At the end of my two lectures on scientific writing, I am sometimes asked: How should I deal with reviews that are critical? Well, I am prepared for such a question, in two ppt slides. 1. Allow yourself a break, and come back ...
My first English paper was published in Progress in Oceanography in 1992, as a co-author. My adviser chose the journal because: 1) our paper was long, and 2) there was no page charge. I still remember the calls from England, with strong British accent: Miss. Y(o)u? And pages ...
Ok, AGU wants your manuscript, or your page charge Here, AGU stands for American Geophysical Union. It recently came up with instructions for authors in five la ...
I was going to write it myself, then I recalled something provided by TOS (The Oceanography Society). Here it is: http://www.tos.org/resources/publications/sci_speaking/poster.html It's helpful, isn't it? I don’t agree with everything it says, ...
Nature Editor's Summary on 3 September 2009 Nitrogen lost at sea Fixed nitrogen availability is the factor limiting primary production in more than half of the world's oceans. Recent reports have shown that anammox (anaerobic ammonium oxidation), rather than conventi ...