Why lakes turn green: Researchers will take a deep dive into the health of North America’s freshwater lakes

“Ice duration and ice cover set the stage for all kinds of biological and ecological processes in lakes,” said Oleksy. “We’re seeing winter conditions—specifically ice cover duration—change very rapidly all over the world, including Colorado. But because we mostly take measurements from lakes in the summer, we have a pretty poor understanding of what this loss of winter means for ecosystem processes in lakes.”

Read the press release about our recently funded NSF Macrosystems project here.