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INTRODUCTION: DEAR READERS
Dear Readers Robert Kleinmann
Published online: 14 November 2013 Ó Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
By the time you read this, it will be December, and the Autumn colors I am looking at right now will have faded. It has been a good year for our journal, but now it is time to reflect on what we can do to further improve it. One issue that Christian Wolkersdorfer, our Managing Editor and graphics guru, is wrestling with is how to improve the journal’s cover. We want to change the photo—yes, that is a photograph of a partially flooded underground mine, and not just a random design. Do any of you have mine water photos that you think would work better? Should we ask authors to provide photogenic figures with their papers to appear on the front cover of that issue and thus change the front cover four times a year, as some journals do, or would you prefer more stability, perhaps changing the image every year or two? Or perhaps we should go with a more graphic design approach, such as an image mosaic with your images? Please, send Christian
R. Kleinmann (&) Pittsburgh, PA, USA e-mail: [email protected]
your thoughts and images; what doesn’t get used on our front cover will appear on our web site: www.IMWA.info. With respect to content, a few of you have volunteered to organize theme-oriented special issues. Ideally, by this time next year, you will see special issues on mine water research in New Zealand, the potential effects of climate change on mine water management (and vice versa), and a special issue based on the best papers from the 2013 IMWA conference in Golden, Colorado (which, by the way, was a great meeting! Please, take some time to peruse the conference proceedings. You can download it for free at our web site). From conversations at that meeting, I know that quite a few of you would like to see more mine water hydrology (and fewer geochemistry) papers published in our journal. In our defense, please know that we get a lot more geochemistry papers submitted; if you would like to see that balance reconciled, please encourage your peers and coworkers to prepare and submit the type of papers that you would like to see our journal publish. One of our members has agreed to follow through on that advice and has started to organize a special issue about a specific mine water hydrology case study that he was involved with. You may well ask, how are we going to publish all of these special issues and still deal with our continued growth in the number of papers submitted? I’m pleased to announce that Springer has already given us permission to once again increase the average number of pages published in each issue, at no extra cost to IMWA! In the last issue, and at Golden, I announced that this journal’s International Editorial Board selected ‘‘Characterisation Leaching Tests and Associated Geochemical Speciation Modelling to Assess Long Term Release Behaviour from Extractive Wastes,’’ by Hans Albert van der Sloot and Andre van Zomeren as Mine Water and the
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