@hildug

Limnologist and Assistant Professor at UW-Madison. Canadian-American. Pocket enthusiast.

Joined February 2012
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Lake ice science! @WiscLimnology #limnology #lakeice #scicomm #actuallivingscientist
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my take: Lake Vanda has the best lake ice in the world youtu.be/Qcp1DmCUhq8?feature…
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It’s July and Lake Mendota looks like a lake I’d swim in 😳
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We're hiring 2 postdocs for new @mnenrtf projects! Interested in career experience at a nonprofit research org? Curious how #RoadSalt affects aquatic foodwebs? Want to learn more about how #RockSnot is threatening coldwater streams? Apply here: tinyurl.com/25psjhc2
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See the difference between a clear air over Madison and a blanket of wildfire smoke through the lens of the @UW_AOS rooftop cameras.
A screen capture of matching images of the Madison skyline with a slider that alternates between clear air om Nay 27, 2023 and air filled with wildfire smoke on June 27, 2023

ALT A screen capture of matching images of the Madison skyline with a slider that alternates between clear air om Nay 27, 2023 and air filled with wildfire smoke on June 27, 2023

UW–Madison Dept of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences@UW_AOS27 Jun 2023
One of the scientists in our building put together this good air/bad air comparison from the east facing AOSS rooftop camera. Just wow.. #wiwx #swiwx @NWSMilwaukee cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxta…
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Today is the Day! Come down to Hasler Lab between 2-6 pm for some hands-on science & free @babcockdairy ice cream! Let’s make this year’s open house one to remember! blog.limnology.wisc.edu/2023… – at Wisconsin, USA

Hasler Lab Open House This Friday, June 21!

Calling all lake lovers! (Or wetland enthusiasts, river runners, pond explorers, etc.) This Friday, June 21st, you’re invited to Hasler Lab’s Annual Open House. Each summer we pick a Friday afternoon...

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Nice new touch to the Lake Mendota shoreline, @UWMadison @WisconsinUnion
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Lower Yahara
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Robert Ladwig@hydrobert1 Jun 2023
Are you a limnologist working on stratified lakes? Then surely you read or used stability metrics like Schmidt stability to quantify how stratified the water column is? But did you ever wonder what they really tell us and how they were developed in the first place?
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Heavy spring rains and warm temperatures have created ideal conditions for the unsightly, toxic algae blooms, as well as weeds. madison.com/news/local/envir…

Blue-green algae, weeds plague Madison lakes early this year

Heavy spring rains and warm temperatures have created ideal conditions for the unsightly, toxic algae blooms, as well as weeds.

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Can confirm that Lake Mendota is currently gross. If you process the #Sentinel2 image differently, you can see bright blue (turquoise) at the north of the lake, as well as by Spring Harbor. Dying scums of cyanobacteria? Calcium carbonate precipitation? Satellites are cool.
CyanoTRACKER@CyanoTracker24 May 2023
On-going bloom in Lake Mendota, Wisconsin as captured in the recent #Sentinel2 scene. @WDNR @WiscLimnology @FreshwaterSteve @CopernicusEU @ArleneKoziol
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Supervising the hard work
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Lake Mendota big bird club
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Andrew Hahn@ndrewhahn8 May 2023
Been a little obsessed lately with mapping in crochet. Here’s bathymetry for Lake Mendota in worsted weight wool and acrylic. Each stitch roughly equals 300 sq meters, and each layer represents a depth change of 10 meters. #gischat
A small crocheted square comprises of four superimposed layers representing depth contours for Lake Mendota. The top orange layer represents the land, and each blue layer underneath represents a deeper part of the lake.

ALT A small crocheted square comprises of four superimposed layers representing depth contours for Lake Mendota. The top orange layer represents the land, and each blue layer underneath represents a deeper part of the lake.

A crocheted map of Lake Mendota sitting on a rock overlooking a frozen Lake Mendota.

ALT A crocheted map of Lake Mendota sitting on a rock overlooking a frozen Lake Mendota.

A grid of squares that outline lake Mendota and show deeper shades of blue at deeper depths. This is the crochet pattern for a map of Lake Mendota.

ALT A grid of squares that outline lake Mendota and show deeper shades of blue at deeper depths. This is the crochet pattern for a map of Lake Mendota.

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Great morning to be a limnologist on Lake Mendota
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Congrats to @WiscLimnology alum Elena Bennett (@ElenaBennett) on your inducted into the National Academy of Sciences. It's inspiring that our current grad students have such incredible role models. Although maybe we take that too far...
National Academy of Sciences@theNASciences28 Apr 2023
Congratulations Elena M. Bennett of @mcgillu, newly inducted #NASmember! #NAS160 #engineering
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Clearly nothing has changed
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Mendota was knocking at the door
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Sentinel catching Lake Superior getting a little swirly yesterday
Sentinel image of Western Lake Superior, 2023-04-26

ALT Sentinel image of Western Lake Superior, 2023-04-26

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The foxes agree the (public) golf course should be a city park.
Barry Adams@madnewsboy24 Apr 2023
So when Glenway Golf Course in Madison was redesigned, the greens were built with a base of sand, not dirt. And that drew the foxes, who love to dig in sand. Three of the fox found themselves in a study on translocation by the @UWCanidProject. madison.com/news/local/foxes…

Foxes wreaking havoc on Madison golf course become part of relocation study

The UW Urban Canid Project relocated eight fox, three of which were vandalizing a Madison golf course, and found they can travel great distances but sometimes at deadly cost.

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I just witnessed an exorcism
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