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The 2nd Rick Battarbee Lecture will be given by Prof Erik Jeppesen on 30-May-2013 at UCL.

Trophic dynamics and biodiversity in freshwaters: a climate change perspective.

Our Special Issue "A celebration of Prof Rick Battarbee’s contributions to paleolimnology" is now out http://link.springer.com/journal/10933/49/3/page/1 @RickBattarbee

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A Post-doctoral Limnologist/ Freshwater Ecologist with expertise in aquatic chemistry is required by ENSIS Ltd, a world-leading environmental consultancy.

A special issue of the journal Global and Planetary Change, dedicated to the palaeoclimatic results of the NERC RAPID Climate Change Programme, has been published.

A special issue of Journal of Paleolimnology on "Reference states and lake restoration: the role of palaeolimnology" has been published in volume 45 (No 4) - April 2011, guest edited by Helen Bennion and Rick Battarbee of the ECRC.

Martin Kernan, Rick Battarbee (ECRC) and Brian Moss (University of Liverpool) are co-editors of the book 'Climate Change Impacts on Freshwater Ecosystems' based on work undertaken in the EU FP6 project Euro-limpacs.

Upland waters damaged by acid rain are beginning to recover according to ECRC-led research.

Academics from the UCL Environmental Change Research Centre (ECRC) and its partners undertook the study for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

The Royal Geographical Society has awarded Rick Battarbee with the Victoria Medal for 'research in environmental change'.

Presentation of the Royal Medals and other Awards of the Society took place during the Society's AGM on 7 June 2010, at the Society in central London. They are presented annually in recognition of those who have made outstanding achievements.

The address made by the President of the IBG-RGS (Michael Palin CBE) and acceptance speech by Prof Rick Battarbee and other award winners can be found in:

Freshwater Biology publishes a series of papers by Dr Carl Sayer, Dr Tom Davidson, members of the ECRC and colleagues from other institutions on understanding shallow lake ecosystems through contemporary ecology and palaeolimnology.

Gavin Simpson and Chris Curtis were invited to participate in a workshop on nitrogen (N) deposition in Edinburgh (16th-18th November 2009). The workshop was organised by the International Nitrogen Initiative to inform the UN Conventions on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution and Biological Diversity.

Anson Mackay, Tom Davidson and Richard Mazebedi presented results from their Darwin-funded project on the Okavango Delta at a final project meeting on Wednesday 15th April, in Maun, Botswana.

The American Society of Limnology and Oceanography has presented Rick Battarbee with the Ruth Patrick Award for outstanding research into the application of aquatic science to environmental problems.

Helen, Carl and Jorge will be attending a one day meeting at Kinross on 11th December to celebrate "Loch Leven: 40 years of scientific research" organised by Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH). 

Jonathan Holmes and Neil Rose have been appointed associate editors of Journal of Paleolimnology, Jonathan with immediate effect, Neil from February 2009. 

The proceedings from a one day meeting ‘Climate Change and Aquatic Ecosystems in the UK: science policy and management’ held at the Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London, Wednesday 16th May, 2007 have now been published. 

Jon Tyler and George Swann, both former ECRC graduate students, have been awarded prestigious NERC postdoctoral research fellowships. 

A few things people might find useful about the new van. 

Mike Hughes has flown to Thailand to assist the UN with their humanitarian operations in Myanmar (Burma) after Cyclone Nargis struck the south of the country. Mike is a volunteer for MapAction, which is an NGO that creates and distributes maps in disaster regions, thus helping to coordinate relief efforts.