Summary of activities 2017

1. Summary of activities

As a journal we notionally have two overlapping sets of ‘customers’ – readers and authors. Authors provide the content whilst readers consume it. In a subscription funding model, readers pay for journal production, whilst in an open access (OA) model, authors pay. Somewhat uniquely in publishing, advertising plays a very limited part. And akin to commercial publishing, we have an overall journal editor (or Editor-in-Chief) and section editors (or Associate Editors).

But the oil that greases the wheels of motion? Well that is mostly unique to academic publishing and is the process of peer review. We take it for granted as authors, but in publishing it is unusual for two independent experts to review the veracity of a piece of work in order to determine whether it is worthy of publication. And even more unusually in publishing, everyone (except the publisher!) gives their time for free – editors, authors and reviewers (although editors will often be paid expenses). Or rather, academic publishing is a knowledge distribution and academic assessment system, partially funded by universities and research institutes.

But again, the oil that greases the wheel … readers benefit from the knowledge they acquire through reading, whilst authors benefit from a publication that can progress their career. But reviewers? There are two limiting factors for reviewers.

1. It's a thankless task! Reading a manuscript, assessing the academic merit and writing a report is a time-consuming process for which you receive no tangible benefit. Some journals provide a certificate acknowledging a review, but otherwise the intangible benefits remain extensive networking and an awareness of cutting edge research early in the publishing cycle.

2. There is a finite pool of people that you can call upon – they must be knowledgeable enough in a specific research field, have no links to the work submitted and be willing to undertake the review. As an active Editor I know that this can be difficult at the best of times, and sometimes almost impossible due to unfortunate circumstances. We have had some manuscripts with over 15 refusals to review.

So reviewers are critical to the academic publishing system, an invaluable resource to be treated with respect and deference (and remember that this is two-way, so the reviewer should also treat the process with respect and deference). When we consider reviewers as a resource, the explosion in academic publishing has produced a system that requires an ever-increasing number from a pool that is growing at a much slower rate. The system as a whole, and those working in it, need to be respected.

Which is why I am concerned that this finite resource is being placed under increasing and undue pressure by irresponsible journals that are responding to market pressures. The driving force for journals is increasingly authors and particularly so in an OA system where the author is paying an article processing charge. This is the ‘gravy train’ so any marginal benefit a journal can offer authors gives them a market advantage – that benefit has become processing time. The shorter the time between manuscript submission and online publication, the greater the satisfaction of authors and so the potential for increasing submissions from reputational gain. This has a clear knock-on effect to the quality of submissions and subsequent Impact Factor calculations. Quite how important processing time is, is difficult to ascertain but it is one of the metrics that all publishers report on and Taylor and Francis (2015, 2016) note that two months to first decision appears to be the benchmark for an acceptable time (but who wouldn't want it faster?!).

Why is this important within the context of peer review? Well some managing editors are becoming increasingly aggressive in pursuing short review times by not only requesting very short return periods (typically less than two weeks) and then repeatedly chasing reviewers, but also by requesting more reviews than they need. It is this latter tactic that is disturbing – for a manuscript that requires two reviews, an editor might request four or possibly five reviews and then take the first two to make a decision. So as a reviewer you could invest the time in reading and commenting on a manuscript only to find it's either not needed or not used. This is a double whammy – not only are there more papers to review, but editors are requesting more reviews than they need. The system is over-heating and the strain is born by an increasingly reluctant review body who are being asked for more reviews over shorter times.

This has got to change and it needs reviewers to consistently challenge those journals and managing editors who abuse their position. So my plea to anyone asked to undertake a review in the future – ask the Editor-in-Chief if the journal has a policy of only requesting the reviews it needs. If they don't, cordially decline and request they use a sustainable and ethical peer review process. And to journal publishers – enshrine this process at the managing level so that it can't occur at individual journals.

We all want a reliable, punctual and sustainable review process – and the starting point for this is refusing to review for those that abuse their position.

2. A year in numbers: 2017

With 2017 coming to a close, and planning for the JoM through 2018 now well underway, it is pleasing to see that this year has seem the trend of increased submissions, reduced peer review times, and our continued focus upon the best manuscripts and maps. In 2016 we published 206 articles across 1875 pages, whilst this year we published 109 articles across 1007 pages. Last year had a large article count as a result of publishing out our backlog – this year we are well ahead of the 72 articles in 2015. In short, the Journal of Maps is thriving and authors want to publish maps.

