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Can you imagine having access to one of the most advanced mesocosm facilities in Europe and conduct your own experiment or participate in one with almost all expenses covered by EU?
This is THE LAST chance that you have!!!
The 2023 AQUACOSM-plus Transnational Access (TA) call will open by the end of October!

What is the AQUACOSM-plus?
It is an EU Research Infrastructure project, with more than 60 aquatic mesocosm facilities throughout Europe ranging from Sub-Arctic to the Mediterranean, from mountains to lowlands, from freshwater to marine, and from ultra-oligotrophic to hyper-eutrophic conditions, including benthic and pelagic systems.

What AQUACOSM-plus offers via the Transnational Access?
AQUACOSM-plus provides funding to academic and industrial (including SMEs) research groups, individual scientists, experts, professionals and university students from all over the world (up to 20% non-Europeans and associated countries) to:
• participate in mesocosm experiments that have been planned by the facility providers
• propose own ideas for mesocosm experiments in the partner facilities in cooperation with the local team

Is this access free of charge?
YES!
AQUACOSM-plus covers all experimental set-up expenses, as well as travel, accommodation and meal expenses of the selected participants.

Who can apply?
You can apply either as individual or as group.
Individuals: University students, scientists, researchers, professionals
Groups: Any group from either academia or industry.
Applicants can be from all over the world.

Ok, how can I apply?
• Visit: https://ta.aquacosm.eu
• Find out about available mesocosm facilities and already planned experiment
• Contact the facility provider to discuss the details
• Submit your application via our new, easy to use, application portal

When will it be open and is there any deadline?
Most experiments and open-time slots for experiments will be live in November 2022. Each facility will have its own deadline. See https://ta.aquacosm.eu

Do I have to be a marine scientist to apply for the marine mesocosm facilities or freshwater scientist for the freshwater facilities?
NO!!!!!!
You can be scientist, engineer, professional or student of any field!
AQUACOSM-plus aims to promote effective international scientific collaboration and technological knowledge transfer across traditional barriers between regions, countries and traditionally separated science disciplines, such as marine and freshwater research.

I am scientist/engineer in a non-aquatic field, can I still apply?
If you want to conduct research related to aquatic ecosystems, YES!!!
AQUACOSM-plus is encouraging multidisciplinary environmental projects, promoting the Whole-Ecosystem approach!
Furthermore, AQUACOSM-plus is enhancing collaboration among the European Environmental Research Infrastructures (RIs) by engaging in multidisciplinary joint research activities

More information on the TA application process and deadlines for individual calls at the respective facilities can be found on https://ta.aquacosm.eu

Contact TA-Office: ta-plus@aquacosm.eu

SIL Education Committee wants to create content (webinars, workshops, etc.) for young limnologists.

We invite students and ECRs to participate in a survey to find out what your needs are.

TO PARTICIPATE: https://forms.gle/3oW2DCPqMQ7cP9q86

Email business@limnology.org for questions

It is a great pleasure to announce the winners of the 4th SIL Student competition:

First Place: Samuel Dijoux
Article: Samuel Dijoux & D.S. Boukal (2021). Community structure and collapses in multichannel food webs: Role of consumer body sizes and mesohabitat productivities. Ecology Letters, 24: 1607-1618. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13772

2nd place: Joachim Jansen
Article: J. Jansen, B.F. Thornton, M.M. Jammet, M. Wik, A. Cortés, T. Friborg, S. MacIntyre, & P.M. Crill (2019). Climate-Sensitive Controls on Large Spring Emissions of CH4 and CO2 From Northern Lakes. JGR: Biogeosciences, 124.  https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005094

3rd place: Marcin K. Dzuiba
Article: M. K. Dziuba, L. Kuczyński, L. Wejnerowski, S. Cerbin & J. Wolinska (2021). Countergradient variation concealed adaptive responses to temperature increase in Daphnia from heated lakes. L and O, 66: 1268-1280. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11680

3rd place: Lena Schallenberg
Article: L. A. Schallenberg, J.K Pearman, C.W. Burns, & S.A. Wood (2021). Metabarcoding Reveals Lacustrine Picocyanobacteria Respond to Environmental Change Through Adaptive Community Structuring. Front.Microbiol, 12: 3258. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.757929

We share a list of existing open-source directories and databases where offers for Ukrainian researchers can be registered (click here). We invite all our members and colleagues to contribute by adding opportunities for funding, technical support, or positions for Ukrainian researchers.

Additional resources can be found here.

We cordially invite you to submit an abstract for an oral or ePoster presentation to SIL2022. Contributions are welcome from attendees across all career levels, including graduate and undergraduate students, early career scientists, and established researchers in academia and water management practice.

Please visit https://www.sil2022.org/registration/abstract-submission/ for details about abstract submission and congress registration.

SIL’s scientific journal, Inland Waters, has released the fourth issue of Volume 11! As a SIL member, you have access to the Society’s journal.

To access these articles, just log in on the SIL website here, then click on the Inland Waters icon to the right!

Happy readings

We cordially invite you to submit a session proposal to SIL100 and hope for a large representation of contributed
sessions, to encourage a stimulating event that is driven by presentations of the latest and most exciting research in
limnology.

Deadline for submitting a session proposal: Wednesday, 8 December 2021, at 23:59 H Berlin time

SIL100 will be a hybrid conference, details of which will be communicated as early as possible. While session conveners
are expected to attend the conference in person, slots will be available for speakers both at the venue and connected
remotely.

Please find further information and a form to upload session proposals here:
https://www.sil2022.org/program/session-proposals/

We look forward to receiving your proposal.

SIL’s scientific journal, Inland Waters, has released the third issue of Volume 11! As a SIL member, you have access to the Society’s journal.

To access these articles, just log in on the SIL website here, then click on the Inland Waters icon to the right!

Happy readings

SIL is soliciting your nominations for 4 open positions to the SIL Executive Board, for a term starting in August 2021 for 3 years. Eligible for the VP positions are all duly paid SIL members that have been SIL members for at least 2 years, currently or in the past. For the ECR positions, the SIL member must be a student or an early-career scientist having received their PhD in the last 5 years.

The open positions are the following:

Vice-President – Communications and Publications

Vice-President – Limnological Education

Early-Career Representative – Communications

Early-Career Representative – Education

As a SIL member you may nominate more than one member to be considered, including yourself. For each nominee we ask you to include a short statement of support, and a half-page statement that will be circulated to all SIL members prior to the elections.  This statement should include  a brief CV, an explanation why the candidate is suitable for the position and what he/she would do if elected, as well as contact information for the candidate. Candidates will be contacted and asked whether they agree to the nomination.

