7月20日，海洋地质学领域的主流国际刊物“Marine Geology”发来邀请函，信中说：近年来本刊声誉提高较快，稿件处理任务大幅度增加，因此，将在已聘任三位主编（各自负责海洋地球物理、地球化学和沉积地质学）的基础上，增聘第四位主编；在讨论这一岗位候选人过程中，三位在任主编一致高度评价您的工作，认为您将合适于这个岗位，特此致函邀请。目前，我已经回复接受邀请。按照日程安排，将在2018年1月1日起担任这一职务。

“Marine Geology”创刊于1964年，当年关于海底扩张、板块构造、浊流等的研究大量发表于本刊，第一届编委也都是这些领域的学术带头人。我本人发表的第一篇论文是关于Grain size trends的观测结果，是在1994年。从2004年起，我担任了该刊编委。除编辑部审稿工作外，我所在的研究组在本刊发表了多篇学术论文，涉及潮汐环境（潮滩、潮流脊、潮汐汊道、海岸盐沼湿地）的沉积和地貌动力过程、陆架泥质沉积和河口湾沉积体系演化、人类活动对海岸沉积地貌的影响等内容。2014年，在“Marine Geology”创刊50周年之际，我与我的导师、英国南安普顿大学Michael Collins教授合作，发表了题为“Holocene sedimentary systems on continental shelves”的长篇综述论文，提出海洋沉积动力学的研究方向要从输运堆积过程、过程-产物关系，拓展到沉积记录形成和信息提取，从现代过程视角发展沉积地质学新方法。

“Marine Geology”发表的论文具有较多的读者。我们发表的论文（见附录）Google Scholar搜索的引用已超过900次。

   附录：本研究组发表的“MarineGeology”论文

Xie D F, Pan C H, Wu X G, GaoS, Wang Z B, 2017. Local human activities overwhelm decreased sediment supplyfrom the Changjiang River: Continued rapid accumulation in the HangzhouBay-Qiantang Estuary system. Marine Geology, in press.

Wei W, Dai Z J, Mei XF, Liu J P, Gao S, Li S S, 2017. Shoal morphodynamics of the Changjiang(Yangtze) estuary: Influences from river damming, estuarine hydraulicengineering and reclamation projects. Matine Geology, v.386, p.32-43.

Zhao Y Y, Yu Q, Wang DD, Wang Y P, Wang Y W, Gao S, 2017. Rapid formation of marsh-edge cliffs,Jiangsu coast, China. Marine Geology, v.385, p.260-273.

Wang Y W,Qian Y, JiaoJ, Tonnon P K, Wang Z B, Gao S, 2016. Coupling bedform roughness and sediment grain-sizesorting in modelling of tidal inlet incision. Marine Geology, v.381, p.128-141.

Gao S, Collins M B, 2014. Holocene sedimentary systems on continental shelves.Marine Geology, v.352, p.268-294.

Yu Q, Wang Y W, Flemming B,Gao S, 2014. Scale-dependent Characteristics of equilibrium morphology of tidalbasins along the Dutch-German North Sea coast. Marine Geology, v.348, p.63-72.

Liu Y L,Gao S, Wang Y P, Yang Y, Long J P, Zhang Y, Wu X D, 2014. Distal mud depositsassociated with the Pearl River over the northwestern continental shelf of theSouth China Sea. Marine Geology, v.347, p.43-57.

Yu Q,Wang Y W, Gao S, Flemming B, 2012. Modeling the formation of a sand bar within a largefunnel-shaped, tide-dominated estuary: Qiantangjiang Estuary, China. MarineGeology, v.299-302, p.63-76.

WangY P, Gao S, Jia J J, Thompson C E, Gao J H, Yang Y, 2012. Sediment transportover an accretional intertidal flat with influences of reclamation, Jiangsu coast,China. Marine Geology, v.291-294, p.147-161.

Lin C M, Zhuo H C, Gao S, 2005. Sedimentary facies and evolution in theQiantang River incised valley, eastern China. Marine Geology, v.219, no.4,p.235-259.

Liu J P, Milliman J D, Gao S, Cheng P, 2004. Holocene development of theYellow River's subaqueous delta, North Yellow Sea. Marine Geology, v.209, no.1-4,p.45-67.

Collins M B, Shimwell S J, Gao S, Powell H, Hewitson C, Taylor J A, 1995.Water and sediment movement in the vicinity of linear sandbanks: the Norfolk Banks,southern North Sea. Marine Geology, v.123, no.3-4, p.125-142.

Gao S, Collins M B, Lanckneus J, De Moor G, Van Lancker V, 1994. Grainsize trends associated with net sediment transport patterns: an example fromthe Belgian continental shelf. Marine Geology, v.121, no.1/2, p.171-185.