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This year the AEUP conference “Publishing in Nervous Times” took place in Tallinn, Estonia on May 16–17, 2023.
AEUP is a network of scholarly presses and publishing initiatives across Europe who are affiliated with a university or an academic institution. The Association of European University Presses aims to enhance the visibility of member presses, facilitate communication between them, share knowledge about and support for scholarly publishing. The Association of European University Presses has 48 members from 18 countries.
Association of European University Presses (AEUP) is a network of scholarly presses and publishing initiatives across Europe who are affiliated with a university or an academic institution. The Association of European University Presses aims to enhance the visibility of member presses, facilitate communication between them, share knowledge about and support for scholarly publishing. The Association of European University Presses has 48 members from 18 countries. Read more about EAUP.
This year the AEUP conference “Publishing in Nervous Times” will take place in Tallinn, Estonia on May 16–17, 2023.
The Al-Balqa Applied University in Jordan is planning to organize its 3rd International Oil
Shale Conference (BAU-OSC-3) from 17 to 19 October 2023 in Jordan. The Conference
was deferred from being organized in 2021 due to the pandemic, COVID-19.
Since then, no conferences or workshops have been organized solely on oil shale research
advancement and updates. This Conference would provide a platform for researchers,
technologists, businessmen and decision-makers to meet in one place.
The Conference will cover recent trends in oil shale research and application and a wide range
of topics in oil shale knowledge, in addition to other related subjects such as:
• Oil Shale Processing
• Oil Shale and Shale Oil Properties
• Chemistry and Geochemistry
• Geology and Stratigraphy
• Modeling and Catalysis
• Chemicals from Shale Oil
• Shale Oil Upgrading
• Combustion and Environmental Impact
• Advances in Oil Shale Retorting Technologies
• Mining and Mining Technologies
• Oil Shale, Semicoke and Ash Volarization
• Socioeconomic Impact and Policy
• Resource Evaluation
• Assessment of Oil Shale Options
• Groundwater Control and Management
• Health and Environmental Risk
• Economics and Finance
Scientists from the Department of Energy Technology, Tallinn University of Technology will contribute by participating in the work of the Scientific Committee.
The Conference website is https://www.bau.edu.jo/conf/oilshale/Home.html on which the important
information regarding topics, important dates, fees, visa requirements, etc., is provided. With any
additional information required, the researcher may write directly to the Chairman of the Conference
through the Conference email: bau.oilshaleconf@bau.edu.jo
We announce with deep sadness that on 2 January 2023, Academician Ülo Lille, a Grand Estonian Chemist, passed away. His death is a great loss to the Estonian scientific community. His outstanding scientific results substantially contributed to the field of active bioregulators, such as prostaglandins, and even more fundamentally, to the chemical nature and structure of the Estonian oil shale kukersite.
Ülo Lille was born on 16 September 1931 in Pärnu County, to a farmer family. In 1950 he graduated cum laude from Rapla Secondary School and in 1955, also cum laude, from the Department of Chemistry and Mining, Tallinn Polytechnic Institute (now Tallinn University of Technology). Thereafter he worked two years as foreman and technologist at Kiviõli Oil Shale Chemical Integrated Plant. In 1957–1959 Ülo Lille was enrolled on a postgraduate programme of Tallinn Polytechnic Institute and then got a position of senior researcher in the newly established Oil Shale Institute in Kohtla-Järve.
In 1960 Ülo Lille defended the Candidate degree (now PhD) in pyrolysis of oil shale. He pioneered the application of spectral methods and gas chromatography in research of the composition and genesis of oil shale.
In 1973 Ülo Lille defended the Doctor degree in Chemistry (Doctor of Sciences) on alkyl resorcinols. In 1975 he started to work at the Institute of Chemistry of the Estonian Academy of Sciences as a Head of Laboratory and later a Head of Department of Prostanoid Chemistry. He is a pioneer of
a new topic – chemistry, biochemistry and technology of prostaglandins in Estonia. Under his supervision the biotechnology of producing prostaglandins was developed and introduced at the Pilot Plant of the Institute, and also the asymmetric total chemical synthesis of prostaglandins was initiated.
In 1983 Ülo Lille was elected a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, and in 1984 he got a professorship at the Academy.
Ülo Lille has published more than 200 scientific publications. His last article “From the molecules of resorcinolic lipids to alga G. Prisca globular colonies in kukersite microfossils: a multiscale simulation study“ appeared in Oil Shale in 2020 (Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 281–287). In this article, he is describing the oil shale kerogen as follows: “The term “kukersite“ was first used by Prof. M. Zalessky from St. Petersburg in 1917. This term is currently used for all Ordovician (formed 500 million years ago) kerogens. Prof.
M. Zalessky interpreted the micro particles found in kerogen from Kukruse as a remnant from the organism Gloeocapsamorpha Prisca’ks. … The image of a microorganism Graptolit from the Ordovician period is on the front cover of our Oil Shale journal. … It was essential to study together the products of thermal destruction of kerogen and the formed phenols with all contemporary methods”.
On the basis of his work, and also of Prof. Blokker from the Netherlands a model of the primary structure of kerogen – the Lille-Blokker model – has been developed. Ülo Lille studied also the 3D structure of kerogen particles for a particle C421H638O44S4NCl with MW 6581 optimizing the structure by
MM+ computational modelling. He got a good coincidence of the model with
13C NMR spectral data.
For his outstanding work Ülo Lille has been honoured with many awards. The following is to name some of these. In 1987 he and his research group was awarded the Estonian State Award on Science for the developments in prostaglandin research and production; in 1991 the Estonian Academy of Sciences honoured him with the Academy Medal; in 2001 he was honoured with the Order of the White Star from Estonian President; in 2011 he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award for Science and Development from the Estonian State.
The Oil Shale journal joins in grief with the family of Academician Ülo Lille and will remember him as a heartfelt colleague, who was always happy for the achievements and progress of younger colleagues, understanding well that science is driven by ideas rather than by administrative bureaucracy.
Oil Shale has its reference templates available in many of the most popular reference management software products, such as Zotero, Mendeley, Papers etc. These software products support Citation Style Language styles. Using citation plug-ins from these products, authors only need to select the appropriate journal template when preparing their article, after which citations and bibliographies will be automatically formatted in the journal’s style.
Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences has its reference templates available in many of the most popular reference management software products, such as Zotero, Mendeley, Papers etc. These software products support Citation Style Language styles. Using citation plug-ins from these products, authors only need to select the appropriate journal template when preparing their article, after which citations and bibliographies will be automatically formatted in the journal’s style.
Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences has its reference template available in many of the most popular reference management software products, such as Zotero, Mendeley, Papers etc. These software products support Citation Style Language styles. Using citation plug-ins from these products, authors only need to select the appropriate journal template when preparing their article, after which citations and bibliographies will be automatically formatted in the journal’s style.
In 2021, the journal Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences celebrated the publication of its 70th volume. This important milestone was commemorated with the conference “Open access challenges” („Avatud juurdepääsu väljakutsed”) at the Estonian Academy of Sciences on May 26, 2022.
The conference was held in Estonian.
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In connection with the war in Ukraine, the Estonian Academy Publishers temporarily suspends processing manuscripts of authors affiliated in the institutions of the Russian Federation and Republic of Belarus, except for submissions to Linguistica Uralica.
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