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CFL’s Crowd-Sourced Secchi Slideshow: Happy Earth Day!

Posted on April 22, 2015

We asked, and you answered! It’s Earth Day and we’re continuing our shout out to the inventor of limnology’s most ubiquitous instrument. (Full captions to photos are posted below) Click on images above for slideshow. Fuller captions describing images are provided below: 1 – Pietro Angelo Secchi, dropped the first disk off the side …

Fish Fry Day: Sifting Through Seagull “Deposits” for Fish Facts

Posted on January 17, 2014

We apologize for the unsavory nature of this post on the day we celebrate Wisconsin’s fabulous fried fish culinary tradition, but we promise to leave out the gory details! After a summer spent in the shimmering waters of Crystal Lake, the Crystal Mixing Crew is hunkered down in the lab processing the samples they collected …