Winter limnology in Lake Ladoga (Russia)
Event details
| Date | 18.03.2014 |
| Hour | 10:30 › 12:00 |
| Speaker | Dr. Arkady Yu. Terzhevik and Prof. Nikolai Filatov, Northern Water Problems Institute, Karelian Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract:
The Great European Lakes attract increasing attention of both researchers and end-users. These lakes are important as drinking purposes, recreation, water transport, energy, together with the use of biological resources, the impacts of pulp-and-paper industry and wastes discharge of cities and towns located on the shores and in the catchment areas. These challenges will require to develop scientifically substantiated recommendations for the rational use and protection of these water resources. The necessity to minimise the impact of anthropogenic eutrophication and water pollution, which have reached global scope and jeopardize the quality of the already limited freshwater resources, has triggered quite a number of various studies in limnology, mathematical modeling, economics, with view to conservation, restoration, and efficient use of the resources of large stratified lakes.
The Northern Water Problems Institute and the Limnology Center are developing a multi-disciplinary study of complex processes under the ice of the largest lake in Europe, Lake Ladoga. This project will investigate thermohydrodynamic and biological processes during the winter period during 5 to 7 months (November - May) from freeze-up to freeze brake period. This presentation will give an overview of Lake Ladoga and the research project proposed by the Northern Water Problems Institute.
The Great European Lakes attract increasing attention of both researchers and end-users. These lakes are important as drinking purposes, recreation, water transport, energy, together with the use of biological resources, the impacts of pulp-and-paper industry and wastes discharge of cities and towns located on the shores and in the catchment areas. These challenges will require to develop scientifically substantiated recommendations for the rational use and protection of these water resources. The necessity to minimise the impact of anthropogenic eutrophication and water pollution, which have reached global scope and jeopardize the quality of the already limited freshwater resources, has triggered quite a number of various studies in limnology, mathematical modeling, economics, with view to conservation, restoration, and efficient use of the resources of large stratified lakes.
The Northern Water Problems Institute and the Limnology Center are developing a multi-disciplinary study of complex processes under the ice of the largest lake in Europe, Lake Ladoga. This project will investigate thermohydrodynamic and biological processes during the winter period during 5 to 7 months (November - May) from freeze-up to freeze brake period. This presentation will give an overview of Lake Ladoga and the research project proposed by the Northern Water Problems Institute.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
- This event is internal
Contact
- Dr Natacha Tofield-Pasche, Limnology Center EPFL