<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hello fellow limnogeologists!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">2025 comes with a lot of news for the Limnogeology
community! </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Included here: a call for abstracts to the IAL-IPA meeting
in October, a new ECR award named after Beth Gierlowski-Kordesch, call for
nominations for the Bradley medal, and plans to celebrate the career and impact
of Andrew S. Cohen, who passed away recently.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Please read more here (below) and check out our updated
website at @ <a href="http://www.limnogeology.org/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">http://www.limnogeology.org/</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We hope to receive your contributions and discuss lakes
together as the IAL again soon!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>IAL-IPA JOINT MEETING:</b> This year the <b>3rd
International Paleolimnology and Limnogeology Symposium</b> will take place in
October in France, you can find more about it at the website:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.ialipa-2025.sciencesconf.org/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">https://www.ialipa-2025.sciencesconf.org/</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">First call for abstracts is now open until <b>April 8,<sup> </sup>2025</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">IAL sponsors the following 7 topic sessions in the symposium
(session abstracts and convenors can be found on our IAL website and on the
symposium website):</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i>--- Hydrothermal and groundwater influences on lacustrine
sedimentation and paleoecology: A tribute to Michael Rosen</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i>--- Merging outcrop and sediment coring in paleolimnology
and limnogeology</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i>--- Tectonics, climate, ecology, and geomorphology in
rift lakes</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i>--- Identifying climate extremes from lake archives</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i>--- Sedimentology and stratigraphy in modern and ancient
lake records through Earth history</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i>--- Deep-time carbonate-rich lacustrine systems</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i>--- How can modeling approaches help us to understand
past, present and future lakes?</i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The call for proposals for short courses and fieldtrips is
open as well. See the meeting website for more information about the meeting in
general.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>AWARDS:</b> Call for IAL award nominations is now open
until <b>April 18,<sup> </sup>2025</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We are happy to now make the call for two IAL awards: (1)
the IAL W.H. Bradley Medal to celebrate lifetime achievement in limnogeology;
and (2) a new ECR award named after Beth Gierlowski-Kordesch: the IAL <i>Gierlowski-Kordesch
Early Career Excellence Award</i>. More information can be found attached here
and on our website.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Please send your nominations for both awards by email to <a href="mailto:ialimnogeology@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">ialimnogeology@gmail.com</a>. The award
recipients will be announced at a medal ceremony at the upcoming joint meeting
in France, Oct. 2025.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>CELEBRATING ANDY COHEN: </b>We are presently organizing a
set of short presentations for the plenary sessions to honor the legacy of Andy
Cohen, a leader in our IAL community. Together with the International
Paleolimnology Association (IPA), we will celebrate Andy’s career and his impact
on all of us as a friend, mentor, and colleague. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We are also working to organize a volume to be published in
the Syntheses in Limnogeology series (Springer) that will highlight Andy’s
international impact on our science and community. Please stay tuned for more
information.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Warm regards,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><i>IAL Board</i></b></p></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><img src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4zq77o3xa3AJ6kwvCGMnmW0oY-0Lr0RdnNuKBuXdXgD4DVCAcMl2n-xWUoGGhSJY9oi95h6m42ynvy_" width="136" height="126" style="margin-right:0px"><br></div></div></div>
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