Richard A. Vollenweider: contribution to our knowledge of Italian lakes

摘要

Rosario Mosello$1Riccardo de Bernadi$1Oscar Ravera$1; $1CNR Institute Ecosystem Study, Verbania Pallanza, Italy; r.mosello@ise.cnr.it;; Richard A. Vollenweider (Zurich, 1922-Burlington, 2007) gained his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Zurich in 1951, and was appointed research assistant at the Institute of Hydrobiology in Kastanien-baum (Switzerland). His first contact with limnological research on the Italian lakes was at the Istituto Italiano di Idrobiologia Dott. Marco de Marchi in Verbania Pallanza (now the Institute of Ecosystem Study of the National Research Council), where he was awarded a study grant from 1954 to 1955, later being engaged there as a contract researcher from 1959 to 1966. During this time he worked on experimental and theoretical problems in the context of studies on Lake Maggiore and other Italian lakes, which resulted in one of the first synoptic description of the subalpine lakes. He also researched the serious industrial pollution of Lake Orta, describing its cause and effects in a detailed study. This memoir offers a short description of Vollenweider's limnological research during these years, as we thought it fitting to pay tribute to the scientific work that Richard A. Vollenweider did in our country.