Limnology Limnology Limnology ( ; from Greek λίμνη, "limne", "lake" and λόγος, "logos", "knowledge"), is the study of inland aquatic ecosystems. The study of limnology includes aspects of the biological, chemical, physical, and geological characteristics and functions of inland waters (running and standing waters, fresh and saline, natural or man-made). This includes the study of lakes, reservoirs, ponds, rivers, springs, streams, wetlands, and groundwater. A more recent sub-discipline of limnology, termed landscape limnology, studies, manages, and seeks to conserve these ecosystems using a landscape perspective, by explicitly examining connections between an aquatic ecosystem and its watershed. Recently, the need to understand
The Study of the Negro Problems The Study of the Negro Problems The Study of the Negro Problems, from "The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science" (January 1898), is an essay written by professor, sociologist, historian and activist W. E. B. Du Bois. It both challenges the question he poses in his "The Souls of Black Folk" (1903) of “How does it feel to be a problem?” and is reminiscent of the popular mindset of whites toward people of color at the time. As a reoccurring theme amid Du Bois’ works, the Negro as a problem to those representing the majority population