Articles about ASLO and Science

By Danny Szydlowski "You're a PARAFAC master!" declared Mahmud Hassan, the research technician who was teaching me how to measure and analyze the quality of dissolved organic matter. I grinned back at him. It was nearing the end of my time in Montréal, and I had finished nearly everything I had planned to do in Canada. I learned PARAFAC, a ...

By Marina Fennell Nova Scotia is much closer to the US than I always imagined. 166.3 miles from Dalhousie University to the eastern-most edge of Maine. Visiting the US might be more difficult because the 166 miles as the crow flies take 6 hours to drive through New Brunswick and back down again. Man, the time flew by! I've been ...

ASLO is now accepting nominations for the 2024 ASLO Awards as well as nominations and applications for ASLO Fellows. The deadline for nominations for both programs is Friday, 20 October 2023 at 11:59 PM CDT (4:59 AM UTC). ASLO awardees are expected to be announced January 2024 and Fellows are expected to be announced December 2023. Read more about the ...

Please join us on Thursday, September 28 at 10:00 am Eastern (2:00pm UTC) to support early career aquatic scientists at our next "Amplifying Voices" session! The ASLO Early Career Committee welcomes you to a new year of the Amplifying Voices: ECRs Making Waves in Aquatic Sciences webinar series. The next will be held on Thursday, 28 September 2023 at 10:00 am ...

The L&O Bulletin regularly features book reviews and the editorial board is looking for your help! The team has NEW titles in need of review: Water Chemistry (Brezonik and Arnold) Climate Change and Estuaries (Kennish, Paerl, and Crosswell) Rivers of North America (Delong et al.) Lakes in the Anthropocene (Smol) Books reviewed in Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin are recent titles in ...

Read the LOREX Blog By Jordan Snyder I've packed my carry-on luggage with two different drone-based imaging cameras and I feel like a spy. But the only thing I plan to spy on are some incredible flow dynamics and oceanographic phenomena in the Bedford Basin. Drone cameras are safely tucked away in my luggage and the rest of my equipment ...

Read the LOREX Blog By Antrelle D. Clark As my time in Israel slowly comes to an end over the next two weeks, I would just like to say…it has been quite a time, from adapting to the unfamiliarities here, to trying to steer around the roadblocks I didn't expect in my research. A mug connecting the USA to Israel. ...

The ASLO Early Career Committee Presents: Voices for Well-being in Aquatic Sciences: Navigating Uncertainties in Research Please join the ASLO Early Career Committee (ECC) for their next installment in the "Voices for Well-Being in Aquatic Sciences" webinar series on Tuesday, 5 September 2023 from 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT (14:00 - 15:30 UTC; 16:00 - 17:30 pm CEST). The session ...

Read the LOREX Blog By Adrianna Gorsky I am officially more than halfway done with my LOREX exchange in Abisko, Sweden. It has exceeded my expectations all around. I am still in awe of the beauty of this arctic environment and have tried to experience as much of the landscape as possible. Immediately after arriving I got to work on ...

The world is rapidly changing. The accelerating tempo of climate change, eutrophication, altered hydrological regimes, overharvest, and biodiversity loss are threatening aquatic ecosystems, water resources, and resultant human well-being. Effectively adapting to meet these challenges will require major transitions in both our thinking and how we manage aquatic ecosystems to build resilience. Sustainable solutions—those that work across sectors, nations, and ...