Program – PPNW2025

Presentation Instructions

For oral presentations speakers will have 30 minutes: 15 minutes to present and 15 minutes for discussion with the attendants.

We aim to highlight the poster presentations during two evening receptions. The posters will be up in the coffee area for two days and we encourage people to consider a poster presentation.

Presentations have to be uploaded to the drive link you will receive by email and inside the folder corresponding to the day of the presentation. Presentations can be modified until the last minute of the presentation. Be careful to not delete others' presentations. The name of the presentation file should be the name and surname of the speaker.

Invited Speakers

Professor Soren Brothers

Professor Soren Brothers

Allan and Helaine Shiff Curator of Climate Change, Royal Ontario Museum

Soren Brothers is the Allan and Helaine Shiff Curator of Climate Change at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, and Assistant Professor (status-only) in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. Originally from Toronto, Soren Brothers received his PhD in limnology in Berlin, Germany (at the IGB Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries / Potsdam University) studying the effects of regime shifts between turbid and clear-water states on the primary production and carbon cycling of shallow lakes. Soren Brothers are now interested in the effects of climate change on lakes, and how changes in aquatic systems influence their greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere.

Professor Hilary Dugan

PROF. Hilary Dugan

Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Hilary Dugan is an associate professor at the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As a limnologist, Hilary studies how terrestrial and atmospheric changes, such as warming air temperatures or land-use patterns impact the chemistry and biology of lakes. Her research balances field-based programs, which rely heavily on sensor networks, with the use and development of analytical models and the application of geophysical and geospatial tools. Her research focus is on temperate and polar lakes, with research sites spanning from Wisconsin to Antarctica.

Professor John Smol

PROF. John P. Smol

Department of Biology, Queen’s University

John P. Smol, OC OOnt FRS FRSC is a Canadian ecologist, limnologist, and paleolimnologist who is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Biology at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, where he also held the Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change for the maximum of three 7-year terms (2001–2022). He founded and co-directs the Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL).