Editors

Editors-in-Chief

Sediments
Philip N. Owens, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada
(owensp@unbc.ca)

Soils
Zhihong Xu, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia
(zhihong.xu@griffith.edu.au)

Honorary Editors-in-Chief

Ulrich Förstner, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Hamburg, Germany
Wim Salomons, Haren, The Netherlands

Subject Editors - Soils

Section 1: Soil organic matter dynamics and nutrient cycling

Shahla Hosseini Bai, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
(Soil organic matter dynamics and nutrient cycling, Soil-plant interaction, Nitrogen cycling, Biochar and nutrient cycling)
Woo-Jung Choi, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
(application of stable 13C and 15N isotopes in agricultural, environmental, and ecological researches, feedback interactions between global changes and N & C dynamics in soils, and carbon sequestration, bioremediation of contaminated soil, non-point source pollution of water)
Weixin Ding, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
(Soil organic matter, nitrogen cycling, greenhouse gas emissions)
Zhiqun Huang, College of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Cangshan, Fuzhou, China
(forestry plantation, tree physiology, soil microbiology, soil carbon)
Heike Knicker, Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
(soil ecology, soil organic matter, solid-state NMR spectroscopy, solid-state NMR, biogeochemical cycles, archeological soil science, carbon and nitrogen sequestration, formation of refractory soil organic matter, chemistry of natural products, interaction between pollutants and soil organic matter, forest fire and their environmental implications, characterization and application of biochar)
Yongfu Li, Zhejiang Agricultural and Forestry University, Lin'an, Zhejiang, China
(Soil organic matter, soil C and N cycling, soil greenhouse gas emission, and forest management)
Anja Miltner, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany
(soil organic matter, pollutant transformation and degradation, isotope tracers, biomarkers)
Irina Perminova, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
(humic substances, molecular systematics of non-living organic matter, organic matter and soil structure, humic substances in plant nutrition, biological activity of humic substances, design of nature-like materials and technologies)
Yichao Rui, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
(Soil carbon sequestration, Soil organic matter, Nutrient cycling and Sustainability)
Zhaoliang Song, Tianjin University, Tianjin, P.R. China
(carbon and nitrogen cycling, silicon and phytolith function, plant-soil interaction, wetland, global change)
Caixian Tang, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
(nutrient cycling in farming systems, rhizosphere dynamics and soil acidification)
Xilong Wang, Peking University, Beijing, China
(organic and inorganic contaminants, natural organic matter, biochars, nanoparticles, and environmental risk analysis of organic contaminants and heavy metals)
Huai-Ying Yao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xia-Men, China
(Soil microbial community, soil-plant interactions, nitrogen cycling, carbon sequestration)
Claudio Zaccone, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
(Soil organic matter, humic substances, peat, carbon sequestration, biomass utilization, trace element geochemistry)

Section 2: Global change, environmental risk assessment, sustainable land use

Chengrong Chen, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
(soil chemistry and biochemistry; soil microbiology)
Dulce Y. Flores-Renteria, Cinvestav Unidad Saltillo, Ramos Arizpe, Mexico 
(soil carbon exchange; climate change; microbial ecology; soil ecology; sustainable land use)
Fanghua Hao, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
(non-point source pollution simulation, environmental planning and management, protection and planning of water resources and simulation of water environment)
Rainer Horn, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
(soil mechanics: stress strain effects in structured soils, soil structure effects, chemical as well as hydraulic processes in structured soils, unsaturated 3 dim. flow and transport processes, waste deposit management capping systems, soil tillage effects on soil properties, soil hydraulic properties, chemical and biological aspects of soil aggregates)
Andreas Lehmann, Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany
(World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB); land use; spatial planning; urban soils)
Maxine Levin, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, USA
(Soil survey, urban agriculture, urban soils)
Jean Louis Morel, Université de Lorraine, Lorraine, France
(SUITMAs: soils in urban, industrial, traffic, mining and military areas)
Stefan Norra, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany
(land use; soil mineralogy; urban soils)
Saulo Rodrigues Pereira Filho, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil
(climate change (geochemical indicators); geochemistry of tropical soils and sediments; heavy metal pollution (mercury as a hotspot))
Fabio Scarciglia, University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy
(soil genesis, geomorphic dynamics, soil mineralogy, soil chemistry, soil micromorphology, badland erosion, fate and behaviour of heavy metals and radionuclides in soils, and pedology)
Mohammad Valipour, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA
(Sustainable system engineering, Artificial intelligence, Satellite remote sensing, Climate change, and Hydroinformatics)
Rory P.D. Walsh, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
(Urban soil, sustainable land management, geography)
Hailong Wang, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou, China
(soil-carbon sequestration, soil and waste management)
Yongping Wei, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
(Global environmental change, sustainable land and water management, interaction between human system and environmental systems)

