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{"title":"Message from the President: Away She Goes","authors":"Susanne Menden-Deuer","doi":"10.1002/lob.10650","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lob.10650","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As I write this, we are in the final weeks of June 2024, with a turn-over in board membership imminent. My first inclination was to title this piece: “back to the future” as I am writing a message “from the president” when indeed I am serving as president-elect. However, I wasn't sure that would make sense and feared I'd lose readers early on. Thankfully, ASLO has a strong history of peaceful transitions in elected office and I am sure everything will be historically accurate by the time you read this. So let's all pretend it's the future for the remainder of this message. If you wish to skip reading the rest of this piece, my main message is to ask for your feedback. Please communicate your needs and desires for how ASLO can support you and, if you are able, join the many volunteers engaged in ASLO; there are roles for volunteers at all levels of commitment.</p><p>I heartily thank outgoing board members Ajit Subramanian, Amina Pollard, Manda Kambikambi, and past-president Roxane Maranger who put so much into shepherding ASLO through the pandemic. I welcome and congratulate new board members Alia Benedict, Rita Franco-Santos, Kateri Salk, president-elect Paul del Giorgio, and thank Dianne Greenfield for her continued services as ASLO secretary, responsible for key roles with membership and records. I want to especially thank and acknowledge those who stood for election but do not get to serve. I look forward to working together with all of you on behalf of aquatic scientists globally, no matter how salty, fresh, or muddy.</p><p>Our ASLO is the leading international aquatic sciences society that supports a global community of dedicated scientists. Together we promote the understanding, discovery, as well as sustainable and equitable management of aquatic environments. ASLO is unique in that it provides opportunities to collaborate globally, with diverse aquatic scientists. ASLO members and their scientific prowess are key to addressing many urgent environmental crises, some of planetary proportions. Humanity has overcome environmental threats through leveraging scientific knowledge, identification of common goals, and collaboration. We are seeing the resulting successes. Reversals in the decline of atmospheric ozone concentrations, recovering whale and bird populations, and conservation of large swaths of ocean and terrestrial areas through transnational conservation agreements are but a few examples. These achievements are built solidly on the basis of sound science and dedicated individuals that collaborated on a common goal. Regrettably, there are many challenges remaining. ASLO members are the perfect community to tackle these challenges collectively and it is my sincere hope that ASLO can help you be as effective and impactful as you can be in your important work, whether it be fundamental or applied science, education or in many other sectors including in industry, governments, or the military. Let us know how we can help!</p><p>The Aquat","PeriodicalId":40008,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin","volume":"33 3","pages":"120-122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lob.10650","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141991720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Revisiting the Freshwater Imperative: Harnessing Team Science to Face Emerging Challenges to Freshwaters","authors":"Steven Sadro,&nbsp;Erin R Hotchkiss,&nbsp;Kathryn L Cottingham,&nbsp;Michael J Vanni,&nbsp;Shannon L Speir,&nbsp;Catherine M O'Reilly","doi":"10.1002/lob.10645","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lob.10645","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Freshwater ecosystems face ever increasing environmental and ecological challenges. Recognition of those challenges is not new—over 30 years ago, a series of workshops convened to develop a research agenda (<i>The Freshwater Imperative</i>) to address those challenges. It was recognized that a critical component of solving the problems that freshwater ecosystems face would require greater interdisciplinary collaboration. Here, we discuss the context for the “Revisiting the Freshwater Imperative” workshop and describe how a small-workshop model can be used effectively to seed longer term collaborative partnerships in support of meeting the challenges freshwater ecosystems face. Some key recommendations include: (1) engage with participants prior to the workshop to maximize efficient use of time and prime divergence-convergence thinking; (2) promote a bottom-up participant driven structure; (2) develop an agenda with enough flexibility to accommodate participant driven changes (i.e., a “live” agenda); (3) utilize best practices for facilitating team science; and (4) provide coordinating structure for post-workshop working group activities.