We are looking forward to a virtual reception for the ASLO 2020 awards! It is happening on 1 Dec 2020 at noon ET (9am PT). The Limnology & Oceanography Bulletin also featured a Q&A with the 2020 Awardees, and for those of us who were scheduled to receive the awards at the Summer 2020 meeting (cancelled due to COVID), our talks will be posted on the ASLO YouTube channel. All in all, it makes me feel very appreciated – thanks to ASLO!

Today, a paper came out in L&O Bulletin, which Michael co-authored a manuscript with Jake Zwart, a Mendenhall Post-doctoral researcher with the US Geological Survey. The paper details what Michael and Jake learned while co-organizing the Virtual Summit: Incorporating Data Science and Open Science in Aquatic Research. Additionally, Michael and Jake look forward to seeing future Virtual Summits, and they welcome others to message them with questions or interest in presenting or co-organizing.

This week, Michael, Matt, and Stephanie were co-authors on a paper that came out in Limnology & Oceanography Bulletin! The manuscript builds on The Global Lake area, Climate, and Population dataset, which came out in Scientific Data earlier this year. The L&O Bulletin piece is meant to detail concrete, natural resource applications of the GLCP that span local, regional, and national scales. Matt also worked hard to document all scripts used in this paper, so that future users can have templates to reproduce certain analyses or tailor them for specific questions.

The paper is open access thanks to support from CANHRS and School of the Environment at Washington State University!