Subject: [SEABIRD] ASG-PSG Announcement (fwd)
Date: Feb 23 13:10:53 2000
From: Jon. Anderson and Marty Chaney - festuca at olywa.net


Hi folks,

Another cross-posting. This one about the combination of the Pacific
Seabird Group with the African Seabird Group to publish a new journal
dedicated to sea birds worldwide. Looks like PSG is getting all grown
up... :-)

Jon. Anderson
Olympia, Washington
festuca at olywa.net
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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:20:37 SAST-2
From: John Cooper <jcooper at botzoo.uct.ac.za>
To: seabird at uct.ac.za

African Seabird Group and Pacific Seabird Group Agree Jointly to
Marine Ornithology: an International Journal of Seabird Science and
Conservation

The African Seabird Group, based in Cape Town, South Africa, and the
Pacific Seabird Group, based in California, USA, have this month
formally agreed jointly to manage and publish Marine Ornithology: an
International Journal of Seabird Science and Conservation from its
2001 volume.

John Cooper and the African Seabird Group founded Marine Ornithology
(initially named Cormorant) in 1976, which has a distinguished
international board of editors. Under the new joint venture
agreement, Marine Ornithology will be managed by a Steering Committee
appointed by both societies. Dr. Tony Gaston of Ottawa, Canada, and
John Cooper of Cape Town will serve as co-editors and have
already started the process of inviting new members to the editorial
board. The societies hope that seabird biologists and managers will
publish their work in Marine Ornithology to attract the widest
possible international readership.

A web site (www.marineornithology.org) has been registered
and is currently under construction that will make Marine Ornithology
available to anyone free of charge as an e-journal from 2001.
However, Marine Ornithology will continue to be published in paper
format for subscribers who are members of either the African Seabird
Group or the Pacific Seabird Group and also be available to
institutional subscribers for archiving in libraries. It is hoped
that other seabird groups and societies in Asia, Europe and elsewhere
will join into this joint venture over the next few years.

For further information contact John Cooper at <jcooper at botzoo.uct.ac.za>
or Tony Gaston at <Tony.Gaston at ec.gc.ca>.