This Special Issue invites manuscripts that contribute to an integrated assessment of ocean health and the wider implications for the ocean and sustainability. Submit your manuscript by May 1, 2025.
Anthropogenic perturbations to the ocean have increased during the last century. These pressures affect ocean health which is essential habitat for wildlife, biogeochemical cycling on our planet, and provision of numerous ecosystem services. For example, seafood is one of the last wild foods that is consumed globally by billions of people. Oceans cover 71% of the Earth surface and the global population is concentrated in coastal regions. Thus, ocean health is of paramount importance not only for water quality and marine organisms, but also for human health and economic development. Furthermore, oceans provide some key services of paramount importance for mitigation of global change, from carbon sequestration to environmental applications within the blue economy framework.
This joint Special Issue in Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) and Environmental Science & Technology Letters (ES&T Letters) invites manuscripts that contribute to an integrated assessment of ocean health and the wider implications for the ocean and sustainability. It aims to provide a forum for high quality research covering the multiple dimensions of anthropogenic pressures on the ocean, and the ocean potential services within the framework of the U.N. sustainable development goals.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Chemical and microbial pollution
- Acidification
- Deoxygenation
- Loss of species or habitats
- Disease outbreaks
- Harmful algal blooms and eutrophication
- Carbon sequestration including strategies based on blue carbon
- Technologies for mitigation of climate change perturbations
- Use of ocean resources in other environmental applications
Special attention will be given to the interactions among these anthropogenic perturbations, effects of ongoing climate change, and potential implications for ecosystem and human health. Envisaged contributions will address these perturbations in coastal waters and/or high seas, or gradients between highly impacted and pristine regions, covering all oceans and seas. Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches are especially welcome, as are studies that address issues related to environmental justice, and projects that involve citizen science.
Submit your manuscript by May 1, 2025.
Organizing Editors
Jordi Dachs, Executive Editor, Environmental Science & Technology
IDAEA-CSIC, Spain
Alexandria Boehm, Associate Editor, Environmental Science & Technology
Stanford University, United States
Elsie Sunderland, Guest Editor
Harvard University, United States
Kristy Deiner, Guest Editor
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Jonathan W. Martin, Associate Editor, Environmental Science & Technology Letters
Stockholm University, Sweden
Daniel Schlenk, Executive Editor, Environmental Science & Technology and Associate Editor, Environmental Science & Technology Letters
University of California Riverside, United States
Bryan Brooks, Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Science & Technology Letters
Baylor University, United States
Submission Information
We welcome submissions for this Special Issue through May 1, 2025. For more information on submission requirements, please visit ES&T’s Author Guidelines or ES&T Letters’ Author Guidelines pages.
Accepted manuscripts for consideration in this Special Issue will include research articles, perspectives, and viewpoints. Papers accepted for publication for this Special Issue will be available ASAP (as soon as publishable) online as soon as they are accepted. After all submissions have been published, they will then be compiled online on a dedicated landing page to form the Special Issue. Manuscripts submitted for consideration will undergo the full rigorous peer review process expected from ACS journals.
How to Submit
- Log in to the ACS Paragon Plus submission site.
- Choose Environmental Science & Technology or Environmental Science & Technology Letters.
- Select your manuscript type, and, under "Special Issue Selection," choose “Ocean Health."
If you have any general questions regarding submission to this Special Issue, please contact the journals’ Managing Editors: managing.editor@est.acs.org or managing.editor@estlett.acs.org.
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