SIL Working Groups
Updated: 29 October 2008

Link to:
Ancient Lakes | Aquatic Birds | Aquatic Invasive Species | Aquatic Microbial Ecology | Aquatic Primary Productivity | Biodiversity | Biological Monitoring | Conservation and Management of Running Waters | Ecohydrology | Macrophytes | Periphyton of Freshwater Ecosystems | Physical Limnology | Plankton Ecology | Saline Inland Waters | Wetlands

Working Group on Ancient Lakes

Dr. Oleg Timoshkin, Chairperson
Limnological Institute, Siberian Branch
Russian Academy of Sciences
Ulan-Batorskaya, 3
P.O. Box 4199
664 033, Irkutsk
Russia
Phone: +3952-42-82-18
Fax: +3952-46-54-05
Email: tim@lin.irk.ru

Back to the top

Working Group on Aquatic Birds

Dr. Joseph J. Kerekes, Chairperson
Environment Canada
Canadian Wildlife Service
45 Alderney Drive
Dartmouth, N.S. B2Y 2N6
CANADA
Phone: 902-426-6356
Fax: 902-426-4557
E-mail: joe.kerekes@ec.gc.ca

Back to the top

Working Group on Aquatic Invasive Species

Web site: http://www.zin.ru/rbic/projects/sil_wgais/

Dr. Vadim Panov, Chairperson
Faculty of Geology and Geoecology
St. Petersburg State University
10 linia VO, 33/35
199178 St. Petersburg, Russia
Phone: +7-812-3563620
Fax: +7-812-3284159
E-mail: vpanov@aquaticinvasions.ru

Back to the top

Working Group on Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Dr. Meinhard Simon, Chairperson
Institute of Chemistry & Biology of the Marine Environment
University of Oldenburg
P.O. Box 2503
D-26111 Oldenburg
GERMANY
Phone: 49-441-970-6361
Fax: 49-441-798-3438
E-mail: m.simon@icbm.uni-oldenburg.de

Back to the top

Working Group on Aquatic Primary Productivity (GAP)

Dr. John Beardall, Co-chairperson
School of Biological Sciences
PO Box 18, Monash University
Wellington Road
Clayton, VIC 3800
AUSTRALIA
Phone: 61 3-99055611
Fax: 61 3-99055613
E-mail: John.Beardall@sci.monash.edu.au

Dr. Vivian Montecino, Co-chairperson
Universidad de Chile
Faculltad de Ciencias
Dept. de Ciencias Ecologicas
Las Palmeras # 3425
Casilla 653, Santiago
CHILE
Phone: 56 271-2049
Fax: 56 272-7363
E-mail: clorofil@uchile.cl

Back to the top

Working Group on Biodiversity

Dr. Hiroya Kawanabe, Chairperson
Lake Biwa Museum
1091 Oroshimo
Kusatsu City
Shiga 525-0001
JAPAN
Phone: 81-775-68-4812
Fax: 81-775-68-4848
E-mail: kawanabe@LBM.GO.JP

Back to the top

Working Group on Biological Monitoring

Chairperson to be determined

Back to the top

Working Group on Conservation and Management of Running Waters

Back to the top

Working Group on Ecohydrology

Prof. Maciej Zalewski, Co-Chairperson
International Centre for Ecology
Polish Academy of Sciences
90-364 Lodz Tylna St. 3
POLAND
Phone: 48-42-681-70-07
Fax: 48-42-681-70-07
E-mail: sekretariat@mcepan.lodz.pl

Dr. Richard Robarts, Co-Chairperson
National Water Research Institute
11 Innovation Blvd.
Saskatoon , SK S7N 3H5
CANADA
Phone: 306-975-6047
Fax: 306-975-5143
E-mail: richard.robarts@ec.gc.ca

Back to the top

Working Group on Macrophytes

Prof. Jacques Haury, Chairperson
Agrocampus Rennes
Laboratoire d'Ecologie et Sciences Phytosanitaires/Lab. Ecology and Crop Protection Unit
UMR INRA-Agrocampus Rennes
Ecobiologie et Qualité des Hydrosystèmes Continentaux / Biology, Ecology & Quality of Inland Water Bodies (Dir-Adjoint)
65, rue de Saint Brieuc, CS 84215 - F35042 Rennes Cedex
FRANCE
Phone: + 33 2 23 48 55 39
Fax: + 33 2 23 48 51 70
E-mail: Jacques.Haury@agrocampus-rennes.fr or Jacques.Haury@rennes.inra.fr

Back to the top

Working Group on Periphyton of Freshwater Ecosystems

Chairperson to be determined

Back to the top

Working Group on Physical Limnology

Dr. Sally MacIntyre, Chairperson
Department of Ecology, Evolution, & Marine Biology
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6150
USA
Telephone: (805) 893-3951
Fax: (805)893-8062
Email: sally@icess.ucsb.edu

Back to the top

Working Group on Plankton Ecology (PEG)

Dr. Miquel Lürling, Chairperson
Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group
Wageningen University
3600 BG Maarssen
P.O. Box 8080
6700 DD Wageningen
THE NETHERLANDS
Phone: 31-317-482689 or 483898
Fax: 31-317484411
E-mail: miquel.lurling@wur.nl

Back to the top

Working Group on Saline Inland Waters

Prof. Dr. Robert Jellison, Chairperson
University of California
SNARL, HCR 79, Box 198
Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546
USA
E-mail: jellison@lifesci.ucsb.edu

Back to the top

Working Group on Wetlands

Dr. Brij Gopal, Chairperson
School of Environmental Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi 110067
INDIA
Phone: 91-11-617-2438
Fax: 91-11-616-5886
E-mail: brij@jnuniv.ernet.in