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IHB Researchers Attend the 31st SIL Congress
The 31st Congress of the International Society of Limnology (SIL) was held from August 15 to 20 in Cape Town, South Africa. About 400 limnologist from different countries and regions of the world attended the Congress. Five researchers from Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IHB) were present at the Congress. They are Profs. WANG Hong-zhu and SONG Li-rong, Associate Prof. LI Lin, Assistant Prof. WANG Hai-jun, and doctoral student ZHOU Quan. 
IHB researchers attend the 31st SIL Congress in Cape Town, South Africa, from August 15 to 20, 2010.
214 oral presentations and 75 poster presentations were made or displayed during the Congress. The following topics were discussed in various specific sessions of the Congress: lakes, rivers, microbiology, plankton, climate change, water quality, fish, taxonomy, water level fluctuations, wetlands, biochemistry, limnological informatics, lipids, eutrophication, resource management, ecosystem functioning and conservation etc. The SIL president Prof. Brian Moss, when making the concluding remark, said that limnological researches,, as a division of environmental sciences, should be put into more efforts to take effective measures on the protection of water environment and the aquatic ecological treatment, not merely study the objective rules.
Funded by Chinese Academy of Sciences, IHB Prof. WANG Hong-zhu, as a member of the Committee on Limnology in Developing Countries, chaired the session of conservation at the Congress. Prof. WANG, together with Prof. SONG Li-rong, Associate Prof. LI Lin and Assistant Prof. WANG Hai-jun respectively made oral presentations featuring the topics on the threats and restoration of riverine floodplains of China, dynamic of cyanobacterial bloom in large shallow lakes in China, earthy-musty odorous compounds in the Xionghe Reservoir, China, and regime shifts in the Yangtze shallow lakes. IHB doctoral student ZHOU Quan, being advised by Prof. SONG Li-rong, made an oral presentation entitled “Exploration on potential indicating parameters for the forecast of cyanobacterial (Microcystis) bloom in Lake Taihu, China”. Zhou’s presentation, with six other presentations, was awarded the student prize by the adjudication panel of the Congress at the closing ceremony. Zhou was the only winner coming from the developing countries.
The SIL Congress, held every three year, is one of the authoritative conferences on limnology in the world. The 32nd SIL Congress will be held in Hungary in 2013.
