ECSA News

ECSA Nominations
Please forward nominations for ECSA Council to the Secretary, Mike Elliott. ECSA depends on the efforts of its Council to keep things progressing, so all offers of help and assistance are gratefully received. In particular ECSA is in need of more correspondents for ECSA Bulletin. Anyone who feels like writing an irregular column of local news/views/polemics please contact the editor.
ECSA now has a standard pack of publicity material that can be brought or sent to meetings. If you would like to publicize the Association at a meeting or just generally please contact the secretary.

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
If you haven't seen a copy the ECSA journal Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, you can take a look at http://www.academicpress.com/ecss. ECSS is also available for no charge at http://www.idealibrary.com. At this address all guest users can freely search and browse the abstracts of ECSS. Full access is available at the same address, but subscription is required. By common agreement Academic Press has made full access available in many developing countries.

Academic Press and ECSS are developing their electronic publishing capability. For instance, it is possible to incorporate model simulations or video in an electronic online version where hard copy has to make do with a couple of selected illustrations. If any readers have ideas or thoughts on this, or are considering organizing a meeting or workshop where such techniques would be particularly appropriate, please contact the senior publishing editor, Dr. Frank Cynar (fcynar@acad.com).

EurOcean
EurOcean, a new European center for information on marine science and technology, opened in Lisbon earlier this year. The new center provides an impetus to creating a European marine policy and also to contribute to the development of a marine European research area..

Specifically, EurOcean plans to facilitate cooperation between European organizations involved in marine science and technology, to compile information on new trends in marine research and technology and to implement an operational online system to identify sources of information.

The first project EurOcean has taken on is to establish an Internet portal for marine science and technology, which will provide information on areas related to marine research. In addition, an agreement has been reached whereby EurOcean will maintain the Intergovernmental oceanographic commission's regional portal for Europe. For further information, go to http://www.eurocean.org.