Limnology

Research efforts on mixed bedrock-alluvial rivers primary focused on the bedrock incision and very few studies investigated the alluvial morphodynamics of such systems. To the best of my knowledge none of these models have been considered the spatial variability of the sediment …

Flood Impact Assessment (FIA) is an integral part of flood risk management (FRM) that requires extensive data collection and rigorous modeling. Elevation data is one of the main inputs for this venture that is often fulfilled by digital elevation models (DEM). DEM provides a con…

Eutrophication is defined as 'an increase in the rate of supply of organic matter (OM) to an ecosystem'. In estuaries, this can take two forms: an increase in allochthonous and an increase in autochthonous OM. The goal of this dissertation was to use spectrofluorometry, as excit…

Factors regulating composition and relative abundance in phytoplankton communities were investigated in an ancient lake with a highly endemic food web. Lake Matano has genera diversity (21) similar to tropical lakes, but low phytoplankton biomass (0.0162 μg/L). Vertical mixing p…

Lake of the Ozarks was constructed for hydropower and has become a popular recreational river-reservoir in the Ozark Plateau of Missouri. Wide spread use of septic tanks in porous soils of the region poses a threat to public health via leaching into drinking wells and coves used…

Aquatic macroinvertebrates are well-established biological indicators of water quality and a major component of water quality assessment of flowing waters because of their ability to detect and integrate natural and anthropogenic changes in physical and chemical habitat. The New…

Onondaga Lake in Syracuse, New York was once considered to be the most polluted lake in North America. Since the lake’s placement on the EPA’s superfund site list in 1994. The purpose of this study was to determine historical and surficial sediment concentrations of organic poll…

The purpose of this study is to build a library of flood inundation extent in Bangladesh based on river height gauge levels, satellite imagery, and digital elevation models. The ability to forecast the extent of inundation during floods will help decision-makers to manage extrem…

Due to its geographical location and socioeconomic conditions, the country of Bangladesh in vulnerable to the hazard of riverbank erosion, which poses a significant threat to homes, property and livelihoods. In recent years, the government of Bangladesh has intensified efforts t…

As part of the INTAS funded CLIMAN project into Holocene climatic variability and the evolution of human settlement in the Aral Sea basin, fossil diatoms obtained from Chernyshov Bay in the Aral Sea have been examined in order to reconstruct conductivity and lake level change si…

Limnology, climatology and paleoclimatology of the East African lakes

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The large lakes of the East African Rift Valley are among the oldest on Earth, and are vital resources for the people of their basins. They are unique among the large lakes of the world in terms of their sensitivity to climatic change, rich and diverse populations of endemic spe…