Freshwater lakes are of great environmental, economic, and recreational
importance. These ecosystems are extremely complex, where biology
interacts with chemistry and physics, and vice versa. Due to this
intricate entanglement, modeling and measuring biophysical processes in
lakes remains challenging. The “Making Waves”
team brought together experts from various disciplines to investigate
how physical processes affect winter mixing, light attenuation, and lake
spray aerosol composition. Their broader goal is to understand key
physical mechanisms that impact harmful algal blooms, with many
questions centered around water waves.