GLIMS Book-Outline revision; generalized chapter format

[Jeff Kargel]

Dear GLIMS book authors/editors (and interested other colleagues),

Here you will find attached (and in text version below) a revised GLIMS book outline and a preliminary suggestion of deadlines/timetable.  I have received over 60 emails offering suggestions, and the revision was meant to account for every one of them.  However, I may have missed something, and I fully expect that on the basis of additional suggestions and discussions with the GLIMS editors and publisher that there will be several more revisions.   Many more potential authors will likely indicate their interest in contributing.  At this time, all matters are negotiable.  

In the next 4 weeks I would like each proposed chapter team to discuss who will be the lead author and the coauthors, and present a  slightly expanded outline.  It has been suggested by a book co-editor (Michael Bishop) that we try to follow a general format for the "regional" chapters, as follows.  This format may change in the next 4 weeks, as we discuss it, but here is that suggestion modified slightly by me:

Title
Authors
Affiliations
Contact Info footnoted on first page
Abstract (I suggest 175-225 words)
1. Introduction (include mention of key issues related to that region)
2. Regional Context
    2.1 Geographic/Topographic/Environmental setting (be brief and use references)
    2.2 Climate (brief, and rely on references)
    2.3 Glacier characteristics and variety of types/sizes/dynamics
3. Special topics (include such things  as climate simulation results, field studies, glacier dynamical modeling, etc.)
4. Case studies
    4.1 Glacier #1 or subregion #1
    4.2 Glacier #2 or subregion #2
    4.3 Glacier #n or subregion #n
5. Regional synthesis
6. Discussion of key issues related to outstanding science questions, hazards, water resources, or other matters
(include how the results in sections 3 and 4 address those matters)
7. Summary and Conclusions

There still needs to be a discussion and finalization of dedalines/timetable.  Here is what I am thinking, but this will change as the editors, authors, and publishing personnel discuss it.
 
10 January 2007: GLIMS Editors and Publisher agree on book page length, page size and paper weight specifications, other specifications.  Format specifications (font size and type, number of words per page and page dimnensions, other needed info sent to chapter teams. GLIMS editors agree on a revised draft outline and contact additional authors as needed.

15 January 2007: Discuss with chapter teams to finalize list of chapters, finalize first author and corresponding author and list of coauthors (this can change as the work progresses), agree on page length target for each chapter, agree on rough chapter outline including major topics.  Editors agree on an editorial review process.  Revised and expanded book outline and details of review procedures sent to GLIMS mailing list, and formalized Authors & Marketing Questionnaire and outline sent to publisher.

15 February 2007: Book contract received from Praxis/Springer and distributed to editors

20 February 2007: Book contract signed and sent back to Praxis/Springer.

1 June 2007: Editors begin to receive chapters and begin review process.

1 October 2007: Last of chapter first drafts received (except by special agreement for late submission of select chapters).

October 2007 through January 2008: Chapters are reviewed, editorial team has monthly meetings (in person or by telecom), and reviewer comments and editorial responses sent to lead/corresponding authors by email/attachment.

November through March 2008: Chapter revisions are received and reviewed by editors.

April-May 2008: Final editorial issues are dealt with by editors and authors, and final acceptances are delivered.

April through June 2008: Chapters are sent to Praxis.

August 2008: Praxis responds with additional editoprial matters  arising; GLIMS editors and authors deal with simple issues.  More complex ones are dealt with through September 2008.

September-October 2008: Page proofs sent to GLIMS editors and chapter lead/corresponding authors.

October-November 2008:  Page proofs returned to Praxis.

December 2008: Publication. 

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GLOBAL LAND ICE MEASUREMENTS FROM SPACE 

Publisher: Praxis-Springer

Praxis Chief Edior: Clive Horwood

Praxis Science/Technical Editor: Philippe Blondel					

GLIMS Editors:
   Jeffrey S. Kargel
   Michael P. Bishop
   Andrew Kääb
   Bruce Raup


Book will have:
  - Hard cover
  - Large page format (but not oversize)
  - Color throughout, good quality paper
  - DVD supplement
  - 483 printed pages + 75 pages of chapter transitions and section and book fronticepeices,
so roughly 560 pages in all.  Add 40 page contingency.



