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This collection contains a series of presentations given by Center for Limnology staff and faculty which typically focus on their backgrounds, roles at the Center, and research interests.
| Title | Description | Creator | Date | Length |
| John Uehrs | John Uehrs presents remotely from Trout Lake Station over the phone and with the aid of a remote slideshow presentation, though the screen is blurry and unreadable for the whole video. Talks about how he came to the CFL and Trout Lake and his early life. Discusses various refurbishment projects and maintenance work at Trout Lake Station. Goes over different fire disaster situations and what the response would be. Talks about setting up a data control system for the Center. Fields questions about potential improvements to Trout Lake Station buildings, particularly relating to fire alarm and suppression systems. | Center for Limnology | 1997 | 0:56:37 |
| Glen Lee | Glen Lee talks about his position at the CFL being in charge of boat facilities and the machine shop. He originally worked at UW-Madison’s primate research lab, but transferred when the job at the CFL became available. Also answers questions from other employees on relations between him and his counterpart at Trout Lake and managing boat schedules for different users. Next, Mike Pecore talks about his own education and career, calling in from Trout Lake. Includes time in Minnesota National Guard, how he came to Trout Lake Station in 1985. Also answers questions from other employees about his position, primarily on problems with the Trout Lake cabins and how he deals with overlapping duties. | Center for Limnology | 1997 | 0:53:16 |
| Steve Carpenter | Steve Carpenter begins by explaining his appointment as 50% Zoology, 50% Limnology, and discusses his research focus on ecosystem ecology. Talks about why he enjoys field research and thinks its important to continue it as one of his duties alongside grant-writing and publication, part of which is helping students find their paper-writing skills. Discusses projects and grants that he’s involved or associated with, including a trophic cascade project with Jim Kitchell, the NTL LTER project, the littoral zone project, a project on PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl) recycling in the Great Lakes, a Pew Grant project on the economics and management of non-point pollution, and a Mellon Grant project on developing new apporahces for testing ecological theories based on long-term data. Discusses challenges in creating effective incentives to get farmers to change practices to reduce pollution. Talks about goals for the future, such as having a CFL-trained faculty member at every major university, make the Center a focus for interdiscplinary freshwater studies, finding new sources of funding for the LTER project, hiring new faculty, and expanding research on rivers. | Center for Limnology | 1996 | 1:05:45 |
| Jim Kitchell | Jim Kitchell talks about his research, volunteer service, and teaching. Mentions a variety of research related to lake-related food networks, discusses research on Lake Victoria in Uganda, research in cooperation with Notre Dame University, plans for sabbatical, competition for grants. Talks about early childhood in Indiana and how he developed an interest in limnology growing up next to a river, college education Ball State Teacher’s College and PhD at Colorado University. Discusses changes in the role of ecology and ecologist job prospects, government funding of ecology, the future of the Center for Limnology and what he thinks it will have to do to stay an elite institution, why he’s decided to stay at the UW, and the influence of Arthur Hasler. | Center for Limnology | 1996 | 1:09:45 |
| John Magnuson | John Magnuson talks about his experience as a professor at a large research university, three main themes being teaching, research, and service. Talks about courses that he teaches, thoguhts on EA Birge and Arthur Hasler, how the whole Center plays a role in mentoring students, the emergence of limnology as a coherent field and its establishment at the UW. Gives his thoughts on the purpose of research at a university. Discusses the establishment of the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research project as well as its continued operation, how he came to the UW, and the establishment of the Center for Limnology. | Center for Limnology | 1996 | 1:00:48 |
| Dave Egger | David Egger talks about his early life in Indiana and Michigan near bodies of water, undergraduate and master’s degrees at Michigan State and early work experience in fisheries, how he ended up at UW-Madison after not getting into a PhD program, his duties at the CFL as a Research Program Manager. Also answers questions from other employees including how the center has changed in his 20+ years at the CFL and how his role has changed. | Center for Limnology | 1997 | 1:05:46 |