Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Jesus Martinez-Frias, we wish to acknowledge our reviewers who so generously give their time to review papers submitted to Geosciences by presenting an award to those who have demonstrated their dedication, professionalism, and timeliness in reviewing manuscripts for Geosciences.

What are the pre-requisites to be eligible for this award?
All reviewers for Geosciences in 2022 will be automatically included.

Selection Criteria:
– Number of review reports (only first review reports are considered);
– Review quality based on the rating given in SuSy;
– Review speed.

What will the winners receive?
There will be two winners this year, and each will receive the following:
– CHF 500;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in 2023;
– A certificate.

When will the winners be announced?
The winners will be announced in February 2023 on the journal website.

How can I make myself eligible?
If you have not yet reviewed papers for Geosciences but would like to do so, you can register as a reviewer at the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.

Dear Colleagues,

The journal Geosciences (MDPI, Switzerland, ISSN 2076-3263, https://0-www-mdpi-com.brum.beds.ac.uk/journal/geosciences) is inviting applications for the Geosciences 2021 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award. This prize will be awarded to a Ph.D. student who is about to graduate or participate in the graduation thesis. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Geosciences Editorial Board.

Eligibility Requirements:

a. The candidate must be a Ph.D. student who is going to graduate or participate in graduation thesis defenses.
b. The Ph.D. thesis must be original work.
c. The Ph.D. thesis must be defended between 1 September 2021 and 31 August 2022.
d. Applicants are required to submit the following documents:
– An executive summary of the Ph.D. thesis, in English, of around 3000 words;
– A letter from the Ph.D. supervisor recommending the candidate for consideration for this award;
– The candidate’s CV, including a list of publications connected with the thesis;
– An electronic copy of the Ph.D. thesis; 
– A scanned copy of the Ph.D. diploma (or certificate of study at a school or research institute as a Ph.D. student going to graduate or participate in graduation thesis defenses).

Selection Criteria:

– Quality of resume and publications;
– Relevance of the candidate and research description;
– Novelty of the candidate’s Ph.D. thesis;
– Strength of the recommendation letter;
– Anticipated academic potential;
– Originality and impact of the research.

Prizes:

– Bonus (CHF 800);
– Certificate;
– Offer to publish a featured paper in Geosciences with the article processing charge (APC) waived before 30 June 2023.

How to apply?

– Please submit your application online.

The application deadline is 1 September 2022. The winner will be announced on the Geosciences website by October 2022.

Please feel free to contact us at [email protected] with any questions.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Geosciences 2022 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2021 in Geosciences were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the two winning research articles, which were nominated by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Jesus Martinez-Frias, have been selected.

Hydrogen Emanations in Intracratonic Areas: New Guide Lines for Early Exploration Basin Screening
By Isabelle Moretti, Emyrose Brouilly, Keanu Loiseau, Alain Prinzhofer and Eric Deville
Geosciences 2021, 11(3), 145; doi:10.3390/geosciences11030145

Advances and Challenges in Palaeoenvironmental Studies Based on Oxygen Isotope Composition of Skeletal Carbonates and Phosphates
By Hubert Wierzbowski
Geosciences 2021, 11(10), 419; doi:10.3390/geosciences11100419

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper in Geosciences in 2022.

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 Geosciences and the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Jesus Martinez-Frias, Geosciences

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winner of the Geosciences 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Geosciences Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers to checking the manuscripts submitted to Geosciences. It is due to their efforts that the high quality and quick turnaround of the journal is maintained.

Dr. Dave Waters

Department of Earth Sciences and Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Research Interest: the evolution of the metamorphic core of the Himalaya and Karakoram; the formation and exhumation of eclogites in collision zones; the petrology of ophiolite complexes and their high-temperature metamorphic soles; and partial melting processes in relation to granulite formation and the generation of granites.

Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Jesus Martinez-Frias
Editor-in-Chief, Geosciences

We are pleased to announce the “Geosciences Best Paper Awards” for 2021. Nominations were made by the Evaluation Committee from all the papers published in 2020 and approved by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Jesus Martinez-Frias. We are now proud to announce that the two final winners have been selected, and they are as follows:

Article (500 CHF):

Distinguishing between Deep-Water Sediment Facies: Turbidites, Contourites and Hemipelagites
Dorrik Stow, Zeinab Smillie
doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10020068

Review (500 CHF):

Review of Explosive Hydrovolcanism
Károly Németh, Szabolcs Kósiks
doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10020044

These papers perfectly represent the broad array of excellent-quality research published in Geosciences and are well-deserving of this award. We warmly congratulate Dorrik Stow, Károly Németh, and their respective colleagues.

The Geosciences Editorial Board and Team would like to acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to the journal. It is thanks to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick submission to publication process are maintained. In 2020, the median time to first decision was 15.5 days and the median time to publication was 43 days.

