Catastrophic Events at the End of the Last Ice Age and Their Impact on Mountain Lake Ecosystems in North America and Europe Czech-American Scientific Cooperation, project of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS),
program Inter-Excellence, sub-program Inter-Action, project no. LUAUS25082
Duration: March 1, 2025 – December 31, 2028 (46 months)
Dr Daniel Vondrák (Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague): head of the Czech team (PI); co-ordination of research activities within the project; lake sediment coring, correlation of parallel sediment cores and their lithological characterization, age-depth modelling, loss-on-ignition, analysis of chironomid head capsules (Diptera: Chironomidae), project results dissemination
Assoc. Prof. Günther Kletetschka (Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague): team member (senior researcher); lake sediment coring, supervision of XRF, SEM, and EDAX analyses, supervision of geochemical and geophysical analyses of melt grains, analyses of magnetic properties of sediments (magnetic susceptibility, magnetic remanence etc.)
Dr Eva Löbelová (Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague): team member (postdoctoral research fellow); XRF scanning of lake sediment cores, microscopic analyses of melt grains (SEM/EDS, EPMA), data management of project results
Dipl. Ing. Verena Meier (Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague): team member (PhD student); identification and analyses of tephra
Bc Eliška Vlnasová (Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague): team member (MSc student); cladoceran (Crustacea: Cladocera) analysis, participation in loss-on-ignition, XRF and magnetic susceptibility
Prof. Evžen Stuchlík (Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice): head of the Biology Centre team (co-PI); co-ordination and/or supervision of selected biological and chemical analyses including µXRF, ICP-MS analyses, analyses of C, H, N, S, and C and N stable isotopes analyses, project results dissemination
Prof. Jiří Kopáček (Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice): team member (senior researcher); participation in ICP-MS, supervision of interpretation of chemical results
Dr Jiří Jan (Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice): team member; lake sediment coring, loss-on-ignition, fractionation of sensitive elements such as Fe, Al, and P
Dr Kateřina Dočkalová (Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice): statistical evaluation of project results, data management
Dr Zuzana Hořická (Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice): senior researcher; cladoceran (Crustacea: Cladocera) analysis
Dr Joanne P. Ballard (Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice): team member; charcoal analysis and analysis of siliceous aggregates
Dr Barbora Chattová (Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice): diatom analysis including the C:D ratio
Prof. Stephen A. Norton (School of Earth and Climate Sciences & Climate Change Institute University of Maine, Orono, USA): US partner; co-ordination of the sediment coring in Acadia NP lakes a communication with local authorities, sediment geochemistry, project results dissemination
Prof. Thomas V. Lowell (University of Maine, Orono, USA): US partner; lake sediment coring in the Acadia NP (lead), lake sediment lithology and dating
Prof. Andrei V. Kurbatov (University of Maine, Orono, USA): US partner; participation in lake sediment coring in the Acadia NP, supervision of cryptotephra research
Dr Nancy H. Bigelow (Alaska Quaternary Center, College of Natural Science and Mathematics, University of Alaska Fairbanks): US partner; co-ordination of the sediment coring in Alaska lakes (lead), communication with local authorities, supervision of paleobotanical analyses
NEWS

June 18, 2025

This website became public.

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June 17, 2025

The trial version of the CENA project website launched.

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May 26 – June 7, 2025

Field work was carried out in Acadia National Park, Maine, USA. We successfully retrieved lake sediment cores from Sargent Mountain Pond and Bubble Pond.

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March 1, 2025

The new project of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (no. LUAUS25082) has just started.

 

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