Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. David Hamilton, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

Before becoming Editor-in-Chief of Inland Waters, David Hamilton served as Senior Associate Editor for the journal. He has research specialisations in physical-biological coupling in aquatic systems, lake management, sediment resuspension in shallow lakes, cyanobacteria and ecological modelling. Hamilton has held long-term academic positions at the University of Western Australia (Centre for Water Research) and the University of Waikato (Environmental Research Institute) before taking up his current position as Deputy Director of the Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

Editor Emeritus

Prof. John R. Jones, University of Missouri, USA

John Jones, Curators’ Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri, has quantified factors regulating algal biomass in lakes and streams. His primary focus is a long-term study of midcontinent reservoirs in the US but has extended this work to several biomes, including regions dominated by the Asian monsoon.

Associate Editors

Prof. Martin Berg, Loyola University Chicago, USA

Martin B. Berg, Professor of Biology at Loyola University Chicago, is an aquatic ecologist and entomologist studying energy flow in aquatic systems, with a particular focus on the role and ecology of non-biting midges (Diptera:Chironomidae).

Dr Marie-Paule Bonnet, UMR Espace-DEV, France

Marie-Paule Bonnet specializes in hydrological and biogeochemistry modeling of tropical aquatic ecosystems. Her research mainly focused on the Amazon basin during the last years, especially the rivers and lakes, floodplain hydrology, hydrodynamics, water quality, and aquatic communities. She has done studies in an interdisciplinary and international environment looking at critical issues impacting sustainability and development, form local to global stakeholders. She uses several types of models, from differential equation systems to agent-based models.

Dr Gergely Boros Balaton Limnological Institute, Hungary

Gergely Boros is a research fellow at Balaton Limnological Institute, Centre for Ecological Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Research interests: Nutrient dynamics in freshwater ecosystems, ecological stoichiometry; Biomanipulation of shallow lakes, lake restoration; Role of fish in nutrient (carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus) cycling; Ecological impacts of introduced filter feeding Asian carps.

Dr Michael Brett, University of Washington, USA

Michael Brett is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington. He does research on food web processes in aquatic ecosystems and especially the role lipids play in aquatic food web processes. His research also explores the importance of terrestrial organic matter inputs for the production of consumers in lakes. He also studies eutrophication and food web responses to excessive nutrient loading in lakes, streams and estuaries and the bio-availability of nitrogen and phosphorus. Dr. Brett obtained a BSc in Fisheries at Humboldt State University, a MSc in Zoology at the University of Maine, and a PhD in Limnology at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Dr Michele Burford, Griffith University, Australia

Michele Burford is an Associate Professor at the Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Australia. She is researching algal ecology and nutrient cycling in a range of aquatic systems and is interested in the whole-of-catchment approach to ecosystem processes. She has over 60 scientific publications.

Prof. David da Motta Marques, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Su Brazil, Brazil

Biologist and limnologist. His current research interests include the link between biological communities, metabolism and hydrodynamics, large scale and cross scale changes, and ecological modelling of complex systems lakes-wetlands, integrating high sampling frequency monitoring systems.

Dr Grant Douglas, CSIRO, Australia

Grant Douglas is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Land and Water. He is a geochemist who has worked in areas as diverse as water quality, nutrient inactivation, having developed lanthanum-modified bentonite, mining wastewater treatment, and sediment source tracing in rivers, lakes and estuaries.

Prof. John Downing, University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA

John A. Downing is currently Director of the Minnesota Sea Grant Program, a senior researcher at the Large Lakes Observatory on Lake Superior, and a member of the Department of Biology at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. His principal specializations include biogeochemistry, eutrophication, harmful algae blooms, carbon cycling, groundwater, the ecology of phytoplankton, zooplankton, benthos and fish, economic valuation, and global limnology.

Werner Eckert, Yigal Allon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Israel 

Werner Eckert is senior scientist with Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research working as a biogeochemist at the Yigal Allon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory. His areas of expertise include microbially mediated redox processes in the water column and sediments of freshwater lakes, nutrient dynamics and methane evolution.

Dr Paul Hanson, University of Wisconsin, USA

Paul Hanson is an ecosystems ecologist with interests in aquatic metabolism and carbon cycling, prediction of harmful algal blooms, and the development and use of sensor networks for ecosystems science.

