January 2018 heralds some exciting changes at Geo-Marine Letters. After ‘how many ?’ years of heading the editorial team as Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor, Burg Flemming and Monique Delafontaine passed on the torch to a new team of Editors-in-Chief, consisting of Karin Bryan (University of Waikato, New Zealand), Andrew Green (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), and Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben (Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Germany). We, the incoming editors, would like to thank Burg and Monique for their enthusiastic and dedicated service to the marine geoscience community. Their commitment and efforts have resulted in a steady increase in the international profile of Geo-Marine Letters; their labours over the many submissions received by the journal have improved the quality of the papers in both scientific content and prose. Their professional handling of the journal also ensured a rapid processing of manuscripts thereby guaranteeing a quick publication of state-of-the-art science to a broad and multidisciplinary marine geoscience audience. For many younger scientists from around the world (one of the editors included!), Burg and Monique also provided a critical sounding board for their ideas and gave some much-needed guidance in their early forays into the murky publication world. For those of us lucky enough to have been on the receiving end of this advice, we sincerely thank you.