John Richard Saylor, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University, provides a fascinating look at lakes and things you didn’t know about them. He provides examples of unique lakes around the world and offers a warning about natural resources and the human tendency to deplete them.
In this session, you’ll learn about:
- The unique circumstances that brought Prof. Saylor to lake research
- Prof. Saylor’s lake research and some fascinating aspects of lakes
- How lakes store carbon dioxide and can cause an explosion of the lake
- What causes thermal stratification of lakes
- What Carolina Bays are and the mystery behind how they were formed
- Subglacial lakes and how chemosynthesis drives lake ecology
- How subglacial lakes were formed and were discovered
- Why glaciers are the “master builder” of lakes
- Several ways that lakes die
- The story of the Aral Sea (which in reality is a lake) and its warning for the Great Salt Lake
- How salt lakes form
Resources and links mentioned in or relevant to this session include:
- Prof. Saylor’s Clemson University profile
- John Richard Saylor’s webpage
- Amazon page for Prof. Saylor’s Book: Lakes: Their Birth, Life and Death
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