7 results for tag: climate change

NALMS Releases a Position Statement and Policy Recommendations on Nature-based Solutions in Urban Lakes and Watersheds

By Gabriella Placido, NALMS Policy Intern Despite being just over halfway through the year, 2021 has already broken an assortment of records with its extreme weather and unprecedented circumstances. Intense storms, heat waves, fires, floods, droughts, and a series of harmful algal blooms have plagued North America and the rest of the world, all while trying to overcome a persistent and troublesome pandemic. Such notable and problematic effects of climate change are increasing in intensity and frequency around the globe; the climate crisis can be ignored no longer. It is increasingly being realized that answers to solving many of these ...

Modeling the Effects of Land Development and Climate Change on Patagonian Lakes

The pristine lakes of Northern Patagonia, Chile, are facing an uncertain future. These are some of the largest temperate lakes in the world which have not had significant anthropogenic modifications to their watersheds. Yet with anticipated urban development and the ever-present effects of climate change, lake residents are concerned about a potential decline in lake water quality. Since 2019 the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) has been collaborating with a Chilean Lake Advocacy NGO, Chile Lagos Limpios, to deploy the first in-situ, high-frequency hydrodynamic and water quality instrumentation in these lakes. The team is utilizing ...

NALMS Stands Behind Climate Updates Backed By Scientists Around the Globe

by Gabriella Placido, NALMS Policy Intern With the latest science indicating that current climate trends will bring calamitous worldwide impacts, scientists around the world continue to team up to sound the global climate alarm and to encourage necessary action for the greater good. Startling updates from scientific organizations, such as May’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report, suggest that the rate of climate change acceleration continues to increase at a disturbing rate. In addition, last year NALMS was one of 111 professional aquatic scientific organizations across the world that joined forces with the American Fisheries ...

NALMS Internship Opportunities

NALMS is accepting applications for two summer 2021 internship opportunities: NALMS Policy Internship The intern will work with the NALMS Policy and Communications Committees to support the process of writing white papers and developing policy recommendations regarding the following topics: Climate Change Impacts on Lake Ecosystems, Lake Watershed Management, Cyanobacteria Management, and Urban Lake Management. An integral component of the internship will be taking the lead in writing a white paper and developing policy recommendations regarding one of the topics listed above or a new topic agreed upon by the intern and their ...

2021 International Rainy-Lake of the Woods Watershed Forum

2021 International Rainy-Lake of the Woods Watershed Forum will take place virtually this coming March. Virtual Forum dates: March 10–11, 2021 Abstract Deadline: January 19, 2021. Please get your abstracts in early! See Abstract Submission for submittal requirements. Overview: Professional symposium for researchers and resource managers working in the Rainy-Lake of the Woods Watershed. Themes: Climate change, nutrients & algae, invasive species, paleolimnology, fisheries and more! Two Focus Sessions with moderated town hall style discussions will provide additional interaction opportunity, in addition to the regular ...

World’s Leading Aquatic Scientific Societies Urgently Call for Cuts to Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Dire consequences for freshwater and marine resources without significant and fast action Bethesda, MD (September 14, 2020) In an unprecedented statement released today, the North American Lake Management Society (NALMS) joined forces with 111 aquatic scientific societies representing more than 80,000 scientists across the world to sound a climate change alarm.  The societies call for drastically curtailed global greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst impacts of man-made climate change to fish and aquatic ecosystems. Unless urgent action is taken to reduce emissions, scientists predict catastrophic impacts to commercial, recreational, and ...

World Water Day 2020: Water and Climate Change

What is World Water Day? World Water Day, held on 22 March every year since 1993, is an annual United Nations Observance focusing on the importance of freshwater. The theme of World Water Day 2020 is water and climate change – and how the two are inextricably linked. For those of us who live, work or play on lakes, we are already seeing the impacts of climate change, from rising water temperatures, loss of winter ice cover, changes in lake stratification, increased evaporation, and more extreme weather events, including droughts and intense rainstorms. Climate change is further complicating already challenging lake protection and ...