Our Impact Factor (2016) increased from 1.435 to 2.174; this substantial increase reflects the importance placed on publishing ‘data’ (and maps broadly fall within this category) alongside their actual results. But maps go deeper into the psyche of the spatial researcher – they are an output for the end user and a meaningful outcome for the individual. Overall total incoming citations increased from 470 to 872. Downloads from the Taylor and Francis website for 2016 totaled 50,125, with 2017 recording 94,438 downloads for the first three quarters of the year (35,598 at the same point last year).

In terms of metrics for individual articles, the top five cited (2015–2017) and downloaded (2017) are:

Most cited (2015–2017)

Bianucci, G., Di Celma, C., Landini, W., Post, K., Tinelli, C., de Muizon, C., Gariboldi, K., Malinverno, E., Cantalamessa, G., Gioncada, A., Collareta, A., Gismondi, RS., Varas-Malca, R., Urbina, M., Lambert, O. (2016)

Distribution of fossil marine vertebrates in Cerro Colorado, the type locality of the giant raptorial sperm whale Livyatan melvillei (Miocene, Pisco Formation, Peru)

Citations: 21.

Di Celma, C., Malinverno, E., Gariboldi, K., Gioncada, A., Rustichelli, A., Pierantoni, PP., Landini, W., Bosio, G., Tinelli, C., Bianucci, G. (2016b)

Stratigraphic framework of the late Miocene to Pliocene Pisco Formation at Cerro Colorado (Ica Desert, Peru)

Citations: 16.

Di Celma, C., Malinverno, E., Cantalamessa, G., Gioncada, A., Bosio, G., Villa, IM., Gariboldi, K., Rustichelli, A., Pierantoni, PP., Landini, W., Tinelli, C., Collareta, A., Bianucci, G. (2016a)

Stratigraphic framework of the late Miocene Pisco Formation at Cerro Los Quesos (Ica Desert, Peru)

Citations: 12.

Margold, M., Stokes, CR., Clark, CD., Kleman, J. (2015)

Ice streams in the Laurentide Ice Sheet: a new mapping inventory

Citations: 11.

Evans, D.J.A., Ewertowski, M., Orton, C. (2016)

Flaajokull (north lobe), Iceland: active temperate piedmont lobe glacial landsystem

Citations: 10.

Most downloads (2017)

Beconytė, G., Eismontaitė, A., Žemaitienė, J. (2014)

Mythical creatures of Europe.

Downloads: 2098.

Piana, F., Fioraso, G., Irace, A., Mosca, P., d’Atri, A., Barale, L., Falletti, P., Monegato, G., Morelli, M., Tallone, S. and Vigna, G.B. (2017)

Geology of Piemonte region (NW Italy, Alps–Apennines interference zone)

Downloads: 1386.

Neri, M., De Maio, M., Crepaldi, S., Suozzi, E., Lavy, M., Marchionatti, F., Calvari, S. and Buongiorno, M.F. (2017)

Topographic Maps of Mount Etna’s Summit Craters, updated to December 2015

Downloads: 1347.

Brewer, S., Giesecke, T., Davis, B.A.S., Finsinger, W., Wolters, S., Binney, H., de Beaulieu, J-L., Fyfe, R., Gil-Romera, G., Kühl, N., Kuneš, P., Leydet, M. and Bradshaw, R.H. (2017)

Late-glacial and Holocene European pollen data

Downloads: 1238.

Bickerdike, H.L., Evans, D.J.A., Ó’Cofaigh, C., Stokes, C.R. (2016)

The glacial geomorphology of the Loch Lomond Stadial in Britain: a map and geographic information system resource of published evidence.

Downloads: 1120.

3. Best map award

For 2017 the ‘Best Map’ was judged by the formal awards panel comprised of myself, Dr Dick Berg, Professor Keith Clarke, Professor David Martin, and Mr Chris Orton (and this section reflects our combined comments). Contributions are assessed upon both their academic content and cartographic quality. It is neither the best academic paper nor the best designed map, but a combination of qualities from both areas that is judged the winner. The following 10 maps were short listed for the award:

• Making ‘Retail Mobility Environments’ visible for collaborative transport planning

• Aldo Arranz-López, Julio A. Soria-Lara, Carlos López-Escolano & Ángel Pueyo Campos (2017)

• Geomorphology of Mount Ararat/Ağri Daği (Ağri Daği Milli Parki, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey)

