Tag: lakes

Cold fingers: A potential new salt transport process under lake ice

Written on September 12, 2022.

– By Jason Olsthoorn – Introduction The more we look under lake ice, the more unexpected things we find. Recent field campaigns have shown that photoplankton levels under lake ice can be almost as...

Thermal stratification in lakes determines where fish are, but also modifies how well acoustic telemetry can detect them

Written on July 31, 2022.

– By Mathew Wells, Yulong Kuai, and Yulu Shi – The habitat usage of fish in large lakes and the coastal ocean is in part determined by thermal stratification, whereby fish choose regions that match...