28: Cyanobacterial Blooms: A Hot Mess

“The Rose Cyanobacteria is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms” – Angelus Silesius

Our Topical Paleolimnology Arc continues with a look at cyanobacterial blooms. Although we have referred to the relationship between algal blooms and eutrophication in …

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26: Illuminating Biovectors

“Birds of a feather flock (and poop) together” – Ancient Greek Proverb

The next episode in our series on Topical Paleolimnology looks at how paleolimnology can be used to track biovectors. We were fortunate to be joined by guest host …

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06: Reconstructions Deconstructed

“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts” – Albert Einstein

In this episode of the Core Ideas podcast, we conclude our introduction to paleolimnology with a discussion of how lake sediments are …

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02: Bioindicators

“In nature nothing exists alone” – Rachel Carson

In the second episode of the Core Ideas podcast, we discuss bioindicators – species or communities that are so closely associated with particular environmental conditions that their presence can be used in …

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