Stable isotopic compositions of lake water provide additional information on hydrological, meteorological and paleoclimate processes. In this study, lake water isotopic compositions were measured for more than three years in Lake Taihu, a large and shallow lake in southern China, to investigate the isotopic spatial and seasonal variations. The results indicated that (1) the whole-lake mean δ(2)...

polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (pahs) in the priority controlling list of us epa weresystematically evaluated in surface sediments in dianchi lake and its estuaries. total pah concentrations(σpahs) varied from 210 to 11,070 ng/g dry weight (d.w.) in dianchi lake, and from 230 to 12,271 ng/g d.w.in the estuaries. σpahs in sediments from caohai section were higher than those from waihai section...

in the last decade, the water level of urmia lake has experienced a dramatically drop. although the causes of this lose have been investigated, the significance of groundwater supplies had not been concerned so much. in the present research, groundwater resources around the lake were explored as its water supplier. the number of wells and groundwater withdrawal has been increased because of cul...

A study was carried out on the occurrence of chitinolytic bacteria inhabiting surface water, water above the sediment and bottom sediments of lakes: Jeziorak, Jeziorak Maty and Tynwald. The greatest amounts of them were found in demersal water and in bottom sediment surface stratum. However, the percentage share of chitinolytic bacteria proved greater in deep water (9.35%) than in bottom sedime...

Interesting landforms created by an ancient network of earthworks are shown, using Google satellite imagery enhanced by an image processing. This network covers a large part of the land near the Titicaca Lake. Satellite images clearly display the slopes of hills criss-crossed with terrace walls and the surfaces of the plains covered with raised fields, indicating that this was once a highly pro...

CanaddBritish Columbia Mineral Development Agreement, this area was selected for more detailed analysis than presently available. During the 1986 field season fieldwork was centred on the Cowichan Lake area (Figures 3-9-1 and 3-9-21, Access in the area is provided by an extensive network of logging roads in various states of upkeep. Roadcuts provide most ofthe exposure for mapping; rock units a...

Previous laboratory studies have demonstrated that estrogenic and antiandrogenic chemicals can alter several sexual characteristics in male poeciliid fishes. Whether similar disturbances occur under field conditions remains to be confirmed. Lake Apopka, Florida, is contaminated with numerous chemicals, some of which possess endocrine-disrupting activity. Male mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) w...

The prevalence of malaria among the residents of the Lake Victoria basin remains high. The environment associated with the lake may maintain a high number of malaria vectors. Lake habitats including water hyacinths have been suspected to be the source of vectors. This study investigated whether malaria vectors breed in the lake habitats and adjacent backwater pools. Anopheline larvae were colle...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Great Basin Lake Bonneville Great Salt Lake Stansbury Island Stansbury shoreline Stansbury oscillation Stansbury Gulch Paleolake chronology Paleoclimate Multiple proxy This paper reports on recent multiproxy research conducted to determine the chronology of lake-level fluctuations recorded in sediments from a natural exposure at a classic Bonneville basin site. G...

Lake Taihu is a shallow lake located in the Yangtze River delta region in eastern China. Lake breezes and their interactions with urban heat islands are of great importance to air quality andweather forecasting. In this study, surface observations at a dense network and Wind Profile Radar measurements were utilized to characterize the lake breezes at Lake Taihu and assess the impact of geophysi...