The Editor-in-Chief of Geosciences, Prof. Dr. Jesus Martinez-Frias, has selected one awardee, Dr. Luke A. McGuire, to receive the “Geosciences 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award” for the quantity, timeliness, and quality of his reviews in 2020. He will receive 500 CHF and a certificate for his outstanding review work:

Dr. Luke A. McGuire
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA

Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal of geoscience, future Earth, and planetary science, published monthly online by MDPI, Switzerland. It has been covered by some important databases such as the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), Scopus (CiteScore 2.1, Elsevier), GeoRef (American Geosciences Institute), AGORA (FAO), CAS—Chemical Abstracts (ACS), and DOAJ—Directory of Open Access Journals. Because it is an online journal, papers published in Geosciences receive very high publicity. For further details, please refer to: https://0-www-mdpi-com.brum.beds.ac.uk/journal/geosciences.

The “Geosciences 10th Anniversary Best Paper Award” was established to mark the 10th anniversary of Geosciences in 2020. Nominations were made by the Evaluation Committee from all the papers published from 2011 to 2020 and approved by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Jesus Martinez-Frias. We are now proud to announce that the two final winners have been selected, and they are as follows:

Article (500 CHF):
The Nippon Foundation—GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project: The Quest to See the World’s Oceans Completely Mapped by 2030
Authors: Larry Mayer *, Martin Jakobsson, Graham Allen, Boris Dorschel, Robin Falconer, Vicki Ferrini, Geoffroy Lamarche, Helen Snaith and Pauline Weatherall
doi: 10.3390/geosciences8020063

Review (500 CHF):
The Carbon-Isotope Record of the Sub-Seafloor Biosphere
Authors: Patrick Meister * and Carolina Reyes
doi: 10.3390/geosciences9120507

These papers perfectly represent the broad array of excellent-quality research published in Geosciences and are well-deserving of this award. We warmly congratulate Larry Mayer, Patrick Meister, and their respective colleagues.

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, we are pleased to announce the winners of the Geosciences 2020 Travel Award: Dr Benjamin M.P. Chandler, Dr. Caterina Gozzi, Dr. Christian Schiffer, Dr. Hong Chin NG, and Dr. Ismael Foroughi (in alphabetical order), who will receive 500 Swiss Francs each towards the cost of participation at their chosen conferences.

Dr. Benjamin M.P. Chandler is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. His research interests are focused on understanding the extent and dynamics of glaciers, principally through investigating sediment-landform signatures in terrestrial glacial environments. He will attend the EGU 2020, Vienna (Vienna, Austria, 3–8 May 2020).

Dr. Caterina Gozzi is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy. Her research concerns the multidisciplinary study of River catchment, investigating the interlinks between the chemical composition of surface waters and stream sediments and the landscape properties of the basin. She will attend the 2nd International Conference on Contaminated Sediments (Bern, Switzerland, 14–18 June 2020).

Dr. Christian Schiffer is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. His research interests include seismology (receiver functions, tomography), geophysics (gravity, heat flow, stress field), geodynamic evolution of the North Atlantic-Arctic region, plate tectonics, and global crust–mantle dynamics. He will attend the GSA meeting 2020 (Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 25–28 October 2020).

Dr. Hong Chin NG is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. His research interests including isotope geochemistry, ocean and fjord biogeochemistry, climate change and ocean circulation. He will attend the EGU 2020 (Vienna, Austria, 3–8 May 2020).

Dr. Ismael Foroughi is a postdoctoral Researcher in University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada. Ismael is now cooperating with FUGRO on projects involving geoid computations using the UNB-developed technique. He will attend the EGU 2020 (Vienna, Austria, 3–8 May 2020).

We wish to congratulate Dr Benjamin M.P. Chandler, Dr. Caterina Gozzi, Dr. Christian Schiffer, Dr. Hong Chin NG, and Dr. Ismael Foroughi on their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Jesús Martinez-Frias
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

The Geosciences Editorial Board and Team would like to acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to the journal. It is thanks to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick submission to publication process are maintained. In 2019, the median time to first decision is 18 days and the median time to publication is 47 days.

The Editor-in-Chief of Geosciences, Prof. Dr. Jesus Martinez-Frias, has selected one awardee, Prof. Dr. Bill Boyd, to receive the “Geosciences 2019 Outstanding Reviewer Award” for the quantity, timeliness, and quality of his reviews in 2019. He will receive 500 CHF and a certificate for his outstanding review work:

Prof. Dr. Bill Boyd
School of Environment, Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia

Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal of geoscience, future earth, and planetary science, published monthly online by MDPI, Switzerland. It has been covered by some important databases, such as the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), Scopus (CiteScore 1.82, Elsevier), GeoRef (American Geosciences Institute), AGORA (FAO), CAS—Chemical Abstracts (ACS), and DOAJ—Directory of Open Access Journals. Because it is an online journal, papers published in Geosciences receive very high publicity. For further details, please refer to: https://0-www-mdpi-com.brum.beds.ac.uk/journal/geosciences.

