Yigal Alon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory Werner Eckert werner@ocean.org.il Tel: 04 – 6721444 Ext. 213 Associate Scientist Ph.D. 1989, University of Bonn, Germany At IOLR since 1994

Research interests:
Studies on biogeochemical processes in the water column and the sediments of freshwater lakes. Emphasis on carbon and phosphorus cycling under varying physical and hydrochemical conditions.

Selected publications:
Rimmer A., Y. Aota, M. Kumagai & W. Eckert (2005). Chemical stratification in thermally stratified lakes: A chloride mass-balance model. Limnol. Oceanogr. 50: 147-157.

Hambright, K.D., W. Eckert, P.R. Leavitt & C.L. Schelske (2004). Effects of historical lake level and land use on sediment and phosphorus accumulation rates in Lake Kinneret. Science of the Total Environment, 38: 6460-6467.

Eckert, W., J. Didenko, E. Uri & D. Eldar (2003). Spatial and temporal variability of particulate phosphorus fractions in seston and sediments of Lake Kinneret under changing loading scenario. Hydrobiologia, 494: 223-229.

Nusslein B., W. Eckert & R. Conrad (2003). Stable isotope biogeochemistry of methane formation in profundal sediment of Lake Kinneret (Israel) Limnol. Oceanogr. 48: 1439–1446.

Eckert, W., J. Imberger and A. Saggio (2002). Biogeochemical evolution in response to physical forcing in the water column of a warm monomictic lake. Biogeochemistry 61: 291-307.

Eckert, W., KD Hambright, YZ Yacobi. I.Ostrovsky and A. Sukenik (2002). Internal wave induced changes in the chemical stratification in relation to the thermal structure in Lake Kinneret. Verh. Int. Ver. Limnol. 28: 962-966.

Hambright, K.D. and W. Eckert (2001). Sediment-water phosphorus dynamics in newly created Lake Agmon (Agmon-Hula wetlands), Israel. Verh. Int. Ver. Limnol. 27: 4001-4004.

Nusslein, B., K-J Chin, W. Eckert and R. Conrad (2001). Evidence for anaerobic synthrophic acetate oxidation during methane production in the profundal sediment of subtropical Lake Kinneret (Israel). Environmental Microbiology, 3: 460-470.

Eckert, W. and A. Nishri (2000). Sedimentary phosphorus flux in Lake Kinneret: Precipitation vs. release. Advances in Limnology 55: 397-411.

Nishri, A., J. Imberger, W. Eckert, I. Ostrovsky, and Y. Geifman (2000). The physical regime and the respective biogeochemical processes in Lake Kinneret lower water mass. Limnol. Oceanogr. 45: 972-981.