</p>","PeriodicalId":40008,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin","volume":"33 3","pages":"101-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lob.10645","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141674760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Message from the Executive Director: Interview with Paul Kemp, Founding Editor-in-Chief, L&O Methods","authors":"Teresa Curto","doi":"10.1002/lob.10646","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lob.10646","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;At the end of July, Paul Kemp will step down as Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of &lt;i&gt;L&amp;O Methods&lt;/i&gt;. As the Founding EIC of the journal, Paul's tenure has spanned an incredible 22 years—overseeing the planning and launch of the journal and leading it since 2002. I sat down with Paul to discuss the origins and development of the journal, and the growth, challenges, and changes in both the field and in scholarly publishing in the intervening years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;ED: WELCOME, PAUL. MANY ASLO MEMBERS DO NOT KNOW THE ORIGINS OF THE JOURNAL. TELL US ABOUT THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE JOURNAL. WHAT PROMPTED ASLO TO START A NEW JOURNAL, AND HOW DID YOU BECOME INVOLVED IN ITS LAUNCH?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;PK&lt;/i&gt;: ASLO's flagship journal, &lt;i&gt;Limnology and Oceanography&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;L&amp;O&lt;/i&gt;), was founded in 1956 as a printed publication mailed to ASLO members and subscribing libraries. That business model meant that the size of the journal (pages and number of articles) was constrained to a scale where subscription fees would cover publishing costs. Eventually, short articles (then called “Notes”) and methods articles were dropped from the journal to reduce publishing costs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;L&amp;O&lt;/i&gt; was very successful, and by 2002 it was financially secure enough for the ASLO Board to consider starting a second publication. A working group was tasked with identifying opportunities by answering two questions:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;What are the emerging fields in aquatic sciences not specifically served by an existing journal?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;What journal(s) might serve our diverse community of biologists, physicists, geologists, and chemists in both freshwater and marine systems?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The working group suggested that the new journal could break from tradition and be delivered as an all-electronic publication, rather than in a more expensive print format.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Board decided to investigate both ideas for a new journal; I chaired one of the two working groups. Ultimately, I wrote an implementation proposal to create an &lt;i&gt;L&amp;O: Methods&lt;/i&gt; publication that would employ electronic submission and peer review, and that ASLO would self-publish on its own website. It would not be printed. Subscribing individuals and institutions would have access to all of the journal's content, and at a nominal cost authors could purchase the right to have their article freely available to everyone—ASLO coined the term Free Access Publication to describe what is now called Open Access Publication. The Board accepted the proposal essentially without modification, and I became the founding Editor-in-Chief of the new publication. The first manuscripts were submitted late in 2002, and the first articles were published in 2003. &lt;i&gt;L&amp;O: Methods&lt;/i&gt; is now in volume 22, and it has published more than 1200 articles and 15,000 pages.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;ED: THE FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN THE JOURNAL (LAURION ET AL.,&lt;/b&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;2003&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;) APPEARED ONLINE 19 JUNE 2003. WHAT WERE THE CHALLENGES IN LAUNCHING THE JOURNA","PeriodicalId":40008,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin","volume":"33 3","pages":"122-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lob.10646","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141991641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Institute Profile: The Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin–Madison","authors":"Adam Hinterthuer,&nbsp;M. Jake Vander Zanden","doi":"10.1002/lob.10647","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lob.10647","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;In 1895, Edward A. Birge launched a rowboat into the waters of Lake Mendota along the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison) shoreline in hopes of learning more about the zooplankton that called the lake home. It marked the beginning of one of the first limnological field studies in North America and of an illustrious career. Birge, along with collaborator Chancey Juday, would go on to make foundational observations of the chemistry, physics, and ecology of Wisconsin's lakes as he pioneered the science of limnology.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today, the Center for Limnology (CFL) continues this tradition of research on inland waters in Wisconsin and around the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a research center in the UW–Madison's College of Letters and Science, the CFL conducts the bulk of its work from our two research facilities. The Hasler Laboratory of Limnology (Fig. 1) in Madison is situated in an agricultural and urban-dominated watershed in the southern part of Wisconsin, whereas Trout Lake Station (Fig. 2) sits in the lake-rich and heavily forested northern region of Wisconsin.