Please email your nominations to Luigi Naselli-Flores (luigi.naselli@unipa.it) and to the SIL Secretariat at business@limnology.org by June 4, 2021.

Sincerely,

Luigi-Naselli Flores

Head, SIL Nominations Committee

Tamar Zohary

SIL General Secretary-Treasurer

On behalf of the SIL Nominations Committee

It offers the chance to students and early careers limnologists from developing countries to be mentored by experienced scientists within the SIL international community that are willing to guide and advise them for up to three years. To learn more about it, please click here: https://limnology.org/students/sil-mentors/

Submission Guidelines

SIL’s scientific journal, Inland Waters, has released the fourth issue of Volume 10! As a SIL member, you have access to the Society’s journal.

To access these articles, just log in on the SIL website here, then click on the Inland Waters icon to the right!

Happy readings

Statement of World Aquatic Scientific Societies on the Need to Take Urgent Action against Human-Caused Climate Change, Based on Scientific Evidence

Water is the most important natural resource on Earth as it is vital for life. Aquatic ecosystems, freshwater or marine, provide multiple benefits to human society, such as provisioning of oxygen, food, drinking water, and genetic resources; regulation of atmospheric composition and climate; water purification; storm buffering; mitigation of floods/droughts; recreation areas; and other purposes. Our existence and well-being depend on the health and well-functioning of aquatic ecosystems. People naturally distribute around water -approximately 40% of the world’s population lives within 100 km (62 mi) of a coast.
The world’s aquatic resources are now under their greatest threat in human history. Human-caused climate change is accelerating the degradation of aquatic ecosystems and the services they provide. Aquatic ecosystems are among the most affected worldwide (e.g., in case of freshwater ecosystems, one measure of biodiversity, the freshwater living planet index for species populations, declined 83% from 1970 to 2014, while up to 90% of coral reefs will disappear by mid-century if the current trends continue).
We, the world’s aquatic scientists, spend our lives studying these systems. We see exceptional and disturbing changes in the world’s aquatic ecosystems due to climate change and believe that we must continue to share peer-reviewed scientific findings with the public and policymakers to emphasize the seriousness of this threat and the need for immediate action. For the first time, the assessment of global risks conducted by the World Economic Forum ranked the impact of “climate action failure”, “biodiversity loss,” and “water crisis” among the top five risks over the next decade.

In recent years, migration has increased and geopolitical tensions have been exacerbated: between 2008 and 2016, more than 20 million people per year have been forced to move due to extreme weather events, while according to the United Nations, in 2017, water was a major conflict factor in 45 countries.
These negative effects are expected to increase under current climatic trends. For example, in the United States, the climate-related economic damage is estimated to reach 10% of the gross domestic product by the end of the century. In Europe, the minimum cost of not adapting to climate change is estimated at €100 billion per year in 2020 and €250 billion in 2050.

Experts in environmental, social, and economic fields collectively point towards a severe environmental and humanitarian crisis, with repercussions at a global level, unless worldwide concerted climate actions are implemented urgently.
This document summarizes key scientific findings highlighting the effect of climate changes on
aquatic ecosystems. These findings provide evidence of what effects are currently happening and why world policymakers and all of humankind need to act jointly and launch concerted actions now if they wish to mitigate these impacts.

The full statement can be found here.

Anyone interested in a large reprint collection acquired over some 60 years of scholarly activity? This collection was amassed by Dr. Gene Likens and is focused on limnology, ecology and Biogeochemistry.

Funds would be required for shipping.

This collection is approximately 101 linear feet of shelf space (approximately 100,000 papers), although not all boxes are full, so this collection could be condensed.

This collection is cataloged using two systems: file cards and a Reference Manager database. Note, the database is an older version but a savvy person could migrate the data.

Please contact Gene Likens at likensg@caryinstitute.org or Amy Schuler at schulera@caryinstitute.org

SIL’s scientific journal, Inland Waters, has released the first issue of Volume 10! As a SIL member, you have access to the Society’s journal.

To access these articles, just log in on the SIL website here, then click on the Inland Waters icon to the right!

Happy readings

Just like many conferences, the 4th International Conference on the Status and Future of the World’s Large Rivers has been postponed!

New date: 2-6 August 2021
New abstract submission deadline: January 31st 2021

The pressures and impacts on the World’s Large Rivers have increased greatly in recent years. Large rivers are particularly exposed to problems of multiple uses, often with conflicting aims. At the global scale, there is no comprehensive assessment of the current status of the World’s Large Rivers, the conflicting demands on such rivers, and likely future anthropogenic impacts, as well as the potential for restoration and the associated problems.

Therefore, the World’s Large Rivers Conference aims in providing a global forum for a wide-ranging discussion of key issues related to research on large rivers and to their effective and sustainable management, involving both scientists and decision makers.

Scientists and practitioners are strongly encouraged to present their research results and experiences in the fields of:

– Hydrology, Hydraulics & Hydroclimatic Impacts

– Sediment Transport & River Morphology

– River Pollution, Ecology & Restoration

– Integrated River Management

As well as in a special session about

– Russian / Arctic Rivers

Special focus throughout all sessions will be given this time to Climate Change and River Response.

More information can be found here: http://worldslargerivers.boku.ac.at/wlr/

SIL’s scientific journal, Inland Waters, has released the fourth issue of Volume 9! As a SIL member, you have access to the Society’s journal.

To access these articles, just log in on the SIL website here, then click on the Inland Waters icon to the right!

Happy readings

SIL’s scientific journal, Inland Waters, has released the third issue of Volume 9! As a SIL member, you have access to the Society’s journal. See all the articles available to you !

Special Section: Ecological Quality and Conservation

Ecological quality and conservation status of inland waters

Consideration of habitat quality in a riverconnectivity index for anadromous fishes

Effects of agricultural landscapes and land uses in highly biodiverse tropical streams of the Ecuadorian Choco

Phytoplankton Reservoir Trophic Index (PRTI): a new tool for ecological quality studies

Non-Special Section Papers

Trophic state index validation based on the phytoplankton functional group approach in Amazon floodplain lakes

Hydroperiod and species-sorting influence metacommunity composition of crustaceans in temporary rock pools in India

Mapping spatial patterns of groundwater discharge in a deep lake using high-resolution temperature sensor

Brazil harbours the planet’s greatest biodiversity, but President Bolsonaro’s administration is undermining advances in environmental conservation achieved during the last decades. Just to cite some examples, the federal government has withdrawn the offer to host the next Conference of the Parties on Climate Change, legalized pesticides prohibited in other countries and dismantled federal environmental protection agencies. In view of these kickbacks, 602 European scientists and two indigenous organizations recently argued that Europe should make trade with Brazil sustainable (1).

