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In a new paper for published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, we answered an question that has plagued many scientists, policy makers, anglers, and others: “What is a Pond?” When out and about, if you see an aquatic ecosystem, everyone, regardless of training or

Led by Dr. Sapna Sharma at York University, Ontario, we published long-term ice phenology records spanning up to 578 years for 78 lakes around the Northern Hemisphere. These phenomenal records extend before the start of the Industrial Revolution. For example,

Here is a new paper out titled “Dynamics of the stream–lake transitional zone affect littoral lake metabolism” from a great group of Lake Sunapee collaborators led by the amazing Dr. Nicole Ward! We examined two stream inflows from Lake Sunapee,

Lake ice is a common phenomena in lakes around the northern hemisphere particularly in temperate regions and more northern in latitude. Phenology is nature’s calendar – the seasonal timing of natural trends like when birds migrate or plants flower. Lake

I am pleased to share a new study that I worked on with Dr. Bella Oleksy (Cary Institute, @isabella_oleksy). We examined a 35-yr temperature record of Mohonk Lake and found lake stratification is getting longer + stronger, and responding to

I am excited to share our new paper in Nature Climate Change led by @benmkraemer along w/ @rmpilla and other international collaborators. The paper (https://nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01060-3?fbclid…) details the shifts in thermal habitats (temperatures needed by species to survive) occurring with climate

Our new peer-reviewed paper is out in the journal Inland Waters, the flagship journal for the International Society of Limnology. Lakes have historically been considered dormant during the winter when the top of many northern hemisphere lakes freeze over. We had a

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

We published Lake Sunapee buoy data used for several of our papers (Bruesewitz et al. 2015; Richardson et al. 2016) in an open online data repository called the Environmental Data Initiative. See here, https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/846a36bf6fd704e508511e5f8a2ab3b5, for meteorological and water sensor data

Our new peer-reviewed paper is out in the journal Inland Waters. We studied how nitrogen and phosphorus can limit phytoplankton growth in freshwater lakes. We performed identical experiments in 16 lakes across northeastern United States; we found that phytoplankton communities