News and Announcements

  The development and deployment of autonomous instrumentation in the aquatic sciences, which has rapidly expanded during the last decade, has led to fantastic new insight into unexplored waters, increased understanding of temporal and spatial dynamics, and amazing discoveries across the aquatic sciences. These tools have allowed us to acquire more data, at higher frequency in time and space, and ...

Announcing the 2023 Limnology and Oceanography Letters Special Issue Manuscripts due May 31, 2023 Phenology, the study of seasonal timing of natural phenomena, is a central construct in ecology, focusing on interaction between temporal changes in the physical environment and the structuring of annual organismal, population, community, and ecosystem dynamics. In a warming and more variable climate, phenology is a ...

Early Career Researchers around the world are doing impactful innovative science. Most do not have resources to pay for open-access publication of their work. ASLO has taken a step to help with its Early Career Publication Honor that pays for OA publication by ECRs in need. A new virtual issue of Limnology and Oceanography Letters binds together the first seven ...

ASLO established the Raelyn Cole Editorial Fellowship in 2017 to provide opportunities for early career aquatic scientists to experience and shape the sometimes mysterious processes of scientific writing, publishing, and editing -- and to share their experiences with their peers. We just announced the call for applications for the fourth cohort of RCE Fellows. We thought this an appropriate time ...

ASLO is currently seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for individuals interested in serving as ASLO Co-Vice Chair of the Program Committee for the Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) in 2024. The Co-Vice Chair will automatically be promoted to Co-Chair of the OSM in 2026. Ocean Sciences Meetings are a collaboration of ASLO, AGU, and TOS, so the Co-Vice Chair will be working ...

The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) is pleased to announce that Elisa Schaum will join the ASLO editorial team as Deputy Editor for Limnology and Oceanography (L&O) starting August 1, 2022. Elisa started with L&O in 2021 as an Associate Editor and has handled the review of over 23 submissions. Elisa’s appointment from the established, experienced ...

ASLO is pleased to announce the Aquatic Sciences Dissertation Registry (DR.). This re-envisioned initiative’s purpose is to acknowledge, congratulate, and spotlight new Ph.D. recipients in the ASLO membership.   A prior program, Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Limnology and OceanoGraphy (DIALOG), created and published a registry of Ph.D. dissertation abstracts. DIALOG has since morphed to Eco-DAS, which continues to bridge interdisciplinary gaps in aquatic ecology through its symposium ...

The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) The International Society of Limnology (SIL), The European Federation for Freshwater Sciences (EFFS) The Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) The Society of Freshwater Science (SFS) jointly reach out to their members with a letter of expression of joint support for Ukrainian researchers. The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has been a source ...

Each year, ASLO honors scientists for their achievements in the aquatic sciences. We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 ASLO Awards. The G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award will be presented at the 2022 Ocean Sciences Meeting later this month. The remaining awards will be presented at the 2022 Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting (Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA) in May. ...

Announcing the October 2023 L&O Special Issue Turbulent water motions can influence many aquatic organisms, by regulating biotic processes such as locomotion, grazing, heat transfer, nutrient uptake, and biogeochemical reactions. Conversely, the presence of organisms, such as mussel beds or macrophytes, can generate or enhance small-scale turbulence which then feeds back into larger-scale ecosystem responses. Despite rapid progress in this ...