Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Environments will be granting the 2023 Travel Award to a junior scientist. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Yu-Pin Lin.

This award provides financial support for the winner to attend an international conference in the field of environmental sciences to be held in 2023 in order to give a presentation, present a poster, or both.

Candidate Requirements:
– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students;
– Plans to attend an international conference in 2023 (oral presentation or poster).

Required Application Documents:
– Information on the conference the applicant is planning to attend and the abstract that will be submitted;
– Curriculum Vitae and list of publications;
– Justification letter describing the focus of the research (max. 800 words);
– 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 winner will be awarded CHF 500 and a certificate. Please submit your applications for the Environments 2023 Travel Award online by 31 May 2023. Prizes will be awarded on 15 July 2023 and announced on the Environments website.

Kind regards,
Environments Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Environments, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Environments 2022 Travel Award.

The award has been granted to: Michael Eze, a graduate of the Cotutelle PhD program between Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, and University of Goettingen, Germany; and Murillo Vetroni Barros, a PhD candidate in Industrial Engineering at the Federal University of Technology—Paraná, UTFPR/Brazil.

Due to the many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting such a diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

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

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Environments 2021 Best Paper Award” for research and review articles published in Environments from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021. One review and one research article will each receive an award. The papers will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the journal’s Award Committee, led by its Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Yu-Pin Lin.

Eligibility for the Award：
– Papers published in Environments from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria：
The papers will be selected by the journal’s Award Committee according to the following criteria:
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.

The Prize：
– One review award: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Environments in 2023 after peer review;
– One research article award: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Environments in 2023 after peer review;
– Each winner will also receive a certificate.

The winners will be announced on the journal’s website in March 2023.

Kind regards,
Environments Editorial Office

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
St. Alban-Anlage 66
CH-4052, Basel, Switzerland
[email protected]
www.mdpi.com/journal/environments

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.