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Dörthe Tetzlaff has been head of IGB’s department of Ecohydrology since August 2017. Time, to make up a first balance. And to talk about research & family, and her future plans.

Rising temperatures are a threat to the balance of lakes. In a new IGB Dossier, researchers provide a summary of the changes that lakes are already undergoing and of the scenarios that are likely to occur.

The IGB team around project leader Dr. Stella Berger has been waiting quite a while for cold temperatures. The scientists were ready to start the scheduled ice experiment at the LakeLab. 

Mongolia is characterised by water scarcity as well as dynamic changes and conflicts of water use in the water sector. IGB is f.i. responsible for the Kharaa Yeröö River Basin Atlas.

A temperature rise of only 1°C would lead to six to 20 percent higher emissions of methane bubbles – which in turn would result in an additional increase in temperature.

IGB scientist Dr. Sibylle Schroer has been awarded the 2017 Galileo Award by the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) for her outstanding achievements in research on light pollution.

Experts from all over the world have developed the basis for a global network for improving research, protection and public outreach in the field of freshwater biodiversity.

83 per cent of all the world’s threatened freshwater species occur in the same areas as the “imposing” freshwater species examined within the study – all of which are potential ambassadors for their ecosystem.