Limnology Follow @LimnoUppsala
Our research and education engages in limnology, the study of inland waters.
Read more about us, our field station Erken, and our Newsletter.
News! On January 15, we will host a conference on organic matter reactivity with eight speakers from seven countries. Read more.
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Widespread loss of lake ice around the Northern Hemisphere in a warming world
February 2019
News from Twitter
- 1 PostDoc ( https://bit.ly/2JoZJnF ) & 3 PhD (https://bit.ly/36l0ZSW ) positions in biogeochem/microbial ecology open at Uppsala Limnology with Lars Tranvik & Dolly Kothawala! Apply by 02 Dec 2019. Please RT. 2019-10-28
- Last Friday an email made the news official! I am thrilled to be joining @scilifelab and @deepsthlmuni as a #tenuretrack Assistant Professor. My research will be focusing on microbial interactions in aquatic bacteria using cultivation and cultivation-independent methods (1/6) 2019-09-09
- In situ plankton community respiration measurements show low respiratory quotients in a eutrophic lake https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14574 … 2019-03-25
- Environmental conditions for phytoplankton influenced carbon dynamics in boreal lakes https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00027-019-0631-6 …pic.twitter.com/zzM0UgMsIc 2019-03-18
Research groups
Limnology is the study of inland water ecosystems, including interactions of communities and populations, organisms ranging from microorganisms to predatory fish and the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients. Our research includes fundamental scientific questions, as well as applied topics of concern for the protection and management of the environment. The department includes three major research groups, which have a considerable amount of synergy and cooperation between them:
(1) Aquatic communites and populations
(2) Biogeochemistry
(3) Microbial Ecology
Erken Laboratory
Norr Malma field station with the Erken Laboratory makes part of the Department of Limnology. It has since its foundation in the 1940s served both as a research station and as a study and course centre. During the early years, activities were mostly restricted to the summer season. Today, courses and other activities take place all year round. The Erken laboratory has developed an extensive environmental monitoring program for Lake Erken, and it is one of the sites in GLEON, the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network. Researchers at Erken Laboratory participate in several large EU projects such as on the effects of climate change on lake ecosystems and automatic monitoring of phytoplankton development.