The goal of this survey is to understand and gauge better a strategy to detect regional scale climate change signatures from lakes and create a dashboard for monitoring climate change signatures from lakes.

Lakes and reservoirs are particularly suited for detecting in-land climate change signatures because they are contiguous and homogeneous (unlike more heterogeneous soil surfaces). Their anomalous and unique, yet well-known, properties make them a low-hanging fruit to detect local climate change signatures.

The below questions are crafted for experts in various areas: scholars of hydrology, climate scientists, limnologists, watershed scientists, glaciologists, environmental scientists, lake bio-geo-chemists, government or non-profit community associations that manage lakes including, regional initiatives (e.g. Arctic/Tibetan/Laurentian Great Lake) who may benefit from developing climate fingerprint detection tools using better understanding of the hydrology of lakes.

With your expert opinions, we aim towards creating a lake and climate signature monitoring dashboard. We hope to use lake observations from space (e.g. low-resolution long-term observations of Landsat to high-resolution recent cube sat data) which can be viewed together with hydrology and climate signatures of the region that contributes to lake change. In so doing, we may better quantify local scale  in-land climate change signatures. Such signatures may be a proxy (or sentinel) for regional (or local) climate change impacts because lakes are ubiquitous and be-sprinkled all over the heterogenous global land surface.