Letter From The Deputy Editor: Upcoming and Recently-Published Books Seeking Reviewers

Dear ASLO Community, Periodically, I will be writing this column to highlight upcoming and recently-published texts in limnology and oceanography for which I am seeking members to perform book reviews for the L&O Bulletin. Reviewing books is a great way to serve the ASLO Community, especially for student and early career members, while at the same time receiving a free copy of that potentially exciting text that you are not sure you want to purchase using your limited research funding or personal discretionary income. Below, I provide short descriptions for four books for which I am seeking reviewers for upcoming issues of the L&O Bulletin. The Biology of Lakes and Ponds, 3rd edition. Christer Brönmark and Lars-Anders Hansson. Oxford University Press. As part of the Biology of Habitats Series, this text focuses on the organisms dwelling within lentic ecosystems and how they adapt to abiotic conditions and interact with other biota within aquatic food webs. The authors use the lens of evolutionary theory to better understand lakes and ponds in this introductory limnology/aquatic ecology text. Proposed content includes abiotic factors (e.g., temperature, light, nutrients, dissolved oxygen) and adaptations to live within these constraints, descriptions of organisms from microbes to plankton to macroinvertebrates to fish, interspecific interactions (e.g., competition, herbivory, predation), food web interactions (e.g., trophic cascades, alternate stable states, microbial loop), and biodiversity and environmental challenges facing society (e.g., eutrophication, acidification, aquatic invasive species). The Biology of Lakes and Ponds, 3rd edition by Christer Brönmark and Lars-Anders Hansson. Marine Pollution. Christopher L. J. Frid and Bryony A. Caswell. Oxford University Press. This text focuses on the myriad environmental pollution problems facing marine ecosystems, with content categorized as “solved” problems (?), current challenges, and emerging issues. A broad suite of pollutants is covered, from metals to hormone mimics and pharmaceuticals to microplastics. The text is written in a “nonspecialist” style in hopes of informing a broad audience about challenges associated with marine pollution. Marine Pollution by Christopher L. J. Frid and Bryony A. Caswell. Decoding the Deep Sediments: The Ecological History of Chesapeake Bay. Grace Brush. Maryland Sea Grant. In this text, Dr. Grace Brush describes her 30+ years of paleoecological research chronicling the ecological history of Chesapeake Bay on the East Coast of the United States. Due to land cover and land use changes through time coupled with anthropogenic activities within the estuary's watershed, nutrient-rich runoff fueled the expansion of anoxic “dead zones” in Chesapeake Bay that decimated the regional shellfish industry. Dr. Brush's research documented a shift from this once benthic process-dominated estuary to one in which pelagic processes are dominant. Of additional interest, Dr. Brush (Ph.D. 1956 from Harvard) discusses some of the challenges that she faced as a female scientist throughout her career, especially as an early career scientist in the 1950s and 1960s. Decoding the Deep Sediments: The Ecological History of Chesapeake Bay by Grace Brush. Global Challenges in Water Governance: Environments, Economies, Societies. Jeremy J. Schmidt and Nathanial Matthews.Springer. This text describes current challenges being addressed by global water governance, including the development of its framework from its roots in integrated water resources management in the 1990s through today. As such, the text integrates the natural and social sciences along with economic and geopolitical factors. It is likely to be an important reference for aquatic scientists, policy-makers, and education and outreach specialists. This is the first volume in a proposed series. If you are interested in reviewing any of the aforementioned texts or have suggestions for other upcoming texts that would be of general interest to the ASLO Community, please contact me with pertinent information. Would you like to review books for L&O Bulletin, but your specialty does not match the texts listed above? Contact me with your research interests and areas of specialization, and I will add you to the reviewer list. Also, I would like to thank the following individuals that performed book reviews published in 2017 issues of the L&O Bulletin (including this issue): Lauren E. Bortolotti (Ducks Unlimited Canada), Andrew J. Bramburger (U. of Minnesota Duluth), Greg Cutter (Old Dominion U.), Bridget R. Deemer (U.S. Geological Survey), John R. Dolan (Sorbonne Universités), and Susanne Menden-Deuer (U. of Rhode Island). Global Challenges in Water Governance: Environments, Economies, Societies by Jeremy J. Schmidt and Nathanial Matthews. Christopher T. Filstrup, Deputy Editor, Large Lakes Observatory & Minnesota Sea Grant, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN; filstrup@aslo.org