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, we are pleased to announce the winners of the Geosciences 2019 Travel Award: Mr. Mussa Raja and Dr. Patricio Becerra, who will receive 600 Swiss Francs each towards the cost of participation at their chosen conferences.

Mr. Mussa Raja is a PhD student at the Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour (ICArEHB), Universidade do Algarve, Portugal. His research focus is Archaeology, specifically Geoarchaeology. He has demonstrated interest in presenting the latest results of his research to the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) at their 84th annual meeting, from 10 to 14 April 2019 in Albuquerque, NM, USA. He will make an oral presentation related to his PhD work under the title “Geochemical and Sedimentary Based Reconstruction of the Palaeoenvironment and Formation of the Late Stone Age Site of Txina-Txina (Massingir, Mozambique)”.

Dr. Patricio Becerra is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Physics Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland. His research centers on understanding the relationship between planetary ice and the climate on terrestrial planets. He will attend the Ninth International Conference on Mars (Mars 9) (Pasadena, CA, USA, 22–26 July 2019). He plans to present his research of the climate record of the south polar layered deposits (SPLD) of Mars. These stratified deposits represent the largest reservoir of water on Mars and are believed to have been forced by periodic changes to its orbital parameters.

We wish to congratulate Mr. Mussa Raja and Dr. Patricio Becerra on their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Jesús Martinez-Frias
Editor-in-Chief

The Geosciences Editorial Board and Team would like to acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to the journal. It is thanks to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick submission to publication process are maintained. The median time to first decision is 18 days and the median time to publication is 47 days.

The Editor-in-Chief of Geosciences, Prof. Dr. Jesus Martinez-Frias, has selected one awardee, Dmitry A. Ruban, to receive the “Geosciences 2018 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness and quality of his reviews in 2018. He will receive 500 CHF and a certificate for his outstanding review work:

Dmitry A. Ruban
Higher School of Business, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of geoscience, future earth and planetary science, published monthly online by MDPI, Switzerland. It has been covered by some important databases, such as the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), Scopus (citescore 1.97, Elsevier), GeoRef (American Geosciences Institute), AGORA (FAO), CAS—Chemical Abstracts (ACS) and DOAJ—Directory of Open Access Journals. Because it is an online journal, papers published in Geosciences receive very high publicity. For further details, please refer to: https://0-www-mdpi-com.brum.beds.ac.uk/journal/geosciences

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, we are pleased to announce the winners of the Geosciences 2018 Travel Award: Mr. Ilya Bobrovskiy and Ms. Lauren N. Schaefer, who will be supported with 600 Swiss Francs each towards the cost of participation at their chosen conferences.

Mr. Ilya Bobrovskiy is a PhD student at the Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Australia. His research interests focus on reconstruction of palaeoenvironments and palaeoecology of the Northern part of the East European platform during the terminal Neoproterozoic time, studying biomarkers, sedimentology and geochemistry. He is keen to present the latest results of his research on the Ediacara biota at the International Conference on Ediacaran and Cambrian Sciences, 11–21 August 2018 in Xi’an, China (ICECS 2018).

Ms. Lauren N. Schaefer is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Her research interests focus on investigating earthquake-induced landslides, volcanic collapse hazards, material damage evolution in dynamic systems, rock physics in geothermal systems, and remote sensing applications to landslide and volcanic hazards. The research she will present at the AGU (American Geophysical Union 2018 Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, 10–14 December 2018) aims to improve our understanding of hazards around volcanoes based on a unique combination of hyperspectral airborne imaging, laboratory, and field techniques. We wish to congratulate Mr. Ilya Bobrovskiy and Ms. Lauren N. Schaefer for their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Jesús Martinez-Frias
Editor-in-Chief

The Geosciences Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to the journal. It is thanks to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick submission to publication process is maintained. The median time to first decision is 22 days and the median time to publication is 61 days.

The Editor-in-Chief of Geosciences, Prof. Dr. Jesus Martinez-Frias, selected one awardee, Maurizio Barbieri (Department of Earth Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), to receive the “Geosciences 2017 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness and quality of his reviews in 2017. He will receive 500 CHF and a certificate for his outstanding review work.

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, we are pleased to announce the winner of the Geosciences 2017 Travel Award, Ms. Amelia Jane Davies, who will be supported with 800 Swiss Francs towards her travel expenses to attend Goldschmidt 2017, 13-18 August in Paris. It was a difficult decision with such high quality applications for the award and we would like to thank all applicants for submitting their diverse and thought-provoking presentations.
Ms. Amelia Jane Davies is a PhD student at the Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom. Her research interests focus on research investigating paleo-temperatures and kinetic fractionation in non-traditional fossil groups using clumped isotope geochemistry. She is keen to present her work on (dis)equilibrium effects in the clumped isotope composition of non-traditional fossil groups at Goldschmidt 2017.
We wish to congratulate Ms. Amelia Jane Davies for her accomplishments.