Another successful year, thanks to our peer-reviewers.(Message from the Technical Editors-in-Chief)

It is always our great pleasure to be able to thank the hundreds of volunteer peer reviewers who help ensure the quality and integrity of the Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association. We simply could not be successful in our jobs as editors without their dedication and commitment to unselfishly giving back to the scientific community.

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With the number of manuscripts the Journal receives each year, we are always in need of additional qualified reviewers. Please contact either of us directly to become a peer reviewer for the Journal, and encourage your colleagues to do the same.

Last year was another productive year for the Journal. We published 136 articles on a range of interesting research topics, including the 2007 Critical Review on the history of U.S. national ambient air quality standards. (For those who missed John Bachmann's presentation of the review at the Annual Conference last June, be sure to go to www. awma.org for his entertaining song on the Clean Air Act.) We also registered the Journal with CrossRef (www.crossref.org), a citation-linking network that will help broaden the reach of articles published in the Journal.

In addition, we are excited to announce that, in concert with A & WMA's one-hundredth anniversary last year, the Association had all back issues of the Journal scanned into PDF format. The archived materials were added to the A & WMA Online Library (secure. awma.org/OnlineLibrary/) as they became available in 2007. By the time you read this, all Journal articles published since 1951--with a few possible exceptions--should be available for search and download in the library.

Finally, we would like to express our sincere gratitude and thanks to Bill Nazaroff, Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, who "retired" as a Journal Associate Editor in December after 12 years. Bill's efforts and insights over the years are one of the main reasons the Journal is as well respected as it is today.

Tim Keener

Technical Editor-in-Chief

University of Cincinnati

tim.keener@uc.edu

George Hidy

Co-Editor

EnvAir/Aerochem

dhidy113@comcast.net

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