Snow-fun with part of the team in Les Marecottes, followed by traditional Valais Raclette. What a nice day!

Our - UNIGE, UNIL, EPFL and EAWAG - LeXPLORE platform is in position in Lake Geneva. Let the science begin!

Now online our Life under Ice paper "Diurnal variation in the convection-driven vertical distribution of phytoplankton under ice and after ice-off in large Lake Onego (Russia)" lead by Ena Suarez

Last week a blog on the urgency of the IPBES report on loss of biodiversity was published on the ExpertISE website , now in English - expert-ise.ch/end - and French - expert-ise.ch/la-fin. When will we truly appreciate all that nature gives us? @unige_ise, Université de Genève

Congratulations to Ena Suarez - working on small scale spatial variability in phytoplankton populations - and Xuijan Xu - working on cyhtrid parasites of the cyanobacterium Dolichospermum - for passing their pre-doctoral exams. Well done both!

New opinion article in Le Temps by Martin Schlaepfer and Bas Ibelings (@unige_ise , Université de Genève) on 5 actions we can all take individually to help protect biodiversity (ipbes)

Last week 4 of our MANTEL ITN PhD students passed their predoctoral exam at the University of Geneva. Good discussions with the full team of supervisors and jury members. Well done Ana Zamora, Michael Thayne, Julio Stelzer and Jorrit Mesman. !

Just out in River Res. Applic., Tydecks, Ibelings & Tockner. Results from our global survey of Freshwater Biological Field Sations and the important work they do

The special issue in Inland Waters of our collaborative project "Life under ice" in the large Russian lake Onego is now out. Under ice physics, chemistry and phytoplankton ecology

PS here is the link to download the special issue in Inland Waters tandfonline.com/toc/blob:https…

Two great days of GLEON20.5 (our global virtual meetings) behind us GLEON . Presentations of GLEON science & Working group time. One more day to go on 05 Sept (06th down under). Check gleon.org/meetings/gleon… for the program

#HowDareYou. Unite behind the science says Greta Thunberg. If only... Yet being one of them it is humbling to see that we scientists need an amazing 16 year old to get our worries about climate change across to a wider - but not nearly wide enough! - general public

And so GLEON21 in Muskoka, Canada came to an end with the closing ceremony. Your GLEON co-chairs tried to play their part in making the meeting a success for all participants. The feedback was positive! Next year G22 in Poland, GLEON

Ziyu Guan succesfully defended her PhD thesis "Phytoplankton diversity and ecosystem functioning in freshwater ecosystems". Congratulations dr Ziyu!

The first LeXPLORE science day at UNIL: all these scientists already use our floating research platform on Lake Geneva, and this is just our first year of operation. Great and diverse array of projects....learning so much about the lake GLEON, @unige_ise UNIGE_en

Our own Lake Geneva on cover of Global Change Biology (picture by Samuel Nanchen). Our storms and lakes review officially out now, congrats to Stockwell, Anneville et al, started once as the Stormblitz project @GLEON, continued as GEISHA, recommended read for all lake lovers!

With 120 Swiss nature researchers we published this opinion article in Le Temps today, with the message of how our neglect of nature will lead to new pandemics, and we urge to learn lessons from the current Corona crisis

Congratulations to our former PhD and Postdoc Evi Mantzouki and all 200 co-authors from the European Lake Survey on winning the award for Best Paper in Toxins. Well deserved, great team-science!

The new WHO handbook on Toxic Cyanobacteria in Water (Chorus & Welker eds.) is now freely downloadable here: doi.org/10.1201/978100…. I had the pleasure of leading the chapters on Cyanobacterial Ecology and Exposure via Food