Announcements

MDPI is pleased to announce our participation in the 2025 AAG Annual Meeting (AAG 2025), held from 24 to 28 March 2025 in Detroit, MI, USA.

AAG 2025 will revolve around the theme of “Making Spaces of Possibility”. It will bring together geographers of many perspectives and specialties to learn from Detroit, envisioning solutions for the region it is part of and for places around the world.

To make spaces of possibility is to leverage geographic insight, knowledge, and tools to counter the historical legacies of racial exclusion and (settler) colonialism; to address current threats to democracy and the environment; and to work toward climate justice.

The following MDPI journals will be represented at the event:

• Remote Sensing;
• Sustainability;
• Earth;
• Geographies;
• Climate;
• Hydrology;
• Land;
• Water;
• Fire;
• Atmosphere;
• World;
• Drones;
• Geomatics;
• Quaternary.

If you are attending AAG 2025, we invite you to visit us at booth #111. Our representatives, Mr. Elvis Wang and Ms. Sofia Zelko, will be available to discuss publishing opportunities, the benefits of open access, and our commitment to advancing geosciences research.

For more information about the conference, please visit its official website: https://www.aag.org/events/aag2025/.

MDPI is pleased to share a significant milestone in its mission to advance scholarly research and promote the dissemination of knowledge—300+ MDPI journals are now indexed in Web of Science (WoS). This milestone highlights the global recognition, interdisciplinary impact and enhanced visibility of our journals. It also reflects our adherence to rigorous editorial standards, scientific integrity, and our mission to foster open scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines. 

To explore the full list of our journals indexed in WoS, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/about/journals/wos. Beyond expanding the coverage of our publications in the leading academic databases, we are dedicated to ensuring that our journals are included in as many scope-specific databases as possible. This increases the visibility of our authors’ work and extends the reach of their significant data. 

This milestone would not have been possible without the efforts and expertise of our academic editors, reviewers and authors. Their commitment and collaboration have been instrumental in creating an inclusive, accessible, and impactful publishing platform. We also extend our gratitude to the global research community for their trust as we continue to break new ground in academic publishing. This milestone is not just a celebration of MDPI’s progress but also recognition of the collective strides made by researchers worldwide. 

As we celebrate this remarkable accomplishment, MDPI remains steadfast in its commitment to open access publishing and ensuring that high-quality research reaches and inspires a global audience.

This year, MDPI celebrates Environmental and Earth Sciences Week under the theme “Science for a Thriving Planet!”. As we honor this week, we also align with the United Nations’ call to action by recognizing key global observances: 21 March as the International Day of Forests and World Day for Glaciers, 22 March as World Water Day, and 23 March as World Meteorological Day. These observances highlight the interconnectedness of forests, water, weather, and climate in shaping a sustainable future.

Hereby, we are pleased to officially launch the campaign “MDPI 2024 Most Popular Cover in Environmental and Earth Sciences”, which aims to reinforce the critical role science plays in understanding, protecting, and sustaining our world.

What’s the cover?
For this campaign, MDPI highlights a paper in the form of an issue cover for each issue. We selected 15 covers in 2024 in the field of forests, water and meteorology. Many cover stories report important research results or innovative methods with impressive images.

What’s standard when selecting the popular cover?
The criteria that will be considered for selection are as follows:

• The importance or innovation of research in the fields of forests, water, glaciers, or meteorology;
• Quality of the cover image.

How many winners will there be?

• There will be three covers granted the “MDPI 2024 Most Popular Cover”.

What’s the prize for each winner?

• A CHF 300 Article-Processing Charge (APC) voucher (corresponding author);
• An electronic certificate.

How to pick your favorite cover?
To cast your vote, please visit the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Z8B3BDQ.

The voting will be open from 19 February to 12 March 2025. The winners will be announced on the MDPI website by 21 March.

MDPI, a pioneer in scholarly open access publishing, and the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine), Singapore, proudly announce the successful conclusion of the first edition the MDPI Early Career Researcher Awards. The awards, which recognize outstanding contributions to medical and biomedical research, were presented to six exceptional researchers during an awards ceremony held at LKCMedicine HQ Building on 28 November 2024.