Dr Fengzhi He, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Germany

Fengzhi He is a freshwater ecologist and conservation biologist. His research seeks to understand patterns and drivers of riverine biodiversity at different scales. He is particularly interested in the ecological roles of freshwater megafauna species and their potential for improving freshwater conservation and ecosystem restoration. His research also includes strong foci on interactions and cultural links between people and freshwater biodiversity and anthropogenic impact on benthic organisms in mountain streams.

Dr Anne Hershey, University of North Carolina, USA

 Anne E. Hershey is the Julia Taylor Morton Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research focuses on the ecology of streams and arctic lakes, emphasizing the use of stable isotopes to understand relationships between aquatic invertebrate consumers and biogeochemical cycles.

Dr Yannick Huot, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada

Yannick Huot is the chairholder of the Canada Research Chair in Earth Observation and Phytoplankton Ecophysiology. His research focuses on phytoplankton ecophysiology aquatic optics and remote sensing in lakes and oceans.

Dr Bas Ibelings, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Bas Ibelings is a Full Professor in Microbial Ecology at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. With his team of PhDs and Postdocs, he studies phytoplankton diversity from the population to the ecosystem level, with a special interest in cyanobacterial blooms, chytrid parasites and automated high frequency monitoring.

Dr Vera Istvanovics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Theoretical and applied aspects of eutrophication management. Phosphorus cycling in lakes and wetlands (sediments, phytoplankton, aquatic macrophytes). Phytoplankton ecology in lakes and rivers. Use of high frequency time series to elucidate functioning aquatic ecosystems.

Dr Maho Iwaki, National Institute of Technology, Maizuru College, Kyoto, Japan

Maho Iwaki is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Technology, Maizuru College. She is also a visiting researcher (Physics) of Lake Biwa Museum. Her research interests focus on physical processes related to lakes and catchments, including the estimation of the average retention time of precipitation of lake catchments.

Dr Dean Jacobsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Dean Jacobsen's research covers basic and applied tempered and tropical stream ecology. It includes spatial distribution and temporal variability in communities and diversion benthic macroinvertebrates, as well as eco-physiology in relation to habitat characteristics such as altitude, temperature and oxygen, and human impacts such as organic pollution and deforestation. Currently he is working mainly with structure and function of glacial streams in the high Andes.

Prof. Erik Jeppesen, Aarhus University, Denmark

Erik Jeppersen is a Research Professor in a joint position with the National Environmental Research Institute, Department of Freshwater Ecology and University of Aarhus, Denmark. His research interests include shallow lake ecology, lake restoration, biological interactions with nutrient dynamics and climate, biomanipulation, paleoecology and ecosystem modelling.

Dr Martin Kainz, WasserCluster Lunz, Austria

Martin Kainz is a research scientist at the inter-university center for aquatic ecosystem research WasserCluster Lunz, Austria. His research interests include food web ecology, trophic indicators including lipids and stable isotopes, coupling of terrestrial and aquatic subsidies, climate change, and aquatic ecotoxicology.

Dr Pirkko Kortelainen, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland

Pirkko Kortelainen has experience on biogeochemical cycles (C, N, P, Fe, S, base creations etc.) across ecosystem boundaries including both pristine and managed freshwater systems such as headwater streams, large rivers and lakes with links to major environmental drivers such as acidification, forestry, agriculture, climate change and atmospheric deposition.

Dr Peter Leavitt, University of Regina, Canada

Peter Leavitt is the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change and Society. His work integrates monitoring, modelling, experiments, and paleolimnology to quantify the hierarchal relationships between environmental change and lake response.

Prof. Zhengwen Liu, Jinan University, Peoples Republic of China

Zhengwen Liu is a lake ecologist. He is interested in zooplankton-fish interactions, food webs, ecological role of macrophytes and eutrophication process using stable isotope approaches. Currently he focuses on management and restoration of eutrophic shallow lakes including food web manipulation and macrophyte restoration.

