Professor Keith Cowan, Director of EBRU, has been invited to join the editorial board of the international and interdisciplinary journal CLEAN - Soil, Air, Water (the successor journal of Acta Hydrobiologica et Hydrochimica). The journal with an impact factor of 2.17 (2011) covers all aspects of Sustainability and Environmental Safety and hosts an attractive mixture of peer-reviewed scientific reviews, research papers, and short communications. Combining environmental aspects of soil, air, water, and sustainability & technosphere the journal focuses on prevention measures and forward oriented approaches rather than on remediation and pollution cleanup. Professor Cowan joins the Editorial Board as Topical Editor for Biosciences, Biotechnology and Ecology.