Outstanding <scp><i>L&amp;O</i></scp> Associate Editors and Reviewers

It is always a pleasure to acknowledge a few of the many dedicated people who make Limnology and Oceanography (L&O) the highly respected journal it is. During the preceding year and a half, L&O's editorial board processed nearly 1700 manuscript reviews from 1128 unique Reviewers. Below are just some of the team of talented researchers who make my job as editor much easier than it could be. This quarter's team of outstanding Associate Editors combined represents more than 25 years of experience at L&O. The six outstanding Reviewers listed below, averaged six reviews with a mean turn-around time of 23 days, and importantly, provided authors with high quality, in-depth critical evaluation of their papers. It is not possible to overstate the true degree of value added to L&O and the aquatic sciences, in general, by Editors and Reviewers such as these. I thank them all. LIZ KUJAWINSKI Senior Scientist, Department of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA I am a chemical oceanographer focused on identifying the molecules that are important in microbially-mediated elemental cycling in aquatic environments. I am Associate Editor for L&O because I want to facilitate the publication of exciting and compelling science across the aquatic sciences. PERRAN COOK Professor, School of Chemistry, Monash University, Clayton, Australia “I am a biogeochemist with a strong focus on aquatic carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycles. To this end, I love to collaborate with people from other disciplines such as modelers and microbial ecologists to give new insights into my field. I serve as an Associate Editor for L&O because it is the repository for many of my favorite pieces of work in the field and it is an honor to facilitate the dialogue between authors and reviewers.” CHRISTELLE NOT Assistant Professor, Earth Sciences Department and Swire Institute of Marine Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China “I am a marine geochemist with a broad research interest in human impacts on marine environments and climate. My research is currently divided between paleoclimate reconstruction using a variety of tools such as trace element and radiogenic isotopes and plastic pollution monitoring of coastal marine environments. I have been very pleased to serve as Associate Editor for L&O and help the publication of new high-quality research. The supportive environment provided by the L&O editorial team allows me to growth and develop as a scientist. I am also very grateful to the reviewers who always put great effort in providing meaningful and supportive comments to improve the quality of the manuscripts they receive.” LEON BOEGMAN Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Queen's University at Kingston, Kingston, ON, Canada “I am a physical limnologist and water quality modeler. Recent interests include the mechanics of wave-induced sediment transport, modelling the growth and transport of fish larvae and developing models to forecast storm surges, algae blooms, and hypoxia. Physical limnologists often publish in fluid mechanics, engineering, and oceanography journals, but L&O has long been our journal of record. I am honored to represent my field as an Associate Editor for L&O.” JOE ACKERMAN Professor, Physical Ecology & Aquatic Science, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada “I examine the physical ecology of trophic interactions and sexual reproduction/early life history of benthic primary producers (macrophytes) and invertebrates (mostly bivalve) in marine and freshwater ecosystems. My goal is to understand the mechanics of the process-level mechanisms to inform ecology, conservation, and limnology/oceanography in general. I am honored to serve as an Associate Editor for L&O where I can help authors navigate peer-review to improve their scientific contributions and, thus serve the larger community of limnology and oceanography.” MICHELE BURFORD Professor, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia “I study nutrient biogeochemistry and algal ecology, taking a catchment-to-coast approach to my research. I like to tackle real world problems relating to environmental management, including mitigating and managing algal blooms, ensuring sustainable water resource development, and developing techniques for assessing environmental impacts. L&O is a highly prestigious journal within the marine and freshwater research community, and I enjoy the process of learning about exciting new research and helping to ensure that the journal continues to publish high quality papers.” MAITANE OLABARRIETA Associate Professor, Civil and Coastal Engineering Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA “My research interests cover diverse oceanographic processes related to coastal hazards: flooding, erosion, and water quality. My main goal is to improve the predictive capability of numerical models used to forecast these types of coastal hazards. I have been at the University of Florida since 2013 and currently lead the Coastal Hazards Modeling Lab and am Associate Director of the Center for Coastal Solutions. L&O is a high-quality scientific journal focused on the understanding of the physics, chemistry, and biological processes of aquatic systems. Under the effects of climate change and rising seas, it is critical that we preserve and promote the health of aquatic and coastal ecosystems, on which we greatly depend. Outstanding interdisciplinary science is necessary for that. Serving as Associate Editor of L&O provides me with the opportunity of making novel and cutting-edge discoveries about aquatic systems readily available to our colleagues in a timely manner.” ADRIANNE SMITS Research Scientist, Environmental Science and Policy, University of California Davis, CA, USA “I am an aquatic ecosystem ecologist interested in interactions between climate, landscapes, and ecosystem function in lakes, rivers, and estuaries. Right now, I study how a changing climate affects ice cover, temperature, and primary productivity in mountain lakes, as well as how droughts and species invasions alter food webs in estuaries. I enjoy reviewing papers for L&O because the submissions are always interesting and because I tend to learn a lot from my peers by doing it. I am honored to contribute to the high publication standards at L&O.” MATHEW WELLS Professor, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada “My research group aims to quantify the mixing in environmental flows, particularly those in large lakes and the coastal ocean where stratification and the Earth's rotation play a dominant role in the dynamics. I enjoy reviewing research papers as it is main way I can contribute to and engage with new aquatic science research. I also promised my Ph.D. advisor that when I graduated, I would do my share and agree to review two to three papers for every paper I submitted for peer review!” WIEBKE MOHR Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany “I am a biogeochemist interested in understanding the role of microorganisms in the cycling of nitrogen in the marine environment. My work focuses on biological nitrogen fixation in nutrient-limited ecosystems where I am trying to identify key players, visualize and measure their activity using single-cell techniques and determine the environmental drivers of nitrogen fixation. For me, reviewing manuscripts is a vital part of scientific exchange. L&O is one of the most fundamental journals in my field of research, and I very much enjoy reviewing the diverse and high-quality manuscripts submitted to L&O.” KYLE EDWARDS Associate Professor, Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA “I study marine plankton ecology using experimental and theoretical approaches. My current work focuses on the causes and consequences of mixotrophy among phytoplankton, and the ecology and evolution of virus-phytoplankton interactions. I enjoy reviewing papers for L&O because this journal consistently publishes high quality research on fundamental questions in plankton ecology.” FRANCESCA ROSSI Senior scientist, French Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Genoa Marine Centre of the Stazione Zoologica A. Dorhn (SZN), Genoa, Italy “I am a marine coastal ecologist and I focus my research on the ecology of benthic communities, their trophic role and contribution to the coastal food web, with the goal of understanding their resilience to disturbance and contribution to coastal conservation and reconciliation of degraded habitats. I am honored to review for L&O because this journal often publishes interesting papers at the interface between ecology and biogeochemistry and because I find the handling of the papers by the editorial board extremely professional. I am happy to contribute to their effort.” SAM WILSON Professor of Biogeochemistry, School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-Upon Tyne, UK “I study biological oceanography and in particular focus on microbial-mediated biogeochemistry. After 15 years at the University of Hawaii, last year I moved to the north-east of England to join Newcastle University. The move has encouraged me to expand my research from blue water pelagic oceanography to coastal science and land-sea interactions. I find the manuscript review process particularly rewarding when it is an author's first publication or when it is non-native English speaker. Conducting rigorous scientific research is a challenge and to write about the work in a foreign language makes the task considerably more difficult.”

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