Lake Drilling

GLAD 800 on Lake Titikaka

Lake Elgygytgyn in a Siberian Polar Night

Amongst others international research drilling in lake sediments is coordinated and funded by the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP). 
Contact: Dr. U. Harms

In Germany a large number of institutes are studying lake sediments and comparable climatic archives in different ways.
A department of the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam is dealing with climate dynamics, maares and lakes (link) and runs several drill equipment for shallow lake sediment drilling (link).
Contact: Dr. A. Bauer

The team Geosystems of the Institute of Environmental Geology at the Technical University of Braunschweig is doing research on regional environmental dynamics of continental systems due to the effects of changes in the global climate.
Contact: Dr. A. Schwalb

At the Institute of Geosciences, University of Frankfurt, the Paleoenvironmental Dynamics Group is dealing with climatic and environmental development and conducts scientific drillings.
Contact: Dr. J. Pross

The group of Quaternary Geology of the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, is studying climate history and impacts on climate changes, especially in polar and in mediterranean regions.
Contact: Dr. M. Melles