The geological side of lakes: limnology and limnogeology.
Three African lakes share a rare property: they explode.
An article about a new science, limnogeology, from your About Geology Guide.
This list of millions-year-old lakes is a good entree to LakeNet, site of the World Lakes Network.
Good links and information from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
SALE (Subglacial Antarctic Lake Exploration) is a group of specialists overseeing the cutting-edge research into the pristine, otherworldly environments of Lake Vostok and its siblings: cold, dark lakes under kilometers of ice.
This
Geotimes article describes an ingenious project to tap cold deep water from this Finger Lake for space cooling, and the scientific payoff that came with it.
This lake's sediments are analyzed as a climate record of the last 10,000 years in this U.S. Geological Survey fact sheet.
All about the five Great Lakes shared by the USA and Canada.
The International Decade for the East African Lakes is studying the ancient environment of this crucial continent through its great lakes.
A small group of specialists-within-a-specialty.
Syracuse University hosts this research group looking into the dynamics of eastern Africa through the records in lake sediments.
The CONTINENT program is at GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany.
Everything about this fascinating Siberian impact basin, where the bottom sediments record precious environental information for the last 5 million years. Maintained by Matt Nolan of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Science, news, and pictures of this great southern African lake are all here.
In Duluth on Lake Superior, the University of Minnesota ("land of 10,000 lakes") runs this hard-core research facility.
This department at the Pyrenean Ecology Institute in Spain has photos and data from Spanish and South American lakes, among others.
The University of Minnesota has a wealth of information for public and professional consumption.
George Kling at the University of Michigan maintains this compendium about the pair of African caldera lakes that erupted with lethal gas in the 1980s.
Crater lakes may turn to boiling acid, erupt in choking gas, or be deep blue pools. This site maintained by Greg Pasternack of the University of California, Davis.
