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This collection includes videotapes of various formats. Items mainly include TV interviews, talks, and Center for Limnology events from between 1987 and 2018.

Title Description Creator Date Length
Steve Carpenter Interview – Biomanipulation Project Interview starting at 12:20 mark ending at 15:00. An interview of Steve Carpenter about noxious algae blooms and the biomanipulation of top predators on Lake Mendota to reduce the abundance of noxious algae. Charles Crawford presents. Further reading: Kitchell J.F. (Ed.) (1992) Food Web Management: A Case Study of Lake Mendota, Wisconsin. Springer-Verlag, New York. CNN Science Newswatch 1989 0:17:27
J. Magnuson and S. Jones Channel 3 News Phosphorus 2004 Interview with Sue Jones Watershed Management Coordinator, and John Magnuson, member of the Dane County Lakes and Watershed Commission, from the county Lakes and Watershed Commission for Yahara Lakes Week. Topics cover the Phosphorus Ban. Starting at 2 minutes and 30 seconds and ending at 16 minutes CBS Channel 3 News 2004 0:26:00
Storms of the Future CBS Channel 3 News 2005-04 Storms of the Future CBS Channel 3 Program on Climate Change and specifcally how it could affect Wisconsin, featuring UW Madison faculty and staff including John Magnuson. Interviews with Jonathan Martin, Steve Varvas, Chris Landsea, Jim Knox, and John Magnuson. CBS Channel 3 News 2005 1:03:01
Climate Change Symposium Each speaker speaks on one region as shown on a map at the introduction. John Magnuson presents on the Laurentian Great Lakes and Precambrian Shield, starting at 7:30 and ending at 25:15. Marginal video quality. General summary of climate change and its anticipated effects on the Great Lakes. The paper that came out of this talk is available in the book Freshwater Ecosystems and Climate Change in North America: A Regional Assessment, available at the Limnology Library, call no. QH102 F74 1997; https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999837896702121 Regional Assessment of Freshwater Ecosystems and Climate Change in North America Symposium 1994 1:26:15
J. Magnuson Fresh Water Ecosystems-Hydrology and Resources 1996-08-02 John J Magnuson Freshwater Ecosystems Hydrology and Resources, Aspen Institute Meeting relevant to the 1995 IPCC assessment. Aquatic Systems and Water Supplies in Freshwater Ecology. Subjects covered include rationale to include inland lakes and streams at the International Panel on Climate Change meetings for the 1995 IPCC assessment. Magnuson reviewed the various effects of climate change of inland waters. Magnuson, John J. 1996 0:35:41
John J Magnuson Lecture on Unveiling the Invisible Places and Invisible Present Invited Nieuwland Lectures: Studying the Invisible Present and the Invisible Place: Long-Term Ecological Research in the United States; Lakes as Islands: Invasion, Extinction and Biodiversity of Fishes in Midwestern Lakes; and Should Fishes Care about Global Warming? Potential Effects of Climate Warming on Midwestern Lakes. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. Mar. 28-30. Magnuson, John J. 1995 0:56:59
Steve Carpenter Lecture – Changing Lakes: What Future Will We Choose? Steve Carpenter invited lecture in Rhinelander, at the US Forest Service. Title of the talk is “Changing Lakes: What Future Will We Choose?” Topics include eutrophication, deforestation of shorelines, and invasive species. Video and audio quality dips at about 2:15. Carpenter, Steve 2000 0:23:21
Fishes Around a Drifting Raft 2 Original John Magnuson and Reginald Gooding on the RV Charles H Gilbert. Film taken when John Magnuson was working for the US Bureau of Commercial Fisheries at the Honolulu Biological Lab. The goal related to the use of drifting materials to attract commercial fishes for fishermen. Results of research were published in Gooding, R.M. and J.J. Magnuson. 1967. Ecological significance of a Drifting Object to Pelagic Fishes. Pac. Sci. 21(4):486-97. U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries 1966 0:19:10
John Magnuson Retirement Party Currently undigitized and undescribed. Center for Limnology 2000
Tribute to John Magnuson An event celebrating John Magnuson and his time at UW-Madison and the Center for Limnology. Colleagues and former students speak about their experiences with him. Some musical numbers and comedic skits are included. Center for Limnology 2001 1:45:23
