Environmental Earth Sciences is an international multidisciplinary geosciences journal concerned with anthropogenically altered interactions within the geosphere and between the geosphere–biosphere. It aims to advance the scientific evidence for sustainability of natural resources and management of geological, chemical and biological hazards.

The geosphere has four subcomponents: lithosphere (solid Earth), atmosphere (gaseous envelope), hydrosphere (liquid water), and cryosphere (frozen water). It can be understood as the part of the Earth system that supplies energy and material to support all life forms including homo sapiens. Besides the Environmental Earth Science discipline, relevant areas include geophysics, geochemistry, biogeosciences, engineering geology, hydrogeology, and physical geography.”

Knowledge emerging from observation, data analysis and modeling approaches spanning a range of spatial and temporal scales is of interest. Contributions highlighting technological and engineering innovations are within the
scope. The focus is on coupled processes and risk assessment and mitigation in the geosphere affecting water, soil, mineral and energy resources. Given that geologists have long been concerned with rocks and minerals, the EES journal will continue to maintain this solid phase focus, but will expand to also consider other forms of solid phases, such as sediment (which holds groundwater), soil (which supports terrestrial ecosystems), waterborne suspended particulate matter (which transports chemicals in rivers), and air-borne particulate matter (which affects water and soil quality as dry deposition). Investigations of the physical, chemical and biological aspects of these solid phases and their associated liquid and gaseous environmental media are of interest.

Examples of topics within the scope of the journal are (not exhaustive):

Groundwater systems: the quality, quantity and sustainability of groundwater
Deep sub-surface reservoirs: geothermal energy and nuclear waste disposal
Geo-hazards: man-made or naturally occurring such as landslide
Geological and water resources engineering: to reduce ecosystem and human health risks and to prolong sustained access to natural resources
Environmental impact assessment from a geological perspective: data- and model-driven risk analysis during extraction of fossil fuels, minerals and ores including those for renewable energy production, and in the disposal of hazardous materials and solid waste
Research tools: geophysical, geochemical and geobiological observational tools, geostatistical and geospatial methods, data assimilation and modeling methods for sub-surface environment and solid phase investigations, artificial intelligence-based characterization of data and processes

Editors-in-chief
JAMES W. LAMOREAUX
Editor-in-Chief
Ann McCarley, Nancy Green
Assistant Editors
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USA
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GUNTER DÖRHÖFER
Editor-in-Chief
Sigrid Dörhöfer
Assistant Editor
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14774 Brandenburg a.d.Havel 
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E-mail: envearth.eic@gmail.com 


