After a 4 km walk through a tropical rainforest, with so much humidity and heat, you finally begin to glimpse the Lachuá lake through the vegetation and start to speed […]
Lakes Form in Mysterious Ways: the misunderstood Lachuá cenote in Guatemala Read More »
Water has always been key in the success of various human civilizations. To quench our thirst and for transportation, we humans have learned to make good use of – and
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“No one has cleaned these rivers”. That’s what a landscape architect once told me when he saw fallen trees in the rivers in a national park. It bothered him that
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The first time a professor began talking about the ways different lakes are formed I was fascinated at the complex history of these places I had been traveling to my
Lakes Form in Mysterious Ways: the origin of Glacial Lake of Constance (Bodensee) Read More »
Did you know that August is (was) Water Quality Month?! NO?! Yeah, me neither. Oops! But we can still talk about it any day! After all, this is a more
The myth of the color of water Read More »
You might be familiar with Pangaea: the supercontinent composed of most of the continents we know today when they were crammed up together and the rest of the world was
Lakes Form in Mysterious Ways: How Tectonic Lakes crack their Way to Fame Read More »
As you may have already read, one of the reasons I chose to follow a career on Limnology was lake Atitlán (Guatemala). As if my emotional attachment to the lake
Lakes Form in Mysterious Ways: Calderas and Lake Atitlán Read More »
I don’t know if it would have been worse if I had pursued my love for herpetology and keep explaining to people that it is not the study of herpes
“You study WHAT?” – Limnology! Read More »
