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Launch and kick off meeting of the Journal of Hydro-environment Research

Elsevier and IAHR are delighted to announce the launch of the Journal of Hydro-environment Research. In May 2007, Elsevier will publish the first issue of the Journal of Hydro-environment Research, a collaboration between Elsevier, the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering (IAHR), and the Korea Water Resources Association (KWRA). Published on a quarterly basis, the journal will provide an international platform for the dissemination of research and engineering applications on water and hydraulic problems in the Asia-Pacific region.

The kick off meeting for the launch took place in January this year at Hong Kong University. The workshop was attended by the complete Editorial team of the new journal, by representatives of the IAHR and its APF division, as well as KWRA, Hong Kong University, the Hong Kong government and Elsevier. Several of the invited scientific lectures presented at the meeting will be published in the first issue of the Journal of Hydro-environment Research. For the full press release please see Elsevier.com

The Journal of Hydro-environment Research will also be available on ScienceDirect shortly

Elsevier announces the 2008 launch of a new international publication called Marine Genomics. The journal will be published quarterly, and will focus on the advances in the very rapidly expanding field of genomic studies on marine organisms. The first issue will appear in March 2008. The scope of the journal will address the most interesting and dynamic subjects in the field of aquatic genomics, including population genomics, developmental, functional and comparative genomics.

For the official announcement please visit Elsevier.com

We are pleased to announce that a new electronic submission and handling system, 'Elsevier Editorial System' (or EES), has been implemented for Progress in Oceanography.

EES is a web-based system with full online submission, review and status update capabilities. EES allows you to upload files directly from your computer. This is part of our on-going efforts to improve the efficiency and accuracy of our editorial procedures, and the quality and timeliness of the manuscripts published. We strongly encourage all authors to use EES at the following URL when submitting papers to the journal. PROOCE in EES can be accessed at http://ees.elsevier.com/prooce. First time users will need to register.

Progress in Oceanography is also available on ScienceDirect

Upcoming Conferences PRIMO 14 (14th International Symposium Pollutant Responses in Marine Organisms) May 6-9, 2007 Florianópolis, Brazil SIL 2007 (Redefining Theoretical and Applied Limnology for the 21st century) August 12 -17, 2007 Montréal, Canada

	Referees prize Water Research The following editors of Water Research, a publishing partnership of IWA and Elsevier received the IWA's reviewer prizes for 2006: Roger Alexander Falconer, Cardiff University Peter Ravenscroft, Oxford University Svetlana Bratskaya, Russian Academy of Sciences
This yearly prize honours referees who have contributed outstanding refereeing work for IWA journals.
Special Issue Round Up View a list of all Aquatic Sciences Special Issues published between January – April 2007.

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