The national stage of the Brian Moss Student Competition Award has concluded! We are delighted to have received applications from...READ MORE
The national stage of the Brian Moss Student Competition Award has concluded! We are delighted to have received applications from...READ MORE
Inaugural United Nations World Lake Day — 27 August 2025 Publicize it. Do something where you are. Celebrate the...READ MORE
Authored by the most recent awardee, Dr. Ruben Sommaruga, this thought-provoking synthesis explores how planktonic organisms survive in the harsh...READ MORE
Are you interested in supporting a global network of SIL Ambassadors and shaping the future of limnology outreach? We are...READ MORE
Inaugural United Nations World Lake Day — 27 August 2025
Celebrate the critical role of lakes, reservoirs, and ponds… in water security, flood mitigation, biodiversity, and ecosystem services.
#WorldLakeDay #Lakes #Freshwater #Limnology
🚨 CLOSING TODAY!
SIL Members — it’s your last chance to vote for your next Global Outreach Leaders.
🗳️ …Check your email for your ballot & voting instructions.
Deadline: August 18, 2025
⏰ LAST 2 DAYS LEFT!
SIL Members — cast your vote to elect your next Global Outreach Leaders.
🗳️ Check your …email for the ballot & voting instructions.
📅 Deadline: August 18, 2025
SIL MEMBERS!
⏳ Only 4 days left to cast your vote in the SIL Global Outreach Elections!
Vice President
ECR …Representative
📬 Check your email inbox (from business@limnology.org) for your ballot.
🗓️ Voting closes August 18, 2025
Questions? Email: siloffice@limnology.org
SIL MEMBERS!
⏳Only 10 days left to cast your vote in the SIL Global Outreach Elections!
Vice President
ECR …Representative
Check your email inbox (from business@limnology.org) for your ballot.
🗓️ Voting closes August 18, 2025.
Questions? Email: siloffice@limnology.org
SIL MEMBERS!
It’s time to cast your vote in the SIL Global Outreach Elections for positions :
Vice President
ECR …Representative
Check your email inbox (from business@limnology.org) for your ballot.
Voting is open until August 18, 2025
Questions? Email: siloffice@limnology.org
📢 Final Call for Session Proposals!
Be part of the global ASLO-SIL 2026 meeting in Montréal, Quebec, Canada, from …May 12–16, 2026.
🗓️ Proposal submission deadline: July 16, 2025
Don’t miss this opportunity to participate and share your research! 👩🔬
https://www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-2026/
📣 SIL Board Elections – Deadline Extended!
🌍 Nominations are open
🔹 Vice-President – Global Outreach
🔹… Early Career Researcher – Global Outreach
📩 Submit your nomination to:
📧 bjoern.wissel@univ-lyon1.fr
📧 tamarz@ocean.org.il
🔗 Full details: http://www.limnology.org/announcements/sil-board-elections-call-for-nominations/
📣📣 FINAL REMINDER: Tonolli Research Awards 📣📣
⏰ Deadline: June 30, 2025
SIL student members from …developing countries — apply now to receive up to $1,500 for your limnology research!
📧 Submit to: business@limnology.org
🔗 Full info: https://limnology.org/funding/tonolli-award/
‼️ FINAL REMINDER ‼️
⏰ Stage 1 Deadline: June 30, 2025
If you’re in a country with a SIL Ambassador, this is …your last chance to submit to the Brian Moss Student Competition!
📥 Submit & read full details:
👉 https://limnology.org/funding/sil-student-competition/guidelines-the-brian-moss-student-competition/
‼️ REMINDER ‼️
⏰ Stage 1 Deadline is Almost Here!
If your country has a SIL Ambassador, you have until June …30, 2025 to submit your paper!
Apply here & read full details:
https://limnology.org/funding/sil-student-competition/guidelines-the-brian-moss-student-competition/
📣REMINDER: RESEARCH AWARDS APPLICATION 📣
SIL STUDENTS: Don’t forget to apply for the Tonolli Research Awards …to help fund your projects.
Read about all the details on our website: https://limnology.org/funding/tonolli-award/
⏰ The deadline to submit a complete application is June 30, 2025.
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“If I deserve this award, it should be for attracting highly dedicated and hardworking people who enjoy doing …important science.”
