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Researchers from the Global Lake Ecosystem Observatory Network have now reviewed the factors that cause algal blooms to subside, the challenges in combating them, and how to deal with current and ongoing effects of climate change.

Yesterday, at the GEO Ministerial Summit in Cape Town, South Africa, IGB scientist Dr Igor Ogashawara was honored with the GEO Emerging Leader Award. We spoke to him about the award and his field of research.

With a varied programme, IGB attracted more than 250 guests to the Open Day at the IGB site in Neuglobsow on the shores of Lake Stechlin on 1 July.

Happy Birthday LakeLab! For a decade now, IGB has been conducting large-scale experiments on the impacts of climate change and other anthropogenic environmental changes on lake ecosystems at the IGB LakeLab in Lake Stechlin. In this brief interim account, we present the projects, scientific findings and new perspectives that have emerged from research conducted in the facility so far. It is a journey through time on the occasion of the first big anniversary.

IGB’s LakeLab in Lake Stechlin, containing “24 lakes within a lake”, is globally unique. This year, the large-scale experimental facility is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Reason enough to look at the past and the future with Mark Gessner, head of the “Plankton and Microbial Ecology” department at Lake Stechlin and initiator of the LakeLab.

In the last 10 years, the ecological status of Lake Stechlin has deteriorated seriously. IGB-researchers have prepared a new IGB Dossier that summarises the state of knowledge and identifies possible options for action. 

The CONNECT project, coordinated by IGB and involving seven partner institutions, started out in May 2019 with the collection of data. In an interview, Stella Berger and Sabine Wollrab report on the first results, and explain why it is particularly interesting to work in a multidisciplinary team, and how this benefits the project.

In an interview, Stella Berger and Sabine Wollrab report on the first results from the CONNECT project. They also talk about why it is particularly interesting to work in a multidisciplinary team, and how this benefits the project.