Honoring Excellence in Research

The awards recognize exceptional postdoctoral researchers and Ph.D. students who have demonstrated outstanding originality, innovation, and impact in their respective fields. We are honored to announce the winners of the 2024 edition:

Early Career Researcher (Postdoc) Award:

• Dr. Theresia Handayani Mina, “Adiposity and Metabolic Health in Asian Populations: An Epidemiological Study Using Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry in Singapore”;
• Dr. Erfan Rezvani Ghomi, “Wound Healing Improvement by Novel Aligned Antimicrobial Nanofibrous 3D Scaffolds”;
• Dr. Yadollah Ranjbar Slamloo, “Functional Alterations of The Prefrontal Circuit Underlying Cognitive Aging in Mice”.

Early Career Researcher (Ph.D.) Award:

• Pritisha Rozario, “Mechanistic Basis for Potassium Efflux-Driven Activation of the Human NLRP1 Inflammasome”;

• Michelle Law Cheok Yien, “Chikungunya Virus Nonstructural Protein 1 is a Versatile RNA Capping and Decapping Enzyme”;
• Yin Ruoyu, “The Use of Digital Mental Health and Wellbeing Tools in Older Adults: A Mixed Method Study”.

Our collaboration highlights a shared commitment to recognizing exceptional talent and research within the academic community, addressing today’s healthcare challenges, and inspiring continued innovation.

Looking Ahead to 2025

Building on the success of the first edition, MDPI and LKCMedicine are excited to announce that the 2025 MDPI Early Researcher Awards will continue to celebrate excellence and innovation in medical research. The next edition promises to expand its scope, introducing new categories and providing even greater recognition for impactful research.

Further details on the 2025 awards, including nomination criteria and timelines, will be shared in the coming months. We remain committed to fostering a culture of research excellence and collaboration within the global scientific community.

Conference: First Ocean Decade International Coastal Cities Conference
Date: 26–27 February 2025
Location: Qingdao, China

MDPI will be attending the First Ocean Decade International Coastal Cities Conference, which will be held from 26 to 27 February 2025, as an exhibitor, and we welcome researchers from different backgrounds to visit and share their latest ideas with us.

The conference is organized by the Qingdao Municipal People’s Government and UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC-UNESCO). The theme of the conference is “Better Ocean, Better City”. Building upon the momentum and outcomes of the 2024 Ocean Decade Conference, this conference will mark a pivotal moment in accelerating action for the newly launched “Cities with the Ocean” platform and be a major step towards the 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference and the planned pre-Conference special event on “Ocean Rise and Resilience”.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Oceans;
• Coasts;
• Conservation;
• Diversity;
• Environments;
• Hydrology;
• Land;
• Microplastics;
• Pollutants;
• Resources;
• Urban Science;
• Waste;
• Water;
• Clean Technol.

If you are planning to attend this conference, please do not hesitate to start a conversation with us online. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person at the conference and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: https://oceandecade.org/zh/events/first-ocean-decade-international-coastal-cities-conference-better-ocean-better-city/.

Hydrology (ISSN: 2306-5338) is pleased to announce the following 30 researchers, who have been added to our group of 2025–2026 Early Career Editorial Board Members (ECEBMs). Applications for the Early Career Editorial Board are now closed. Please join us in congratulating them on joining the Hydrology community!

Name: Dr. Ebrahim Ghaderpour
Affiliation: Department of Earth Sciences & CERI Research Centre, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro, 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
Website: https://research.uniroma1.it/researcher/50f09bea13ee8cd599bedb2a3297f8e89b397e9275c3332540306207?page=1
Interests: artificial intelligence; remote sensing; environmental sciences; geology; hydrology

Name: Dr. Nan Xu
Affiliation: ¹ Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China;
² College of Geography and Remote Sensing, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9912-2347
Interests: coastal remote sensing; water resource remote sensing; GeoAI

Name: Dr. Mariusz Ptak
Affiliation: Department of Hydrology and Water Management, Adam Mickiewicz University, B. Krygowskiego 10, 61-680 Poznań, Poland
Website: https://researchportal.amu.edu.pl/info.seam?id=UAM143611&affil=&lang=pl
Interests: lakes; rivers; water level; water temperature; ice cover; water resources

