The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has announced that John Orcutt, a distinguished professor of Geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and former president of AGU, will serve as the inaugural editor of its newest open access, peer-reviewed journal, Earth and Space Science. The journal will begin accepting papers in late summer 2014, and the first articles will be available in late fall 2014.
Earth Space and Science reflects the expansive range of science AGU represents, including all of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences, as well as related fields in environmental science, geoengineering, space engineering, and biogeochemistry. It will also include papers describing and presenting data, observations, instrumentation and methods that are important for advancing these fields. In addition to direct submissions, it will accept, via referral from other journals, articles that meet AGU's high standards of excellence, but that do not fit the unique criteria of those journals.
Orcutt has published more than 175 scientific papers and book chapters. His research interests include the exploitation of information technology for the collection and processing of real-time environmental data, as well as seismology in the oceans and on land and marine geophysics. He is the principal investigator for the National Science Foundation's MRE-FC Ocean Observatories Initiative Cyberinfrastructure programme, and a participant in the National Research Council's (NRC) study entitled Fukushima, Lessons Learned.
Orcutt recently completed a review of hydroacoustics monitoring by the United Nation's Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in the Indian Ocean, and he chaired the NRC's reviews of Ocean Exploration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Tsunami Warning System, and the Ocean Panel of the Climate, Energy and National Security Committee.
