Dear PYRN Members;

We’re happy to announce a great opportunity for publishing your research.
Tim Haltigin (NR – Canada), Margareta Johansson, and Hugues Lantuit have been in contact with Antoni Lewkowicz and Charles Harris (editors of Permafrost and Periglacial Processes). Graciously, the editors have agreed to coordinate a special issue of PPP dedicated to the research of PYRN members, to be published (tentatively) in Vol. 20 (2), May/June 2009.

It is our aim to have this journal issue as international and multidisciplinary in scope as possible. Therefore, we will be accepting submissions of abstracts from any PYRN member wishing to participate.

Members interested in submitting an article for consideration can visit:

http://pyrn.ways.org/node/add/special-issue-entry

It must be stressed that preliminary entries are limited to 1000 words, and will be reviewed primarily based on the results and discussion of your work. Therefore, please keep the background contextual information to a minimum. The deadline for submission is Feb. 28, 2008.

A typical issue of PPP is approximately 100 printed pages, with individual articles generally being 12-15 pages in length. As such, it is likely that 8-9 articles will be published. While we expect a significant number of applications, unfortunately we will not be able to publish all submissions. A committee has been assembled that will review the abstracts, and will subsequently be inviting a limited number of authors to submit their entire manuscript.

After manuscript submission, each will be subjected to the standard peer-review process. It is important to note that manuscripts must be submitted to the PPP editorial board by September, 2008, at the absolute latest. It is recommended that submission take place even earlier, ideally before NICOP (July/08). Earlier submission will enable the editors to hand-select reviewers at NICOP itself, which may expedite the review process.

The prospect of having this issue published is very exciting – especially in a journal such as PPP – as it will be invaluable not only for promotion of PYRN as a group, but also to highlight the work of young researchers that may otherwise go unnoticed or simply blend in to a typical journal issue.

We encourage you to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity.

- Tim, Margareta, and Hugues