{"id":11200,"date":"2025-01-29T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/?p=11200"},"modified":"2026-03-04T10:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:22:06","slug":"cuhel-explains-effect-of-shorter-winters-on-lake-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/cuhel-explains-effect-of-shorter-winters-on-lake-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuhel explains effect of shorter\u00a0winters on Lake Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WISN12 interviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/people\/cuhel-russell\/\">Russell Cuhel<\/a>, Senior Scientist at UWM School of Freshwater Sciences, regarding past and future of thermal conditions in large and small lakes of the Midwest. Lake Michigan\u2019s winter season is getting shorter, disrupting fish populations, nutrient cycles and even summer recreation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-u-flex uwm-u-flex--wrap uwm-u-flex--left\">\n<a class=\"uwm-c-button uwm-u-mr-20 uwm-u-mb-20\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wisn.com\/article\/winters-are-shortening-on-lake-michigan\/63607746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read Full Story and Watch Interview<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WISN12 interviewed Russell Cuhel, Senior Scientist at UWM School of Freshwater Sciences, regarding past and future of thermal conditions in large and small lakes of the Midwest. Lake Michigan\u2019s winter season is getting shorter, disrupting fish populations, nutrient cycles and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[248,36],"tags":[79,157],"class_list":["post-11200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-news","tag-freshwater-sciences","tag-wastewater-research"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>School of Freshwater Sciences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"WISN12 interviewed Russell Cuhel explains the effect of shorter winters on large and small lakes of the Midwest.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/cuhel-explains-effect-of-shorter-winters-on-lake-michigan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cuhel explains effect of shorter\u00a0winters on Lake Michigan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WISN12 interviewed Russell Cuhel explains the effect of shorter winters on large and small lakes of the Midwest.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/cuhel-explains-effect-of-shorter-winters-on-lake-michigan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"School of Freshwater Sciences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-01-29T20:48:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-03-04T16:22:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Bo Charles Bayerl\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bo Charles Bayerl\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/freshwater\\\/cuhel-explains-effect-of-shorter-winters-on-lake-michigan\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/freshwater\\\/cuhel-explains-effect-of-shorter-winters-on-lake-michigan\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Bo Charles Bayerl\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/freshwater\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/9ec26f84f90f61d880be29c8db27db53\"},\"headline\":\"Cuhel explains effect of shorter\u00a0winters on Lake Michigan\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-29T20:48:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-03-04T16:22:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/freshwater\\\/cuhel-explains-effect-of-shorter-winters-on-lake-michigan\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":59,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/freshwater\\\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"freshwater sciences\",\"wastewater research\"],\"articleSection\":[\"In The News\",\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/freshwater\\\/cuhel-explains-effect-of-shorter-winters-on-lake-michigan\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/freshwater\\\/cuhel-explains-effect-of-shorter-winters-on-lake-michigan\\\/\",\"name\":\"Shorter winters on Lake Michigan - School of Freshwater Sciences\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/freshwater\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-29T20:48:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-03-04T16:22:06+00:00\",\"description\":\"WISN12 interviewed Russell Cuhel explains the effect of shorter winters on large and small lakes of the Midwest.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/freshwater\\\/cuhel-explains-effect-of-shorter-winters-on-lake-michigan\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/freshwater\\\/cuhel-explains-effect-of-shorter-winters-on-lake-michigan\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/freshwater\\\/cuhel-explains-effect-of-shorter-winters-on-lake-michigan\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/freshwater\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Cuhel explains effect of shorter\u00a0winters on Lake Michigan\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/freshwater\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/freshwater\\\/\",\"name\":\"School of Freshwater Sciences\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/freshwater\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/freshwater\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/freshwater\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/freshwater\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/freshwater\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/freshwater\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/595\\\/2020\\\/11\\\/uwm-seo-logo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/freshwater\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/595\\\/2020\\\/11\\\/uwm-seo-logo.jpg\",\"width\":225,\"height\":224,\"caption\":\"University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/freshwater\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/freshwater\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/9ec26f84f90f61d880be29c8db27db53\",\"name\":\"Bo Charles Bayerl\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/34cda219856d66a76746501df9ce8a14654d0d7cbf95f64dafdb52a3cf9ee8d8?