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hasler Laboratory of Limnology (Figs. 1, 3) is nestled into a hillside along UW–Madison's campus lakefront and offers researchers direct access to 39.4 km&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; Lake Mendota, one of the best-studied lakes in the world. UW–Madison is an internationally ranked research university with an enrollment of 50,000 students and research expenditures surpassing $1.5 billion annually. Hasler Lab is home to six full-time faculty members, several emeritus faculty, numerous affiliated researchers, around two-dozen graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, and a large team of research specialists and administrative staff. There are multiple lab spaces in the building, as well as office space, a conference room, a multipurpose library space with common-use computers and meeting space, and the “Fika” room, where weekly all-lab coffee breaks are held. Two Boston Whalers sit in the basement boat slip, and researchers can reach Lake Mendota by simply raising the boat slip door. During the open-water field season, the Limnos II, a 25-ft tritoon boat, sits in a lift off of the dock ready for research expeditions or science outreach trips. In addition, there is a fleet of other boats available for use. Meanwhile, “David Buoy,” the CFL's primary instrumented buoy, has spent each open-water season since 2006 collecting data from where it is anchored out at Lake Mendota's deepest point. The CFL also runs an aquatic experimental facility in the adjacent campus building. This 1700-sq ft flow-through aquarium facility is comprised of five experimental rooms and offers a wide range of aquaria and tanks to work with.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A little more than 200 miles to the north, Trout Lake Station (Figs. 2, 4) sits on 77 acres of forested land on the southern shore of 16.1 km&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; Trout Lake, surrounded by a canopy of pine and birch trees. A team of researchers, technicians, and administrators keep the lab and a","PeriodicalId":40008,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin","volume":"33 3","pages":"129-131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lob.10647","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141369038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ostendorf-Rodríguez, Y. 2023. Let's Become Fungal!—Mycelium Teachings and the Arts. Valiz: Amsterdam. ISBN: 9789493246287 (Paperback). 320 p. € 27.00","authors":"José Schreckinger","doi":"10.1002/lob.10642","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lob.10642","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Let's Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts&lt;/i&gt; by Yasmin Ostendorf-Rodriguez is a uniquely collaborative text that brings together art, nature, history, and activism, incorporating the author's own experiences as well as experiences gathered from diverse people and sites, primarily from Latin American women and indigenous communities. The book covers a wide range of subjects, not all directly linked to fungi; however, fungal facts constantly appear throughout the text, and parallels between the fungal world and humans are frequently drawn. The book's introduction outlines its structure by summarizing the main subjects of its 12 teachings (chapters). These teachings are presented in a non-linear chronology and cover diverse subjects that are meant to be interconnected, in which the author aims to resemble the dynamic and interconnected properties of fungal networks. Stunning illustrations and artwork photos are spread throughout the book.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Teaching 1 describes the author's personal journey, changing her job from the Natural Research Department in the Netherlands to a shiitake mushroom farm in Minas Gerais, Brazil, where her connection with fungi grew stronger. The teaching also shares various experiences from the author, artists, and scientists from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. In Teaching 2, colonialism and its effects on people and nature are explored. This teaching begins with discussing colonialism in Barbados and its lasting impact on the local population and environment. Other topics explored in this teaching include introducing pine trees in Brazil and their potential alteration of soil fungi.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Teaching 3 emphasizes the significance of collectivism to promote change. The author shares her involvement in the 2019 Chilean protests and describes the protest as a kind of mycelium activist network that brought together various social groups and causes. I found the discussion in this teaching regarding the disproportionate variations in the consequences of climate activism worldwide to be particularly striking, ranging from fines in the Netherlands to persecution and even fatalities in Brazil and other Latin American countries. Teaching 4 talks about death from various perspectives. It explores decomposition, highlighting the vital role fungi play in this process. However, it also confronts the harsh reality of femicides in Mexico and sheds light on the disproportionate impact of violence on low-income individuals. Additionally, this teaching shares artistic projects centered around the theme of death.