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New Journal Launch: Journal of Great Lakes Research - Launch expected in March 2009

Elsevier and the International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR), have formed a publishing partnership to assume publication of the Journal of Great Lakes Research, the official journal of the Association, starting in January 2009.

The first issue to be on ScienceDirect will be Vol. 35, Issue 1 which is expected to be published in spring 2009. Journal of Great Lakes Research has been published as a quarterly journal by IAGLR since 1975. The journal publishes research papers, reviews, and technical notes advancing knowledge and promoting a better understanding of large lakes of the world and their watersheds. Special issues, focused on particular topics are also published on a regular basis. IAGLR represents 1000 members worldwide. >> More information

Journal of Hydro-Environment Research - Author Workshop in Nanjing a Success

In October this year, during the 16th Congress of Asia and Pacific Division of International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (apd-iahr2008), Journal of Hydro-Environment Research launched an author workshop,
with Prof. Dr. Joseph Lee giving a presentation on “How to Write a Good Paper for A Top International Journal”. The workshop was enthusiastically received by more than 450 participants.

Marine Pollution Bulletin awards Best Paper Prize

Elsevier and Marine Pollution Bulletin present an annual prize of $1,000 for the paper published in this journal during the preceding year which the editor and members of the editorial board considers to be very important.  In this first year, papers published between summer 2007-summer 2008 were looked at in this regard.
The paper chosen is that by Anna Occhipinti–Ambrogi, on ‘Global change and marine communities: Alien species and climate change’ (reference below).
>> More information

Journal News

Water Research – New Editor
Prof. Hiroaki Furumai from the University of Tokyo has recently joined the editorial board of Water Research as an editor. We welcome Prof. Furumai to his new position!

Aquaculture – New Editor
As of October 2008, Prof. R. Smith from the National University in Ireland, Galway, has replaced Prof. Alderman in the section Diseases. We welcome Prof. Smith to the journal and thank Prof. Alderman for his valuable work.

Fisheries Research – New Editor
As of January 01, 2009, Dr. Beatrice Morales from IMEDEA (SCIC_UB) in Esporles, Balearic Islands, will be replacing Dr. David MacLennan. We welcome Dr. Morales to the journal and thank Dr. MacLennan for his valuable work.

Harmful Algae in Nature

One of the this year’s papers in Harmful Algae entitled: “Loss of waterborne brevetoxins from exposure to phytoplankton competitors " by Tracey L. Myers, Emily K. Prince, Jerome Naar and Julia Kubanek (Volume 7, Issue 6, October 2008, Pages 762-771), has generated media coverage in Nature (Nature.com, published online 20 August 2008)

More coverage on Harmful Algae and Marine Pollution Bulletin

Both, Harmful Algae and Marine Pollution Bulletin, were covered in the article:”Getting Volunteer Data into Science journals” (The Volunteer Monitor Newsletter, August Edition, pages 8-11)

For information on the papers referred to in the paper and including data collected by volunteers, go to:
>> Harmful Algae, Volume 5, Issue 3, Pages 310-320
>> Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 38, Issue 5, May 1999, Pages 345-355

Journal of Marine Experimental Biology in BBC News 

One of the recent articles in Journal of Marine Experimental Biology, “Light inside sponges” by Franz Brümmer, Martin Pfannkuchen, Alexander Baltz, Thomas Hauser and Vera Thiel (Vol. 367, Issue 2, pp 61-66) has been covered in BBC News

Water Research – Call for Papers

Special Issue on Cross-validation of Methods for the Detection and Quantification of Microbial Pathogens and indicators of Fecal Pollution
Water Research is calling for papers for a Special Issue that will be published by the journal focusing on cross-validation of methods for the detection and quantification of microbial pathogens and indicators of fecal pollution. Microbial source identifiers are explicitly included among fecal indicators. The emphasis of the Special Issue is on the practicality of molecular-based methods and how they relate to one another and traditional methods that tend to focus on fecal indicator bacteria (FIB). Water Research plans to publish a second special issue in 2010 with field studies involving validated detection methods.

Special Issue on Transport and Fate of Colloids and Microbes in Granular Aqueous Environments
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts for consideration for publication in a special issue of Water Research on the transport and fate of colloids and microbes (TFCM) in granular aqueous environments. For more information go to: www.elsevier.com/locate/watres

Special Issue on Applications of Advanced Oxidation Processes in Wastewater Treatment
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts to be considered for publication in a special issue of Water Research on the applications of advanced oxidation processes (AOP’s) in wastewater treatment. For more information go to: www.elsevier.com/locate/watres

Upcoming Conferences

	AGU Fall Meeting December 15-19, 2008, San Francisco, USA
	ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting January 25-30, 2009, Nice, France

Featured Special Issues

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans
OCEANIC FRONTS
Volume 45, Issues 3-4, pp. 69-320 (August 2008)

In 2002, the Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans and Journal of Marine Systems have published the first Special Issues on Ocean Fronts based on presentation at the Special Session on Ocean Fronts at the 2000AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. These issues turned out to be a success as they are widely read and cited. Therefore 6 years later we set out to produce a sequel, drawing from a pool of presentations at two meetings: (1) Special Session on Processes at Oceanic Fronts (Matthias Tomczak and Igor Belkin, conveners) at the 2005 IAPSO General Assembly in Cairns, Australia, and (2) various sessions at the 2006 AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Marine ecology: A tribute to the life and work of John S. Gray
Volume 366, Issues 1-2, pp. 1-204 (15 November 2008)

The papers in this volume result from an invitation to the friends of John S. Gray, colleagues, former students, acquaintances and free-thinkers working in his field to contribute thought provoking, review-type papers or primary research papers that have broad implications, rather than more narrowly focused ones.

Special Issue Round Up View a list of all Aquatic Sciences Special Issues published between September – November 2008.
Featured Books COMING SOON! December 2008 Shore Processes and their Paleoenvironmental Applications Edward J. Anthony, Universite du Littoral Cote d'Opale, Dunkerque, France ISBN: 9780444527332   Hardback, 512 pp. This volume presents background research, recent developments, and future trends, with a state-of-art summary of recent developments in instrumentation, methodology, analysis, and conceptual and numerical modeling of processes generated at the shore. NEW TEXTBOOK January 2009 Introduction to Marine Biogeochemistry, 2nd edition Susan Libes, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, USA ISBN: 9780120885305 Hardback, 900 pp. Elsevier is happy to announce the second edition of this popular textbook, previously published by Wiley.  The focus of this text is the concept of oceans as a system, linking land and atmospheric processes.  The writing style is student-friendly and the text includes end-of-chapter problems, in-text data sets and an online study-guide. The instructor website offers an image gallery and instructor's solutions. >> For more information on all our books, please visit our website and browse our e-catalog

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