Eco-DĀS VIII Symposium Proceedings

The symposium proceedings will be published in open access as a series of "web books", with one multi-chaptered volume per symposium. All chapters in each volume will be peer-reviewed, individually downloadable and fully citable with a formal Library of Congress ISBN identification. Formal publication will ensure that these proceedings remain available long after the symposium is over, and that they are of broad interest and reach. The book series will be offered to the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO). ASLO is a long-time sponsor of the predecessor DIALOG program and hosted its online Dissertation Abstracts Registry for over a decade, and has recently initiated a web book publication program. Their first web-based book will be issued in 2008 and is also a multi-authored, edited volume resulting from a symposium.

Each participant will be invited to contribute to a chapter in the formal symposium volume. Participants will be strongly encouraged to collaborate in producing chapters that bridge disciplines. As incentive to collaborate, the total number of chapters allowed will be fixed (~15) and single-authored chapters will be discouraged to make room for collaborative chapters. Interdisciplinary, single-authored chapters also will be considered. Chapters will be written for a professional but non-specialist audience, i.e. the purpose is to make the authors' expertise more accessible to other aquatic scientists.

In total, these chapters will represent a highly accessible compilation of the breadth of cutting-edge ecological research in oceanography and limnology. Chapter outlines will be submitted as part of the application, to allow participants to plan to meet with potential co-authors at the symposium. Manuscripts will be due three months after the symposium and will be peer-reviewed and revised accordingly prior to publication.