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Teaching 5 delves into toxicity, examining the impact of pesticides and fungicides on fungi and people, with examples from Latin American movements advocating against their use. It also explores the significance of swamps to local Latin American communities and emphasizes the threats these ecosystems face. Teaching 6 highlights the importance of people's imagination and shares creative projects in Puerto Rico t","PeriodicalId":40008,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin","volume":"33 3","pages":"138-139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lob.10642","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140968283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Winter Limnology on the Rise","authors":"Stephanie Hampton,&nbsp;Hilary Dugan,&nbsp;Steven Sadro,&nbsp;Trista Vick-Majors,&nbsp;Ted Ozersky","doi":"10.1002/lob.10643","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lob.10643","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Winter lake ice presents unique challenges to limnological research and science outreach. Unfortunately, few aquatic scientists are trained for limnological work on frozen lakes, including ice safety, operating standard limnological gear in subzero temperatures, collecting samples from under snow and ice, or even dressing for the cold, windy, and wet conditions winter limnologists routinely encounter. This gap in training has slowed progress in understanding the responses of seasonally freezing aquatic ecosystems to climate change.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Winter Limnology Network is a new project supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop a network of winter-ready aquatic researchers with the goal of advancing understanding of year-round ecosystem function in the face of climate change. The research uses a team science approach, welcoming participation from researchers who want to engage in paired winter-summer sampling. It builds on the “Ecology Under Lake Ice” project and networks developed at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a 2019 AGU Chapman conference, and an ongoing Winter Limnology working group in the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network. The Winter Limnology Network investigators are actively collaborating with another NSF-supported winter limnology project—the “Thin Ice” group (Rebecca North, Isabella Oleksy, Meredith Holgerson, David Richardson, Mindy Morales).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To help build capacity for winter research, the Winter Limnology Network kicked off their work with a “Winter School” event in March 2024. Twenty-two early career limnologists and the Winter Limnology Network lead team gathered at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Trout Lake Station for a comprehensive winter limnology training workshop. Participants conducted hands-on winter field research, and contributed to discussions about team science and science communication and outreach. Attendees included graduate students, postdocs, pretenure faculty, and practicing conservation scientists from the US and Canada.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The workshop was planned for mid-March to ensure adequate ice conditions in the Wisconsin Northwoods. Recorded since 1982, the average ice-off date for Trout Lake is April 25th. However, the strong El Niño–Southern Oscillation winter of 2024 brought with it mild temperatures and snow-drought, and left the group with one final week of strong ice before the ice thawed in early April. This early thaw, compounded with the latest freeze date on record, marks 2023–2024 as one of the shortest ice durations since 1982. Abnormal ice conditions are unfortunately becoming more common, which stresses the need for adequate training on safe ice practices.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The workshop began with a full day of ice safety training led by professional ice safety instructors who normally work with first responders (Fig. 1). Participants learned about managing risks while working on ice, assessing ice conditions, helping others in distress, and self-","PeriodicalId":40008,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin","volume":"33 3","pages":"132-133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lob.10643","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140972178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on National Science Foundation's Ocean Science Division Research Experiences for Undergraduates","authors":"Nelmary Rodriguez Sepulveda","doi":"10.1002/lob.10644","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lob.10644","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;The US National Science Foundation's (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (or REUs) are months-long, full-time, experiential learning programs run by host institutions within the United States—such as Universities, National Laboratories, museums, and others—where undergraduate students are given the opportunity to learn from and work alongside faculty and/or researchers on specific projects. This offers aspiring researchers paid, hands-on experience in their fields of interest from earlier stages in their scientific careers. REUs also facilitate networking interactions, exposure