Our new peer-reviewed paper is out in the journal Scientific Reports published by Nature Research. We collected data from lakes around the world to see how they have changed in their water temperatures over a 40-year period (1970-2009). The surface waters of global lakes is warming quickly. However, deep water in our study lakes were changing much more variably with some lakes having cooling deep water and some lakes having warming deep water.
This was a large co-authored paper with many participants from around the world including Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. The project stemmed from efforts through the Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON). The project was led by Rachel Pilla, a graduate student from University of Miami Ohio.