Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Environments will be awarding 2022 Travel Awards for junior scientists. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Environments Editorial Board. 

This award provides financial support for the winners to attend an international conference in the field of environmental conservation to be held in 2022, in order to hold a presentation, present a poster, or both.

Candidate Requirements:
– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students.
– Plans to attend an international conference in 2022 (oral presentation or poster). 

Required Application Documents:

1. Information about the conference that the applicant is planning to attend and the abstract that will be submitted.
2. Curriculum Vitae and list of publications.
3. Justification letter describing the focus of the research (max. 800 words).
4. Letter of recommendation from the supervisor, research director, or department head, which also confirms the applicant’s status as a postdoctoral fellow/PhD student.

The winners (two awardees) will each be awarded CHF 500 and a certificate. 

Please submit your applications for the Environments 2022 Travel Awards online by 30 April 2022. Prizes will be awarded at the end of May 2022 and announced on the Environments website.

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Environments 2020 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2020 in Environments were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the two winning papers, which were nominated by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Yu-Pin Lin, have been selected.

One Review:
Microplastic Contamination in Freshwater Environments: A Review, Focusing on Interactions with Sediments and Benthic Organisms
By Arianna Bellasi, Gilberto Binda, Andrea Pozzi, Silvia Galafassi, Pietro Volta and Roberta Bettinetti
Environments 2020, 7(4), 30; doi:10.3390/environments7040030

One Research Article:
Biogas Production from Food Residues—The Role of Trace Metals and Co-Digestion with Primary Sludge
By Moshe Habagil, Alexander Keucken and Ilona Sárvári Horváth
Environments 2020, 7(6), 42; doi:10.3390/environments7060042

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 500 and a certificate.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Environments and the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Yu-Pin Lin, Environments

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, we are pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 Environments Travel Award. This has been granted to:

Dr. Sutie Xu, a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Tennessee, USA. She works in the studies on soil health in a variety of ecosystems types under different climate conditions. The objective of these studies is to understand the response of soil properties and processes to management strategies to improve all aspects of ecosystem services, including provisioning, regulating, and supporting. Up now, she has been working with the response of soil carbon dynamics to grazing management. In the future, she would like to continue her research in the area of soil quality and agroecosystem management. Her overall academic goal is to understand the soil physical, chemical, and biological processes and explore strategies on enhancing soil fertility and productivity, carbon and nutrient dynamics, ecosystem sustainability, and resilience.

Envionments (ISSN 2076-3298) is an international, open-access journal of environmental sciences published quarterly online by MDPI. The award consists of 500 Swiss Francs, and the winner can attend an academic conference of their choice in 2019. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics.

Environments
Editorial Office
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On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, we are pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 Environments  Travel Award. This has been granted to Dr. Jose Luis Díaz De Tuesta Triviño, a postdoctoral researcher at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB), Portugal. He works in the treatment of oily wastewater using an advanced oxidation process with amphiphilic carbon-based materials. To date, he has worked with carbon nanotubes, graphene, activated carbon and xerogel carbon as catalysts. His work not only consists of the assessment of carbon-based catalysts in these treatments, but also their production and chemical modification in order to increase their catalytic activity in the processes.

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, we are pleased to announce the winner of the 2017 Environments Travel Award. This has been granted to:

Dr. Liesbeth Weijs, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her work is focused on the development of coupled models (PBTK/TD) for marine mammals in order to provide some fundamental components from which a comprehensive management and conservation strategy can be developed. Her research trajectory points towards providing PBTK/TD models as tools that can be used to reasonably connect exposure and effect in marine mammals. This is the crucial connection that is needed to assess risks in marine mammals across all life stages.

The award consisted of 800 Swiss Francs, to attend an academic conference of the winner’s choice in 2017. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics.