Prof. Dr. Martin Edwards Appointed Editor-in-Chief of Hydrobiology

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Martin Edwards has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of Hydrobiology (ISSN: 2673-9917).

Prof. Dr. Martin Edwards is a Research Fellow at Plymouth Marine Laboratory and an Honorary Professor of Ocean Ecology at the University of Plymouth, UK. He was formerly the Research Director at the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science. He has over 25 years research experience surrounding environmental change impacts on marine ecosystems ranging from marine biodiversity, biogeographical and phenological changes to whole ecosystem regime shifts at the oceanic scale. He has written over 180 publications including peer-reviewed papers, book chapters and policy-related reports and assessments (h-index 61; citations >20,000).

He received an Inspiration Award in Ecosystem Science from the University of Oslo in 2012 in recognition of his contribution to the understanding of regime shifts on marine ecosystems and was named in the 2021 Reuters list of the world's top influential climate scientists.

Apart from research, he has considerable expertise in transferring science into policy and pioneered the ecological indicator approach to monitoring the marine environment, which has subsequently been widely internationally adopted.  He has also been a coordinating lead author and nominated international expert for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), United Nations World Ocean Assessment (WOA) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) on topics including monitoring biodiversity, marine climate change impacts, ocean ecology and marine fisheries. 

We wish our new Editor-in-Chief success in both his research and the development of the journal. Further details regarding the Editorial Board can be found at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/hydrobiology/editors.