Professor Emeritus of Dept of Integrative Biology (formerly Dept of Zoology) and Director Emeritus of the Center for Limnology
My Life in Science, History, Thoughts and Choices from 1950-2022 – Seminar video 10 April, 2022
Center for Limnology
680 N. Park Street
Madison, WI 53706
Office: 226A
john.magnuson@wisc.edu
Phone: 608-233-2036
Fax: 608-265-2340
John J. Magnuson is an aquatic ecologist and limnologist with a special interest in fish and fisheries ecology. His training is in fish and wildlife management, zoology, and oceanography. Current interests include: long-term ecological research on lake ecosystems, analyses of long-term lake ice time series, climate change impacts and adaptations, thermal ecology of fishes, landscape and invasion ecology of lakes.
John is now an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, residing in the Center for Limnology which he helped form in 1982, and was its first director. His students have received their graduate degrees in Zoology, Oceanography and Limnology, and Water Resources Management. He has had a strong interest in seeing science used in solving real world issues related conservation of species, climate change, and fisheries.
The ice is dangerous on some of our lakes this winter owing to the warm weather for this time of the year. The change over the years has resulted from a warming climate related to climate change augmented in some years by variability related to large scale climate drivers like El Niño. This year is a strong El Niño year.
This Lake Ice & Loss of Winter document explains why climate is warming and how this warming contributes to death by falling through the ice in recent years for more southerly lakes in recent years.
For more information email or call John Magnuson 608 212 5369 or johnjosephmagnuson@gmail.com.