[S-C] Fwd: First Issue of S.F. Estuary and Watershed Science is Now Online

[Kevin Shrieve]

please forward on to others you think may be interested.  thanks.

October 3, 2003

To the scientific community of the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary:

We are pleased to announce the release of a new online journal,
San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science - an electronic forum on
science and resource management of San Francisco Bay, the Sacramento-San
Joaquin River Delta, and the upstream watersheds. The first issue of San
Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science is now available online at (
http://repositories.cdlib.org/jmie/sfews ).

It is our intent that San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science will
foster the communication of collaborative, peer-reviewed research by
presenting original research findings, reviews, techniques, and comments
to forward the current state of knowledge about the ecology of the San
Francisco Bay-Delta region. The journal will provide researchers who are
concluding new information about the region with an outlet for sharing
their work more readily with policymakers who are using their
information for management applications. The journal's flexible online
medium and peer-reviewed format will accommodate a wide range of papers

- from technical notes to monographs - that will allow the communication
of both tightly focused individual studies and longer papers presenting
detailed reviews.

This new journal is a collaborative project of the San Francisco
Bay-Delta Science Consortium, the California Bay-Delta Authority Science
Program, the California Digital Library, and the University of
California, Davis' John Muir Institute for the Environment. San
Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science is an eScholarship Repository
journal. The Repository (http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/ )
is hosted by the California Digital Library (<http://www.cdlib.org/> ).
An initiative of the University of California, the CDL partners with UC
campuses to apply innovative technology to managing scholarly
communication.

We encourage all readers to access this dynamic new forum for receiving
relevant, high-quality science, and especially invite regional
researchers to consider publishing in this new journal.


Randall L. Brown, Frederic H. Nichols, and James F. Quinn
Editors-in-Chief
Lauren D. Buffaloe
Managing Editor
San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science