Glen George
Climate Change Researcher
Glen’s first area of interest was zooplankton population ecology but he has spent more than twenty years investigating the impact of climate change on temperate lakes and reservoirs.
He remains a specialist in population dynamics of zooplankton, spatial distribution of phytoplankton and zooplankton and wind-induced mixing in lakes. He also studies the aquatic applications of airborne remote sensing, as well as the development and deployment of automatic monitoring systems. Glen was the first to demonstrate that year-to-year changes in the position of the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic influence the dynamics of lakes in the English Lake District. Between 1996 and 2006 he led four climate-related projects funded by the European Union that included partners from northern, western, central and southern Europe.
Glen holds visiting professorships at Aberystwyth University and University College London, and continues to study the impact of climate change and extreme weather events on freshwater ecosystems (particularly lakes).