Dr David Livingstone, Swiss Federal Inst of Env. Sci. and Tech, (EAWAG), Switzerland

David M Livingstone's research focuses on the physical response of inland waters to climatic forcing and climate change. This includes assessing the influence of climatic enforcing on lake temperature profiles, river temperatures, groundwater temperatures and ice phenology, but also involves the analysis of patterns of regional coherence in the behaviour of limnological variables, and the determination of their response to large-scale climate modes.

Prof. Stephen Maberly, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK

Stephen Maberly has worked on aquatic systems for 30 years. His main interest is to understand the mechanisms that control the functioning of aquatic systems, particularly the link between resource availability and the ecophysiological response of algae and macrophytes, and how that interaction can affect species distribution.

Ali Mahaqi, Jacobs Group, Northern Territory, Australia

Ali Mahaqi, an environmental scientist at Jacobs Group in Australia, specializes in water-rock interactions and contaminant mobilization in aqueous settings. His focus extends to water resources management, particularly in Middle East and South Asia countries. By studying the intricate connections between water and rock formations and employing expertise in geology, hydrology, and environmental chemistry, Ali contributes to sustainable water management practices, ensuring the preservation of this vital resource for future generations.

Benjamin Misteli, University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France

Benjamin Misteli is currently in the last year of his PhD at the University of Rennes 1, France. In his research, he tries to better understand patterns in aquatic biodiversity. His PhD focuses on the effect of macrophytes and their removal on aquatic ecosystems, especially on macroinvertebrates, zoo-, and phytoplankton. In addition, he works with macroinvertebrates in intermittent alpine streams and emerging insects from ponds.

Dr Shin-ichi Nakano, Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Japan

Shin-ichi Nakano has been conducting studies on ecology of heterotrophic bacteria, picocyanobacteria and protists, with special reference to food web dynamics among those microorganisms. In addition, he is also interested in ecology of bloom-forming cyanobacteria, and his studies on protistan grazing on Microcystis cyanobacteria are rich in originality.

Dr. Shira Ninio, Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research, Israel

Shira Ninio is a senior research scientist at the Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research. Her research interests are focused on aquatic microbial ecology including microbial community dynamics and microbe-host interactions in aquatic ecosystems.

Dr Rebecca North, University of Missouri, USA

Rebecca North is an Assistant Professor of Water Quality at the University of Missouri, USA. She is an emerging researcher in aquatic ecology and biogeochemistry with expertise on nutrient and algal dynamics in water bodies. She addresses questions regarding the sources and timing of nutrient loading from land to lake.

Dr Michelle Palmer, Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Canada

Michelle Palmer is an aquatic ecologist specializing in the assessment of multiple stressors, their interactive impacts on lake physics, chemistry, and biology, and implications for restoration.

Dr. Ma. Cristina Paule-Mercado, Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Czech Republic

Cristina is an environmental engineer and postdoc researcher at Institute of Hydrobiology, CAS, Czech Republic. Her research focuses on integrating water quality (abiotic or biotic component) and hydrological models to quantify the relationship/impact of climate change, environmental variables, and biomanipulation on runoff and/or reservoir.

Dr Clay Prater, Oklahoma State University, USA

Clay Prater is a postdoctoral research associate interested in all things elemental. He studies how human alteration of environmental elemental supplies influences organismal ecology and evolution and how these changes feedback to alter elemental flows in aquatic ecosystems and throughout the biosphere.

Dr Joanna Rosinska, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland

Joanna Rosinska is a hydrobiologist in the Department of Environmental Medicine. Her research interests include the ecology of phytoplankton and macrophytes and physical and chemical water parameters in shallow lakes, mainly restored ones.

Dr James Rusak, Dorset Environmental Science Centre, Canada

James Rusak is a limnologist and ecologist whose work focuses on how disturbances structure both pattern and process in aquatic ecosystems, with a particular emphasis on freshwater plankton communities, and how we can better predict and mitigate these changes in a multiple stressor world.

Prof. S.S.S. Sarma, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

S.S.S. Sarma works on the taxonomy, ecology and ecotoxicology of freshwater zooplankton. He is interested in studying the life history strategies and population dynamics of rotifers, cladocerans and copepods under normal and stressful conditions. His studies involve both field and laboratory evaluations.