Book Outline:

NOTES:
Page counts below are estimates/targets and refer to final published pages including text, figures, tables, references.  There can be additional data and text—lots of it—on a DVD supplement.
 
NAC – need lead author confirmation.  All chapters will go through an author confirmation and chapter outlining process in next 4 weeks.

Preface (editors) 1 page

Forward (Hugh Kieffer-NAC) 2 pages

SECTION 1: Background

Chapter 1:	GLIMS and Global Glacier Monitoring (Jeff Kargel) 5 pages.

Chapter 2:	Glacier Mass Balance, Glacier Dynamics, and Remote Sensing Proxies
	(Ian Brown, Mark Dyurgerov, Peter Jansson?) 
	Include very brief synopsis of glacier accumulation, flow, melting, and balance concepts, with references and a few general diagrams and equations.   Proxies include: transient snowline relationship to firn line, equilibrium line, and AAR; surface flow field and surface flow speed profiles as related to mass flow integrated through the depth and volume of the glacier; and so on.  15 pages.
NOTE #1: Coordinate with Chapter 28 all climate aspects.
	NOTE #2: Chapter 2 explains WHY we want to measure certain things (in more detail than Chapter 1), such as glacier length, area, transient snowlines, surface flow vector fields, etc.  Then Chapter 3 better explains HOW they are measured using remote sensing.

Chapter 3:	Remote Sensing Science and Glacier Assessment (Bishop et al.)
	NOTE:  See note #2 for chapter 2 above. 15 pages.

SECTION 2: Remote Sensing and GIS Technology

Chapter 4:	Satellite Image Acquisition and Preprocessing and special products processing (John Dwyer-NAC) Include stats on glacier image acquisitions by ASTER and Landsat 7.  Processing from raw data through L1A, L1B, L7, and special products such as DEMs.  Discuss the types of geometric corrections, accuracies, sources of systematic error in geolocation, etc.  10 pages.


Chapter 5:	Digital Elevation Models and Geomorphometry  (Bishop et al.) 15 pages

Chapter 6:	Glacier Mapping Approaches (Andy Kaab, Frank Paul, Jeff Kargel, Roberto Furfaro, Bruce Raup-NAC) 15 pages

Chapter 7:	Glacier Change Detection (Andy Kaab, Frank Paul-NAC) 15 pages

Chapter 8: 	Meltwater: Remote Sensing and Characterization (Roberto Furfaro & Jeff Kargel)
10 pages

Chapter 9: 	GLIMSview Software (Bruce Raup-NAC) 10 pages

Chapter 10:	GLIMS Database and GLACE Standardization (Bruce Raup, Frank Paul, and all GLACE contributors-NAC) 15 pages

SECTION 3: Regional Results 

Chapter 11: 	Alaska #1  TBD. 10 pages

Chapter 12: SWAN (Southwest Alaska Network) glaciers in three national parks, Kenai Fjords, Katmai National Park & Preserve, Lake Clark National Park & Preserve (Dorothy Hall and Bruce Giffen).  10 pages
 NOTE: Rick Wessels and Christian Huggel will be doing a chapter on Alaskan volcanoes (glaciers on them).  Since your areas include volcanoes, there will need to be some form of coordination amongst your groups.  I would prefer to leave that to your groups to work out and come to an agreement, which you then let me know what the agreement is and what the chapter outlines are.  

