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Riedinger-Whitmore's research focuses on the conservation of aquatic ecosystems, monitoring the effects of environmental change and anthropogenic impacts on aquatic communities and habitats and providing data that can be used to protect and restore these ecosystems for the future.

Whitmore's research focuses on quantitative, community and ecosystem-level questions in freshwater systems. He is a historical ecologist and paleolimnologist who has worked for 40 years on lakes of Florida, Yunnan Province China and in the Yucatan. His research has addressed climatic and human influences on lake systems, as well as human-mediated soil erosion in watersheds of southwest China, sediment distribution in shallow wind-stressed lakes, mixing processes and redox in stratified warm-monomictic lakes, water quality and sediment geochemistry in Yunnan lakes, anthropogenic alkalization of Florida lakes, and contaminants in lake and estuarine sediments.