The greatest threat so far is a bill in discussion by the Senate to eliminate the Legal Reserve requirement from the 2012 Native Vegetation Protection Law (2). Currently, with some exceptions, Legal Reserves are required to maintain forest and/or non-forest native vegetation cover on at least 50 to 80% of every property in the Amazon, 20 to 35% in the Cerrado savannas, and 20% in remaining regions. If passed, this bill will likely trigger swift and irreparable biodiversity losses in Brazil and jeopardise climate change mitigation efforts.

For political leaders of the rural sector supporting this bill, encroaching on native vegetation is a convenient way to boost agricultural production, mainly of beef and soybean that are mainstays of Brazil’s floundering economy. However, improving productivity on already converted land could well meet demands for several decades without reducing native vegetation (3). Furthermore, Brazil´s economic dependence on commodities is worrisome as commodity dependent countries usually have lower human development indices (4).

Against all reason, scientific evidence is being systematically disregarded by the hegemonic group holding power in Brazil (5), with likely long-lasting catastrophic impacts on biodiversity and society. For the sake of environment security, further engagement between scientists and policy-makers is urgently needed to demonstrate the role of Legal Reserves in maintaining essential ecosystem services that benefit farmers, society and the Brazilian economy in the long term.

References:
1. L. Kehoe et al., Make EU trade with Brazil sustainable. Science 364, 341 (2019).
2. B. Soares-Filho et al., Land use cracking Brazil’s Forest Code. Science 344, 363-364 (2014).
3. B. B. N. Strassburg et al., When enough should be enough: Improving the use of current agricultural lands could meet production demands and spare natural habitats in Brazil. Gl. Environ. Ch. 28, 84–97 (2014).
4. United Nations, “State of commodity dependence” (United Nations Conference on trade and development – UNCTAD 2016) (2017).
5. N. Pettorelli et al., Applied ecologists in a landscape of fear. J. Appl. Ecol. 56, 1034-1039 (2019).

Sidinei M. Thomaz et al.

(25 June 2019)

Click here to download the letter

From: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6438/341.1

New and exciting courses available for Limnologists!

Links to access:

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Inland Waters Editorial Manager

Lake Baikal, the world’s oldest, deepest and largest (by volume) freshwater lake, was recently threatened by intentions of the Russian government to relax regulations regarding inflows and loading of contaminants. The SIL executive board responded with a strong letter urging the authorities to protect this precious iconic lake.
As a truly international society, such actions are a main role of SIL.

The above letter from SIL, together with several support letters from scientists and associations worldwide, indeed helped to convince the Russian Authorities to cancel their plan of relaxing the regulations for inflows into Lake Baikal. Read below the reply to our letter.

“Dear colleagues, friends,

This letter of thanks acknowledges our deep gratitude to you for raising your voices in favour of Lake Baikal, the one for the Planet. Although it is a tiny piece of our Earth, no one would deny it being one of its pearls, and as a magnificent gift from the nature, it needs our care and protection. Global environmental problems are obviously piling up, but you do not step aside and stay involved. With your strong voices, we succeeded in suspending the draft regulations concerning emissions into Lake Baikal, which were not logical and technologically reasonable. At the moment, the government comes to the opinion that the construction of treatment facilities at Lake Baikal should be based on the best world technologies. Yours suggestions and examples have contributed to this opinion.
We greatly appreciate your concern, help and advice and hope that our mutual efforts, scientific experience and good will would contribute to the world’s and Baikal’s healthier future.

Dr. Andrey Fedotov – Director of Limnnological Institute SB RAS

Prof. Oleg Timoshkin – Head of Laboratory of Aquatic Invertebrate Biology LIN SB RAS”

© Oleg Timoshkin – Lake Baikal, Lystvyanka Settlement Sunset

Issue 9(1) of Inland Waters is now available on-line. SIL members can freely download articles from Inland Waters, if they first log-in as a SIL member at www.limnology.org, then, while in the member page, click in the journal icon on the right

Issue 8(4) of Inland Waters is now available on-line. SIL members can freely download articles from Inland Waters, if they first log-in as a SIL member at www.limnology.org, then, while in the member page, click in the journal icon on the right.

Dear SIL members,

The 3^rd SIL student competition – now open for applications !!

The competition is for the best published paper in Limnology appearing as part of a PhD or MSc thesis. The competition will have two stages. In the first, national stage, run by the National Representatives, each country will elect the 1 or 2 student(s) and paper(s) to represent it in the second, international stage. In the second stage, those elected from all countries will compete. The winner for the first place will be invited to give a plenary talk at the 2020 Congress in Gwangju, South Korea. The winners of 2^nd and 3^rd places will talk at the closing ceremony.

Details, instructions and application form:  sil-student-competition

Deadline for submitting applications: 30 September 2019.

Judit Padisak, Tamar Zohary

SIL Student Competition team

It is with great pleasure that we announce that the newly elected students/early career member of the SIL Executive Committee is Dr. Marieke Frassl.

Let us all wish her good luck and lots of success!

The SILNews 73 is now online!

SIL is soliciting your nominations for a student/early career representative for the SIL Executive Board, to replace Camila Capelli who has stepped down recently.

Eligible are SIL members that are students or those that have received their PhD degree not more than 5 years ago, and candidacies from female applicants are strongly encouraged.

As a SIL member you may nominate more than one member to be considered, including yourself. For each nominee we ask you to include a short statement of support, and a half-page statement that will be circulated to all SIL members prior to the elections. This statement should include a photo and an explanation why the candidate is suitable for the position and what he/she would do if elected.

Please email your nominations to Luigi Naseli-Flores (luigi.naselli@unipa.it) and Genevieve Leclerc (businesss@limnology.org) by 15 December 2018.

