Guest lecture by Russian visitors: Lake Baikal: Watershed Management of the World's Deepest Lake

The geography department and Arctic lab will host a group of scientists from two leading research institutions in Siberia (Russia): the Sochava Institute of Geography and Baikal Institute of Nature Manegement. The presenters (Istomina, Batotsyrenov and Kuklina) will discuss their research in the areas of watershed management, environmental protection and sustainable tourism development initiatives in the Lake Baikal basin. Lake Baikal is the world's deepest lake and is the largest (by volume) freshwater lake in the world, containing roughly 20% of the world's unfrozen surface fresh water.