Lahti Lakes 2024 will take place on 3-5. June 2024 in Lahti, Finland. The symposium will be held for the third time, following the success of the 2018 and 2021 editions. The symposium will be organized by the University of Helsinki, Lake Vesijärvi Foundation, the SIL working group on Lake Restoration and the Ecosystems Workstream of the World Water Quality Alliance, and is intended to bring together scientists and practitioners working on lake restoration problems globally.
For the 2024 edition, we will again team up with our partners at Videomakers and Liveto to create a fully interactive hybrid symposium, but participants are invited to join us at the Sibelius Hall in Lahti in person if possible. When registering for the symposium, please indicate which form of participation you will choose. For information on keynote speakers, accommodation options in Lahti, and other news in the run-up to the event, please see the blog in the main menu.
The program of the 2024 symposium will build upon 5 key themes in lake restoration science, spearheaded by keynote presentations from leading experts as follows:
Session 1: Novel strategies in lake restoration
Keynote: Olga Tammeorg: “Towards sustainable lake restoration”
Session 2: Climate change and related challenges
Keynote: Michael Hupfer: “Lake management for eutrophic lakes under climate change”
Session 3: Improving understanding of lake ecosystems dynamics
Keynote: Laurence Carvalho: “Measuring success of lake restoration”
Session 4: Restoration in practice: lessons learned
Keynote: Zhengwen Liu: “Restoration of eutrophic shallow lakes in tropical and subtropical China: successes, failures and future directions”
Session 5: Integrating circular economy into lake restoration
Keynote: Kasper Reitzel: “Sustainable lake restoration: from the bottom to the crop”
Lahti Lakes has served as an important forum for discussions on lake restoration since its inception. The 2018 symposium led to a special issue in Hydrobiologia, while discussions started during the online 2021 symposium led to the recent publication of Tammeorg et al., 2023 in WIREs Water “Sustainable lake restoration; From challenges to solutions“.
For information on previous symposia, please see below.
Panel discussion at Videomakers studio during day 2 of Lahti Lakes 2021
Participants of Lahti Lakes 2018 in the Sibelius Hall