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3-6 June 2012, NH Laguna Place, Venice, Italy

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!

Oral and poster abstracts are now invited and should be submitted using the online abstract submission system. The abstract deadline for oral and poster submissions is: 13 January 2012. To see the list of topics, click here>>

Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge
The Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge shortlist was announced 1 March 2011, highlighting the four innovative ideas to improve access to safe and sustainable water supply in communities where access is presently at risk. The winning project, to be announced in June, will receive a prize of $50,000, with a second place prize of $25,000. To read more about the projects, click here>>

Elsevier Science Competition
The Elsevier Apps for Science Challenge brings our call to the communities that we serve to an international level. This is the opportunity for librararians, researchers, students and application developers to take control of the problems that face them in search and discurty by creating applications that serve their unique workflow needs. Participants in the challenge will compete for more than $35,000 in cash prizes. Winning aplications will be selected by a prominent panel of judges and open to public voting. These applications will also be available in SciVerse Applications. For full details, visit http://appsforscience.com.

Article of the Future
Elsevier has launched Article of the Future for Cell Press and successful ideas from this project will be rolled-out across Elsevier's portfolio of 2,000 journals available on ScienceDirect. Article of the Future is an ongoing collaboration with the scientific community to redefine how the scientific article is presented online and find the most effective and efficient ways to present and access scientific information.

PANGAEA
Many of the Aquatic Sciences journals are now enriched with graphical information linking to associated research data sets that are deposited at the Open Access data repository: PANGAEA (Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data). The functionality comprises both Reciprocal Linking and Mapping. To access a recent example on how PANGAEA mapping and reciprocal linking have been used, click any of the journals below:

• Continental Shelf Research
• Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
• Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
• Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

For more information on Pangaea, click here>>

Journal News

Elsevier report covered in Science Development Network


SciDevNet
Global water research increasing
4 April 2011
María Elena Hurtado

Extract from the article: [SANTIAGO] Global water research output increased by nearly 30 per cent a year from 2000 to 2009, as countries turned to science for solutions to local, regional and global water problems, according to an analysis of articles published in more than 18,000 journals from more than 5,000 publishers.
Water research is becoming more multi-disciplinary, according to 'Confronting the Global Water Crisis through Research 2010'.

The report, released by Elsevier last month (22 March), reveals that water resource research is growing fastest in China. To read the full report, click here>>

Upcoming Conference & Exhibits

		Pollutant Responses in Marine Organisms - PRIMO 16 15-18 May 2011 Long Beach, California
		54th International Conference on Great Lakes Research - IAGLR 30 May - 3 June 2011 Duluth, Minnesota
		World Aquaculture 6-10 June 2011 Natal, Brazil
		Leading Edge Technology - LET 6-10 June 2011 Amsterdam, Netherlands
		The New Politics of Water 14-15 June 2011 London, UK
		1st International Conference on Algal Biomass, Biofuels & Bioproducts 17-20 July 2011 Westin St Louis, USA Early Bird registration deadline: 13 May, 2011
		Gordon Research Conference on Chemical Oceanography 14-19 August 2011 New Hampshire, USA
		4th International EcoSummit 30 September - 5 October 2012 Ohio, USA

Featured Special Issues

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
Antarctic Sea Ice Research during the International Polar Year 2007-2009
Volume 58, Issues 9-10, Pages 993-1276 (May 2011)
Edited by Anthony P. Worby, Christian Fritsen, Cathleen Geiger, Petra Heil, Klaus Meiners and Lisa Miller

The papers published in this special issue confirm the cross-slope and along-slope existence of cold seep habitats and characterize the chemosynthetic communities in water depths below 1000m on the northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope. The papers in this volume address a wide range of topics relevant to the study of cold seeps, from biodiversity and community structure, to macrofauna–meiofauna, geochemistry, microbiology, seep carbonates, remote sensing, and geophysical character of seep sites.

Special Issues Roundup

View a list of all Aquatic Sciences Special Issues published between
January - March 2011