Section 3: Remediation and management of contaminated or degraded lands
Maria Manuela Abreu, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
(phytoremediation of contaminated sites, potential hazardous elements in soils and plants, bioavailability and behaviour of trace elements in spontaneous plants of abandoned mine sites)
Kitae Baek, Chonbuk National University, Chonbuk, South Korea
(Remediation of metals-contaminated site, redox of metals, fractionation analysis of metals, risk assessment of contaminated site, mineralogical investigation)
Girish Choppala, Global Centre for Environmental Remediation, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
(metals redox dynamics; X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy; geochemistry; iron mineralogy; e stuaries; nutrients; acid sulfate soils; contamination; mine sites)
Claudio M. Colombo, Molise University, Naples, Italy
(soil spectroscopy, soil proximal sensing, humic substances, iron oxides, nanparticles, soil genesis)
Hong Jie Di, Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand
(soil and water quality, mitigation of nitrate leaching and nitrous oxide emissions, soil microbial abundance and diversity using moleculat biology, organic wastes and endocrine disrupting chemicals, pesticide degradation, leaching and modeling, soil and environmental science)
Nour Sh. El-Gendy, Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute (EPRI), Cairo, Egypt
(Soil reclamation, Bioremediation of polluted soil and water, Pollutant biodegradation, Bio-accumulation of heavy metals, Management of agricultural wastes, Mitigation of climate changes, Biochar characterization and applications, Environmental biotechnology, Green synthesized nanoparticles and their applications)
Xionghan Feng, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
(soil chemistry, Fe/Mn oxide minerals, phosphorus)
Yanzheng Gao, Institute of Organic Contaminant Control and Soil Remediation, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
(organic contaminant, soil remediation, rhizosphere, soil environmental chemistry, root exudates, plant uptake)
Yan He, Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental & Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, China
(organic contaminant; biogeochemical redox process; rhizosphere microbiome; environmental microecology; dechlorination)
Zhenli L. He, University of Florida, Fort Pierce, FL, USA
(heavy metals; remediation of contaminated soils and waters; soil environmental chemistry)
Yongtao Li, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
(Ion speciation of soil heavy metals, Donnan Member Technology (DMT) and DGT technology for activity of soil metals, biodegradation and transformation of soil organochlorines, soil fauna and microorganisms, DNA-SIP and high-throughput sequencing of soil microorganism identification)
Bernd Markert, Haren, Germany
(monitoring; phytoremediation)
Ravi Naidu, Centre for Contamination Assessment & Remediation, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia
(fate and behaviour of metal and organic contaminants in soils; remediation of contaminated sites; sodic soils manage)
Marie Ponthieu, GEGENAA, University Reims Champagne Ardennes, Reims, France
(Soils, soil solution, speciation, trace metallic elements, modeling)
Rongliang Qiu, Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University, Guangzhou, China
(mechansim on the formation of Trihalomethane in drinking water, sequential disinfection of drinking water)
Peter Schröder, Helmholtz-Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany
(phytoremediation)
Jean-Paul Schwitzguébel, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
(bioremediation; phytoremediation)
Jianming Xu, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
(behavior of organic contaminants and heavy metals in soils, bioremediation of contaminated soils)
Jianming Xue, New Zealand Forest Research Institute Ltd (Scion), Christchurch, New Zealand
(beneficial use of biowastes and management of degraded lands, fate and transport of nutrients and contaminants in forest ecosystems, emerging contaminants in biosolids and soil and remediation, biowaste management and climate change)
Manyun Zhang, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China
(Organic contaminant; Agricultural soil management; Soil nitrogen cycling; Microbial technology; Soil-plant interactions)

