In 1895, UW–Madison professor Edward Birge set out to answer a question he had about zooplankton in Lake Mendota after reading a French scientific paper, and his research marked the beginning of ...

Lake Mendota was already on the map for studies on limnology, Rohwer says. Now, researchers in other fields are already using the data set for their own inquiries into evolution, viruses and more.

The Jan 15. freeze date was the lake's third-latest freeze date since monitoring began over 170 years ago. Mendota froze three weeks later than last year, when it was declared frozen on Christmas Day.

The Jan 15. freeze date was the lake's third-latest freeze date since monitoring began over 170 years ago. Mendota froze three weeks later than last year, when it was declared frozen on Christmas Day.

Ho-Chunk Nation President Marlon WhiteEagle touches a just-recovered 3,000-year-old dugout canoe Thursday, September 22, 2022 from Lake Mendota in Madison, Wis.

A dugout canoe used by indigenous people 3,000 years ago recently recovered from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota is the oldest canoe ever found in the Great Lakes region, the Wisconsin Historical ...

Wisconsin archaeologists recently discovered 11 ancient canoes in Lake Mendota, outside Madison. The canoes were found in a cache that may have been an ancient shoreline.

Just a few weeks ago, state climatologist Steve Vavrus said he worried that the lack of ice on Madison's Lake Mendota could damper the capital city's Clean Lakes Alliance's Frozen Assets ...