CLIM-HYDROLAKE project has generated a wealth of data that have been shared with the international scientific community, stakeholders and the wider public through a range of dissemination activities listed below. Publication of scientific peer-reviewed papers is on-going, while the results of CLIM-HYDROLAKE will directly feed into the new LIFE PRESPA WATERBIRDS project (LIFE15-NAT_GR_000936). The research fellow and scientist-in-charge are both involved in this 5-year project that started October 2016, in collaboration with the Society for the Protection of Prespa (Greece) and Tour du Valat (France).
International Conference Presentations:
van der Schriek, T. (presenter: oral presentation) and Giannakopoulos, C., Establishing the influence of climate, water extraction and tectonics on the water level of the Prespa Lakes (N Greece). ADAPTtoCLIMATE, International Conference, 27-28 March 2014, Filoxenia Conference Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
van der Schriek, T. (presenter: oral presentation) and Giannakopoulos, C., The Water Level Fall of Lake Megali Prespa (N Greece): an Indicator of Regional Water Stress Driven by Climate Change and Amplified by Water Extraction?. EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly, Congress Center “Austria Center Vienna”, Vienna, Austria, 27 April - 2 May 2014. Session: HS10.2 “Lakes and Inland Seas in a changing environment.
van der Schriek, T. (presenter: oral presentation) and Giannakopoulos, C., Reconstruction of hydro-climatic changes in the S Balkans from the Medieval Warm Period to the present based on a high-resolution lake level stage record derived from beach ridge sediments of Lake Prespa (Greece, Albania, FYROM). EMS (European Meteorological Society), Hotel Marinela, Sofia, Bulgaria, 7-11 September 2015. Session: CL3 Historical climatology & paleoclimatology.
van der Schriek, T. (presenter: poster presentation) and Giannakopoulos, C., A quantitative ~1ky lake level record of Lake Prespa (SW Balkans) derived from beach ridge sediments. EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly, Congress Center “Austria Center Vienna”, Vienna, Austria, 17-22 April 2016. Session: SSP3.14 Limnogeology – reading the geological record of lakes.
van der Schriek, T. (presenter: oral presentation) and Giannakopoulos, C., Quantitative water level variability of Lake Prespa (SW Balkans) during the late Holocene reconstructed from beach ridge sediments: implications for Mediterranean hydro-climatic changes from the Medieval Climate Anomaly to the present. Medclivar 2016 Conference, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 26-30 September 2016. Session: 3 past climate evolution of the Mediterranean region.
Publications:
van der Schriek, T. and Giannakopoulos, C., 2014, Establishing the influence of climate, water extraction and tectonics on the water level of the Prespa Lakes (N Greece), Conference proceedings, ADAPTtoCLIMATE International Conference, Nicosia, Cyprus.
http://adapttoclimate.uest.gr/full_paper/Vanderschriek&Giannakopoulos.pdf
van der Schriek, T. and Giannakopoulos, C. (in press), Determining the causes for the dramatic recent fall of Lake Prespa (SW Balkan). Hydrological Sciences Journal.
van der Schriek, T. and Giannakopoulos, C. (revised submission), Tracing climate-driven water level fluctuations of Lake Prespa (Greece) to lacustrine beach ridge sediments: a modern case study to facilitate past lake level reconstruction. Journal of Paleolimnology.
van der Schriek, T. and Giannakopoulos, C. (submitted), Reconstructing absolute water level variability of Lake Prespa (SW Balkans) during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age from a prograding beach ridge complex. The Holocene.
van der Schriek, T. and Giannakopoulos, C. (in prep), Quantitative water level variability of Lake Prespa (SW Balkans) during the mid-late Holocene: implications for Mediterranean hydro-climatic changes. Journal of Quaternary Sciences.
van der Schriek, T. and Giannakopoulos, C. (in prep), Regional Climate Change and Hydrological Responses: The Case Study of the Prespa Lakes (Greece, Albania, FYROM). Regional Environmental Change.
Seminars, workshops and outreach events:
CLIM-HYDROLAKE project presentation at the International Prespa Water Symposium, Society for the Protection of Prespa, Laimos (Greece) 29th – 30th November 2012. The symposium was attended by (inter)national researchers, local-regional authorities and international environmental NGO’s.
Two presentations at the headquarters of the “Society for the Proptection of Prespa (SPP)” to SPP and WWF Hellas members, Prespa Park and the Prespa Municipality Authorities, and visiting scientists from the Universities of Nijmegen and Wageningen (the Netherlands): 20th May 2013 and 6th May 2014.
Three policy-relevant briefings to the SPP / WWF Hellas were given in Athens and Prespa that informed local stake-holders, Prespa Park Authorities and Prespa Municipality of the research (27/11/2014, 9/6/2015 and 2/9/2015). These directly informed the tri-national Prespa Basin Water Management Framework and other SPP initiatives.
Invited talks at the Highschool of Prespa and community centre in Laimos, Greece (8th of May 2014 and 28th of November 2014) further informed the local community in the study area.
Management recommendations, based on the CLIM-HYDROLAKE’s results, were summarised in an internal report and informal workshop to the SPP / PPA (August 2016) an will be used to improve conservation strategies as outlined in the Prespa Basin Management Framework (developed in line with the EU Water Framework Directive). It was attended by local/regional authorities and Greek academics.
Four presentations at the bi-monthly seminar cycle organised by the Institute of Environmental Research and Sustainable Development (IERSD) of the National Observatory of Athens (NOA).
Finally, the research was also introduced to the wider public through four talks to the wider public at the annual Researcher’s Night, a European-wide outreach event that presents scientific research done at a wide range of institutions to a wider audience. The fellow was one of several researchers from the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) that participated in the “Researcher’s Night Athens”, on the 27th Sept 2013, 26th Sept 2014, 25th Sept 2015 and the 30th Sept 2016 (Athens, Greece).