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/34cda219856d66a76746501df9ce8a14654d0d7cbf95f64dafdb52a3cf9ee8d8?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/34cda219856d66a76746501df9ce8a14654d0d7cbf95f64dafdb52a3cf9ee8d8?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Bo Charles Bayerl\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"School of Freshwater Sciences","description":"WISN12 interviewed Russell Cuhel explains the effect of shorter winters on large and small lakes of the Midwest.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/cuhel-explains-effect-of-shorter-winters-on-lake-michigan\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Cuhel explains effect of shorter\u00a0winters on Lake Michigan","og_description":"WISN12 interviewed Russell Cuhel explains the effect of shorter winters on large and small lakes of the Midwest.","og_url":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/cuhel-explains-effect-of-shorter-winters-on-lake-michigan\/","og_site_name":"School of Freshwater Sciences","article_published_time":"2025-01-29T20:48:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-03-04T16:22:06+00:00","author":"Bo Charles Bayerl","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Bo Charles Bayerl"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/cuhel-explains-effect-of-shorter-winters-on-lake-michigan\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/cuhel-explains-effect-of-shorter-winters-on-lake-michigan\/"},"author":{"name":"Bo Charles Bayerl","@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/#\/schema\/person\/9ec26f84f90f61d880be29c8db27db53"},"headline":"Cuhel explains effect of shorter\u00a0winters on Lake Michigan","datePublished":"2025-01-29T20:48:00+00:00","dateModified":"2026-03-04T16:22:06+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/cuhel-explains-effect-of-shorter-winters-on-lake-michigan\/"},"wordCount":59,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/#organization"},"keywords":["freshwater sciences","wastewater research"],"articleSection":["In The News","News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/cuhel-explains-effect-of-shorter-winters-on-lake-michigan\/","url":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/cuhel-explains-effect-of-shorter-winters-on-lake-michigan\/","name":"Shorter winters on Lake Michigan - School of Freshwater Sciences","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/#website"},"datePublished":"2025-01-29T20:48:00+00:00","dateModified":"2026-03-04T16:22:06+00:00","description":"WISN12 interviewed Russell Cuhel explains the effect of shorter winters on large and small lakes of the Midwest.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/cuhel-explains-effect-of-shorter-winters-on-lake-michigan\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/cuhel-explains-effect-of-shorter-winters-on-lake-michigan\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/cuhel-explains-effect-of-shorter-winters-on-lake-michigan\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Cuhel explains effect of shorter\u00a0winters on Lake Michigan"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/#website","url":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/","name":"School of Freshwater Sciences","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/#organization","name":"University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee","url":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/595\/2020\/11\/uwm-seo-logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/595\/2020\/11\/uwm-seo-logo.jpg","width":225,"height":224,"caption":"University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/#\/schema\/person\/9ec26f84f90f61d880be29c8db27db53","name":"Bo Charles Bayerl","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/34cda219856d66a76746501df9ce8a14654d0d7cbf95f64dafdb52a3cf9ee8d8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/34cda219856d66a76746501df9ce8a14654d0d7cbf95f64dafdb52a3cf9ee8d8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/34cda219856d66a76746501df9ce8a14654d0d7cbf95f64dafdb52a3cf9ee8d8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Bo Charles Bayerl"}}]}},"meta_fields":{"feat_img_video":[""],"feat_img_gallery":[""],"feat_img_caption":["feat-img-caption-on"],"breadcrumbs_display":["breadcrumbs-on"],"otp_nav_display":["otp-on-mobile"],"post_layout":["post-layout-theme"],"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":["36"],"_yoast_wpseo_estimated-reading-time-minutes":[""],"_dp_original":["10558"],"_edit_lock":["1772641327:38966"],"_edit_last":["38966"],"_yoast_wpseo_focuskeywords":[""],"_yoast_wpseo_keywordsynonyms":[""],"_yoast_indexnow_last_ping":["1772641326"],"_wp_old_date":["2025-02-03"],"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":["winters"],"_yoast_wpseo_title":["Shorter winters on Lake Michigan %%sep%% %%sitename%%"],"_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":["WISN12 interviewed Russell Cuhel explains the effect of shorter winters on large and small lakes of the Midwest."],"_yoast_wpseo_linkdex":["66"],"_yoast_wpseo_content_score":["90"],"_uwm_wg_content_review_log":["a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:11:\"reviewer_id\";i:0;s:6:\"status\";s:5:\"reset\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2026-03-01 02:12:16\";s:16:\"priority_content\";s:0:\"\";s:4:\"note\";s:43:\"Content review reset at start of new cycle.\";}}"],"uwm_wg_additional_authors":["a:0:{}"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11200"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12544,"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11200\/revisions\/12544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/freshwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}