Cumbrian Lakes

The Cumbrian Lakes monitoring is currently undertaken by UKCEH, having been started by the Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) in 1945 and continued by UKCEH predecessor organisations since 1989. The long-term record for these lakes is the most comprehensive of any in the world. Currently, four lake basins (North and South basins of Windermere, Esthwaite Water, Blelham Tarn) are visited every fortnight and a range of physical, chemical and biological variables are recorded. These lakes also have automatic water quality monitoring stations that deliver high-resolution data on short term changes in the lake environment.