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The International Society of Limnology is an international scientific society that disseminates information among limnologists

Limnology

Limnology , also called freshwater science, is the study of inland waters. It is often regarded as a division of ecology or environmental science. It covers the biological, chemical, physical, geological, and other attributes of all inland waters...

, those who study all aspects of inland waters, including their physics

Physics

Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

, chemistry

Chemistry

Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

, biology

Biology

Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...

, geology

Geology

Geology is the science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which it evolves. Geology gives insight into the history of the Earth, as it provides the primary evidence for plate tectonics, the evolutionary history of life, and past climates...

, and management. It was founded by August Thienemann

August Thienemann

August Friedrich Thienemann was a German limnologist, zoologist and ecologist. He was an associate Professor of Hydrobiology at the University of Kiel, and director of the former Hydrobiologische Anstalt der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft at Plön.A co-founder of Societas Internationalis...

and Einar Naumann

Einar Naumann

Einar Christian Leonard Naumann was an assistant professor of botany and limnology at the University of Lund. Naumann worked during the summers at the Fishery Station in Aneboda , where he established a field laboratory of the Limnological Institute in Lund .In 1921 he suggested the establishment of...

in 1922 as the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology and Societas Internationalis Limnologiae, SIL.

It had about 2.800 members in 2008.

SIL publishes the following scientific publications:

the journal Fundamental and Applied Limnology:Archiv für Hydrobiologie ISSN: 1863-9135 ; prior to 2007, it was called Archiv für Hydrobiologie.
Communications (Mitteilungen), irregular publication.
Limnology in Developing Countries, a book series.
Congress proceedings, until 2007, published as Verhandlungen Internationale Vereinigung für theoretische und angewandte Limnologie.
SIL has discontinued publication of the Verhandlungen and has replaced it with a peer-reviewed journal entitled Inland Waters. The new journal was launched at the 31st SIL Congress in Cape Town, 2010, with first publication in 2011. The journal is supported by the electronic submission and tracking system of the Freshwater Biological Association
Freshwater Biological Association
The Freshwater Biological Association is a British membership association, independent scientific organisation and a registered charity...

. Manuscripts will be published consecutively online (as accepted) and quarterly in paper format. Access to the electronic version is provided to all SIL members and subscribers.