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Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 69 (2003) 1www.elsevier.com/locate/jenvrad
Preface to: 2001 : An Ocean Odyssey
This Special Issue of the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity contains selectedpapers presented during the workshop on Isotopes as Tracers in Marine Environmen-tal Studies. The workshop was organized during the IAPSO (International Associ-ation for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans) – IABO (International Associationfor Biological Oceanography) International Congress – “2001 : An Ocean Odyssey”,held from 21-26 October 2001 in Mar del Plata, Argentina. The papers cover variousapplications of radioactive and stable isotopes with corresponding techniques in mar-ine climatological studies, submarine groundwater discharge investigations, world-wide marine radioactivity studies, modelling the distribution of radionuclides in thewater column and geochronological studies of contamination of marine sedimentsby non-radioactive pollutants.
In publishing this special issue, we hope to stimulate further work in the field ofmarine radioactivity and applications of radioactive and stable isotopes as tracers inmarine environmental studies.
The guest editor would like to thank all the authors for their patience during thepreparation of manuscripts, as well as scientific reviewers who anonymously donatedtheir time and expertise to improve the scientific quality of the papers contained inthis special issue.
Pavel P. Povinec,International Atomic Energy Agency, Marine Environment Laboratory,
4 Quai Antoine 1er, Monte Carlo 98012, MonacoE-mail address: [email protected]
∗ Tel.: +377-9797-7272; fax:+377-9797-7273.
0265-931X/03/$ - see front matter 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.doi:10.1016/S0265-931X(03)00082-1