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Winter Limnology

Boat Frozen to Trailer? Just Another Day in the Field for North Temperate Lakes LTER!

Posted on December 1, 2021

On the last day of November, Carol Warden and Paul Schramm, research specialists for the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research project (NTL-LTER), headed out to the deepest part of Trout Lake to deploy a …

Posted in LTER, Trout Lake StationTagged Carol Warden, lter, Northwoods, Paul Schramm, Trout Lake, Vilas County, Winter Limnology

Video: Why We’re Spending Another Winter Snowplowing a Bog

Posted on February 5, 2021

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 …

Posted in Learn Your Lakes, Winter LimnologyTagged Adrianna Gorsky, Center for Limnology, Ellie Socha, Hilary Dugan, Katie Thorensen WXPR, Linnea Rock, Vilas County, Winter Limnology, winter research

Why Do We Say Lake Mendota is Frozen Before it’s Fully Frozen?

Posted on January 11, 2021

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 …

Posted in Learn Your Lakes, Limnology 101Tagged lake ice, Lake Mendota freeze, long-term datasets, Madison lakes, Madison Wisconsin, Winter Limnology, Wisconsin winter

Why Did These Freshwater Scientists Spend Their Winter Plowing a Bog?

Posted on March 31, 2020

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 …

Posted in Graduate Student Research, Trout Lake Station, Water Quality, Hydrology & NutrientsTagged Emily Whitaker, greenhouse gases, Trout Lake, Winter Limnology

Guest Post: How Do Fish Handle Cold Water?

Posted on January 29, 2018

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 …

Posted in FishTagged frozen fish, ice fishing, The Fisheries Blog, Winter Limnology

Slideshow: “Kids on Ice” for Annual Winter Limnology Program

Posted on February 5, 2014

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 …

Posted in Hasler Lab, OutreachTagged Luke Loken, science outreach, UW-Madison, Winter Limnology

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