News and Announcements

As we continue to face challenging times, I am pleased to share news of celebration and gratitude. ASLO's purpose is to foster a diverse, international scientific community that creates, integrates, and communicates knowledge across the full spectrum of aquatic sciences. Each year, ASLO recognizes individual members who have significantly contributed their time and expertise to put this mission into action. ...

The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) is pleased to announce that Steeve Comeau will join the ASLO editorial team as Deputy Editor for Limnology and Oceanography (L&O) starting January 1, 2022. Steeve started with L&O in 2019 as an Associate Editor and has handled the review of over 80 submissions. Steeve's appointment from the established, experienced ...

The ASLO Early Career Subcommittee is pleased to invite you to our webinar series, "Amplifying Voices: ECRs Making Waves in Aquatic Sciences." This webinar series will focus on promoting the exciting work of early career aquatic scientists from underrepresented groups in our global community. The inaugural series this fall will feature presentations from four early-career researchers during two sessions. In ...

The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 ASLO Global Outreach Initiative Awards. The ASLO Global Outreach Initiative provides mini-grants to ASLO members to conduct outreach projects in their own communities. This year’s recipients are: Bringing Limnology and STEM Careers to the Classroom: Engaging with Underrepresented High School Students ...

The ASLO Early Career Committee is proud to announce the call for speakers for a new early career researcher (ECR) webinar series, "Amplifying Voices: ECRs making waves in aquatic sciences." This series will focus on promoting the exciting work of early career aquatic scientists from underrepresented groups in our global community. We welcome all ECR members to apply to present ...

Cascading, interactive, and indirect effects of climate change on aquatic communities, habitats, and ecosystems Climate change is rapidly altering the biogeochemistry and physical forcing of aquatic environments; however, quantifying and predicting the effects of these changes on aquatic organisms remains a major and pressing challenge. While changing seawater chemistry and temperature have been shown to have profound direct effects on ...

The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography publishes four journals: three peer-reviewed publications Limnology & Oceanography (“L&O”), Limnology & Oceanography: Methods (“Methods”), and Limnology & Oceanography: Letters (“Letters”), as well as the quarterly Limnology & Oceanography Bulletin (“Bulletin”). Each of the three peer-reviewed journals vary in specific aims and scope, but all strive to publish the highest quality ...

Please join The Peter Girguis Lab at Harvard University for an informational virtual consultation with the science community to discuss current negotiations regarding marine genetic resources in the UN High Seas Treaty.   Register for the workshop here.  The agenda and speaker lineup can be accessed here. Co-sponsored by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the International Council of Environmental Law, ...

The United Nations has declared the next ten years 2021-2030, the ‘Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.’ The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography has proudly joined together with other national and international society, academic, NGO, and industry groups to become a ‘nexus organization’ through the U.S. National Committee for the UN Decade, hosted by the National ...

Interested in open science, big data, and/or organic matter in river ecosystems? Please join an effort to advance our knowledge of organic matter chemistry across global river corridors while further developing open science methods. Participation is open to scientists of all levels and disciplines who are excited about ecological principles and/or river corridor science. Participants will contribute to a globally ...