Section 4: Ecotoxicology

Madhoolika Agrawal, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
(Environmental toxicology in relation to air pollutants and heavy metals; Food chain contamination by heavy metals; Phytoremediation)
Peng Cai, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
(soil biogeochemistry, soil biofilm, bacterial social interaction, pathogen)
Sung-Eun Lee, Kyungpook National University, Kyungpook, South Korea
(environmental toxicology of persistent organic pollutants, terrestrial and aquatic organisms, omics technologies)
Kirk Semple, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
(bioavailability; biodegradation; ecotoxicology and soil microbiology; fate and behaviour of organic contaminants in soil)
Dongmei Zhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
(chemistry, heavy metal)
Qixing Zhou, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
(environmental science, soil science)
 

Section 5: Soil and landscape ecology
Claudio Bini, University of Venice, Venice, Italy
(phytoremediation, soil contamination, soil genesis, land evaluation, applied pedology)
Winfried Blum, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Vienna, Austria
(soil chemistry, global change, environmental and ecosystem research, soil protection and land use planning, soil analytics, soil mineralogy)
Yuan Ge, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
(Microbial ecology, soil environmental sciences, nanoparticles, ecotoxicology, soil ecology)
Armando Gómez-Guerrero, Colegio de Postgraduados, Montecillo, Estado de México, Mexico
(forest soils and nutrient cycling, stable isotopes, tree rings, climate change and forest productivity)
Jorg M. Hacker, Flinders University, Salisbury South, SA, Australia
(Planetary boundary layer, aircraft instrumentation, evapotranspiration, airborne remote sensing of the environment, sea-breeze circulations, airborne air quality monitoring and flight testing)
Jizheng He, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
(molecular soil microbiology; soil chemistry and mineralogy)
Hang-Wei Hu, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
(Soil and plant microbiome, Soil nutrient cycling, Soil Biology and Health, Antibiotic resistance, and Soil food web)
Xinqi Huang, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
(Soil ecology; Microbial community; Soil multifunctionality; Agricultural system; Plant-soil feedback)
Bin Ma, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
(Soil ecology; microbial community; metagenome; microbial network; biogeography; microbial functiom)
Sarah Pariente, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
(Soil erosion, soil degradation and desertification, climatic gradient, soil characteristics, plant-soil patchiness, urban soils)
Frederique Reverchon, Red de Diversidad Biológica del Occidente Mexicano, Centro Regional del Bajío, Instituto de Ecología, Pátzcuaro, Mexico
(Plant and soil microbiome; Rhizosphere; Soil ecology; Microbial ecology; Plant growth promoting microorganisms)
Winfried Schröder, Institut für Umweltwissenschaften (IUW), Vechta, Germany
(environmental monitoring and data analysis; landscape ecology)
Yanfen Wang, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
(carbon and nitrogen cycle, grassland, climate change)
Bingfang Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
(remote sensing application on agriculture and water, soil erosion, landcover and its change)
Yi-Jun Xu, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
(Surface hydrology, water quality, sediment transport, river/deltaic geomorphology, biogeochemistry, RS/GIS applications in hydrology and soil)
Li Zhang, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
(Microbial ecology, microbiofilm, microbial communities, molecular microbiology, microbiology and health)
Lu Zhang, CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, ACT, Australia
(soil physics, soil moisture dynamics, soil salinity, soil-vegetation-atmosphere interaction, vegetation water use)
Jun Zhou, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia
(soil and landscape ecology; Keywords: Remote sensing, image processing and analysis, spectral imaging, pattern recognition, machine learning)
Xiaoqi Zhou, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
(greenhouse gas efflux; microbial community and diversity; soil carbon and nitrogen cycling; plant-soil interaction; soil ecology; global change)