Sincerely,

Luigi-Naseli Flores – Head, SIL Nominations Committee SIL

Tamar Zohary – General Secretary-Treasurer

On behalf of the SIL Nominations Committee

A special issue of Inland Waters, issue 8(2), that holds a collection of articles on ‘Effects of Dams on River Biogeochemistry and Ecology’, is available for free-downloading, during the SIL congress in Nanjing and the week preceding it (13-25 August). Take advantage! https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tinw20/current

Dear congress participants, With the 34th SIL congress in Nanjing just around the corner, we are looking at additional ways for us all to participate and enjoy this event. As one of the planned activities, we are announcing an AUCTION that will take place on Tuesday evening during the congress society dinner. All funds collected during this auction will be deposited in the Wetzel Fund, with the sole purpose of supporting student travel to future SIL Congresses. Already waiting to be auctioned are four original oil paintings by SIL’s legendary General Secretary-Treasurer, Robert Wetzel. You are invited to bring along other items that could be of value to fellow limnologists, such as textbooks, old and new scientific instruments, hand-written documents, whatever it is that inspires you and could inspire others to purchase and donate. You are further invited to be inspired and purchase one or two items at the auction and thus make an important contribution to SIL and to the education of future limnologists. Items for the auction can be deposited at the Congress with Denise, at the front desk. It would be nice to receive an e-mail from you in advance listing the items you will bring (with a photo if possible), but this is not a must. We will circulate a preliminary list of items for auction, by Email at the beginning of the SIL Congress week. We look forward to meeting up with you in Nanjing! Warwick Vincent, SIL Member and Auctioneer Tamar Zohary, SIL General Secretary and Assistant-Auctioneer Maciek Bartosiewicz, SIL Early Career Representative and Assistant-Auctioneer Denise Johnson, SIL Business Administrator

Issue 8(2) of Inland Waters is now available on-line. SIL members can freely download articles from Inland Waters, if they first log-in as a SIL member at www.limnology.org, then, while in the member page, click in the journal icon on the right.

We are very happy to inform you of the results of the ballot for SIL Officers for 2018-2020. Dr. Thomas Mehner, Deputy Director Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin       Martin Kainz, researcher, Inter-University Center for Aquatic Ecosystem Research WasserCluster – Biological Station of Lunz, Austria       Jeremy Piggott, Assistant Professor in Aquatic Biology Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland       Inés O’Farrell, Principal Researcher, National Council of Scientific and Technological Research of Argentina (CONICET) and Vice-director of the Institute of Ecology Genetics and Evolution of Buenos Aires, Argentina     Tamar Zohary (General Secretary-Treasurer) Senior Researcher at the Yigal Alon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory of the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR). Tamar was reconfirmed in her role of General Secretary-Treasurer.     According to the SIL tradition, the new officers will start their 2-year terms right after the congress in Nanjing (China). Due to the special circumstances that nearly all the SIL officers are changing at the same time, our current President, Yves Prairie, has agreed to continue being President for one more year, while Thomas Mehner will act as President-elect. In August 2019 the change-over of Presidents will be completed. In the meantime, I have the pleasure to call all the SIL members to congratulate our new Officers in their success, with the certainty that this success will lead to great achievement for our Society in the years to come. Looking forward to meeting you in Nanjing. Luigi Naselli-Flores, Chairman of the SIL Nominating Committee

The SILNews 72 is now online!

With great pleasure we announce the winners of the 2nd SIL Student competition: Third place: Clay Prater (Canada) Second Place: Ralf Aben (Netherlands) First Place: Matthew Guzzo (Canada) The winners will be awarded their certificates at the Congress in China. The winner of the first place, Matthew Guzzo, will give a plenary. We take this opportunity to announce that the third SIL student competition will begin shortly after the Congress in Nanjing, where details of this competition will be provided. Its winners will present in the SIL Congress in Korea in 2020. Prof. Judit Padisák Chair, Student Competition Committee Dr. Tamar Zohary SIL General Secretary

Issue 8(1) of Inland Waters is now available on-line. SIL members can freely download articles from Inland Waters, if they first log-in as a SIL member at www.limnology.org, then, while in the member page, click in the journal icon on the right.

To all those interested in Carbon in lakes and rivers. The link below will take you to a free access promotion of carbon manuscripts published in Inland Waters – “The Carbon Collection”, with an excellent introduction to the topic by Yves Prairie. Chauncey Juday pointed out that lakes were supersaturated with carbon dioxide in 1935 but that contribution has often been overlooked. It’s good that the Proceedings have been scanned in a searchable form. Access to the history of limnological discovery has improved with pdf format (http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tinw19?open=1&year=1923&repitition=0#vol_1_1923). Please pass this link to your coauthors, students and colleagues. http://explore.tandfonline.com/content/est/the-carbon-collection Jack Jones, Editor-in-Chief

Photo: Frozen methane bubbles in a frozen lake

Early-bird registration for SIL 2018 is now open

30% discount on books for members of associations and societies partnering with Taylor & Francis. Discount applies to purchase of Routledge, CRC Press, and Taylor & Francis. Visit www.crcpress.com or www.routledge.com, select the titles you’d like to purchase, and enter the promotional code. To get the promotional code log in. [s2If is_user_logged_in()]The code is SOC18.[/s2If]   [s2If is_user_logged_in()][/s2If]

Our publisher Taylor&Francis has now completed the digitization and archival process of the entire collection of the SIL Proceedings and Contributions (formerly known as the Verhandlungen and Mitteilungen, respectively). As a SIL member, you are entitled to access and download any article from the full suite of volumes. This is the largest and most remarkable archive of limnological knowledge ever assembled. Thousands of pages that retrace the nearly 100 year history of our science in a fully searchable pdf format.  Happy read!! To access the full collection simply click on the Verhandlungen icon on the right.

The SILNews 71 is now online!

Issue 7(3) of Inland Waters, a special issue on Alpine lakes, is now available on the Taylor & Francis website! http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tinw20/current

The SIL Ecohydrology Working Group informs that the second announcement of the International Symposium “Ecohydrology for the Circular Economy and Nature-Based Solutions towards mitigation/adaptation to Climate Change” which will take place on 26-28 September 2017 in Poland. Information is available on the Symposium website: www.isehcnc.com

Issue 7(1) of Inland Waters, a special issue on Alpine lakes, is now available on the Taylor & Francis website! http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tinw20/current The first papers of Issue 7(2) are already on-line too. Issue 7(3) is in the works. The programming of the website so that SIL members will have free access to the journal via the SIL website is still on-going, it should be completed shortly, please be patient just a bit longer…

The School of Sciences of the University of Navarra wants to support excellent researchers in preparing their applications to join us through the MSCA Fellowship Programme. In June 2017, we will carry out a two-day meeting with researchers interested in submitting an application to the Marie Sklodowska Curie Action Individual Fellowships (MSCA IF 2017) in September with the aim of spending between one and two years with us. The selected candidates will be invited to Pamplona to attend the meeting, get to know the Host Institution, and spend some time with their supervisors. Within the sessions there will be an open day with one of the Spanish National Contact Point and evaluators of Marie Curie Actions. The Biodiversity Data Analytics and Environmental Quality (BEQ) group offer a position on human pressures and conservation status of European freshwater fishes. More information: http://www.unav.edu/web/facultad-de-ciencias/looking-for-scientific-talent

