The View from Up Here:

You are looking at a panoramic view of beautiful Lake Mendota. In the foreground are the red tiled roofs atop dormitories at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. On the left is Picnic Point, a favorite spot to walk and birdwatch. Off to the right across the lake, you can pick out the water tower on Governor's Island (though his actual mansion is out of sight to the right). The camera (an Axis 200+ Web Camera, for the technically inclined) is facing just a little west of due north.

We hope that you will join us here often, to watch the sailboats sail, the clouds billow by, the sun rise and set, and the seasons in motion. A little slice of spiritual tranquility, brought to you by the ASIG Group.

Picture Archives

The images are stored by year, month, and day. For example, images for August 30 2004 are in http://www.soils.wisc.edu/~asig/webcam/archive/2004/08/30/. To find a given day, start here.

The Daily Movie

Also as of late August 2004, we have time-lapse webcam movies. Note that you must have a Java plugin or a Java-enabled browser to see these movies. The movie pages are in the daily archives; here is a sample with a glowing sunrise, blue sky with clouds and contrails sweeping by, then a rainshower and nightfall. Watch how the clouds change direction as the winds shift from the storm. Or see this time-lapse of Mendota's ice cover breaking up.

What's this "turret of King Hall" business?

Want our picture on your web page?

It's easy. We'd appreciate it if you attributed the image: "Courtesy UW-Madison Soil Sciences" would be lovely. Just include one of the following tags in your HTML:

<IMG SRC="http://www.soils.wisc.edu/asig/webcam/big.jpg">
     or
<IMG SRC="http://www.soils.wisc.edu/asig/webcam/halfsize.jpg">