Dr Gertrud Nurnberg

Freshwater Research

Ontario, Canada

Dr Gertrud Nürnberg, Ph.D., is an environmental scientist based in Muskoka, Canada, with 40 years experience studying and modelling the geochemistry of lakes and reservoirs.

She is the head of Freshwater Research, a limnological company focusing on restoration and modelling of eutrophic lakes and reservoirs. She has developed empirical models to predict water quality in deep and shallow lakes and reservoirs, including those that are polluted or anoxic.

Dr Nürnberg has published more than 60 peer-reviewed publications on a wide range of topics, including the determination of watershed (external) and sediment (internal) loadings of nutrients and other pollutants, the establishment of lake nutrient objectives for municipal and state agencies and the estimation of anoxia in more eutrophic waters.

She was associate editor of the journal Lake and Reservoir Management and a past Director of the Eastern Canada Region of NALMS (North American Lake Management Society) from which she has received several awards (including Technical Excellence in Restoration and the Secchi Disk for Outstanding Services)