The Ecohydrology Working Group of SIL invites members of SIL and other persons interested in the topic of the announced symposium to attend the International Symposium “Ecohydrology for the Circular Economy and Nature-Based Solutions towards mitigation/adaptation to Climate Change” which will take place on 26-28 September 2017 in Lodz, Poland. This Symposium is jointly organized by European Regional Centre for Ecohydrology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, World Meteorological Organization, UNESCO International Hydrological Programme, UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme, International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change u/a UNESCO, Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Key Laboratory of Reservoir Environment CAS, University of Lodz, International Society of Limnology (SIL) and International Center for Integrated Water Resources Management (ICIWaRM) u/a of UNESCO. The Organizing Committee aims to provide a forum for experts from all over the world to exchange ideas and state of the art regarding Climate Change mitigation/adaptation, from the perspective of Ecohydrology, Nature-Based Solutions and Circular Economy” Visit our website:www.isehcnc.com Or follow us on Twitter: @ISEHCNC

The announcement about Taylor & Francis (T&F) becoming SIL’s new publisher stimulated many queries. Below is a summary of the main points: 1. SIL members will be exempt from page charges when publishing in Inland Waters. The first author has to be a SIL member, other authors “don’t count” towards the discount. If the first author is not a member, he/she will be invited to join SIL and enjoy the exemption. Non-members will be charged by SIL a flat rate of USD 75/page. This new arrangement begins with issue 7(1) of Inland Waters. 2. SIL members (first author only) will be eligible for a substantial discount, of nearly USD 1000, on publishing their Inland Waters articles as Open Access. The discount is on the regular charge by T&F of ~ USD 3,000 per article. 3. The entire set of SIL Proceedings from all past congresses (1922 – 2010) will be digitized in the near future and made available on-line to all SIL members.

March 2017 is the last chance for students from developed countries to enjoy the USD5/year membership dues rate. From 1 April 2017, student members from developed countries will be charged USD10/year. The annual dues for students from developing countries will remain USD5/year. All will have to pay for three years at once still. Do encourage students at your vicinity to become SIL member NOW!

SIL has a new publisher! Starting January 2017, Taylor & Francis will be publishing Inland Waters and SILNews. There are several major advantages to this change: (1) SIL members will be exempt from page charges when publishing in Inland Waters (whereas non-members will be charged). (2) Manuscripts to Inland Waters will now be handled through Editorial Manager, a user-friendly on-line manuscript processing software, replacing the system used until now. (3) Being published by a major commercial publisher means that Inland Waters will now have a much wider distribution with over 2000 additional libraries. This larger audience will contribute to improving the journal’s visibility and impact. (4) Here comes a most important benefit: All volumes of the former SIL Proceedings, the Verhandlungen and the Mitteilungen will be digitized in a searchable format. Within a few months these huge but currently mostly inaccessible volumes will become available on-line for free viewing and downloading to all SIL members. This immense database of knowledge, starting with Volume 1 of the Proceedings published in 1922, will soon be available to all of us, with easy sorting by author or title. Non-members will be charged for this access. To accommodate these changes SIL had to revise the criteria for who is a SIL member. While in the past you would continue to be a member if you didn’t pay dues for up to 3 years, this will not be possible in the future. From now on, only those who pay their annual dues will be considered members that are eligible for the above benefits. It is therefore time to pay your dues for 2017, either through your National Representative, to the SIL Office, or directly on the SIL website. Note also that the next 2 months is the last chance for students from developed countries to enjoy the 5 USD/year membership dues rate. From 1 April, student members from developed countries will be charged 10 USD/year. The annual dues for students from developing countries will remain 5 USD/year. All will have to pay for 3 years at once still. So, do encourage students at your vicinity to become SIL member NOW!

It is with great pleasure that we announce the newly elected students/early career members of the SIL Executive Committee. They are:

1. 1. Camilla Capelli from Italy
2. 2. Iestyn Woolway from the UK

The SIL Executive Committee proposed several changes to the SIL Statutes, as detailed below. It is SIL’s custom to advertise such changes before a congress, then vote to approve the changes at the General Assembly meeting in the congress. The changes proposed by the Executive Committee reflect changes that have already taken place de-facto, but as of today – are not written into the statutes. To summarise these changes: Clause 4 SIL membership and Dues:

• 1. A new membership category was added: Early Career Member (50% dues of Ordinary member).
• 2. The description of the category of Emeritus Members was re-worded to reflect the current state, with on-line access to Inland Waters replacing the past shipping of hard copies of the Proceedings. The same change was made at other places in the document
• 3. The Student Member category was re-worded to reflect changes that already took place
• 4. A clause was added about members from developing countries having a 50% reduction on dues.

Clause 11 Executive Committee

• 5. Addition of 2 student/early career representatives to the Executive Committee (EC).
• 6. The expansion of the EC from 5 to 7 members led to changing the number of people constituting a quorum, from 5 to 6.
• 7. Since congresses are now conducted at 2-yr intervals, “triennium” was changed to “biennium or triennium”

Item ViI.  Congresses

• 8. Clause 18, the following sentence is no longer relevant and was deleted:” Manuscripts ready for review can be submitted to the Editor before the final General Assembly. The Editor will decide on the basis of its originality and scientific merit whether a paper from the Congress shall be published by SIL.
• 9. A new clause 19 was added: ” Invited Congress keynote speakers are expected to submit their presentations as papers for publication in Inland Waters.  All other Congress participants are encouraged to do the same.”

General Clause numbers were adjusted.   Please see the Statutes page for a draft copy of what will discussed at the SIL Congress in Torino.

Jack Jones, editor-in-chief of Inland Waters reports that its impact factor in 2015 is now 1.776, increased from 1.31 last year. This now places the journal eighth out of 20 titles in the Limnology category – not bad for a fledgling journal. This is an excellent improvement to the status of SIL’s peer-reviewed journal.

SIL is holding now elections for two new student/early career members to join its executive committee. This is a new move for SIL, never before did the Executive Committee have a chair reserved for young members. Now SIL has added two chairs that are reserved for young members. To exercise your right to vote, look for an email sent to you on 16 June from Denise Johnson, with details on the six candidates and instructions on how to vote. If you do not receive the email, please write Denise at siloffice1922@gmail.com and she will send you the information. The deadline for voting is 30 June 2016.

