Dear all! Our Leg 177 deadline is getting closer and those of you interested to submit a publication of the Leg 177 Springer book are probably waiting for some directions. I know that I am quite late but the reason for this is that the negociations with Springer were quite uneffective and frustrating. The Springer authorities were not able to come to a decision. Main point of problem was the rather low number in attractive paleoceanographic papers. During the last weeks I got the bad feeling that Springer was not really interested anymore in this project but that they were not able to come to a clear decision on that. I thus started to look around for other possibilities and contacted other journals and editors. After a number of mails and phone calls this is the result of these new negociations: Elsevier is willing to produce a special issue on Leg 177 paleoceanographic results in the Journal Paleogeography,-climatology, -ecology (Paleo3). It was only yesterday that I got this decision from the Elsevier person that is in charge of special issues. Marine Micropaleontology (Elsevier) is willing to produce a special issue on the Leg 177 stratigraphy. This special issue could also contain non- micropaleontological data such as geomagnetic and isotope stratigraphy. I can insure you that it was quite hard to find journals after the problems with Springer. Most journals are absolutely oversaturated. I can only hope that most of you are willing to support this new plan. Main reason to split the publications in two groups (stratigraphy and paleoceanography plus related science) to be published in separate special issues is that this would increase the volume of one special issue in an unaccepted way. We will decide with both Marine Micropal and Paleo3 for a clear and fixed time frame to insure that both special issues are published in the same time interval in the first half of 2001 (as it was planned for the Springer book). We now need urgently a list of papers that you are willing to include to Paleo 3 (paleoceanography and related science, e.g. geochemistry, mineralogy etc.) or Marine Micropaleontology (Leg 177 stratigraphy) Please send me a list of those papers you would like to see included to the special issues (indicate in which special issue your paper should go). Dave and myself can act as guest editors and thus we have some control on the peer review and production process. PLEASE SEND ME YOUR LIST AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BUT NOT LATER THAN AFTER ONE WEEK FROM NOW. We will then distribute information on style etc. for both journals. In case your response does not indicate that we would be able to produce attractive special issues we are forced to cancle these initiatives. To give you an idea on potential lists of papers you find in the following two lists of papers that could go to Paleo3 and Marine Micropal. which I collated from the title list collected after the Flores meeting and some addtional I received later on. Feel free to add new papers. Please also make this information available to those persons that are working in your group or environment on Leg 177 material but are not on my mailing list. In the past I was not able to contact some of the ship board scientist, such as Sharon via e-mail. I ignore the mail address of Julian Sachs (Barnard College/Columbia Univ. NY) who requested samples for a alkenon study on Site 1089. I now can only hope that we will be able to finish the Leg 177 publication business in an appropriate and successful way. I also hope that most of you are willing to answer this mail (even in case you will not support this plan) Regards Rainer LIST OF POTENTIAL PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC ETC. TITLES FOR INCLUSION TO THE PALEO3 SPECIAL ISSUE Aligbie, A. D. Warnke, S. Kanfoush, and D. Hodell Pre- MIS 8 ice rafting at ODP Site 177-1094, Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean Andersson, C., Warnke, D., and Jansen, E., The Mid- Pliocene (3.2-2.6 Ma) stable isotope record from the Southern Ocean: ODP Site 1092, Meteor Rise Becquey, S. and R. Gersonde. Past hydrographic and climatic change in the Subantarctic Zone-A 1.8 M.Y. Record from ODP Site 1090 Bianchi, C. and R. Gersonde Sea surface temperature and sea ice distribution during the Penultimate Climatic Cycle in the Antarctic Zone of the Southern Ocean Billups, K. and J. Zachos Stable isotope investigation of the timing of the Oligocene/Miocene Boundary Censarek, B. and Gersonde, R..Miocene Climate Evolution of the Southern Ocean-Diatom Evidence from a Transect Between 68 and 40 deg. S (Sites 1088, 1097, 689, 690) Charles, C. D., D. Hodell, (Sierro & Others TBA) Changes in ocean's carbonate system throughout the Late Pleistocene Charles, C.D. D. Hodell (S. Kanfoush, Mortyn). Structure and timing of changes in the ocean/atmosphere system during deglaciation: Comparison of the last three terminations Cortese, G. and A. Abelmann Radiolarian-based