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

Put this date in your agenda - we will provide more information in upcoming newsletters!

Recent decades have seen emergent issues that bear potentially massive risks for the long-term trajectory of coastal environments and the ways we use them. These issues have raised awareness. At a time of economic constraints and of competing issues demanding international attention, an appropriate moment to take a hard look at the evidentiary basis, current data, and future predictions surrounding these issues.

Journal News

New Editor Announcements

We welcome five new Editors who will head up the following journals:

Fisheries Research, George Rose(EiC)
Ocean & Coastal Management, Victor de Jonge
Contaminant Hydrology, Brent Sleep (replacing Al Valocchi)
Journal of Sea Research, Angel Borja
Advances in Water Resources, as of March, Gaby Katul will replace Witold Krajewski

Highlighted Article - Research Paper Covered in Science Magazine

Progress in Oceanography
How do albatrosses fly around the world without flapping their wings? 
15 September 2010
Philip L. Richardson

Albatrosses fly long distances over the Southern Ocean, even around the world, almost without flapping their wings. On a cruise to the South Atlantic I observed albatrosses soaring in a characteristic swooping zigzag flight that appears to combine two soaring techniques... read the full article >>here

P. Richardsons' article was also highlighed in Science magazine Vol 330, 5 November 2010, in Random Samples.

Upcoming Conferences

		American Society of Limnology & Oceanography - ASLO 13-18 February 2011 San Juan, Puerto Rico
		European Geosciences Union General Assembly - EGU April 3-8, 2011 Vienna, Austria
		World DNA Day 25-30 April 2011 Dalian, China
		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

Featured Special Issues

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
Gulf of Mexico Cold Seeps
Edited by Harry H. Roberts
Volume 57, Issues 21-23, Pages 1835-2060 (November 2010) sponsored by BOEMRE
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement

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.

Advances in Water Resources
Ground water-surface water interactions
Edited by Jan H. Fleckenstein, Stefan Krause, David M. Hannah, Fulvio Boano
Volume33, Issues 11, Pages 1291-1295

Interest in groundwater (GW)-surface water (SW) interactions has grown steadily over the last two decades. New regulations such as the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), new interdisciplinary research on GW-SW systems that addresses the linkages between hydrology, biogeochemistry and ecology at nested scales, methods to assess these patterns and integrated surface-subsurface numerical models have been refined and have improved our understanding of processes and dynamics.

Special Issues Roundup

View a list of all Aquatic Sciences Special Issues published between
October - December 2010