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Items in this collection include primarily radio interviews and audio of some Center for Limnology events.
| Title | Description | Creator | Date | Length |
| NPR Science Friday J. Magnuson Columbia River | Recording is split across two files, one per tape side. The second side comes first chronologically. National Public Radio, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday with Ira Flatow discusses the Columbia River, salmon, and salmon restoration with Ted Strong (member of the Yakama Nation and Director of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission in Portland, Oregon), Charles Coutant (Senior Research Ecologist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and a member of the Independent Scientific Advisory Board to the Northwest Power Planning Council), John Magnuson (Professor of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Chair of the National Research Council Committee), and Courtland Smith (Professor of Anthropology at Oregon State University). Based on a report National Research Council of the National Academy of Science released titled: Magnuson, J. J. F.W. Allendorf, R.L. Beschta, P.A. Bisson, H. L. Carson, D. W. Chapman, S. S. Hanna, A. R. Kapuscinski, K. N. Lee, D. P. Lettenmaier, B. J. McCay, G. M. MacNabb, T. P. Quinn, B. E. Riddell, E. E. Werner. 1996. Upstream, Salmon and Society in the Pacific Northwest. National Research Council. National Academy Press, Washington, DC. | National Public Radio | ca. 1996 | 1:40:41 |
| ADH Celebration March 201977 | Includes the musical piece (a single movement, about ten minutes in length) commissioned by students of Arthur D. Hasler to celebrate his retirement. “Concert Piece” by Douglas Hill, a member of the UW faculty (Music Department) and played the French Horn. When Hasler was young he played the French Horn in the Madison Civic Symphony. Becomes very quiet shortly into the reocrding, at points almost inaudibly so. | 1977 | 0:34:47 | |
| AIFRB Outstanding Achievement Award Feb 2 1994 | John Magnuson introduces. Guests attending include Arthur Hasler, Hathaway Hasler, Chair of the Zoology department Warren Porter, Jeff Bayless, Don Chandler taking pictures, President of the American Institute of US Fishery Research Biologist Von Anthony. Von Anthony presents the American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists to Art Hasler and gives the history of this award. The majoity of the recording is Arthur Hasler’s acceptance speech, speaking about the international connections Limnology afforded him, particularly in Germany and the USSR. Closes with two poems chosen by Hasler and the announcement of a new endowment fund in Hasler’s honor. | 1994 | 0:29:37 | |
| How Salmon Find their way Home (in german) | Speaker is Arthur Hasler of the University of Wisconsin, Madison giving a general lecture on olfaction and homing orientation of fishes (specifically salmon) and discussion of various experiments, including tagging and tracking the fish as well as the conditioning of young fish in Lake Michigan to react to a specific smell. Audio in German; unknown location, date. | Hasler, Arthur | 1:03:37 | |
| WPR Arthur Hasler Salmon Can Smell | Jean Feraca interviews Arthur Hasler on his work with salmon homing and gives a brief yet in-depth overview of both Hasler’s work as well as the history of the department. She interviews him on his education and how he came to ask the question of how salmon find their way upstream. Talks about the same personal experience which led to his breakthrough. | Wisconsin Public Radio | ca. 1990-1999 | 0:42:52 |
| North Country Notebook Smell Home | Recording of George Vukelich, a prominent outdoor writer in Madison, Wisconsin, reading the story of “The Smell of Home” on his radio program, Pages from a North Country Notebook. This particular program is about Arthur Hasler’s work on the action of salmon and his successful experiment in 1983 to show the homing ability of freshwater salmon. Hasler was a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 41 years and was considered an international expert on freshwater lake ecology. | Vukelich, George | 1988 | 0:46:40 |
| President Emeritus Birge Commencement Address 1937 | Commencement address of President Edward Asahel Birge of and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Birge, along with Chancey Juday, were pioneers of limnology in North America and their intensive studies of Wisconsin lakes laid the foundation for the development of the Limnology Department. Birge was a gifted public speaker with an excellent sense of humor; he good-naturedly chastises the students, faculty, and alumni for selecting him as speaker for the third time. | 1937 | 0:05:42 | |
| Acid Rain, Wisconsin Public Radio | Margaret Andreson of Wisconsin Public Radison interviews with John J. Magnuson, Director for the Center of Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Thomas B. Sheffy, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, about the effects of acid rain on landscapes and lakes. Description of the experimentation of the acidification of Little Rock Lake by the University, the DNR, and others. | Wisconsin Public Radio | 1983 | 1983 |