Editing Limnology (section)

==History==
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 zoologist) and [[Einar Naumann]] (a Swedish botanist) co-founded the [[International Society of Limnology]] (SIL, from [[Societas Internationalis Limnologiae]]).  Forel's original definition of limnology, "the [[oceanography]] of lakes", was expanded to encompass the study of all inland waters,<ref name="Wetzel"/> and influenced [[Benedykt Dybowski]]'s work on [[Lake Baikal]].

Prominent early American limnologists included [[G. Evelyn Hutchinson]] and [[Edward Smith Deevey, Jr.|Ed Deevey]].<ref>Frey, D.G. (ed.), 1963. Limnology in North America. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison</ref> At the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison|University of Wisconsin-Madison]], [[Edward Ashael Birge|Edward A. Birge]], [[Chancey Juday]], [[Charles R. Goldman]], and [[Arthur D. Hasler]] contributed to the development of the [[Center for Limnology]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/uw/uwmadison/limnhist/|title=History of Limnology – UW Digital Collections|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-02}}</ref><ref name="Beckel">{{Cite journal|last=Beckel|first=Annamarie L.|date=1987|title=Breaking new waters : a century of limnology at the University of Wisconsin. Special issue | journal=Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters |url=https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/A44N2KX6ER3XFM9A|language=en-US}}</ref>