Ugandan Crater Lakes

Western Uganda boasts about 60 crater lakes that range from shallow, hypersaline systems to deep, anoxic, dilute lakes. In collaboration with Dr. Dirk Verschuren, we have cored many of these lakes to depths of up to 13 meters. Ongoing research seeks to understand high-frequently climate fluctuations recorded in thelinkages to climate changes elsewhere in tropical Africa.

References:
Russell, J.M, Eggermont, H., Verschuren, D., submitted. Spatial complexity of Little Ice Age climate in western East Africa: sedimentary records from two crater lake basins in Western Uganda. The Holocene.

Bessems, I., Verschuren, D., Russell, J. M., Cumming, B., submitted. Paleolimnological evidence for widespread late-18th century drought across equatorial East Africa. Palaeo3.

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