• Roberto Sergio Azzoni, Andrea Zerboni, Manuela Pelfini, Carlo Alberto Garzonio, Raffaello Cioni, Eraldo Meraldi, Claudio Smiraglia & Guglielmina Adele Diolaiuti (2017)

• Stage finishes – mapping the locations and results of Tour de France (1903–2016)

• Vladimír Bačík & Michal Klobučník (2017)

• The glacial geomorphology of the Lago Buenos Aires and Lago Pueyrredón ice lobes of central Patagonia

• Jacob M. Bendle, Varyl R. Thorndycraft & Adrian P. Palmer (2017)

• Snow avalanche hazard of the Krkonoše National Park, Czech Republic

• Jan Blahut, Jan Klimeš, Jan Balek, Petr Hájek, Lucie Červená & Jakub Lysák (2017)

• Pseudokarst caves of the Outer Western Carpathians, Czechia

• Jan Lenart & Jan Miklín (2017)

• HazMatMapper: an online and interactive geographic visualization tool for exploring transnational flows of hazardous waste and environmental justice

• Eric Nost, Heather Rosenfeld, Kristen Vincent, Sarah A. Moore & Robert E. Roth (2017)

• Automated layout of origin–destination flow maps: U.S. county-to-county migration 2009–2013

• Daniel M. Stephen & Bernhard Jenny (2017)

• World political map from OpenStreetMap data

• Dražen Tutić, Tomislav Jogun, Ana Kuveždić Divjak & Martina Triplat Horvat (2017)

• Rock glaciers in the Western and High Tatra Mountains, Western Carpathians

• Tomáš Uxa & Peter Mida (2017)

It is with great pleasure that I am able to announce the award of the 2017 ‘Best Map’ to Daniel Stephen (Oregon State University) and Bernhard Jenny (RMIT University) for their animated flow map of migration in the United States for 2009–2013. Flow maps are both visually appealing in showing the movement of ‘quantities’, but also frustrating given the number of potential variable interactions that are possible and so the likelihood of overlapping symbols. This paper outlines the accompanying interactive map that shows a vast amount of population migration data at state and county level, with net flows, total flows and incoming and outgoing migration. Interpretation and understanding are the aim of the authors and they deliver an appealing and elegant solution. As one of the review panel summarized, a huge amount of information that is really clear and simple [to understand]. For these reasons, it is a deserving winner of this year's award.

4. With gratitude and thanks

As in previous years, I would like to acknowledge those that have contributed to the publication of the journal, but particularly authors and readers. These two overlapping communities are what make journal publication such a vibrant and exciting sector to work in – the diverse and interesting material that authors submit and our readers avidly consume. And our download and citation statistics show the wide range of interest there is in the articles we publish. But as I said at the beginning, reviewers are the oil that grease the wheels of motion. As a community we self-assess the material we publish in order to create overall improvement in individual submissions but also, as a whole, push forward the boundaries of science. So thank to all who contribute to our endeavor.

I am also grateful to the team at JoM which includes the Associate Editors (Table 1) and those at Taylor and Francis (and in particular Eilise Norris, Robert Marsh and Andrew Kelly). I would also like to formally acknowledge the referees (Table 2) who gave up their time and expertise for review.

Table 1. Referees at the journal of maps.

