University of Wisconsin Archives

The University of Wisconsin Archives at Steenbock Library, 550 Babcock Dr., contains several collections related to the Center for Limnology. These collections can be searched for in the UW Library catalog, or you can request to look through collections by emailing the reference desk at uwarchiv@library.wisc.edu or creating a request online by following the instructions here.

The Archives contains:

• Documentation of the history of limnology in Wisconsin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from the late 1800s to the present.
• Materials on the limnologists from Edward. A. Birge and Chancey Juday, to A. D. Hasler, and to John J. Magnuson, James F. Kitchell, Stepehn R. Carpenter, and present faculty and staff.
• Materials and data from graduate students over the years.
• Major research programs such as the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research Program and Network, the Trophic Cascade, Little Rock Lake Experimental Acidification, and research on Lake Mendota and the Madison Lakes.
• The formation of the Center for Limnology, and facilities at the Center’s field laboratories on Lake Mendota in Madison and Trout Lake in Northern Wisconsin.
• Additional materials, including (not a comprehensive list):
  • Original data.
  • Written documentation in correspondence.
  • Meeting minutes.
  • Project proposals.
  • Academic activities by faculty/staff/students.
• Early files of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) that began with C. Juday in Madison.