Limnology global inland waters as part of the Earth System created a sub-discipline called global limnology. This approach considers the role of inland aquatic ecosystems in carbon cycling. Limnology is closely related to aquatic ecology and hydrobiology, which study aquatic organisms and their interactions with the abiotic (non-living) environment. While limnology has substantial overlap with freshwater-focused disciplines (e.g., freshwater biology), it also includes the study of inland salt lakes. The term limnology was coined by François-Alphonse Forel (1841–1912) who established the field with his studies of Lake Geneva. Interest in the discipline rapidly expanded, and in 1922 August Thienemann (a German
Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization have an overt conservative political tendency and would not be subject to sufficient oversight by the school. The college's decision not to proceed drew criticism from conservative commentators, and the institute was established as an off-campus, independent entity. People affiliated with the Alexander Hamilton Institute: Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization is an educational institute in Clinton, New York founded in 2007. Judge David Aldrich Nelson was a charter director. One of its board members is Jane Fraser. History professor Robert L. Paquette of Hamilton College in Clinton