The program for the 2018 symposium is listed below.
The presentations of authors who have consented for files to be uploaded are found in the pdf links next to the author name. In some cases these files are modified from those presented at the symposium.
SUNDAY 3rd JUNE
19.00 Informal ice-breaker event at Santa Fe bar and restaurant
MONDAY 4th JUNE
08.00 Arrival and registration
09.10 Opening of the symposium: Saara Bäck, Environment Counsellor, Ministry of Environment
09.30 SESSION 1: THE “BIG PICTURE” OF LAKE RESTORATION
PLENARY Søndergaard “Restoration of eutrophic lakes: What have we learned and where should we go from here?”
10.20 Coffee
10.40 SESSION 1 (continued)
ORAL Lurling “In-lake measures remain crucial in mitigating eutrophication nuisance in the upcoming decades”
ORAL Gustafsson “Eutrophication of the Baltic Sea: Nutrient cycling and management” pdf
ORAL Vuorio “Phosphorus thresholds for cyanobacteria in northern European lakes: a means for setting reduction targets”
ORAL Cooper “Using systems modelling to design safe operating spaces for shallow lakes”
12.00 Lunch
13.00 SESSION 2: FOODWEBS AND BIOMANIPULATION
ORAL Taipale “Eutrophication and lake restoration influence nutritional quality of food webs” pdf
ORAL Rusanov “Long-term changes of plant community structure in a eutrophic shallow reservoir and perspectives of its restoration” pdf
ORAL Vuori “Large Woody Debris (LWD) stimulates biodiversity and population densities of littoral zoobenthos communities in forest lakes” pdf
ORAL Zingel “Having an old friend for dinner – why the little things matter?”
14.20 Coffee
14.50 SESSION 2 (continued)
ORAL Ventelä “Is this the largest biomanipulation project in the world? – New biomanipulation concept of Lake Säkylän Pyhäjärvi is closely linked to commercial fishery”
ORAL Ruuhijärvi “Responses of food web to hypolimnetic aeration in Lake Vesijärvi” pdf
ORAL Rask “Zooplankton and fish community responses to food web manipulation in eutrophicated Lake Tuusulanjärvi, southern Finland” pdf
15:50 SESSION 3: POSTER SESSION
POSTER Einola, Mäkelä “Observed changes in macrophytes over several decades in two boreal lakes”
POSTER Fernandez “Modelling artificial aeration based on reservoir bathymetry and the effects of a curtain on algal blooming in an eutrophic reservoir”
POSTER Filatov “Experiences of restoration of the ecosystems of lakes in Russian Karelia”
POSTER Hietala “Lake Tuusulanjärvi, southern Finland: 20 years of restoration”
POSTER Huotari “Nutrient recovery from waste waters by using microalgae”
POSTER Kangro “Lake restoration: a view from space to the changes in L. Ülemiste during and after biomanipulation”
POSTER Kiani “Sediment internal phosphorus loading before and after excavation of a shallow lake”
POSTER Kisand “From lake sediment to the soil: phosphorus mobility”
POSTER Niemistö “Restoration of a eutrophied lake by withdrawal of hypolimnetic water – sedimentary phosphorus recovered as a circular economical resource”
POSTER Ott “Limnological investigations prior to restoration of a shallow macrophyte covered lake (Lake Lahepera)”
POSTER Salmi “Practical calibration of single-wavelength fluorometer data for in situ chlorophyll monitoring of humic lakes”
POSTER Salonen “Succession of phytoplankton in a eutrophic lake during restoration by food web manipulation and deep-water oxygenation”
POSTER Shirokova “Restoration of small boreal lake ecosystems subjected to natural and anthropogenic factors: case study of NW Russia”
POSTER Vicente “Eutrophication in El Val reservoir (Aragón, Spain): a case study”
18.00 End of poster session
19.00 Official reception at Sokos Hotel Lahden Seurahuone
TUESDAY 5th JUNE
08.30 SESSION 4: PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL APPROACHES IN LAKE RESTORATION
PLENARY Nurnberg “Benefits and optimization of hypolimnetic withdrawal as a lake restoration technique” pdf
09.20 SESSION 4 (continued)
ORAL Huser “Effectiveness and longevity of Al treatment for lake restoration” pdf
ORAL Woodward “The effectiveness of alum and allophane as geo-engineering tools across a gradient of lakes with increasing peat influence” pdf
ORAL Mucci “Whole lake combined PAC-Phoslock® treatment to manage eutrophication and cyanobacteria”
10.20 Coffee
10.40 SESSION 4 (continued)
ORAL Västilä “Environmental two-stage channels: potential for catchment-scale reductions in nutrient transport?”
