Project description
Safeguarding lakes and reservoirs amidst climate chaos
Lakes and reservoirs are under increasing threat from extreme weather events induced by climate change like storms and heat waves. The frequency and intensity of these events have escalated in recent years, resulting in significant and long-lasting impacts on aquatic ecosystems. In this context, the MSCA-funded MANTEL project aims to transform water quality monitoring practices. Specifically, it will use data from automated high-frequency monitoring (HFM) technology, which allows for real-time data collection over periods ranging from hours to days. By analysing the effects of extreme and cumulative weather events using HFM, the project seeks to deepen our understanding of their impact on aquatic ecosystems. Moreover, the project will train a cohort of doctoral students in cutting-edge technology, data analysis, and modelling techniques.
Objective
Environmental perturbations to lakes and reservoirs occur largely as episodic climatic events. These range from relatively short mixing events to storms and heat waves. While the driving events occur along a continuum of frequency and magnitude, however, their effect is generally longer lasting than the events themselves. In addition, the more extreme weather events are now becoming increasingly frequent, a trend that has been linked to directional climate change and is projected to continue in the coming decades. Understanding the impact of these short-lived pressures requires monitoring that captures the event (hours–days) and the ensuing impact, that can last for months or even years. Only recently has automated high frequency monitoring (HFM) of lakes been adopted throughout Europe. This Training Network will investigate the effects of the most extreme events, and of cumulative lower magnitude events, using HFM, while at the same time training a cohort of doctoral students in state-of-the art technology, data analysis and modelling. The aim of the EJD is to change the way in which water quality monitoring is carried out so that the effects of episodic climatic events can be understood, thus ensuring that future water management strategies can explicitly account for their effects.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata science
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrologydrainage basins
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringnatural resources managementwater management
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MSCA-ITN-EJD - European Joint DoctoratesCoordinator
A91 Dundalk
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17003 Girona
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51014 Tartu
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12489 Berlin
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1011 JV AMSTERDAM
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08007 Barcelona
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1211 Geneve
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751 05 Uppsala
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Wallingford
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0579 Oslo
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08970 Sant Joan Despí
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Barcelona
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08034 Barcelona
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8092 Zuerich
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6708 PB Wageningen
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14469 Potsdam
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Berlin
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Girona
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7411 TJ Deventer
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4836 AA Breda
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