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In This Issue Want to Contribute to the Newsletters Has Started India (Revival of SIL WG Wetlands, Etc.), Sri to Dwindle www.limnology.org Volume 61 - December 2012 Editorial As Editor of the Silnews letter for nearly six Boavida a well known limnologist from While care is taken to accurately report years, I thought that as I gain experience and the Portugal on 30 August 2012 (see her obituary information, SILnews is not responsible routine, the task of editing the newsletter would on subsequent pages). Her friends, students, for information and/or advertisements become easier. Nevertheless, filling this issue was and we all as SIL colleagues, will miss Zé (as published herein and does not endorse, a bit of a challenge. Thanks to Internet/email she liked to be called) -even more so because approve or recommend products, she at one point was recovering from a long programs or opinions expressed. and general advancement in science, there is remarkable upsurge in opportunities or avenues illness. Subsequent pages in the newsletter are to interact with the fellow aquatic scientists. devoted to various reports on regional develop- Remarkably, simultaneous with these develop- ments in limnology in south Siberia (Russia) ments, the number of our SIL colleagues who and Aral Sea (Kazakhstan) on saline lakes, In This Issue want to contribute to the newsletters has started India (revival of SIL WG Wetlands, etc.), Sri to dwindle. It is striking that many of the SIL Lanka (guanotrophy), S. Africa (Cyanobacteria From the President – Brian Moss........ 2 Working Group leaders, who earlier used to blooms) and Israel (ecosystem services in Lake approach me with their reports/announce- Kinneret). There is also an announcement of Welcome to Budapest ......................... 3 ments, without my asking them, are no longer a training course in zooplankton taxonomy in Obituary of Boavida by Carmujo ....... 4 there. Thus, for the both present newsletter and Mexico in 2013, elsewhere in this issue. There previous one, I approached the WG leaders is also good news from the SIL WG Plankton Regional Reports ................................ 5 collectively, and when that did not help, I Ecology (PEG). The PEG, which organized Announcements ............................... 20 sent them all individual requests to contribute its Workshop Global Warming and Plankton to the newsletter about their WG activities, (12-18 February 2012; see SILnews 60, pages, Book Review .................................... 21 including meeting reports or announcements 6-7) in Mexico University, Mexico, decided of any upcoming symposia. Fortunately, a to publish the proceedings of the meeting in few- though really a few- responded and for Inland Waters. Thanks to theEditor-in-Chief, the rest it appeared as though my emails had John R. Jones, who agreed to publish the pro- landed in the SPAM folders. I do not have any ceedings as a Special Issue of the Inland Waters. grudge or grievance but want to give a vent to A five-man editorial committee has been my sensitivities and concerns, or my angst as one registered with the journal as guest editors. would say in Dutch. On the other hand, I am The manuscript submissions are now under relieved that I received substantial material to way and the review process is just starting. fill-up this winter issue of the newsletter. The appearance of this Special Issue ofInland Material for the April 2013 To start with, following this editorial Waters is planned to synchronize with the 32nd issue should be sent to the Editor by: note, our president Brian Moss would like Triennial Congress of the International Society to share with us all his personal experiences, of Limnology (SIL), from August 4th to 9th, 1 MArch 2013 the hardships and rewards of his teaching a 2013, in Budapest, Hungary. Dr. Ramesh D. Gulati course in tropical ecology in the East Usambara Lastly, our summer issue in June next year NIOO/Department of Aquatic Ecology mountainous area of Tanzania. Second, Brian will appear two months before the 32nd SIL Post Box 50 has also good news for us all about the SIL and Congress, and I hope that we can come back 6700 AB Wageningen The Netherlands its financial balance but also concerning our with more good news about the Congress Tel: +31.317.473.542 journal Inland Waters.There is also good news programme and the WG activities that will take Fax: +31.317.473.675 for young limnologists. I will not disclose all but place in the coming months or are planned E-mail: [email protected] keep the suspense as I want you get all the good during the Meeting in Budapest. Contributions on a PC formatted disk, news directly from Brian’s message to us all. in any standard word processor or We have some sad news from Lisbon, ramesh D. Gulati DOS (ASCII) text, or as e-mail Portugal, about the demise of Maria José Editor, SILnews