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McGill database will help climate-change experts track world's lakes [View all]
When it comes to lake water, some McGill University geographers are in deep.
They spent the past three years calculating the most precise estimates yet for the amount of water contained in the world’s 1.42 million lakes.
And ecologists, climate-change experts and other scientists are about to reap the benefits of their research, published Thursday in the journal Nature Communications.
Most lakes have been mapped but “one thing that was completely missing was the volume of lake water,” said senior author Bernhard Lehner, an associate professor in McGill’s geography department.
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They spent the past three years calculating the most precise estimates yet for the amount of water contained in the world’s 1.42 million lakes.
And ecologists, climate-change experts and other scientists are about to reap the benefits of their research, published Thursday in the journal Nature Communications.
Most lakes have been mapped but “one thing that was completely missing was the volume of lake water,” said senior author Bernhard Lehner, an associate professor in McGill’s geography department.
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http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/mcgill-database-will-help-climate-change-experts-track-worlds-lakes
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