Category: WN@TL Blog

UW MIA Project’s 2022 Mission in Belgium; Climate Change & the Consequences of Suboptimal Temperatures on Reproduction; At the Intersection of Wildlife & Aviation

“Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” Public Science Talks Wednesdays at 7pm CT Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI,  or Stream at go.wisc.edu/240r59   For 7 September 2022     Hi WN@TL Fans, My Dad was born in Milwaukee in October 1925 and graduated from Washington Park High School in Racine in the spring of …

The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors; The MIA Project’s 2022 Mission to Belgium; Climate Change & the Consequences of Suboptimal Temperatures on Reproduction

“Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” Public Science Talks Wednesdays at 7pm CT Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI,  or Stream at go.wisc.edu/240r59   For 31 August 2022     Hi WN@TL Fans, Fifty years ago this month all nine members of my family piled into our blue 1972 Dodge Coronet station wagon and headed out …

The Lakeshore Nature Preserve: UW-Madison’s Largest Outdoor Classroom on Campus; The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors; The UW MIA Project’s 2022 Recovery Mission in Belgium

“Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” Public Science Seminar Wednesdays at 7pm CT Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI,  or Stream at go.wisc.edu/240r59   For 24 August 2022     Hi WN@TL Fans, Visitors to a house tend to be welcomed and to come in through the front door, especially first-time visitors.  But some visitors …

The Extremes of Antarctic Weather & Climate; The Lakeshore Nature Preserve; The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors

For 17 August 2022     Hi WN@TL Fans, Two weeks ago I was within a hundred miles of nicking the Arctic Circle.  I was on dry land in a T shirt and shorts.  Had I been within the same distance of the Antarctic Circle, I’d almost certainly be on water, perhaps ice, and would soon …

How a Fish Lost (and Regained) Its Worm: Evolutionary Genetics of Host-parasite Interactions; Observing the Extremes of Antarctic Weather and Climate

“Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” Public Science Seminar Wednesdays at 7pm CT Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI,  or Stream at go.wisc.edu/240r59   For 10 August 2022     Hi WN@TL Fans, Last week in Homer, Alaska, I had the pleasure of watching fishermen filet halibut and salmon with an alacrity far beyond my surgical skills.  …

Snakes Around Town; How a Fish Lost (and Regained) Its Worm; Observing the Extremes of Antarctic Weather & Climate

    “Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” Public Science Seminar Wednesdays at 7pm CT Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI,  or Stream at go.wisc.edu/240r59   For 3 August 2022     Hi WN@TL Fans, Like Eve, my up-close interactions with snakes have been few and memorable. My Dad threw stones at a western diamondback …

The WiBee App Wisconsin’s Wild Bees; Building a Better Potato: Fighting Diseases at the Molecular Level; Snakes Around Town: Tracking Snakes in Madison-Area Prairie Restorations

  “Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” Public Science Seminar Wednesdays at 7pm CT Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI,  or Stream at go.wisc.edu/240r59   For 20 July 2022     Hi WN@TL Fans, For the past three weeks, I’ve been working as part of the UW–Madison MIA Recovery Team searching in Belgium for …

When Good Trees Go Bad; The WiBee App for Wild Bees; Building a Better Potato; Snakes Around Town

  “Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” Public Science Seminar Wednesdays at 7pm CT Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI,  or Zoom at go.wisc.edu/240r59   For 13 July 2022     Hi WN@TL Fans, In the novel “My Side of the Mountain” a teen-aged Sam Gribley chopped and burnt out a dwelling by expanding …

How Sea Ice Impacts the World; Diseased, Decayed, Defective & Dangerous–When Good Trees Go Bad; The WiBee App–The Wisconsin Wild Bee Community-Science Project

  Wednesdays at 7pm CT in room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI,  or Zoom at go.wisc.edu/240r59 For 6 July 2022     Hi WN@TL Fans, Today is the 4th of July, “The Day We Celebrate” as Mark Twain (among others) put it.  Twain celebrated the Fourth in London on at least three occasions:  1872, …

Wisconsin’s Role in Earth Imaging from Geostationary Orbit; How Sea Ice Impacts the World; Diseased, Decayed, Defective & Dangerous: When Good Trees Go Bad; The WiBee App

  Wednesdays at 7pm CT in room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI,  or Zoom at go.wisc.edu/240r59 For 29 June 2022     Hi WN@TL Fans,  Yesterday I had the pleasure of taking my family to the site near Buysscheure, France where in August 2016 I participated in a UW–Madison-led mission to find and recover …