Climate Change and Biodiversity in Africa’s Deepest Lake
Peter McIntyre
Assistant Professor
Department of Zoology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ben Kraemer
Graduate Student
Limnology and Marine Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Time and Location
12:00pm, 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI
Description
Lake Tanganyika is a regionally and globally significant freshwater resource. We will discuss the interactions between humans and the lake’s ecosystem, focusing on climate change, fisheries, sedimentation, and other anthropogenic threats to the lake’s productivity and biodiversity.
Bios
Peter McIntyre is a graduate of Harvard and Cornell Universities, and has been on the UW faculty for 4 years. His research focuses on the ecology, evolution, and conservation of freshwater fishes and ecosystems around the world, including the African and North American Great Lakes.
Ben Kraemer is a graduate of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, and is currently a dissertator in the Limnology and Marine Science Ph.D. program at UW-Madison. His doctoral work focuses on ecosystem dynamics and climate change in Lake Tanganyika and other lakes around the world.