Mussel Murder Mystery

Mussel Murder Mystery

On a cool, sunny morning, Eric Leis trudges through the glassy water of Lake Onalaska and stops about fifteen feet from shore. He dips a large, flat rake into the water and sweeps it along the bottom. A parasitologist and fish biologist at the La Crosse Fish Health...
Tiny Changes, Big Impact

Tiny Changes, Big Impact

On the shores of Lake Michigan, one of the largest sources of fresh water in the world, Rebecca Klaper is busy pouring the tiniest materials humans have ever made into tanks containing some of the smallest members of the Great Lakes food web. Klaper is a professor in...
To Keep Every Cog & Wheel

To Keep Every Cog & Wheel

On a particularly hot July day during the summer of 2012, Phil Cochran, Gary Borash, and I were netting fish in the backwaters and side channels of the Mississippi River in southwestern Wisconsin. We were working for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources on an...