Watch @queensu ecologist John Smol’s acknowledgements at the 2024 #NSERC_Prizes ceremony:
▶️ http://tinyurl.com/4taz3ab8
SIL wishes you a Happy Earth Day, let’s not forget our beloved freshwater ecosystems!
🌎🌍🌏
#freshwater
…#EarthDay2025
#limnology
‼️NEW MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS: SIL is newly offering greater discounts to SIL members from new GDP brackets. Have a look… here: https://limnology.org/members/membership-types-and-fees/
❓If you wish to switch to our new 2-year membership, contact Business@limnology.org before you renew.
3⃣ As a member, you also benefit from our many programs that support limnologists, including funding opportunities, …educational content, outreach networks, and working groups!
2⃣ Members also get reduced pricing and all updates for our upcoming congress registrations. We are currently …planning our SIL2026 joint meeting with ASLO.
1⃣ Renewing your membership will grant you free online access to Inland Waters and FREE page charges when publishing …in the journal or a 30% discount on open access fees.
Culture, traditions, and natural resources of Mexican lakes under the influence of anthropogenic pressures and climate change
By Javier Alcocer & Elva Escobar
📃This paper present how pre-Hispanic lacustrine Indigenous’ cultural knowledge and traditions persist in some location of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, thereby playing a key role in safeguarding water resources.
💡INSIGHTS:
(1) Central Mexico lakes on which Indigenous people depend on face numerous environmental pressures, including pollution, extensive water withdrawal and climate change.
(2) Coordinated efforts of Indigenous peoples, nongovernmental agencies, and nonprofit foundations supported by the knowledge provided by Mexican scientists help to safeguard water resources in areas where Indigenous peoples have water rights.
Link to access to the full paper in bio.
#centralmexicolakes #transmexicanvolcanicbelt #safeguardingwaterresources #climatechange #cuitzeo #Texcoco #indigenouspeoples #inlandwaters
📰 ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
💡 Study reveals how pristine vs. impacted lakes in Chiapas differ: clear, nutrient-poor vs. turbid, nutrient-rich. Protecting the Lagunas de Montebello is vital to safeguard biodiversity and water quality.
Link to access the article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20442041.2024.2351324
#LagunasdeMontebello #inlandwaters #biodiversity #waterquality
Wetzel Videos of the Week:
Global Water Cycle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjAPyejDtbI&list=PLK9Ybop8w9wa0Te3_hIw0b7O8b0zMjnH8&index=3&ab_channel=SILInternationalSocietyofLimnology
Heat, Layers and Mixing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiLRgkvKoa8&list=PLK9Ybop8w9wa0Te3_hIw0b7O8b0zMjnH8&index=5&ab_channel=SILInternationalSocietyofLimnology
Our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@silinternationalsocietyofl291
Article of the week:
Venezuelan rivers harbor extraordinary biodiversity across plants, fish, invertebrates, and microbes, but research remains largely taxonomic, with urgent need for integrative ecological studies.
Access to the article: https://doi.org/10.1080/20442041.2024.2431404
Socioenvironmental impacts of pine (Pinus taeda) monocultures established by forestry companies on Guaraní territories in the Province of Misiones, Argentina.
By Héctor A. Keller & Verónica L. Lozano
📃This paper summarizes the main impacts of the implementation of pine monocultures in Guaraní territories and communities.
💡INSIGHTS:
(1) The forest ecosystems implanted in Guaraní territories have a significant impact on the culture, traditional landscape, and biotic and abiotic resources on which they depend.
(2) The high diversity of the native forest in Misiones, as well as the climatic conditions, would allow a relatively rapid ecological restoration if urgent and long-term measures are taken. Fundamental to this process is the recognition of the knowledge and capacities of the Guaraní communities for environmental recovery and subsequent territorial development.
Link to access to the full paper in bio.
#pinemonoculture #guaranicommunities #guaraniterritories #forestecosystem #inlandwaters
💧Wetzel videos of the week:
Phosphorous dynamics:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3rc…
Nitrogen Dynamics:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9TN…
Our channel: www.youtube.com/@silinternat…
#limnology #freshwater #lakes #biogeochemistry
