Humboldt Lake

Location:	Saskatchewan, Canada	Latitude (N):	52.14°	Longitude (W):	105.12°
Site notes:

Harper, N. S. 1985

Palynology of Humboldt Lake (Core 111), Saskatchewan. Unpublished Technical Note AED-85-4. National Water Research Institute, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 20 pp.
Short core, only deals with upper part of sediment column. Provides a modern pollen spectrum.

Laird, K. R., B. F. Cumming, S. Wunsam, J. A. Rusak, R. J. Oglesby, S. C. Fritz, and P. R. Leavitt 2003

Lake sediments record large-scale shifts in moisture regimes across the northern prairies of North America during the past two millennia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 100(5):2483-2488.
Sites discussed: Chauvin Lake, Nora Lake, Coldwater Lake, Moon Lake, Elk Lake (Clearwater County Study based on analysis of diatom records.

Leavitt, P., G. Chen, J. Rusak, S. Wunsam, and B. Cumming nd

Drought and Flood Risk in Central Saskatchewan. Unpublished manuscript, pp. 27 pp Available from http://www.uregina.ca/biology/faculty/leavitt/ drought/update00/humboldt1.pdf Copy downloaded 23/12/2001.
A site (Humboldt Lake) being investigated as part of a project entitled "Sustainable Agriculture in Western Canada: Planning for Droughts Using the Past," see http://www.uregina.ca/drough t .

Michels, A., K. R. Laird, S. E. Wilson, D. E. Thomson, P. R. Leavitt, R. J. Oglesby, and B. F. Cumming 2007

Multidecadal to Millennial-scale Shifts in Drought Conditions on the Canadian Prairies Over the Past Six Millennia: Implications for Future Drought Assessment. Global Change Biology 13:1295-1307.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01367.x Sites discused: Chauvin Lake, Humboldt Lake, Oro Lake. Climate reconstructions based on diatom records. (12/Nov/2010).

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