Dear Colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to our upcoming session at the ELLS-IAGLR2018 Meeting (23-28 September 2018, Evian, France) titled " Challenging the cold: Advances in winter limnology of large lakes under climate change”
Link: https://symposium.inra.fr/ells-iaglr-2018/
Conveners:
Hannah E. Chmiel (Physics of Aquatic Systems Laboratory and Limnology Centre, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)
Nikolai Filatov (Director of the Northern Water Problems Institute (NWPI),Karelian Reserach Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk, Russia);
Philippe Van Cappellen, Canada Excellent Research Chair in Ecohydrology, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Waterloo, Canada;
Homa Kheyrollah Pour, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Waterloo, Canada;
Keynote speaker: Warwick F. Vincent (Département de Biologie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada).
We encourage you to submit an abstract to this session. Remember that the deadline for abstract submission is Saturday, 30 June, 2018. Complete submission guidelines can be found here: https://symposium.inra.fr/ells-iaglr-2018/Submission
We would greatly appreciate if you forward this notice to interested colleagues and students.
We are looking forward to meeting you in Evian in September.
All the best
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Challenging the cold: Advances in winter limnology of large lakes under climate change
Winter remains the least explored season in limnological research; however, awareness is rising that the coldest time of the year may be fundamentally important for ecosystem functioning throughout the entire annual cycle. Fluctuations in lake ice-cover regulate the interplay of physical, chemical, and biological processes in lakes and may not only affect conditions during winter time but further influence ecosystem dynamics of the following seasons. As climate warming is altering the ice-cover and temperature regime of lakes, it is crucial to understand how large systems will respond to these changes, given their societal value as drinking water resource and the dependence of local economies.
This session will be open to all aspects of winter limnology on large lakes, with particular focus on (but not restricted to) ice-covered systems. We welcome contributions addressing fundamental research questions as well as the implications of changing winter conditions for society (e.g., fisheries and hydropower operation). In addition, we encourage discussions on working experiences during winter time and on the advancing of experimental challenges and new measurement technologies (e.g., satellite and drone imagery, in-situ instrumentation) in lake winter research.
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Dr. Homa Kheyrollah Pour, PhD.
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1,
Office: PHY 3003
Phone: (519) 888-4567 ext. 38752
https://uwaterloo.ca/ecohydrology/people-profiles/homa-kheyrollah-pour
