Special Issue Series: Young Investigators in Earth Science
A special issue of Earth (ISSN 2673-4834).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 2684
Special Issue Editor
Interests: precipitation variability; extreme events; weather forecasts; predictability studies; regional modeling; monsoon systems; climate change
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In this Special Issue, we aim to feature early-career researchers in Earth Science. The leading author(s) of each contribution should be (a) the first or last author as well as the corresponding author and (b) be within 10 years of completing their Ph.D. (or equivalent) or becoming an assistant professor/on track to make tenure. Contributions are welcome from any discipline that advances understanding of the interactions connecting global environmental systems. Core themes include—but are not limited to—air-quality and atmospheric change, climate-change impacts on water and soil resources, land-use/land-cover feedbacks (agriculture, forestry), biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics under global change, resource management and conservation, natural and anthropogenic hazards, food–security–environment nexuses, and urban-environment-health interactions. Studies that integrate in situ monitoring, remote sensing, laboratory experiments, theory, or computational modeling are encouraged; manuscripts may be experimental, observational, or conceptual.
Articles submitted for this Special Issue should meet all the standard requirements of individual Earth articles (regarding quality, novelty, and significance) and be relevant to a broad international and interdisciplinary readership.
Prof. Dr. Charles Jones
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Earth is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- atmospheric pollution
- climate-change impacts
- water-resource management
- land-use change
- soil–environment interactions
- biodiversity conservation
- natural hazards
- food–environment nexus
- environmental health risks
- urban sustainability
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