Reviewer salutation	Reviewer first name	Reviewer last name	Reviewer institution
Dr	Mahmoud	Abdelfattah	Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi
Mr	Ignacio	Aguirre-Ayerbe	IH Cantabria
Professor	Teresa	Albuquerque
Professor	Bernd	Andeweg
Dr	Andrea	Artoni	Università degliStudi di Parma
Dr	Nigel	Atkinson	Alberta Geological Survey
Dr	Valentina	Bacciu	Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
Dr	Catherine	Baker	Birmingham City University
Dr	Daniel	Ballesteros	Universidad de Oviedo
Dr	A	Barbati	Universita degli Studi della Tuscia
Dr	Giovanni	Barreca	University of Catania
Professor	Ligia	Barrozo	University of São Paulo
Mrs	Carlotta	Bartelletti	Universita degli Studi di Pisa
Dr	Rainer	Bell
Dr	Marco	Beltrando	Università degli Studi di Torino
Dr	Mario	Bentivenga	Università degli Studi della Basilicata
Dr	Richard C.	Berg	Illinois State Geological Survey
Dr	Alfons	Berger	Universität Bern
Dr	Simon	Blainey
Dr	Anna Maria	Blumetti	Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale
Dr	Daniele	Bocchiola	DICA Politecn Milano
Dr	Edoardo	Borgomeo	University of Oxford
Dr	Clare	Boston	University of Portsmouth
Dr	Tracy A.	Brennand	Simon Fraser University
Dr	Michal	Brezny	Ostravska Univerzita v Ostrave
Dr	Željka	Brkić	Hrvatski geološki institut (Croatian Geological Survey)
	Benjamin	Brock	Northumbria University
Dr	Alberto Vitale	Brovarone	CNRS
Dr	Kerry	Brown	Kingston University
Dr	Sarah B.	Cadieux	Sweet Briar College
Dr	Domenico	Capolongo	University of Bari
Dr	Juan Carlos	Carracedo Gómez	Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Dr	Brian	Caulfield	TCD
Dr	Rodrigo	Cerri	São Paulo State University
Professor	Jose	Chacon	Universidad de Granada
Dr	Helder	Chaminé	University of Aveiro
Dr	Zeng-long	Chen
Dr	David	Chester	University of Liverpool
Mr	Tomas	Chuman	Czech Geological Survey
Dr	Alastair	Clement
Professor	Beatriz	Coira	Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas
Dr	C.	Colombo	Molise University
Dr	Timo	Conradi
Dr	Paolo	Conti	University of Siena
Dr	Simon	Cook
Dr	Luke	Copland	University of Ottawa
Dr	James	Corbett
Professor	Domenico	Cosentino	Universita degli Studi Roma Tre
Dr	Peter	Cossins
Dr	Emilio	Cuoco	Ohio State University
Dr	Chris	Darvill
Ms	Gemma	Davies	Lancaster University
Dr	Aysen	Davraz	Suleyman Demirel University
Dr	Cathy	Delaney
Dr	Irene	Delgado-Fernandez	Edge Hill University
Dr	Francesco	Delleani	Università degli Studi di Milano
Dr	Stefano	Devoto	University of Trieste
Dr	Rahul	Devrani	Jawaharlal Nehru University
Dr	Claudio	Di Celma	University of Camerino
Dr	Gianluigi	Di Paola	Università degli Studi del Molise
Dr	Federico	Di Traglia	University of Firenze
Dr	Mahmut	Dingil	Cukurova Univ
Dr	Uwe	Dornbusch	Environment Agency
Professor	Francesco	Dramis	Roma Tre University
Dr	Peijun	Du	Nanjing Univ
Dr	Yun	Duan	Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences
Miss	Jenny	Dunseath	Bath Spa University
Dr	Jason	Dykes	City University
Ms	Jeanette	Eckert
Professor	David	Evans	University of Durham
Dr	Jeremy	Everest	British Geological Survey
Dr	Marek	Ewertowski	Adam Mickiewicz University
Professor	Caroline	Eyles
Dr	Simone	Fabbi	Sapienza University
Dr	Francesco	Faccini	University of Genova
Miss	Kate	Fahey
Dr	Daniel	Falaschi
Dr	Josip	Faričić	Sveuciliste u Zadru
Dr	Neil S.	Ferguson	University of Cambridge
Dr	Andrea	Festa	Università degli Studi di Torino
Dr	Francesca	Filocamo	Molise University
Dr	David	Forrest	University of Glasgow
Dr	Paolo	Frattini	University of Milano Bicocca
Dr	Ines	Fuertes-Gutierrez	University of Leon
Dr	Antonio	Funedda	Università di Cagliari
Dr	Juan-Luis	Garcia	Instituto de Geografía
Dr	Russell	Gasser
Dr	Biagio	Giaccio	University of Wisconsin
	Luis	Gimeno	University of Vigo
Dr	Lluís	Gómez-Pujol
Dr	F. Javier	Gracia	Universidad de Cádiz
Dr	Alison	Graettinger	University of Missouri Kansas City
Dr	David	Green	University of Aberdeen
Professor	Ken	Gregory	University of London
Dr	Hywel	Griffiths
Professor	Jon Ove	Hagen
Dr	Hrafnhildur	Hannesdottir	University of Iceland
Dr	Harriet	Hawkins
Dr	Benjamin	Heumann
Dr	Tom	Holt	Aberystwyth University
Mr	Christoph	Hormann
Dr	Doug	Howard	US Geological Survey
Dr	Alessandro	Incarbona	University of Milan
Dr	Rossman	Irwin
Dr	Lasafam	Iturrizaga	University of Goettingen
Dr	Krister	Jansson	Stockholm University
Dr	Peng	Jia	Universiteit Twente
Professor	Bernie	Joyce	University of Melbourne
Mr	Theodoros	Karampaglidis	Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana
Dr	Ivo	Karmann	Universidade de São Paulo
Dr	Niina	Käyhkö
Dr	Andreas	Kellerer-Pirklbauer
Dr	Samuel E.	Kelley	SUNY Buffalo
Professor	Zoran	Kilibarda
Dr	Owen	King	University of Leeds
Dr	Edwin S.	Kite	University of Chicago
Professor	Satoru	Kojima	Gifu Daigaku
Dr	Joseph	Kopera
Dr	Niels	Korsgaard	Haskoli Islands
Dr	Caglar	Koylu	University of Iowa
Dr	Stanislav	Kraft	Jihoceska Univerzita v Ceskych Budejovicich
