Office of Biological and Environmental Research Weekly Report

June 23, 2008

SC Low Dose Program–Funded Researchers to Lead a New Biology Journal: A new journal, Integrative Biology: Quantitative biosciences from nano to macro, will be launched in January 2009 by RSC Publishing. The Chair of the journal's Editorial Board will be Distinguished Scientist Dr. Mina J. Bissell, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This unique, highly interdisciplinary journal will focus on quantitative multi-scale biology using enabling technologies and tools to exploit the convergence of biology with physics, chemistry, engineering, imaging and informatics. DOE Low Dose Radiation Research Program Chief Scientist, Dr. Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, is the journal’s Scientific Editor. With 12 issues published annually, Integrative Biology will contain a mix of research articles including Full papers, Reviews (Tutorial & Critical), and Perspectives. The latest issue of Integrative Biology will be made freely available to all readers via the website and free institutional access to all 2009/2010 content will be available following a simple registration process.

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Contact: Noelle Metting, SC-23.2, (301) 903-8309

SC Scientist Receives Top Award from the American Meteorological Society: At the annual meeting of the American Meteorology Society (AMS), Professor Monique Leclerc received the Society’s top award in scientific research, “for outstanding achievement in biometeorology for pioneering research that has advanced the understanding of temporal and spatial patterns of local and regional carbon exchanges, and for global leadership in the advancement of biometeorology.” Dr. Leclerc is the first woman and also the youngest scientist, ever to receive this award from AMS. Dr. Leclerc is from the University of Georgia Laboratory for Atmospheric and Environmental Physics and heads a research team of scientists from Brookhaven and Savannah River National Laboratories that is investigating a poorly understood meteorological phenomenon at CO₂ flux research at sites of the AmeriFlux network of CO₂ observations, the influence of night-time jets on turbulence and advection in forest canopies. Dr. Leclerc’s student, Natchaya Pingintha, also received an award for the Best Student Paper at the Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Conference.

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Contact: Roger C. Dahlman, SC-23.1, (301) 903-4951