to the research process, and access to state-of-the-art equipment for passionate and hardworking individuals. The REU programs seek to recruit applications from students who attend institutions that do not offer research internships, who come from minoritized populations, or who otherwise would have a greater difficulty accessing these opportunities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A longitudinal survey of student participation in the OCE REU sites carried out by NSF's Geosciences Directorate annually since 2009 has provided insight into the changes in the demographic composition of REU student cohorts that occurred in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the three years prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2019, OCE REUs had experienced an overall increase in the participation of students belonging to minoritized ethnicities. However, after March 2020, trends began to shift. The student demographic collected by REU Principal Investigators indicate that, although the overall REU participation increased from 332 students in the 2020–2021 academic year to 356 students in the 2021–2022 academic year, the percentage of participation by students from minoritized races and ethnicities decreased from 64% to 58% within that same period. This includes a reduction in participation by African American, Hispanic/Latinx, and Indigenous American students. In addition, participation by students identifying as Females decreased from 63% to 61%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The country-wide lockdown issued by the United States in March of 2020 caused unprecedented logistical chaos in multiple sectors. As academic institutions and programs pivoted to adapt to the new social distancing requirements, roadblocks and challenges to student participation that had not yet been identified were brough to light. Many students, for example, experienced reduced access to technological resources and secure network connections, which were now essential for a successful REU participation. Others expressed not being able to participate in programs offering online or hybrid modalities due to pandemic fatigue and/or a lack of safe spaces within their homes that would allow them to focus on research. Many of these external factors disproportionately impacted students from minoritized groups within the United States and have been mentioned by REU leaders as potential contributors to the decrease in their participation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Desp","PeriodicalId":40008,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin","volume":"33 3","pages":"133-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lob.10644","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140975908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin, Volume 33 Number 2, May 2024, 45-95","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/lob.10581","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lob.10581","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40008,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin","volume":"33 2","pages":"45-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lob.10581","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140906986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bertrand, P. and Legendre, L. 2021. Earth, Our Living Planet: The Earth System and Its Co-evolution with Organisms. Springer: Switzerland. ISBN 978-3-030-67772-5. 572 p. 37.99 €","authors":"Laura J. Falkenberg","doi":"10.1002/lob.10636","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lob.10636","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;The Earth is currently undergoing significant alterations as a consequence of human activities, with climate change occurring at an accelerating rate. We are not, however, the only group of organisms to have affected the Earth System. Indeed, there is a billion-year history of progressive changes to the chemical, geological, and physical conditions of the Earth's environment brought about by various organisms and ecosystems (as well as feedbacks of Earth conditions to organisms and ecosystems). Although such changes are widely recognized, less well understood is why this occurs on Earth and no other planets of our solar system, leading to the question of: “Which combination of factors led to this apparently unique development in our Solar System?” It is this question that is the focus of &lt;i&gt;Earth, Our Living Planet: The Earth System and its Co-evolution with Organisms&lt;/i&gt; (Bertrand and Legendre).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Earth, Our Living Planet&lt;/i&gt; begins with an introduction to the Earth System when considered in the context of the Solar System (Chapter 1), before delving further into the hidden relationships among the nested systems made of ecosystems, the Earth System, the Solar System, and the Universe. The connections include: the presence and persistence of the atmosphere and its connection with the Earth's mass and distance from the Sun (Chapter 2); the thermal habitability of the planet for organisms and how it is shaped by the Earth's motion around the Sun (Chapter 3); the overall habitability of the planet and connections with geological and astronomical characteristics (Chapter 4); the prevalence of liquid water and how it is connected with outer reaches of the solar system (Chapter 5); the availability of the chemical building blocks of organisms and connections with gravitation (Chapter 6); and the natural greenhouse effect and its connections with Earth's magnetic field (Chapter 7). Notable in these chapters are the connections made among the often disparately studied aspects of organism and ecosystem traits with geological and astronomical characteristics.