Dr	John	Krygier
Dr	John	Landis
Dr	Mitchel	Langford	University of South Wales
Dr	Alexandra	Lefort	University of Tennessee Knoxville
Dr	Erika E.	Lentz	US Geological Survey
Dr	John	Lewin
Dr	Rob	Lewis
Dr	Cristina	Lincaru	National Scientific Research Institute for Labor and Social Protection
Professor	Lin	Liu
Dr	Lidia	Lonergan
Dr	Guo	Long	Huazhong Agricultural University
Mr	Thomas	Lorscheid
Dr	Sergio	Lourenco	University of Hong Kong
Dr	Harold	Lovell	University of Portsmouth
Dr	Federica	Lucà	University of Calabria
Dr	Robert	Luzar
	Juliana	Maantay	City University of New York
Professor	Paolo	Magliulo	Universita degli Studi del Sannio
Dr	Ivan	Martini	Università di Siena
Professor	Manuel	Martin-Martin
Dr	Francesco	Mascioli	Coastal Research Station, Norderney
Dr	Patrick	Matgen	Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Dr	Yo	Matsubara	University of Virginia
Dr	Stephen	McCarron	National University of Ireland Maynooth
Mr	Danny	McNally	University of Reading
Dr	Vinícius	Meira	Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Dr	Jean-François	Mignot	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Dr	Alfonsa	Milia	CNR
Mr	Antonio	Molina	Centro de Astrobiología
Dr	David	Morche	Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Dr	Ana	Moreira Teodoro
Dr	Giovanni	Musumeci	Università di Pisa
Dr	Janez	Nared	Slovenian Academy of Sciences
Dr	Marco	Neri	Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
Dr	Andy	Newing
Dr	Iacopo	Nicolosi	Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
Dr	Glenn	Norcliffe	York University
Dr	Jeffrey	Obelcz	Louisiana State University
Dr	Scott	Orford
Dr	Gaetano	Ortolano	University of Catania
Professor	Luca	Pandolfi	Università di Pisa
Professor	Gerardo	Pappone	Universita degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope
Dr	Mauricio	Parra	University of São Paulo
Mr	Vit	Paszto	Palacky University Olomouc
Dr	Dhruvesh P.	Patel	Sardar Patel Univ
Dr	Romeo C.	Pati	University Rizal Syst
	Tom	Patterson
Dr	Juanjo	Peon	Universidad de Oviedo
Dr	Diamantino	Pereira	University of Porto/University of Minho
Professor	Marco	Petitta	Sapienza University of Rome
Dr	Benoit	Petri	Universite de Lausanne
Dr	Tad	Pfeffer
Dr	Marco	Pfeiffer	Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico
	Pierluigi	Pieruccini	University of Siena
Dr	Ruth	Plets	University of Ulster
Dr	Brooks	Proctor
Dr	Alasdair	Rae	University of Sheffield
Dr	D.	Ramakrishnan	Indian Institute of Technology
Dr	Paulo	Raposo	University of Tennessee
	Eric	Reed	Western Kentucky University
Professor	Keir	Reeves	Federation University
Dr	Daniele	Regis	University of Bern
Dr	Tim	Ritter	Universitat fur Bodenkultur
Dr	M.	Roda	University of Milan
None	Theodora	Rondoyanni – Tsiampaou	National Technical University of Athens
Dr	Leonardo	Rosati	Università della Basilicata
Dr	Robert	Roth	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr	Alessio	Rovere	Columbia University
Mr	Julian	Ruddock
Dr	Riccardo	Salvini	University of Siena
Mr	Anderson	Santos	UERJ
Dr	Tatsuhiko	Sato	Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Dr	Chee	Saunders
Dr	Samuele	Segoni	University of Firenze
Dr	Sergio	Sepulveda	Universidad de Chile
Dr	René	Sieber
Professor	Alex	Singleton	UCL
Dr	Hana	Skokanová	Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening
Dr	Aidan	Slingsby	City University London
Dr	Terry	Slocum
Dr	Jessica M.	Slomka	University of Toronto
Dr	Dianna	Smith
Dr	Miriam	Snellen
Dr	Mauro	Soldati	Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Dr	Xiao-Peng	Song
Mr	Thomas	Stanley	Universities Space Research Association
Dr	Nina	Stark
Professor	Mark	Stirling	University of Otago
Dr	Andrew	Stumpf	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr	Tomaz	Sturm
Dr	Alexandra	Suhogusoff
Dr	Peter	Surovy
Dr	Sara	Taviani	Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Dr	Laura	Thomson	Simon Fraser University
Dr	Varyl	Thorndycraft	Royal Holloway University of London
Dr	Alexander	Tillmann	Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Dr	Brian J.	Todd	Geological Survey of Canada
	Alicia	Torregrosa	US Geological Survey
Dr	Maurizio	Torrente	Università degli Studi del Sannio
Dr	Andreas	Tribsch
Dr	Janez	Turk	Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute
Dr	Jason	VanHorn	Calvin College
Dr	Julian A.	Velasco	Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico
Dr	Guido	Ventura	Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
Dr	Jesús	Ventura-Fernández	University of Seville
Dr	Giuseppe	Veronico	IBBR-CNR
Professor	Brian	Whalley
Dr	Ellen	Wohl	Colorado State Univ
Dr	Cafer Mert	Yeşilkanat	Artvin Coruh Universitesi
Professor	Steve	Young	Salem State University
Dr	Fajar	Yulianto	Indonesian Natl Inst Aeronaut
Dr	Travis	Zadeh	Yale University
Dr	Haifeng	Zhang	University of Louisville
Dr	Lifang	Zhang	China Earthquake Adm
Dr	Xuan	Zhu	Monash University