ORAL Aurola “Lime treatment options to inhibit eutrophication in lakes”
ORAL Niemistö “Effects of hypolimnetic aeration on the quantity and quality of settling material in a eutrophied dimictic lake” pdf
ORAL Beutel “Experimental assessment of oxygenation to repress methylmercury release at the profundal sediment-water interface in Hodges Reservoir, California, USA” pdf
12.00 Lunch
13.00 SESSION 5: FOCUS ON CYANOBACTERIA
ORAL Molot “Hierarchy of approaches to cyanobacteria management: integrating knowledge of dissolved oxygen and trace metals with point source phosphorus and nitrogen controls” pdf
ORAL Pflugmacher-Lima “Can aquatic macrophytes help us to reduce cyanobacterial blooms? – the Green Liver Concept”
NOTE: ABOVE PRESENTATION GIVEN BY MARANDA ESTERHUIZEN-LONDT
ORAL Hellweger “Predicting the effect of nutrient load reduction using dynamic, mechanistic, molecular-level modeling of cyanobacteria” pdf
14.00 Transfer to boat (M/S Vellamo)
14.30 Fieldtrip on Lake Vesijärvi, featuring:
KEYNOTE Keto “The management and operation of Lake Vesijärvi restoration; top-down and bottom up?”
17.30 End of fieldtrip
NOTE: FIELDTRIP WAS CANCELLED DUE TO BAD WEATHER. PRESENTATIONS BY JUHA KETO, ISMO MALIN AND PAULIINA SALMI WERE HELD IN THE KUUSI ROOM OF THE SIBELIUS HALL
19.30 Symposium dinner at Restaurant Voitto, Lahti (bus transport included)
21.30 Visit to Salpausselkä skijump tower (bus transport included)
WEDNESDAY 6th JUNE
08.30 SESSION 6: CASE STUDIES OF LAKE RESTORATION
PLENARY Sarvala “Adaptive management of a shallow lake based on intensive ecological monitoring: from aeration, submerged plant removal and biomanipulation to chemical treatment”
09.20 SESSION 6 (continued)
ORAL Koljonen “Monitoring restoration impacts; from a draft to action” pdf
ORAL Saar “Restoration problems in coastal lagoon lakes” pdf
ORAL Paerl “Mitigating eutrophication and toxic cyanobacterial blooms in Lake Taihu, China: Dual nutrient (N and P) input reductions are a bottom line necessity”
10.20 Coffee
10.40 SESSION 6 (continued)
ORAL Sammalkorpi “Long term biomanipulation at high external phosphorus load – does it work?”
ORAL Tuvikene “Dreams, needs and possibilities in lake restoration”
ORAL Kraft “Development of Lake Vesijärvi through four decades of restoration attempts”
NOTE: ABOVE PRESENTATION GIVEN BY KALEVI SALONEN
ORAL Vazic “Two case studies of cyanobacteria-related water quality problems and solutions in Serbia” pdf
12.00 Lunch
13.00 SESSION 7: FOCUS ON SEDIMENTS AND BIOGEOCHEMISTRY
ORAL McCarthy “Measuring nitrogen transformation rates in large, eutrophic lakes: challenges, solutions, and future needs” pdf
ORAL Jilbert “Long term recovery from eutrophication in Lake Vesijärvi: the role of sedimentary phosphorus feedbacks” pdf
ORAL Couture “Modeling the response of lake sediments to catchment-scale changes in biogeochemical dynamics”
ORAL Steinsberger “Quo vadis oxygen? The sinks of hypolimnetic oxygen in deep Swiss lakes”
ORAL Tammeorg “Factors behind sedimentary P release in lakes: potential linkage to lake water quality management”
14.40 Closing comments and information about Special Issue in Hydrobiologia
15.00 End of symposium
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