Awardees in Environmental and Earth Sciences

We are pleased to announce that 20 scholars in the field of environmental and earth sciences have been selected as the 2026 Travel Award winners.

Climate:

• Sergi Ventura Caballé, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.

Environments:

• Teresa Silverthorn, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Forests:

• Anna Crofts, University of Regina, Canada;
• Sauradipta Ganguly, Natural Resources Institute, Finland.

Geosciences:

• Chang Zhong, University of Glasgow, UK;
• Vittoria Vandelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.

IJGI:

• M. Naser Lessani, The Pennsylvania State University, USA;
• Yan Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China.

Remote Sensing:

• Minghui Chang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China;
• Narges Takhtkeshha, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy.

Resources:

• Lucrezia Maggi, University of Insubria, Italy.

Soil Systems:

• Krishna Gautam, North-West University, South Africa.

Sustainability:

• Abolfazl Baghbani, Deakin University, Australia;
• Antonella Monda, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy;
• Cariny Polesca, Imperial College London, UK;
• Murat Kabatas, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands;
• Xueli Chen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA.

Water:

• Mark Louie Lopez, University of Victoria, Canada;
• Simone Pagliara, ETH Zurich, Switzerland;
• Zhengang Xia, National University of Singapore, Singapore.