Frontiers in Microbiology has published a paper that is the
outcome of a fruitful practical SIL course that happened in Brazil in
2014. All participants of the course (graduate students, post-docs and
university professors) authored the paper, entitled “High primary
production contrasts with intense carbon emission in a eutrophic
tropical reservoir.” This paper adds to the current understanding of
the interactions between eutrophication and carbon cycling, and it is
one of the first reports on the carbon cycling of Brazilian semiarid
artificial lakes. These systems are present throughout northeastern
Brazil but have been poorly studied so far. The article is freely available on Frontier’s website:
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00717/full

The SIL Nominating Committee is seeking (self-)nominations for a student/early career member of the SIL Executive board, to serve for a period of 2 years (with an option to be re-elected for a second term), and to be elected before the next congress in Turin (2016). Candidates must be SIL members (or have applied to join SIL), holding a PhD studentship, or a post-doctoral or similar position, and have been born in 1981 or later. Candidates should submit a photograph and a paragraph about him/herself, stating what s/he would like to do for the younger generation of limnologists if elected to the SIL board (one page max, plus the photograph). On this basis, the SIL Nominating Committee will select candidates to be put up for an election by the SIL membership. Members of the SIL Nominating Committee are: Luigi Naselli-Flores (Chair), Carolyn Burns, Paul del Giorgio, Alan Hildrew and Tamar Zohary. Applications should be submitted to the Chair (luigi.naselli@unipa.it) no later than 15 May 2016. Elections will be held electronically (by e-mail) at the beginning of June.

Contents here: Inland Waters 6(2), 2016 Do persistent organic pollutants stimulate cyanobacterial blooms? Theodore Daniel Harris, Val H Smith Life on the stoichiometric knife-edge: effects of high and low food C:P ratio on growth, feeding, and respiration in three Daphnia species James J Elser, Marcia Kyle, Jennifer Learned, Michelle L McCrackin, Angela Peace, Laura Steger Effects of eutrophication on maximum algal biomass in lake and river ecosystems Val Smith Nitrogen, phosphorus, and eutrophication in streams Walter Dodds, Val H Smith Differences in phosphorus use between ancient and extant Daphnia genotypes alters algal stoichiometry and abundance  Priyanka Roy Chowdhury A 21-year record of sub-epilimnetic populations of Cryptomonas spp.  Val Smith, Jude H Kastens Dynamics of silicon in lakes of the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand, and implications for diatom growth Lisa Pearson, Chris H Hendy, David P Hamilton PlanktoMetrix – a computerized system to support microscope counts and measurements of plankton  Tamar Zohary, Mordechai Shneor, Karl David Hambright

Contents here: Inland Waters 6(1), 2016 Scaling relationships among drivers of aquatic respiration in temperate lakes: from the smallest to the largest freshwater ecosystems Ed K. Hall, Don R. Schoolmaster Jr., Andre M. Amado, Edward G. Stets, Jay T. Lennon, Leah Domine, Jim B Cotner Monitoring by citizen scientists demonstrates water clarity of Maine (USA) lakes is stable, not declining, due to cultural eutrophication Daniel Evans Canfield Jr, Rooger W Bachmann, Dana B Stephens, Mark V Hoyer, Linda C Bacon, Scott Williams, Mathew Scott Invasive species induced food-web disruption, alternative regimes, and cyanobacteria dominance in a pelagic food web: a case history Joseph C Makarewicz, Theodore W Lewis, Joyce A Makarewicz Invading the invaders: relationships of an exotic branchiobdellidan with its exotic host and environmental conditions Iván Vedia, Rafael Miranda, Javier Oscoz, Enrique Baquero Effects of mire-originated dissolved organic carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus on microbial activity in boreal headwaters Noora Helen Josefiina Räsänen Cyanobacteria in a tributary backwater area in the Three Gorges Reservoir, China Yan Xiao, Zhe Li, Jingsong Guo, Jing Liu, Shengjun Wu Spatial distribution patterns of fish assemblages relative to macroinvertebrates and environmental conditions in Andean piedmont streams of the Colombian Amazon Ibon Tobes, Sergio Gaspar, Marlon Peláez-Rodríguez, Rafael Miranda Geese as vectors of nitrogen and phosphorous to freshwater systems Lisa Dessborn, Rebecca Hessel, Johan Elmberg Reconstructing a trophic cascade following unintentional introduction of golden shiner to Lake Minnewaska, New York, USA David C. Richardson The importance of flooded terrestrial habitats for larval fish in a semi-natural large floodplain (Volga, Russian Federation) Konrad Górski, Joep De Leeuw, Hendrik Winter, Victoria Khoruzhaya, Vasily Boldyrev, Dmitry Vekhov, Leopold Nagelkerke

With great pleasure we announce the winners of the SIL Student competition: Third place: shared between two papers that scored the same: 1) Cedric Morana (Belgium) Morana C, Sarmento H, Descy J-P, Gasol JM, Borges AV, Bouillon A, Darchambeau F. (2014). Production of dissolved organic matter by phytoplankton and its uptake by heterotrophic prokaryotes in large tropical lakes. Limnol. Oceanogr. 59: 1364-1375. 2) Pauliina Salmi (Finland) Salmi P, Salonen K. (2015). Regular build-up of the spring phytoplankton maximum before ice-break in a boreal lake. Limnol. Oceanogr. 61: 240-253. Second Place: Francisco Acosta & Richard M. Zamor (USA), for their joint article: Acosta F, Zamor RM , Najar FZ, Roe BA, Hambright KD. (2015). Dynamics of an experimental microbial invasion. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sc. 112: 11594-11599. First Place: Jeremy J. Piggott (New Zealand), for his article Piggott JJ, Salis RK, Lear G, Townsend CR, Matthaei CD. (2015). Climate warming and agricultural stressors interact to determine stream periphyton community composition. Global Change Biology 2: 206–222. The winners will be awarded their certificates at the Congress in Torino.  The winner of the first place, Jeremy Piggot, will give a plenary. We thank all those who contributed to the competition, including all 37 applicants from 17 countries, mentors who wrote recommendation letters, SIL National Representatives who coordinated internal elections at the first stage of the competition, and national committee members who ranked the papers at the National level competition. But most important – we all owe great thanks to eight volunteers who to examined and ranked the 19 articles participating in the international stage of the competition. All eight are chief editors or co-chief editors of limnological journals, thus experts in assessing the merits of scientific papers. Their identity will be revealed in Torino. We take this opportunity to announce that the second SIL student competition will begin shortly after the Congress in Torino, where details of this competition will be provided. Its winners will present in the SIL Congress in China in 2018. Prof. Judit Padisák Chair, international assessment committee Dr Tamar Zohary SIL General Secretary

