🚢⚓ Maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen from the #Wisconsin Historical Society investigates thousands of shipwrecks across the #GreatLakes, which became a major transportation hub in the 19th century before modern roads and railways existed.

Her team has documented over 780 vessels lost in Wisconsin waters alone, ranging from 1679's Griffon to modern ships, plus ancient #Indigenous dugout canoes up to 5,000 years old discovered in #LakeMendota.

👉 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-are-there-so-many-shipwrecks-in-the-great-lakes-180987720

#archaeology #history #underwater #exploration #diving

Lake #bacteria evolve like clockwork with the seasons
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-lake-bacteria-evolve-clockwork-seasons.html paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-024-01888-3

"over the course of a year, most individual species of bacteria in #LakeMendota rapidly evolve, apparently in response to dramatically changing seasons. Gene variants would rise and fall over generations, yet hundreds of separate species would return, almost fully, to near copies of what they had been genetically prior to a thousand or so generations of evolutionary pressures."

First day of Summer vibes

📸: Fujifilm GFX 50SII | Fujinon 53-70 mm
🗓️: Summer 2024
📍: Madison, WI

#fujifilmjapan #fujifilmgfxsystem #fujifilmgfx50sii #fujifilm #fujinon #fujinon100mm #landscape #cityscape #cityphotography #cityphoto #camera #Madison #Wisconsin #lakemenona #lakemendota #Summer #2024 #2024년 #fotographia #카메라 #lake #lakelife