OLAF KOLDITZ
Editor-in-Chief
Barbara Kolditz, Leslie Jakobs
Assistant Editors
Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research UFZ / TU Dresden 
Department of Environmental Informatics (ENVIN) 
Permoserstr. 15 
04318 Leipzig, Germany 
Tel: +49 341 235-1031 
E-mail: olaf.kolditz@ufz.de 
E-mail: ees-editor@web.de (Barbara Kolditz)
Editors
GIOACCHINO FRANCESCO ANDRIANI
Editor - Engineering
Yours sincerely
Gioacchino Francesco Andriani
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali
Università degli Studi di Bari
Via E. Orabona n. 4
70125 Bari, Italy
e-mail: gioacchinofrancesco.andriani@uniba.it
STEPHEN APPLEYARD
Editor - Hydrology, Environmental and Public Health, Groundwater Quality
Western Australian Dept. of Environment Regulation
Locked Bag 33 Cloisters Square
Perth WA 6850, Australia
e-mail: Steve.Appleyard@DER.wa.gov.au
GABRIELE BUTTAFUOCO
Editor - Environmental Soil Sciences
National Research Council of Italy 
Inst. for Agricultural and Forest Systems
in the Mediterranean (ISAFOM)
Via Cavour, 4-6
87036 Rende (CS), Italy
E-Mail: gabriele.buttafuoco@cnr.it
PETER DIETRICH
Editor - Environmental Geophysics/Environmental Monitoring
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research- UFZ
Dept. Monitoring and Exploration Technologies 
Permoserstr. 15 
04318 Leipzig, Germany 
Tel: +01 0341 235 1281 
E-mail: peter.dietrich@ufz.de
DEREK KIM
Editor - Water and Waste Management and Remediation
2575 Coventry Circle
Fullerton, CA 92833
USA
E-mail: Derekkim10@yahoo.com
BRODER J MERKEL
Editor - Hydrogeology and Mining Geology
TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Dept. for Geology
Gustav-Zeuner-Str. 12
09596 Freiberg/Sa.
E-mail: merkel@geo.tu-freiberg.de
ADAM M. MILEWSKI
Editor - Remote Sensing and GIS
University of Georgia
310 Research Drive # 602
Athens, GA
USA
E-mail: milewski@uga.edu
JAN SCHWARZBAUER
Editor - Geochemistry
Inst. for Geology and Geochemistry
of Petroleum and Coal
RWTH Aachen University
Lochnerstr. 4-20
52056 Aachen
Germany
Tel: +49 241 8095750 
Fax: +49 241 8092152
E-mail: jan.schwarzbauer@emr.rwth-aachen.de
SIEGFRIED SIEGESMUND
Editor - Environmental Mineralogy & Petrography
University of Göttingen
GZG Strukturgeologie u. Geodynamik
Goldschmidtstr. 3
37077 Göttingen
Germany
E-mail: ssieges@gwdg.de
ANNE MARIE DE GROSBOIS
Assistant Editor
for Views and news, Book reviews and Events
Friedmar-Brendel-Weg 9A
09599 Freiberg/Sachsen, Germany
Tel.: +49 37 31/21 66 09
E-mail: ees-editor@gmx.de
Editorial Board
ROBERT C. AHLERT
RAMS Environmental Inc. 
Ormond Beach, FL, USA
GIOACCHINO F. ANDRIANI
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Bari, ITALY
SEAN T. BRENNAN
U.S. Geological Survey
Energy Resources Team
Reston,VA, USA
MIN CHEN
Nanjing Normal University
Nanjing, P.R. CHINA
EMILIO CUSTODIO
Technical University of Catalonia
Barcelona, Spain
YUAN DAOXIAN
Institute of Karst Geology 
Guilin, Guangxi, The People's Republic of China
SHUNING DONG
Xi'an Research Institute of China Coal
Xi'an, China
DOMENICO DORONZO
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Barcelona, Spain
JAN DOWGIALLO 
Institut Nauk Geologiczych PAN 
Warszawa, Poland
DAVID DREW 
Department of Geography, Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland
DALE EASLEY
University of Dubuque
Dubuque, IA, USA
CURT ELMORE
University of Missouri - Rolla
Rolla, Missouri, USA
HÜSEYIN GÖKÇEKUŞ 
Near East University, Department Civil Engineering
Nicosia, North Cyprus, Turkey
GABRIELE GRASSEGGER
University of Stuttgart
Stuttgart, Germany
JOHN GUNN
University of Birmingham 
Birmingham, England
FRANCISCO GUTIERREZ
Universidad de Zaragoza
Zaragoza, Spain
SHARON KANFOUSH
Utica College, Department of Geology
Utica, New York, USA
DAVID M. KARGBO 
Temple University 
Philadelphia, PA, USA
DONG-CHAN KOH
Korea Institute of Geoscience
and Mineral Resources (KIGAM)
Daejeon, Republic of Korea
VLADIMIR KOVALEVSKY 
Academy of Sciences of Russia 
Moscow, Russia
STEFANO LO RUSSO
Politecnico di Torino
Torino, Italy
LUDWIG LUCKNER
Dresdner Grundwasserforschungszentrum 
Dresden, Germany
GWENDOLYN L. MACPHERSON 
University of Kansas 
Lawrence, KS, USA
PAUL MARINOS 
National Technical University of Athens
Athens, Greece
JÖRG MATSCHULLAT 
TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Freiberg, Germany
JAMES B. McCLINTOCK
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, USA
BASHIR A. MEMON 
P.E. LaMoreaux & Associates, Inc. 
Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
PETAR MILANOVIC
Energy Ptoject
Beograd, Yugoslavia
MARCO PETITTA
Earth Sciences Department, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Rome, Italy

LADISLAUS RYBACH 
ETH Zürich 
Zürich, Switzerland
CHRISTOPH SCHÜTH
Technical University of Darmstadt
Darmstadt, Germany
PHILLIPPE SENTENAC
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow, UK
SIEGFRIED SIEGESMUND
University of Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany
FRANCESCO SPADA
University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Rome, Italy
BERRY H. TEW
Geological Survey of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
JAN VLCKO
Comenius University
Bratislava, Slovakia
HUBERT WIGGERING
ZALF
Müncheberg, Germany
QIANG WU
China University of Mining and Technology
Beijing, China
ISIK YILMAZ
Cumhuriyet University
Sivas, Turkey

WANFANG ZHOU
Knoxville, Tennessee 37934, USA