Chapter 13: Alaskan Volcanoes (Rick Wessels and Christian Huggel) 10 pages
 
Chapter 14:	Contiguous United States (Andrew Fountain-NAC) 10 pages

Chapter 15:	Canada (Roger Wheate, Fiona Cawkwell, Luke Copland, Katie Filbert et al.-NAC) 15 pages

Chapter 16:	Northern Andes (Todd Albert, Christian Huggel Adina Racoviteanu, Christian Georges, Georg Kaser, NAC) 15 pages

	Quelccaya-Todd Albert
	Cordillera Blanca- Adina Racoviteanu
	Colombia- Christian Huggel
NOTE 1: All prospective authors should confirm intention to contribute, and then discuss amongst each other who will do what, who will be the lead author, and developm a detailed outline.  NOTE 2:  Coordinate Cordillera Blanca and other sections of this chapter with Kargel’s planned treatment of Palcacocha affair and other hazards aspects in chapter 29, and water resources aspects in chapter 30.  NOTE 3: This will be an important chapter to link glacier change aspects with long-term climate change and ENSO.  Must determine whether this material will be in this chapter or in Chapter 28, or some version in each chapter.  May also want to discuss climate issues with the southern Andes chapter and the Antarctic Peninsula authors and see how to derive some bigger picture of what’s happening in the eastern South Pacific across all southern latitudes.)

Chapter 17:	Southern Patagonia Icefield.  (Gino Casassa) 10 pages

Chapter 18: Cordillera Darwin at Isla de Tierra del Fuego (Francisca Bown) 10 pages

Chapter 19: Use of ASTER for mapping ice-capped volcanoes (Andrés Rivera, Pablo 
Zenteno) 10 pages

Chapter 20:	Scandinavia (Andreassen and Brown and others) 15 pages
        20.1 Norway (Andreassen and others)
        20.2 Sweden (Brown and others?)
	NOTE: Confirm authors and writing roles: Ian Brown, Elisabeth Isaksson, Rune Engeset, Liss Marie Andreassen, Andy Kaab, Peter Jansson

Chapter 21:	Iceland (Helgi Bjornsson, A. Gudmundsson-NAC) 10 pages

Chapter 22:	Greenland (Andreas P. Ahlstrøm, Frank Paul, Gordon Hamilton, Leigh Stearns, Bill Sneed-NAC) 20 pages

Chapter 23:	Svalbard (Gordon Hamilton, Leigh Stearns, Bill Sneed, NAC) 10 pages

Chapter 24:	Afghanistan and Pakistan (Bishop, Shroder, Molnia, Lee, Kargel) 10 pages

Chapter 25: 	India, Bhutan, Nepal (Av Kulkarni, Armstrong, Raup, Singh-Khalsa, Racoviteanu, Bishop, Shroder, Kargel, et al..-NAC) 10 pages

Chapter 26: 	Euro Alps (Andy Kaeaeb, Frank Paul, Roberto Ranzi, et al.) 15 pages

Chapter 27:	New Zealand (Blair Fitzharris, Luke Copland? et al.-NAC) 10 pages

Chapter 28:	China (Liu Shiyin et al.-NAC) 15 pages

Chapter 29:	Former Soviet Central Asia (Validimir Konovalov, Tatiana Khromova, et al.-NAC) 15 pages

Chapter 30: 	Antarctic Peninsula (Frank Rau) 15 pages

Chapter 31: Mapping of crevasses and Blue Ice Areas in West Antarctica using ASTER 
 	images. (Andres Rivera) 10 pages

Chapter 32:	West Antarctica, Gordon Hamilton, Leigh Stearns, Bill Sneed et al. 10 pages


SECTION 4: Synthesis and Resource, Planning and Management Applications

Chapter 33:	Global Glacier Trends and Climate Change (Mark Dyurgerov, Andy Bush, Jeff Kargel) 10 pages

Chapter 34:	Glacier Hazards and Monitoring (Andrew Kaab, Christian Huggel, Jeff Kargel, et al.-NAC) 10 pages

Chapter 35:	Glacier Water Resources and Sustainable Development (TBD, Jeff Kargel, et al.?)
10 pages

Chapter 36:	Summary and Global Understandings (4 editors) 10 pages

References 30 pages

Index 15 pages

Color Pictorial Glossary (on DVD) and text version (in printed book).  Based on the current GLIMS pictorial glossary with revisions and additions by Bruce Molnia, Jeff Kargel, and others.
5 pages