Reviewers and Associate Editors contribute greatly to the quality of manuscripts that are published in Lake and Reservoir Management. In recent years, <5% of submissions that enter peer review are accepted at the first decision. The rest undergo an intensive improvement process that can involve multiple reviews and revisions and currently leads to a relatively-high 79% acceptance rate. All reviewers and Associate Editors are volunteers, well regarded in their fields, and find time for Lake and Reservoir Management in spite of the challenges of busy personal and professional lives. We would like to offer our sincere thanks to our reviewers and Associate Editors.
At this time we would like to welcome the following new Associate Editors who have been appointed to the Editorial Board. All Associate Editors have made outstanding contributions to lake management and we are grateful they have agreed to join our Editorial Board and further our mission to publish the best in applied lake and reservoir research and management experiences. A summary of the new Associate Editors’ professional experience follows:
Amy P. Smagula (effective June 4, 2016), New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, Concord, NH.
Amy P. Smagula is a Limnologist with the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services where she works on a variety of topics related to freshwater systems in the state. She has a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science, and a Master of Science in Water Resources Management, both from the Natural Resources Program at the University of New Hampshire, Durham.
Smagula has 19 years of experience in field and laboratory limnology, aquatic plant and algae identification and management, lake and watershed assessment and management, lake-related policy-making, wetland inspection and permitting, and shoreland protection.
Ann L. St. Amand (effective August 31, 2016), PhycoTech, Inc, St. Joseph, MI.
Ann L. St. Amand holds a BS in Ecology, Evolutionary and Population Biology from Purdue University and a PhD in Aquatic Ecology from the University of Notre Dame. She has 2 years of post-doctoral experience at the University of Notre Dame in the Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences working on groundwater–surface water interactions in local industrial applications and in remote Montana alpine lakes. She also served as co-Principal Investigator on an artificial stream project investigating interactions of PCB contamination with periphyton including effects on diversity, energy flow and food web effects. In addition to lake assessments and algal work conducted on Florida lakes prior to her undergraduate work, she has 30 years of experience identifying and enumerating over 34,000 algal samples from all over North America, using a unique proprietary mounting method. Her company has completed programming on an extensive data management system containing information on nearly 34,000 different aquatic organisms. She has been involved as an expert witness in Forensic and Ecological Impact investigations and also serves on two committees relating to public health issues surrounding toxic blue-green algae at the state level. She has been the President and owner of PhycoTech, Inc, an environmental consulting firm specializing in aquatic sample analysis (including algae, zooplankton and macroinvertebrates) since 1990. She is an active reviewer for Lake and Reservoir Management and the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. She has also received several business and technical awards. She has taught an algal workshop in association with the North American Lake Management Society for 21 years, working cooperatively with expert phycologists and ecologists to make this difficult area of study accessible to professionals in water management. Dr. St. Amand is the only North American Phycologist to take part in the European External Quality Assessment Trials Phytoplankton in Accordance with DIN38402 A 45; Certificate Received November 2013.
Dr. St. Amand has been active in NALMS since 1987. She has served as State Representative for the Michigan Chapter of NALMS, NALMS Chapter Committee chair and member, NALMS Administrative Council member, President of the Michigan Chapter of NALMS and Region V director of NALMS. Dr. St. Amand has also been Secretary of NALMS. She belongs to numerous professional societies emphasizing algal ecology and taxonomy. She is also the Joint Task Group Chair for the Plankton Section and Part Coordinator for Part 10000, Biological Examination of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater 2012.
Al Sosiak
Editor, Lake and Reservoir Management