Welcome To Palaeolim.ie

Palaeolimnological research – aimed at reconstructing and accounting for past changes in freshwater lakes and their catchments – in Ireland has been fortunate to receive substantial levels of funding from the Environmental Protection Agency over the last four years. Two recent multi-institution projects include: Identification of reference status for Irish lake typologies using palaeolimnological methods and techniques (IN-SIGHT) (EPA/ERTDI project # 2002-W-LS/7) and Past, current and future interactions between pressures, chemical status and biological quality elements for lakes in two contrasting instrumented catchments in Ireland (ILLUMINATE) (EPA/ERDI project # 2005-W-MS-40-M1). IN-SIGHT was completed at the end of December 2005 and ILLUMINATE finished in September 2009.