Table 2. Academic and cartographic editors.

Academic editors
Dr	Simon	Batterbury	University of Lancaster
Dr	Dick	Berg	Illinois State Geological Survey
Dr	Gina	Cavan	Manchester Metropolitan
Prof	Chris	Clark	University of Sheffield
Prof	Keith	Clarke	University of California, Santa Barbara
Dr	Alan	Dykes	Kingston University
Dr	David	Hacker	Kent State University
Dr	Tobias	Heckmann	Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt
Dr	Bernhard	Jenny	University of Oregon
Prof	Jasper	Knight	University of Witwatersrand
Prof	Dave	Martin	University of Southampton
Dr	Randall	Orndorff	USGS
Dr	Jan-Christoph	Otto	University of Salzburg
Dr	Colin	Pain	Universidad de Sevilla
Dr	Paolo	Paron	UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education
Dr	Tommaso	Piacentini	University ‘G. D’Annunzio’ Chieti Pescara
Dr	Monica	Pondrelli	Università d’Annunzio
Prof	Claudio	Riccomini	Universidade de São Paulo
Dr	Wayne	Stephenson	University of Otago
Dr	Brent	Ward	Simon Fraser University
Dr	Fleur	Visser	University of Worcester
Cartographic editors
Mr	John	Abraham	Independent Cartographer
Mrs	Heike	Apps	Geoscience Australia
Dr	Giedrė	Beconytė	Vilnius University
Mr	Steve	Bernard	Financial Times
Ms	Jennifer	Carrell	Illinois State Geological Survey
Dr	Bieke	Cattoor	KU Leuven
Ms	Juliane	Cron	ETH Zurich
Ms	Chandra	Jayasuriya	University of Melbourne
Prof	Menno-Jan	Kraak	University of Twente
Mr	Kevin	McManigal	University of Montana
Dr	Ian	Muehlenhaus	University of Wisconsin La Crosse
Prof.	Makram	Murad-al-shaikh	University of Wisconsin-Madison, ESRI Inc
Mr	Chris	Orton	Durham University
Dr	Thomas	Pingel	Northern Illinois University
Mr	Nick	Scarle	Manchester University
Mr	Mike	Shand	University of Glasgow
Mr	Mike	Siegel	Rutgers University
Dr	Corné	van Elzakker	University of Twente
Mr	Martin	von Wyss	vW Maps