Dr Laura Soares, French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE), France

Laura Soares is an early career post-doctoral researcher at the CARRTEL Limnology Center, INRAE, France. Her research interests are focused on hydrodynamic and biogeochemical modeling of aquatic ecosystems for improving the forecast of water quality in lakes and reservoirs, and investigating their response to climate.

Dr Martin Sondergaard, Aarthus University, Denmark

Martin Sondergaard has specialised in freshwater ecology and applied research since 1985. Key areas of research comprise nutrient dynamics in lakes and the importance of biological structure in lakes and ponds. Specific research areas include internal phosphorus loading, lake restoration, submerged macrophytes and classification of lakes in relation to the EU Water Framework Directive.

Dr Bryan M. Spears, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK

Bryan Spears is a freshwater ecologist with particular expertise in the biogeochemical transformation of nutrients within shallow aquatic ecosystems and the role of aquatic organism in regulating these processes. He has experience in studying the roles of benthic microalgae, macrophytes, bacteria and macroinvertebrates in regulating nutrient cycling between sediments and overlying waters in shallow lakes.

Dr Dengjun (Kevin) Wang, College of Agriculture at Auburn University, USA

Kevin Wang is an assistant professor of aquatic chemistry in the College of Agriculture at Auburn University. His primary research is on the fate, transport, cycling, and remediation of particles, nutrients, and contaminants in the subsurface environment.

Associate Prof. Haijun Wang, Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, Yunnan University, People's Republic of China

Haijun Wang's research field includes resilience and regime shifts, eutrophication macrophyte ecology, nitrogen pollution, zoobenthos, sustainable fisheries, river-lake isolation, bioassessment, and lake restoration. Since 2010, he has led a field station conducting whole-ecosystem experiments and long-term monitoring.

Dr Susie Wood, Cawthron Institute, New Zealand

Susie Wood is Science Leader in the Aquaculture and Biotechnology group at the Cawthron Institute (Nelson, New Zealand). Her areas of expertise include phytoplankton systematics, taxonomy, ecology and physiology, and cyanobacterial toxin production.

Prof. Haihan Zhang, School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, People's Republic of China

Zhang Haihan's research focuses on exploring linkages between urban lake/reservoir physics and microbial ecology using metagenomics and transcriptomics techniques, as well as predicting water quality and sediment microbial community dynamics, determining the inland water microbial abundance and diversity using real-time PCR and DNA sequencing.

Dr Yunlin Zhang, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, People's Repulic of China

Yunlin Zhang is interested in physical limnology, particularly lakeoptics and thermal stratification as it relates to climate warming. His interest in remote sensing is to estimate chlorophylla, total suspended matter, diffuse attenuation coefficient, dissolved organic carbon and other attributes of lakes. Work on chromophoric dissolved organic matter utilizes fluorescence and carbon isotope techniques.

Dr. Senlin Zhu, Yangzhou University, China

Senlin Zhu has specialized in freshwater water quality and applied research since 2017. He has experience in studying contaminant transport and transformation in aquatic systems, riverine nutrient fluxes modeling, and impact of climate change and extremes on aquatic systems (e.g., rivers and lakes).

Dr Tamar Zohary, Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research, Israel

Tamar Zohary is a senior research scientist at the Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research. Her research interests are focused on phytoplankton ecology, food-web interactions in aquatic systems, and how those aquatic systems respond to anthropogenic stresses, with focus on man-induced water level fluctuations.

Associate Editors in-Training

Dr Veronica Nava, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Veronica Nava is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy), specializing in the study of the impacts of anthropogenic stressors on lentic and lotic systems, through the analysis of long-term trends. She studies microplastics and plastic pollution in freshwater ecosystems, specifically focusing on the effect of these pollutants on the wider ecological context by investigating the interaction of plastic debris with microorganisms and the subsequent effects on metabolic traits.

Advisor

Dr Jeremy J. Piggott, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Jeremy Piggott’s research investigates the combined influence of multiple anthropogenic stressors on communities and ecosystems. By advancing knowledge and connecting science to policy, his research seeks to improve the management, conservation and restoration of aquatic ecosystems in the face of global change.

Copyeditor

Janice Faaborg

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updated 15 March 2024