Here It Is - Ecology Letters

I am very happy and excited to announce that one of our diatom images has been selected to be on the new cover of Ecology Letters, September 2012.  The cover image was selected from a group of other candidates.  It is a different colorway version of my Cretaceous Raptor image in blues, but is a really nice adaptation of colors  well suited to the journal cover and format.

I have to thank Sophia Passy, PhD, Professor of Biology, from the University of Texas, Arlington, who initiated an inquiry to Dr. Hargraves about submitting an image for consideration to become a cover for the latest EL cover.  After some correspondence, and my submission of the image, on July 9th, Dr. Passy sent me the following: "Great news--your fabulous image was selected for the journal cover! Congratulations-Ecology Letters  is by far the #1 journal in Ecology and this is a great recognition for us and for diatoms, which do not get the spotlight very often!'

About: Dr. Paul E. Hargraves

After a multi-decadal career at the Graduate School of Oceanography of the University of Rhode Island, Dr. Paul Hargraves is now an Affiliated Research Professor in Harbor Branch's Center for Marine Ecosystem Health.  His research interests focus on the biodiversity, systematics, ultrastructure, and life cycles of microscopic life in aquatic environments, and his >100 publications include research on fresh water, coastal, and oceanic environments from the North Atlantic to the Antarctic, from the Peruvian Amazon to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, from the Indian River Lagoon to 50-million year-old fossils.

During his career, Dr. Hargraves has received research funding totaling several million dollars from the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Agency, the National Sea Grant program, and several private organizations.  He has been a visiting professor at the National University of Costa Rica and at the University of Salzburg, Austria, served as Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Oceanography, and held adjunct positions at several other universities.  His former students, including 12 Ph.D. and 20 M.S. recipients, have gone on to successful careers in academia, industry, and government, and he has served on the thesis committees of over 50 additional graduate students.  He attributes his early and lifelong interest in the marine environment to many summers spent digging in the mud on Cape Cod.

Great News

Cretaceous Raptor #5 © FD

"Great news--your fabulous image was selected for the journal cover! Congratulations--Ecology Letters is by far the #1 journal in Ecology and this is a great recognition for us and for diatoms, which do not get the spotlight very often!"  
Certainly exciting news. I can't wait to see it in publication.  I will post the cover when I receive a copy  

 Wow!  That's exciting for sure.