This is the latest publication from the ECRC: 

Landers, D.H., Simonich, S.M., Jaffe, D., Geiser, L., Campbell, D.H., Schwindt, A., Schreck, C., Kent, M., Hafner, W., Taylor, H.E., Hageman, K., Usenko, S., Ackerman, L., Schrlau, J., Rose, N.L., Blett, T. & Erway, M.M. (2010) The Western Airborne Contaminant Project (WACAP): An interdisciplinary evaluation of the impacts of airborne contaminants in western U.S. national parks. Environmental Science & Technology 44: 855-859.

The current issue of 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.

Research Councils UK Office in China: UK - China Joint Advanced Summer School A joint advanced summer school entitled Tracking Environmental Change in Dryland Regions Using Lake Sediments jointly organized by Professor Jonathan Holmes of the Environmental Change Research Centre (ECRC), Department of Geography, UCL and Professor Fahu Chen, Director, Centre for Arid Environment and Palaeoclimate Research (CAEP), MOE Key Laboratory of West China’s Environmental System, Lanzhou University, took place in Lanzhou University 27-31 July.

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.