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Operation: Saving the Baltic Sea
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ICES EcoRegions
ICES EcoRegions are large-scale management units for the ICES regional seas and are used in advisory reports to segment advice into the different sea areas. The EcoRegions were first referenced by the predecessor to ACOM in 2004.
The ICES EcoRegions are now available online as downloadable maps (pdf) and also as geographically referenced shape files for use in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). |
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ICES Publications
Two new Cooperative Research Reports just arrived from the printers:
CRR No. 294 is entitled “Hake age estimation: state of the art
and progress towards a solution”. CRR No. 295
is a “Manual of recommended practices for modelling physical– biological interactions during fish early life”.
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ICES Journal welcomes two new editors
Rochelle Seitz and William Turrell have joined the editorial staff of the ICES Journal of Marine Science.
Read more here.
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Did you miss out on previous issues of ICES Inside Out?
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Operation: Saving the Baltic Sea |
Film-makers Folke Rydén and Mattias Klum are worried about the Baltic and its environmental problems: eutrophication, hazardous substances, overfishing, and maritime transport, among others. That’s why they are spending the next ten years documenting efforts to save the Baltic. They hope to produce a series of television documentaries, one every other year for ten years, that focuses on the decision-making processes for environmental, scientific, and political issues.
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The first programme will be ready in autumn 2009.
At the same time, production of a feature documentary will begin (for release in 2017), as well as the creation of a range of interactive educational material for use in the whole Baltic region.
We interviewed Folke Rydén on his recent visit to ICES.
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| Watch the interview here and read more about the production here. (Apologies for the poor sound quality). |
ICES Advice explained
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We are often asked, How is ICES Advice born?
It’s a complicated process, involving teams of scientists and hours of work. In an attempt to be concise as well as entertaining, we offer this explanation.
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Meet the IT Team
In this series, we introduce ICES Secretariat staff members: ICES IT Team have a flair for IT troubleshooting and creative web design. But there is more to it than IT! Find out what the Team have in common apart from their passion for IT.
Click here to meet ICES IT Team.
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ICES Grammar Slammer
Hints to improve scientific writing
by William Anthony, ICES Executive Editor.
Oft do scientists scrutinize a trend to seek whither it inclines. Amidst the hurly-burly of scientific debate, they endeavour to discover wherefore do the data fluctuate. Unbeknownst to them await editors, upon whose scorn for archaic usage the fragile vessel of their scientific writing will founder.
Everyone enjoys a joke (well, maybe not grammarians), but reading a paper written in the preceding style wouldn’t be funny for long. The clarity and ease of reading for which scientific writing strives necessarily excludes archaic and poetical flourishes. This brings us to the cases of amongst and whilst.
First (notice that I didn’t write firstly), let me protect the more vulnerable areas of my anatomy by emphasizing that nobody claims there is anything wrong with amongst and whilst. Although Yanks don’t use them much, Brits pepper their prose with them, and good for the Brits. There are, however, science editors who feel that these words lend an inappropriately old-fashioned tone that might slow reading rather than speeding it up, especially for international readers.
The sonnets and love letters written in your spare time are nobody’s business but yours. In scientific writing, you would do well to avoid amongst and whilst and even amidst.
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