The Journal of Contaminant Hydrology is an international journal publishing scientific articles contributing to a broad understanding of contamination of water resources. Emphasis is placed on investigations of the physical, chemical, and biological processes influencing the behaviour and fate of organic and inorganic contaminants in the aqueous environment including ecological impacts. Water-based science, technology and management approaches that monitor, assess, control and mitigate contamination and its eco-environmental impacts at multiple scales are invited. Broad latitude is allowed in identifying contaminants of interest, and includes legacy and emerging pollutants, nutrients, nanoparticles, microorganisms (e.g., bacteria, viruses, and protozoa), microplastics, and various constituents associated with energy production (e.g., methane, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide).

The journal's scope embraces a wide range of topics that include: surface and subsurface hydrology as it relates to contamination; experimental and computational investigations of contaminant sorption, diffusion, biological and chemical transformation, volatilization and transport in the surface and subsurface; characterization of soil and sediment properties only as they influence contaminant behaviour; development and testing of mathematical models of contaminant behaviour; innovative techniques for restoration of contaminated sites; development of new tools or techniques for monitoring the extent of soil, sediment, and water contamination; development of mathematical models and system analysis techniques for understanding and managing surface and subsurface water resources systems including hyporheic zone processes; analyses of interactions between water-use activities and the environment; carbon sequestration and turnover; and water contamination issues associated with energy production.

Types of paper
There are some types of papers that are not suitable for publication in the journal, namely:
Environmental monitoring. We are pleased to see field data, but we do not publish reports of, for example, unusual observations in the field unless they are interpreted at a process level. Similarly, we do not act as a public repository for datasets unless they are interpreted.
Case studies. We will not publish case studies unless they provide insight into processes relevant to other sites or conditions. Thus, a paper based on a particular site must draw out principles, prove a conceptual model, or develop and test a method; these principles, models, or methods must have broader applicability than to a site of study.
Methods. We are keen to see new methods of analysis, experimentation, field investigation, or interpretation developed and published. However the journal will not publish papers that present only method development, nor methods that have no major advance over existing approaches. Manuscripts that demonstrate how new or existing methods lead to new insights, or that extend the scope or demonstrate the practical use of existing methods will be welcome. Normally, measured data or observations will be used to validate the method. The last comments on Methods apply particularly to the development of new analytical and numerical solutions to flow, transport and reaction equations. A new mathematical solution must be a significant and useful advance over present methods. The new solution should also lead to new understanding of contaminant behavior. When possible, new analytical or numerical solutions should be compared with existing methods and/or with real data/observations.
The inverse of these comments on new models applies to papers that focus on experimental and field investigations. It is not sufficient to present data, no matter how elegant the experiment or interesting the field site! Data must be interpreted with a conceptual model of processes so that the results are potentially valuable to other sites and experiments.

Despite these comments, the editors are not trying to set up a rigid or bureaucratic system. If you believe your paper should be an exception, explain this simply in your cover letter at submission. We are all active researchers, and we do not want to discourage our peers from submitting any manuscript that they feel is significant and important for the journal. Rather, we hope you will join us in our wish to ensure that all the papers in the journal have real value to the community.

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Editors-in-Chief
M.D. Annable
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States
C. Griebler
University of Vienna Department of Limnology and Oceanography, Vienna, Austria
B.E. Sleep
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Q. Tan
China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
C.J. Werth
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States
Editorial Board
P. Ackerer
Laboratoire ICube Departement Mecanique, Strasbourg, France
J. Amador
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States
R. Aravena
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
R. Bailey
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
I. Battiato
Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States
B. Berkowitz
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
P.L. Bjerg
Technical University of Denmark, Kongens(Kgs) Lyngby, Denmark
E.J. Bouwer
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
S. Brouyere
University of Liege, Liege, Belgium
K.C. Carroll
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States
H. Cheng
Peking University, Beijing, China
Y.-P. Chin
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, Columbus, Ohio, United States
G. Choppala
Southern Cross University, Lismore, New South Wales, Australia
O.A. Cirpka
Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tubingen, Germany
I.M. Cozzarelli
US Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, United States
G.B. Davis
CSIRO Land and Water Floreat, Floreat, Australia
P. Dietrich
Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research Department of Monitoring and Exploration Technologies, Leipzig, Germany
R. Falta
Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States
M. Fukui
Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute, Sennan-gun, Japan
P. van Geel
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Z. Gerstl
Ministry Of Agriculture And Rural Development Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan, Israel
J. S. Gierke
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, United States
P. Grathwohl
Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tubingen, Germany
P. Gschwend
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
S.B. Haderlein
Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tubingen, Germany
P. Höhener
Aix-Marseille I University, Marseille, France
J.P. Hulin
Paris-Sud University, Orsay, France
T.H. Illangasekare
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, United States
H.K. Karapanagioti
University of Patras Department of Chemistry, Patras, Greece
K. Khim
Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
T. Kibbey
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States
W. Kinzelbach
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
P. Kjeldsen
Technical University of Denmark, Kongens(Kgs) Lyngby, Denmark
K.-K. Lee
Seoul National University School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
R.J. Lenhard
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States
D.N. Lerner
The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Z. Li
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Y. Liu
Peking University, Beijing, China
D. Mackay
University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States
G. de Marsily
Sorbonne University, Paris, France
U. Mayer
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
J.E. McCray
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, United States
L. Moreno
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
K.S. Novakowski
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
D.M. O'Carroll
Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
M. Oostrom
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States
K.D. Pennell
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
S.E. Powers
Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, United States
M. Qinhong Hu
University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States
C.A. Ramsburg
Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States
H. Richnow
Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
M.O. Rivett
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
D.A. Sabatini
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States
J. Samper
University of A Coruna, A Coruna, Spain
W. Schäfer
Steinbeis GmbH und Co KG Transferzentrum Grundwassermodellierung, Wiesloch, Germany
F.W. Schwartz
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, Columbus, Ohio, United States
C.I. Steefel
E O Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States
S. Takizawa
The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Engineering Faculty of Engineering Department of Urban Engineering, Tokyo, Japan
N.R. Thomson
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
A.J. Valocchi
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States
G. Wang
Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
R.D. Wilson
The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
H. Yoon
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Z. Yu
University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
H. Zhan
Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, Texas, United States
C. Zhu
Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, United States