SIL 2016 Congress >>>

Ohrid SOS, a local citizens’ initiative established to protect ancient Lake Ohrid of Macedonia, is appealing to the limnological community for friendship, support, partnership and participation in an exciting new vision to guarantee the future of this lake. At present, a government-backed, mass-tourism urbanization plan may tear apart Lake Ohrid’s precious ecosystem in the name of economic progress. However, we believe there is another way: Working together with SIL members and educative/scientific institutions, Ohrid SOS would like to unfurl a smorgasbord of courses, research projects and ecological schemes that can fully entwine the environmental integrity of the Lake Ohrid region within a viable economic framework. This would present a meaningful alternative to the mass-tourism model by creating a strategy for sustainable eco-, knowledge and volunteer tourism, and enshrining scientific discovery within the local financial architecture. Nonetheless, it will only be actioned under the condition that Lake Ohrid’s ecological security is ensured by total protection first. If you would like to help pioneer this vision by establishing research or learning projects in the Lake Ohrid region, or are interested to cooperate in other ways please contact dscar.ohridsos@gmail.com, approach via the Ohrid SOS Facebook page, or refer to our website athttps://ohridsos.wordpress.com.

PEG-Working Group on Plankton Ecology, founded in 1974, is among the oldest and most active working groups of SIL. Since its first formal meeting in Olso (1974), PEG has arranged more than 20 meetings including symposia, workshop and training courses. PEG meetings bring together freshwater ecologists working on different aspects of freshwater plankton ecology and offer an open platform for deep discussion and exchange of ideas between plankton ecologists from diverse waters and regions. The next PEG meeting will be held in Guangzhou, China, on 20-24 November, 2015. PEG 2015 will focus on the role of plankton diversity in bloom dynamics. Phytoplankton blooms are on the rise worldwide nowadays, especially in developing countries, adding urgency to the need to understand how blooms form. For further information about this meeting check our website: http://peg2015.csp.escience.cn Or contact: Miss Ningning LIU Institute of Hydrobiology Jinan University Guangzhou 510632 Email: osss@jnu.edu.cn

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Contributions for the next newsletter will be accepted up to 1 October 2015. Please send them to editor Ramesh Gulati at r.gulati@nioo.knaw.nl.

SIL offers travel awards to students and early career limnologists who would otherwise be unable to participate in the congress, coming from the Wetzel Memorial Fund. Information about these awards and application forms is available here >>> and from SIL 2016 Congress website . Eligible applicants are SIL members that have not received the award in the past. Deadline for applications is 1 November 2015.

Argentina has just elected its first-ever SIL National Representative. Dr Inés O’Farrell of the CONICET – University of Buenos Aires was elected for this position. We wish her lots of success! To have a National Representative, a country has to have at least 10 SIL members. Argentina has increased its membership from only 1 in 2005 to 17 currently. This is the largest number ever of SIL members from Argentina. Another country that now has enough members to elect a National Representative is Mexico. Hopefully other countries will follow, by recruiting a young generation of SIL members. Encourage your students to join SIL – their annual dues are only $5/year. And there is a 50% discount on annual dues of early career members.

The State Reservoir Administration of Saxony as a state-owned enterprise in the line of business of the Saxon Ministry for Environment and Agriculture and the Working Committee Drinking Water Reservoirs r.a. (ATT) will conduct a proficiency test of phytoplankton in 2015-2016. This is the seventh international proficiency test since 2007. Interested parties may register online on the web portal www.planktonforum.eu from 15 June to 30 September 2015.

Where: Universidad  Autónoma de Madrid, Spain When: 29 June – 4 July 2015

This course is funded by NILS and CYANOCOST and will provide fellowships for most of the trainees. It will be a good opportunity to disseminate information about this issue and to help educate a new generation of cyanobacteriologists. More information: http://congresos.fuam.es/fuamcongresos/advanced-course-on-cyanobacteria-and-cyanotoxins/home

Ancient Lake Ohrid of Macedonia, 288 m depth, on the border between Macedonia and Albania in the Dinaric Alps, is one of the most evolutionarily spectacular and scientifically significant freshwater ecosystems in the world. This lake is facing a ruinous lurch to ecosystem destabilization. Government-endorsed urban plans will concrete over the last of its marshes for roads and tourist hotels, replace local fauna with non-native species, import beaches to lakeshores, and rip out key reed beds, the breeding site of the noteworthy Ohrid carp and nesting place for the mute swan, which may then abandon its role as environmental steward of the habitat. This will take place in the shadows of Galicica National Park, a UNESCO-designated biosphere, where a ski-resort and further roads are set to carve apart yet another ecosystem. All is not lost, however: Ohrid SOS, a local citizens’ initiative, is reaching out to limnologists everywhere to speak with the gravity of their expert voices and put their names to a Declaration demanding the Macedonian government halts these dual ecological catastrophes. It also calls on their wider support, should they be interested and willing. One of the most compelling evolutionary narratives ever witnessed may depend on you. We respectfully urge your signature on the Declaration. Ancient Lake Ohrid, a limnological masterwork, boasts perhaps the highest rate of diversity of any lake by surface area worldwide. (Ljupco Lepi) #ohridsos www.ohridsos.wordpress.com FB: Ohrid SOS

Michael Kehoe, Kate O’Brien, Alistair Grinham, Michele Burford Primary production of lake phytoplankton, dominated by the cyanobacterium Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii, in response to irradiance and temperature James H Larson, Michelle R Bartsch, Steve Gutreuter, Brent C Knights, Lynn A Bartsch, William B Richardson, Jonathan M Vallazza, Michael T Arts Differences between main-channel and off-channel food webs in the upper Mississippi River revealed by fatty acid profiles of consumers Maria Luiza Fontes, Humberto Marotta, Sally MacIntyre, Mauricio Mello Petrucio Inter- and intra-annual variations of pCO2 and pO2 in a freshwater subtropical coastal lake Denise Matias Faria, Luciana Souza Cardoso, David Motta Marques Periphytic diatoms show a longitudinal gradient in a large subtropical shallow lake David A. Matthews, Steven W. Effler, Anthony R. Prestigiacomo, Susan M. O’Donnell Trophic state responses of Onondaga Lake, New York to reductions in phopshorus loading from advanced wastewater treatment Richard Iestyn Woolway, Ian D Jones, Heidrun Feuchtmayr, Stephen C Maberly A comparison of the diel variability in epilimnetic temperature for five lakes in the English Lake District Joao Antonio Lorenzzetti, Carlos Alberto Sampaio Araújo, Marcelo Pedroso Curtarelli Mean diel variability of surface energy fluxes over Manso Reservoir Gábor Borics, András Abonyi, Gábor Várbíró, Judit Padisák, Enikő T-Krasznai Lake stratification in the Carpathian basin and its interesting biological consequences Jean M. Jacoby, Marisa Burghdoff, Gene Williams, Lorraine Read, Joan Hardy Dominant factors associated with microcystins in nine midlatitude, maritime lakes

John Lund (J. W. G. Lund) died on Saturday, 21 March 2015 at the age of 102. A funeral service will take place on Tuesday, 31 March at Ambleside in the Cumbrian Lake District. A brief account of his life can be found here.