attachments, will assist the Editor. SILnews 61: December2012 1 From the President things to report. First, by making severe economies, we have managed to turn out a financial balance for 2011/2012 that allows us to be able I looked out of the plane window just after dawn as most other to offer, at least for this year, some Tonolli Awards to young limnolo- passengers slept or watched inconsequential films on their television gists in developing countries. There is information on our web site, screens. The air stewards did not like it, because raising the window from which an application form can be downloaded (http://www. shutter allowed sunlight into a darkened cabin, but I persisted and limnology.org/committees/tonolli.shtml). The deadline is December was well rewarded. For as we flew over the brown and gritty rockiness 31 and decisions will be made during January. of southern Egypt, its fascinating landforms and dendritic drainages The second, and very important development, is indeed wonder- carved by copious water that the landscape had not seen for many ful news. Our journal, Inland Waters is now listed in Science Citation thousands of years, a broad green ribbon emerged suddenly from Index Expanded and Current Contents. All papers from Issue 1 are the desert. There is no gradual transition to the Nile floodplain. It is indexed, so our first impact factor should be due in a couple of years’ marked by distinct boundaries. Either there is annual flood or there time. Launching a new journal and getting it established without the is not, and where there is, a tapestry of small fields marks out our backing of a commercial publisher is not easy, and Jack Jones, David absolute need for fresh water. Despite the current problems that the Hamilton, our editorial board and our publishers at the Freshwater Aswan dam is causing, in reducing the flood, depriving the delta of Biological Association have made stupendous efforts to achieve this. fertiliser for its fields and organic matter for its offshore ecosystem We now need the membership to send in more papers, to encourage and fisheries, robbing it even of material to maintain itself, and of non-members to send in papers (indeed to convert non-members enough water to keep the salt of the Mediterranean from penetrating, to members), and to quote papers from Inland Waters. Survival of a the Nile floodplain continues the many thousands of years of support journal now depends on the size of its impact factor. Journal popular- of its human communities. ity brings in library subscriptions, and subscriptions bring financial It was a lesson laid on another. I had spent the previous month stability and a continued future for SIL. Meanwhile we are looking helping to teach a course in tropical ecology, organised by the at other ways to publicise the journal and increase its circulation and Tropical Biology Association in the East Usambara mountains of to make sure that societies in the freshwater field are able mutually Tanzania (Fig. 1), and for many days we had been without any to support one another and their journals. None of us can manage electricity. A transformer for the regional power supply had burnt out indefinitely, metaphorically or in reality, without water, electricity or and was unlikely to be replaced for weeks and the back-up generator money, but we can learn to use them to greatest effect. had failed. Spare parts were not available and the village blacksmith was attempting to fashion something that might work. We had water Brian Moss for part of the day because a small reserve generator could be run President of SIL for just a couple of hours to pump some water, but water had to be carefully conserved. We bathed in buckets with deep brown water, full of disturbed sediment, heated on open wood fires that also cooked the food we ate, and after dark we held lectures and discussions by candlelight. There was no reliable availability of data projectors, computers or mobile phones beyond the couple of hours of their battery life, no PowerPoint projection, no internet, no microscope lights; indeed there were few of the amenities that most of us take completely for granted. Yet for a couple of weeks we managed perfectly happily with a lifestyle that would seem intolerable, yet is the norm for sev- eral billion people. By accepting the deficiencies, developing routines to cope and being inventive, we were able to teach and learn, continue with field projects and make the best of the situation. Whatever happens later this century when the ‘perfect storm’ of climate change, habitat loss, economic failure, population increase and pos- sibly several other self-inflictions finally breaks, we will have to learn to cope and to manage. SIL is coping with its difficulties of being a small scientific society at a time when the electronic revolution and changing ethos make Fig.
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