paleotemperature estimations in marine isotope Stage 5 at high-southern latitudes (ODP Site 1089) Diekmann, B. & Kuhn, G. (et. al.): Land-ocean links of terrigenous sediment supply during the climate cycles of the last 500 ka in the southern Cape Basin, SE Atlantic (ODP-Site 1089). Diekmann, B., G. Kuhn, R. Gersonde (et. al.), G. Filippelli Compositional variations of Eocene to Miocene sediments on the Agulhas Ridge (ODP Leg 177, Site 1090): Transition from the Greenhouse to the Ice House World Filippelli, G. and J. Latimer Productivity and terrigenous input across the Eocene-Oligocene boundary: ODP Site 1090 in the Southern Ocean Flores, J. A., M. Marino, and others Coccolithophore assemblages evolution during the last 500 Ka in ODP Sites 1089 and 1091: Paleoceanographic Implications Kanfoush, S. L. D. A. Hodell, C. D. Charles and T. P. Guilderson Millennial-scale variability in the delivery of ice-rafted detritus to the South Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean over the last glacial-interglacial cycle Kanfoush, S.L. D.A. Hodell, C.D. Charles and T.P. Guilderson Late Pleistocene (MIS 1-8) ice-rafting in the South Atlantic: ODP Leg 177, Site 1094 Kuhn, G. & Diekmann, B. (et al.): Environmental impacts on biogenic and terrigenous sediment fluxes during the late Pliocene to Pleistocene across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, SE Atlantic (ODP Leg 177). Kunz-Pirrung, M. and R. Gersonde Mid Brunhes high- resolution diatom sea-surface temperature and sea ice records from the Southern Ocean (ODP, Sites 1093, 1094 and PS cores) Latimer, J. and G. Filippelli.Climatic control on biogeochemical cycles north of the Polar Front: ODP Leg 177 Site 1089 Marino, M. and J.A. Flores Calcareous nannofossil evolution during the Eocene-Oligocene interval in the Southern Ocean (Leg 177 ODP Site 1090): biostratigraphy and paleoceanographic considerations Murphy, D, D. Warnke, C. Andersson. History of ice rafting during the Gauss Chron at Site 177-1092, Meteor Rise, South Atlantic, and companion with Site 162-982, Rockall Plateau, North Atlantic Stoner, J. S. and J. Channell Subantarctic South Atlantic geomagnetic paleointensity and secular variation for the last 650 Ka (ODP Site 1089) Stoner, J.S. and J. Channell. High Resolution and magnetic record of environmental variability from ODP Sites 1089 and 1093. Teillinger, D., D. Warnke, and D. Hodell Late Pleistocene ice-rafting at site survey Site 74057-6-PC4 and ODP Site 177-1090, South Atlantic Venz, K. A. and D.A. Hodell A Plio-Pleistocene record of Southern Ocean Paleoceanography from ODP Leg 177 Site 1090 Zielinski, U., R. Gersonde. Latitudinal Changes of Late Pleistocene diatom assemblages on a transect over the Southern Ocean frontal system (Atlantic Sector, ODP Leg 177) and its relation to paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic changes. Summary paper: Hodell et al.: What is the role of the Southern Ocean in late Pleistocene cliamte change: master, slave, or in between? Gersonde et al.: Biogenic silica deposition in the Southern Ocean - Its relation to oeanic circulation and climate development. LIST OF POTENTIAL STRATIGRAPHY TITLES FOR INCLUSION TO MARINE MICROPALEONTOLOGY SPECIAL ISSUE Abelmann, A..Revised Eocene-Oligocene radiolarian biostratigraphy for Southern-high latitudes (ODP Site 1090) Austin, W. and D. Spiegler. Miocene bolboforma stratigraphy at Site 1092 Austin, W.. Middle Eocene-early Miocene benthic foraminifera at Site 1090 Censarek, B., and Gersonde, R..Southern high latitude Miocene diatom and silicoflagellate biostratigraphy (ODP Sites 689, 690, 1088, and 1092) Channell, J. and J.S. Stoner Oligocene-Miocene magnetic stratigraphy at Site 1090 (in-channel data) Channell, J. and J.S. Stoner. Magnetic polarity Stratigraphy at Leg 177 Sites Charles, C.D.,D. Hodell. Stable isotope stratigraphy of ODP Sites 1089, 1091, 1093 and 1094: Marine isotope stages 1-16 Flores, J. A. and M. Marino Pleistocene Calcareous Nannofossil Stratigraphy for ODP Leg 177 Flores, J. A., M. Marino, and others High-resolution calcareous nannofossil stratigraphy: calibration with the isotopic and geomagnetic scales Galeotti, S., Premoli-Silva, I., Coccioni, R. et al..Eocene-early Miocene planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy at ODP Site 1090, Agulhas Ridge Gersonde, R.. Revised Eocene-early Miocene diatom biostratigraphy for Southern high latitudes (ODP Site 1090) Marino, M and J.A. Flores .Eocene to Pliocene calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy for Leg 177 Sugiyama, K..Plio-Pleistocene radiolarian biostratigraphy at Sites 1089, 1091, 1093 and 1094, ODP Leg 177 Zielinski, U. R. Gersonde Plio-Pleistocene diatom biostratigraphy from ODP Leg 177, Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean Summary paper Gersonde, R. et al.. Mid-Eocene to Pleistocene integrated isotope and magneto- biostratigraphy of ODP Leg 177-Refinement of Southern- High Latitude Stratigraphies