The University of Western Australia announced its abrupt decision to close the world-renowned Centre for Water Research, headed by the Stockholm Water Prize Laureate, Prof. Jörg Imberger. CWR is, and has always been, on the forefront of international research in sustainability of freshwater resources. The announcement of closing the CWR produced a big shock wave. The loss will be felt throughout the world and the reputation of the University of Western Australia will suffer. To read more about this issue go to: http://savecwr.blogspot.com https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/26794314/professor-jorg-imberger-on-hiding-to-nothing You are most welcome to post your own support letter at savecwr.blogspot.com

Shannon D Bower, Robert J Lennox, Steven J Cooke Is there a role for freshwater protected areas in the conservation of migratory fish? 1-6 Luke Adam Winslow, Jordan S Read et al. Does lake size matter? Combining morphology and process modeling to examine the contribution of lake classes to population-scale processes 7-14 Lucy Crockford, Phil Jordan et al. Storm-triggered, increased supply of sediment-derived phosphorus to the epilimnion in a small freshwater lake 15-26 Peter Brinkmann Kristensen, Esben Astrup Kristensen et al. Riparian forest as a management tool for moderating future thermal conditions of lowland temperate streams 27-38 Anna Visconti, Antonella Cattaneo et al Do freshwater gastropods avoid the benthic cyanobacterium Lyngbya wollei? 39-48 David P Hamilton, Cayelan C Carey et al. A Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON) for synthesising high-frequency sensor data for validation of deterministic ecological models 49-56 Charles Umbanhowar Jr, Philip Camill et al. Lake–landscape connections at the forest–tundra transition of northern Manitoba 57-74 Mariana Carolina Teixeira, Mary Pat Budd, David L Strayer Responses of epiphytic aquatic macroinvertebrates to hypoxia 75-80 Aldoushy Mahdy, Ulrike Scharfenberger et al. Experimental comparison of periphyton removal by chironomid larvae and Daphnia magna 81-88 Ivan Vedia, Javier Oscoz et al. An alien ectosymbiotic branchiobdellidan (Annelida: Clitellata) adopting exotic crayfish: a biological co-invasion with unpredictable consequences 89-92

On Monday 6 January 2014, Mark J. Wetzel (Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, IL) and John W. Reynolds (Oligochaetology Lab, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada) launched a new website presenting the second edition of Nomenclatura Oligochaetologica: http://wwx.inhs.illinois.edu/people/mjwetzel/nomenoligo This web-based Second Edition of Nomenclatura Oligochaetologica [N.O.2]:

• integrates the accounts included in the first volume (Reynolds and Cook, 1976 [N.O.]) with those presented in the three supplements (Reynolds and Cook, 1981 [N.O.S.P.], 1989 [N.O.S.S.], and 1993 [N.O.S.T.]) – together comprising the original N.O. series;
• updates and corrects accounts for the generic, subgeneric, specific, and infra-specific names of oligochaetes (Annelida, oligochaetous Clitellata) as presented in the original series;
• adds accounts for all oligochaete taxa described as new to science since 1993 – including barcode, GenBank, tissue repository, and other pertinent DNA sequencing information;
• expands the Prolegomenon, Gratiarum Actiones, Praefatio, Index Auctorum, Index Auctoritatum, Index Museorum, Glossarium, and References sections of the original series;
• includes translations (into 11 languages) of the Prolegomena and Glossaria of the original series and this second edition;
• presents and expands the Dedicatio sections in the original series, now including biographies and memoria for ‘ancestral’ and contemporary oligochaetologists, and bibliographies of their published scientific contributions;
• provides a forum for Current Perspectives in oligochaete phylogeny, taxonomy, systematics, and nomenclature;
• includes a Using This Nomenclator section, with account examples and instructions for using and navigating this web-based catalogue; and
• includes an annotated list of links to other web-based annelid resources.

The primary advantages of this web-based edition are four-fold: this format allows us to quickly address corrigenda in existing taxon accounts, add account information for newly described taxa as well as for those taxa inadvertently omitted from the original N.O. series, maintain the up-todate status of this nomenclator, and share this resource with all oligochaetologists via this openaccess medium – without cost or other administrative constraints. We encourage the assistance of our colleagues around the World – requesting that they provide us with pertinent information so that we can correct errors and efficiently maintain the accuracy and usefulness of this resource.

You will probably be aware of the ‘Excellence in Ecology’ series of books that come from the award of a Prize by the Ecology Institute, a Foundation based in Germany. This year the prizes (a senior one and a mid-career one) will be awarded in freshwater ecology. The attached announcement gives the details for nominations. You can find more information on the aims of the foundation and past prizewinners at http://www.int-res.com/ecology-institute/eci-home/ and http://www.int-res.com/ecology-institute/eci-prize/ More information is available here >>> You are invited to send nominations to brmoss@liverpool.ac.uk by the end of April 2015.

SIL Annual Circular 2015 >>>

Dear limnologists, You may have heard on the news that last week the government of Nicaragua has started constructing a new interoceanic canal that will connect the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, to create an alternative to the Panama Canal. Our colleagues from Nicaragua are greatly concerned about the ecological consequences of this canal, and in particular—the likely adverse impacts it will have on Lake Nicaragua—a large, shallow tropical lake that provides drinking water and subsistence to the population around it. More than 100 km of the canal will go right through this lake, meaning that a deep channel will be dug through it and dense traffic of trans-Atlantic ships will travel across it daily. The scientists of Nicaragua protest that ecological-impact studies must be conducted prior to the initiation of this huge project and have asked for support of the SIL community. Below please find a link to a document they drafted, to be signed by as many limnologists as possible and then sent to the Nicaragua government as a letter from SIL. Limnologists Warn of Impacts of an Interoceanic Canal Across Lake Nicaragua >>> So far, 56 people have already signed, including several distinguished names from around the world. If you would like to add your signature to the document—please send your full name, affiliation, and country to Michael Brett (mtbrett@u.washington.edu) and Alan Covich(alanc@uga.edu). Sincerely, Dr. Tamar Zohary SIL General Secretary-Treasurer

https://www.facebook.com/pages/SIL-The-International-Society-of-Limnology/324986017706390 >>>