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The final three chapters then describe progressively broader patterns and syntheses of materials presented about the Earth System in previous chapters, notably: feedbacks between different components of the Earth System that help stabilize the environment (Chapter 9); a summary of the relationship between Earth and its organisms from the past to present (more than 4.5 billion years before present to the Anthropocene; Chapter 10); and finally a look from the present to the future (Chapter 11). Particularly useful is the framework around which Chapter 10 is structured and depicted as a summary figure, or tapestry, &lt;i&gt;The Legends of Eons&lt;/i&gt; (fig. 10.1; with sections subsequently enlarged in figs. 10.2–10.7). This figure takes inspiration from &lt;i&gt;La légende des siècles&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;The Legend of the Ages&lt;/i&gt;), a collection of poems depicting the history and evolution of humanity (Hugo &lt;span&gt;20","PeriodicalId":40008,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin","volume":"33 2","pages":"89-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lob.10636","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140907067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Message from the President: ASLO: Advancing Aquatic Sciences Across the Globe","authors":"Patricia M. Glibert","doi":"10.1002/lob.10640","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lob.10640","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;As I write this, I continue to bask in the glow of the incredibly successful and inspiring Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) that was held in New Orleans in late February. Attracting approximately 5500 participants from 60 (yes 60!) countries, this meeting offered &gt;200 oral sessions, &gt;70 town halls, 25 workshops, countless posters, and a diverse suite of keynote speakers and other activities. It was energizing, fun, creative, and scientifically challenging. The three societies that jointly sponsored the OSM also highlighted their recent awardees in keynote presentations. These included the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Sverdrup Lecture given by Ronnie Glud from the University of Southern Denmark (AGU), The Oceanography Society (TOS) Ocean Observing Team Award talk presented by Oscar Schofield and Scott Glenn on behalf of the Rutgers University Center for Ocean Observing Laboratory (RU COOL), and ASLO's G. Evelyn Hutchinson recipient presentation from Liz Kujawinski from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. These and other plenary speakers were bookended in the week-long program by local residents and elders who, through their storytelling and honest and open dialog, conveyed the regional environmental impacts in their communities and the depth of their local connection with water and their ancestral lands.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Ocean Sciences Meeting is one of the crown jewels in the ALSO portfolio of meetings. Another jewel in the crown is the Aquatic Sciences Meeting (ASM), the most recent of which was the beautiful and successful meeting last June in Mallorca. That meeting attracted 2400 participants from 72 (yes 72!) countries. Not having been together for years, this first in-person meeting since the pandemic underscored the desire, the need, and the relationships, bonds, and friendships that come from being together face-to-face. Friendships and alliances with colleagues were renewed and developed from across the globe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ASLO clearly advances aquatic sciences across the globe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ASLO has traditionally had a cycle of three meetings every two years. Around February of odd years, the ASM is ASLO's major, sole-society meeting. In the same season in even years, ASLO co-hosts the already mentioned OSM with sister societies, AGU and TOS. Given the COVID disruptions and the need to reschedule many meetings, our calendar of meetings has been somewhat skewed over the last few years (and will be off kilter until 2027), but even with disruptions to the schedule, these are meetings that ASLO proudly sponsors. In addition—and by the time this article is printed—the June meeting, also held every other year, will have occurred in Madison and we will be basking in the glow of its success. This traditionally has been a must-attend event for our freshwater scientists.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ASLO recognizes that while it is the only society that has cross-cutting programs across the spectrum of aquatic sciences, there are many benefits from working together with other soc","PeriodicalId":40008,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin","volume":"33 2","pages":"82-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lob.10640","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140907020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}