IUSS-JSS Coordinator
Stephen Nortcliff, The University of Reading, Reading, UK
 

Subject Editors - Sediments

Section 1: Sediment quality and impact assessment

Sophie Ayrault, LSCE Climate and Environmental Sciences Laboratory, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
(sediment-associated contaminants like metals and radionuclides, organic pollutants)
Marc Babut, CEMAGREF, Lyon, France
(risk management and communication)
Patrick Byrne, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
(metals and geochemistry, mining, urban environments)
Carmen Casado-Martinez, Swiss Centre for Applied Ecotoxicology, Lausanne, Switzerland
(Ecotoxicology, Sediment monitoring, Sediment risk assessment)
Tomas Matys Grygar, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, REZ, Karvina, Czech Republic
(environmental geochemistry, sediment contamination, risk elements in sediments, sedimentary archives)
Klara Hilscherova, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
(exotoxicology)
Milica Kašanin-Grubin, Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy; University of Belgrade, Serbia
(source of metals, weathering, transport of contaminants)
Cristiano Poleto, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
(sediment fingerprinting, sedimentation, urban environments, sediment and contaminant transfer)
Elena Romano, Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Rome, Italy
(sediment in coastal and marine environments)

Section 2: Physical and biogeochemical processes
Shiming Ding, Nanjing Institute of Geography & Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
(biogeochemistry, bioavailability, metal and nutrients, water quality, sampling, remediation)
Xia Liang, State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
(Carbon and nitrogen biogeochemical cycles; Greenhouse gases; Stable isotopes; Functional Microorganisms; Contaminated sediment remediation)
Nives Ogrinc, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
(sediment processes, isotope geochemistry, trace elements)
Thomas Reid, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Burlington, ON, Canada
(Sediment erosion and transport, microbial gene expression, biogeochemical cycles, water quality and multi-omics techniques)
Jan Schwarzbauer, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
(organic geochemistry)
Marcel van der Perk, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
(soil erosion and deposition, floodplain sedimentation and contamination, spatial analysis, sediment and contaminant budgets)
Hezhong Yuan, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
(environmental biogeochemistry, water sediment interface, nutrient cycling, heavy metal risk assessment, contaminant transport, eutrophication)

Section 3: Hillslope and river basin sediment dynamics
Rebecca Bartley, CSIRO Land and Water, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
(Land use impacts, Sediment flux, Water quality, Geomorphology, Grazing)
Olivier Evrard, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), University Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
(sediment source fingerprinting, sediment dynamics, fallout radionuclides, sediment and contaminant transfers, sediment budget reconstructions during the Anthropocene)
Nikolaus Kuhn, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
(effects of varying weather patterns on soil erosion, rainfall-surface interaction for landscape development)
Alexander Koiter, Brandon University, Brandon, MB, Canada
(sediment, sediment fingerprinting, sediment transport, soil erosion, water quality, watershed science)
David Lobb, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
(soil-landscape variability: causes, characterization and management (precision-farming), tillage erosion, water erosion, sedimentation, modelling, agri-environmental indicators, policy)
Paolo Porto, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy
(Soil Erosion, Sediment yield, Sediment budget, Sediment delivery, Fallout radionuclides)
Simon Pulley, Rothamsted Research, Okehampton, UK
(sediment fingerprinting, sediment dynamics, soil erosion, paleolimnology)
Hugh Smith, Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand
(sediment budgets, sediment sources, river basin disturbance, sediment and contaminant transfer)
 

Section 4: Sediment-ecology interactions
Lionel Denis, University of Lille, Lille, France
(Biogeochemistry, sediment-water interface, bioturbation, microphytobenthos production, estuarine and coastal systems, oxygen and nutrient exchanges)
Sabine Gerbersdorf, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
(biogenic mediation of sediment stability; erosion risk assessment; habitats; microalgae; toxicity)
Henner Hollert, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
(vertebrates (sediment toxicity assessment, sediment transport (biological) )
Geraldene Wharton, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
(interactions of plants, water and fine sediments in rivers, river restoration)
 

Section 5: Sediment management

Jos Brils, Deltares/TNO, Utrecht, The Netherlands
(ecotoxicological assess and monitoring of contaminated sediment; effluents; surface water and soil)
Alex Kirichek, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
(Sediment dynamics, Dredging, Fine sediments, Consolidation, Rheology, Flocculation)
Bruno Lemière, Monitor-env, Caussade, France
(Sediment characterization and analysis, Beneficial use and circular economy management options and applications, Sediment-soil continuum)