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21 August 2025
Welcoming New Early Career Editorial Board Members of Earth

Earth (ISSN: 2673-4834) is pleased to add the following 31* researchers to the 2025 Early Career Editorial Board and congratulates them on becoming part of the Earth community!

Name: Dr. Yiannis G. Zevgolis
Affiliation: Biodiversity Conservation Laboratory, Department of Environment, University of the Aegean, 81132 Mytilene, Greece
Research interests: forest ecology; urban forestry; agro-ecosystem conservation; wildlife conservation; conservation physiology; behavioral ecology; non-invasive methods; infrared thermography

Name: Prof. Dr. Eduardo Gomes
Affiliation: 1 Centre for Geographical Studies, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, P-1600276 Lisboa, Portugal;
2 Associate Laboratory TERRA, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, P-1600276 Lisboa, Portugal
Research interests: geographic information systems; land-use science; collaborative simulation; spatial planning; complexity science

Name: Dr. Xiaojun Qiao
Affiliation: Department of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
Research interests: coastal subsidence; sea level rise; hyperspectral remote sensing

Name: Dr. Zhanbin Luo
Affiliation: Department of Land Resource Management, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China
Research interests: soil ecohydrology; efficient utilization of water and soil resources; territorial space protection and restoration; ecological carbon sink

Name: Dr. Xianghui Cao
Affiliation: China Institute of Geo-Environment Monitoring, Beijing 100081, China
Research interests: climate change and water resources; water balance; environmental science and sustainable development; multiple-media transport of pollutants; climate change

Name: Dr. Qingsong Du
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science and Frozen Soils Engineering, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730030, China
Research interests: permafrost distribution mapping and permafrost degradation under climate change; surface deformation inversion; monitoring of major frozen soil engineering diseases in cold regions; cataloging of rock glaciers and their environmental effects; deep learning/machine learning; remote sensing; information mining

Name: Dr. Yangyang Liu
Affiliation: Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA
Research interests: heterogeneous/multiphase chemistry; interface mechanisms; artificial intelligence machine learning

Name: Dr. Yan Zhang
Affiliation: Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China
Research interests: GeoAI and social sensing; urban science, disaster response, and inequality; micro-scale urban perception; disaster emergency management; environmental health and inequality

Name: Dr. Jie Tang
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China
Research interests: environmental hydrogeology; interactions among water, rock, soil, gas, and biota

Name: Dr. Chunyi Li
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Wetland Conservation and Restoration, Institute of Ecological Conservation and Restoration, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
Research interests: environmental science and wetland ecology

Name: Dr. Youjia Liang
Affiliation: School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
Research interests: ecosystem services; social–ecological system carbon inventory; integrated environmental modeling

Name: Dr. Shengqiang Wang
Affiliation: Guangxi Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Conservation, College of Forestry, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
Research interests: soil organic carbon and nutrient cycling processes; soil structure and microbial interaction mechanisms

Name: Dr. Zhenxing Zhang
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Tribology in Advanced Equipment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Research interests: land-use change; environmental impacts of human activities on river and riverine (heavy metals and microplastics) and environmental health assessment; stream restoration; environmental geochemistry; freshwater ecology; ecological engineering

Name: Dr. Han Zhai
Affiliation: School of Geography and Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Research interests: hyperspectral image processing; remote sensing image information extraction and application; cloud detection; urbanization; land use and land cover monitoring and simulation

Name: Dr. Ting Wei
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Cryosphere Sciences, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
Research interests: phage therapy; anti-bacterial agents; caudovirales magnetism; paleosols; loess neodymium isotopes; ferro-manganese alloys; rare earth elements

Name: Dr. Junhuai Yang
Affiliation: College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
Research interests: holocene climate change in the southern tibetan plateau and its surroundings

Name: Dr. Ruichen Xu
Affiliation: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Research interests: water environmental models; machine learning; hydro-ecology; water quality simulation; remote sensing; turbulence research; image data quantification; water resource

Name: Dr. Chunpeng Chen
Affiliation: Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Research interests: coastal remote sensing; coastal wetlands; deep learning; coastal geomorphology

Name: Dr. Xiangyan Feng
Affiliation: College of Ecosystem and Environment, Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021, China
Research interests: plant ecology; desert ecology; arid zone eco-hydrology

Name: Dr. Pengke Yan
Affiliation: School of Resources and Environment, Northeast Agricultural University, 600 Changjiang Rd., Harbin 150030, China
Research interests: agricultural ecology; microplastic contamination in soils; nutritional diagnosis; fertilization

Name: Dr. Yang Wang
Affiliation: Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
Research interests: cloud physics; aerosol cloud precipitation interactions; cloud remote sensing

Name: Dr. Antomio Pica
Affiliation: Department of Ecological and Biological Sciences (DEB), Tuscia University, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
Research interests: plant ecology; orchid ecology; landscape ecology; forestry

Name: Dr. Yang Chen
Affiliation: School of Design, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China
Research interests: urban–rural planning; built environment; urban thermal environment; spatial analysis; landscape and cultural heritage

Name: Dr. Jie Zhu
Affiliation: Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Research interests: water quality/pollution and water resource management; climate–resource coupling; sustainability

Name: Dr. Diana Maria Contreras Mojica
Affiliation: School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK
Research interests: disaster management; social vulnerability; earthquake reconnaissance; social media; climate change adaptation; health inequality; social justice; equality, diversity and inclusion; mental health wellbeing

Name: Dr. Mariagiovanna Moscariello
Affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering Group (GEG), University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084 Fisciano, SA, Italy
Research interests: vegetated soil; unsaturated soil; geotechnics; geomechanics; geotechnical engineering; natural based solutions; climate change, landslides; flow-like landslides; triggering and propagation of landslides; geohazards; volcanic soil; experimental tests; soil behavior; constitutive models; numerical simulation; civil engineering

Name: Dr. Qian Li
Affiliation: School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
Research interests: satellite intelligent computing; knowledge graphs; multi-modal LLMs

Name: Dr. Yang Zhang
Affiliation: Institute of Strategic Planning, Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning, Beijing 100041, China
Research interests: regional ecological security; spatial system regulation

Name: Dr. Kunyang Wang
Affiliation: Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8521, Japan
Research interests: water cycle; nutrient cycle; hydrological modeling; remote sensing; GIS; climate change; urbanization; human impact; machine learning

Name: Dr. Zhanze Wang
Affiliation: Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hongkong, China
Research interests: disaster detection and risk assessment; earth remote sensing; surface deformation monitoring; environmental parameter monitoring

Name: Dr. Yanjun Chen
Affiliation: Key Laboratory of Metallogenic Prediction of Nonferrous Metals and Geological Environment Monitoring, Ministry of Education, School of Geosciences and Info-Physics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
Research interests: natural and human-made disaster observation; geophysical instrumentation; rotational seismology; earthquake observation; seismic imaging; earth science applications of optics

*Based on the Editorial Board’s selection, the Early Career Editorial Board has been expanded to 31 members.

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