A new generation of scientists is teaching the next generation about lakes and climate change with MANTEL Pieces, a set of twelve short videos for 12-14 year olds. | Image: Pixabay
MANTEL is an EU-funded Innovative Training Network (ITN), training twelve researchers to study the effects of storms and other climatic extremes on water quality in lakes and reservoirs. Climatic extremes such as storms and heat waves are becoming more frequent in Western Europe, a trend that has been linked to climate change and increased global warming. Understanding the impacts of these climatic extremes is important because of the negative impacts they can have on the services that lakes and reservoirs provide for society, in particular provision of safe water for drinking and recreational use, and economic benefits such as fisheries and tourism.
Episode 5: Farting Lakes
Truls Hansson, doctoral student in the Department of Experimental Limnology at IGB, has made a video on how the production of methane from lakes (‘farting’ lakes) might contribute to climate change.
Episode 8: Lake Ecosystem Resilience
Michael Thayne, doctoral student in the Department of Ecosystem Research at IGB, explains how lakes can have a natural resilience that helps their ecosystems to recover from the effects of climate change and other human pressures.
