The slogan of the ICSLR2017 is “Studies on Freshwater and Saline Water Lakes – in search for a common ground”. The list of scientific topics:

• Comparative studies of saline and freshwater lakes
• Inland lakes in a changing world: anthropogenic and climate change effects on hydrology, chemistry and ecology
• Physical processes in saline lakes
• Geology and geochemistry of saline lakes
• Saline lakes in extreme environments
• Microbiology of saline lakes (special session dedicated to the memory of professor Bair Namsaraev)
• Salt lake ecology and biology, food webs and biogeochemical cycling
• Paleolimnology: environmental change recorded by salt lake sediments
• Salt lake–landscape interactions, watershed studies
• Services provided by salt lakes: from chemical resources to cultural and social services
• Remote sensing and ecosystem modelling to support lake management and decision making
• Environmental management of salt lakes.