Large Lakes of the World Symposium / University of Wisconsin Sea Grant

SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM

LARGE LAKES OF THE WORLD:

FROM SIBERIA TO THE TROPICS VIA

SOME NORTH AMERICAN GREAT LAKES

SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 9:00 – 2:00

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Great Lakes WATER Institute
600 East Greenfield Avenue, Milwaukee

Dr. Mikhail Grachev
Institute of Limnology, Irktusk, Russia
Recent Discoveries on Lake Baikal

Dr. Yelena Likhoshway
Institute of Limnology, Irktusk, Russia
Diatom Research on Lake Baikal

Dr. Harvey Bootsma
UWM Great Lakes WATER Institute
Trends in Tropical Limnology: The African Great Lakes

Dr. Ray Weiss
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Deep lakes are like small oceans: applications of time-dependent
chemical tracers to study rates of ventilation, deep metabolism and
new production in Lake Baikal, Crater Lake and Lake Malawi

Dr. David Edgington
UWM Center for Great Lakes Studies
Advances and Challenges in Geochemistry:
A Curmudgeon's view of Great Lakes Research

Box lunches will be available for $7.00.
Call 414-382-1704 or email if you would like to reserve lunch.

The symposium is part of the seminar

RECENT ADVANCES
IN LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

LOOKING BACK, LOOKING AHEAD:
ADVANCES IN THE 20^TH CENTURY, CHALLENGES IN THE 21^ST

Next speaker: May 4, 7:30

Dr. Gene Likens, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY
"Limnology and Freshwater Ecosystems in the Twenty-First Century"

For further information contact Professor Arthur Brooks at 414-382-1704, or see the seminar Web site.

This seminar series is made possible through a grant to A.S. Brooks from the
University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute

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Last updated on 05 April 2000 by Karl