News 3 Live at 5 John Magnuson Bike Path John Magnuson talks about retaining the natural character of the Lakeshore bike path. CBS Channel 3 News ca. 1999 0:01:28
DNR Probes Devil’s Lake A presentation on the water quality of Devil’s Lake from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Former John Magnuson PhD student Sandy Engel narrates. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources ca. 1999 0:42:40
Art Hasler Career Retrospective 1998-02-18 A retrospective of Arthur Hasler’s career, and continuing research inspired by his work. Speakers include Annamarie Beckel, Thomas Quinn, Dick Lathrop, Jim Kitchell, and John Magnuson. The last 17 minutes are repeat footage. 1998 1:11:08
Hasler Remembrance 2001-08-04 An event commemorating Arthur Hasler shortly after his death. Speakers include former students, colleagues, and family speaking about his life and the effect he had on theirs. 2001 2:01:26
_Our Frozen Assets from Clean Lakes Alliance 2013 A short video from the Clean Lakes Alliance promoting their “Frozen Assets” fundraising event featuring John Magnuson. Clean Lakes Alliance 2013 0:02:39
1929 E.A Birge from Archive and records management A short silent video of E.A. Birge conducting limnological research in a laboratory. 1929 0:00:28
Soundwaves Daniel_Grabois Magnuson Hidden_Worlds_of _the_Earth(11_30_18) John Magnuson’s talk starts around 20 minutes. The talk is titled “The Invisible Present” and focuses on climate change and the difficulty of determining where we are in long term changes. Soundwaves 2018 1:51:05
CFL Holiday Party 2004 Event is split across eight separate files. The 2004 Holdiay Party featuring music, presentation of comedic awards, telling of anecdotes. Individual people could be identified at the holiday party, decent audio and video. Presentations of awards, talking, music, etc. Speakers and performers include Brian Roth, Paul Hanson and family, Dave Balsiger, Nick Preston, Matt Van De Bogert, Jeff Watters, Julian McCarthy, Chris Solomon, Emily Stanley, Jake Vander Zanden and family, and Abigail Popp. 2004 0:56:47
CFL Holiday Party 2005 Event is split across four separate files. Individual people could be identified at the holiday party, poor quality. Presentations of comedic awards, talking, singing, etc. Speakers and performers include Dave Balsiger, Brian Weidel, Jake Vander Zanden, Jim Kitchell, Nick Preston, and Steve Powers 2005 0:34:36
LTER Meeting Event is split across three separate files. Second file is damaged and stops playback at 16:13, but third file has some overlap with the second and continues on from where the second file stops. Meeting location is the Center for Limnology Library, meeting of the LTER North Temperate Lakes Principle Investigators. John Magnuson introduces the meeting. Speakers are Mark McKenzie on land-water interactions, Karen Fosnock(?) on management and modeling in Northern Wisconsin, and Tom Frost on a proposal to study lake-human interactions Other identified attendees include Barbara Benson, Tom Frost, Randy Wynne, Shelly Arnot, and Tim Kratz. Magnuson, John 1994 2:05:59
LTER STARE Meeting between LTER Investigative Researchers at the North Temperate Lakes site and economists and social scientists on the campus, initiating future interactions of the LTER with social sciences. Tom Wilsang(?) introduces the meeting. Speakers include John Magnuson on an overview of the North Temperate Lakes LTER program, Tim Kratz on then-current research projects related to climate, internal lake dynamics, and groundwater flow, Steve Carpenter on upcoming research on land-lake interactions, Monica Turner on modeling human-landscape interaction, Tom Heberlein on integrating natural and social science People are identifiable. Magnuson, John 1994 1:24:24
Trout Lake Limnology Class Field Trip View of the new Trout Lake cabins, people preparing to go into the field; field sampling; family of Tom Frost and Susan Knight and children; fall limnology class field trip to TLS; presentations in the Library of the Trout Lake Station; Magnuson and others lecturing to the class (audio quality is decent) at Kemp Station; class stayed at Kemp Biological Station (?) Magnuson, John 1996 1:09:12