the frozen surface of our lakes attest, fish are still active. So how, exactly, do …
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 …