Name: Dr. Fan Zhang
Affiliation: Jixian National Forest Ecosystem Observation and Research Station, National Ecosystem Research Network of China (CNERN), School of Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Websites: https://scholar.google.com.hk/citations?user=qjiXE2EAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4648-5851
Interests: green and efficient utilization of agricultural water and land resources; ecosystem service analysis of agricultural systems; decision making support under multiple uncertainties

Name: Prof. Dr. Danqing Song
Affiliation: ¹ School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China;
² State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
Websites: https://www2.scut.edu.cn/jtxy/2023/0828/c35030a516914/page.htm; https://www2.scut.edu.cn/jtxy_en/weotechnicalwngineering/list.htm
Interests: disaster-causing mechanism; prevention and control technology of underground engineering under hydrodynamic coupling

Name: Dr. Linjing Qiu
Affiliation: Department of Earth and Environmental Science, School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
Website: https://gr.xjtu.edu.cn/en/web/qiulinjing; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7250-5698
Interests: land cover change; water cycle; climate change; numerical simulation; watershed hydrology

Name: Dr. Rocky Talchabhadel
Affiliation: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Jackson State University, Jackson, MI, USA
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/rockytalchabhadel
Interests: meteorology and atmospheric sciences; water resources environmental sciences and ecology; geology engineering

Name: Dr. Stefania Anna Palermo
Affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy
Website: https://eleanor.unical.it/eleanor/dettaglianagrafica.asp?docente=374&dipartimento=1&ruolo=6
Interests: hydrology; urban stormwater management; urban flooding risk; water quality; nature-based solutions; low-impact development systems; modeling; numerical analysis; water resource management; water balance; soil sciences

Name: Dr. Zipeng Zhang
Affiliation: ¹ College of Geography and Remote Sensing Sciences, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China;
² Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China
Website: https://geography.xju.edu.cn/info/1021/1444.htm; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-8704
Interests: soil organic carbon dynamics; hyperspectral quantitative remote sensing; soil biogeochemical modeling

Name: Dr. Francesco Ronchetti
Affiliation: Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Giuseppe Campi, 103-41125 Modena, Italy
Website: https://personale.unimore.it/rubrica/dettaglio/uranio
Interests: hydrogeology; water isotopes; tracer tests; fractured aquifer; karst aquifer; water spring; alluvial aquifer; numerical modeling; geostatistics; hydrochemistry; seawater intrusion

Name: Prof. Dr. Jiangjiang Zhang
Affiliation: Yangtze Institute for Conservation and Development, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
Website: https://www.yicode.org.cn/en/people/jiangjiang-zhang/; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0513-5233
Interests: rainfall-runoff modeling; data assimilation; machine learning

Name: Dr. Jia Qin
Affiliation: ¹ Key Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China;
² Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences and Frozen Soil Engineering, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China;
³ Tanggula Mountain Cryosphere and Environment Observation and Research Station of Tibet Autonomous Region, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China;
⁴ University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Website: https://people.ucas.ac.cn/~qinj; https://people.ucas.ac.cn/~qinj?language=en
Interests: hydrological simulation; alpine hydrology; permafrost; cold region

Name: Dr. Wenzhao Liang
Affiliation: Department of Ocean Science and Center for Ocean Research in Hong Kong and Macau, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China
Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9HrAKb0AAAAJ&hl=zh-TW
Interests: hydrodynamics and biogeochemical cycling in surface water–groundwater interactions at different scales (small: intertidal zone/benthic sediment interface; large: deltaic/continental pathway); machine learning-driven analysis of long-term databases (in-situ observation/remote sensing) for natural hazard prediction and informing environmental/sustainable policymaking

Name: Dr. Bojan Đurin
Affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, University North, Jurja Križanića 31b, 42000 Varaždin, Croatia
Website: https://www.unin.hr/en/profiles/profile/durin-bojan
Interests: hydrology; water supply; hydrotechnical facilities; renewable energy; environmental engineering

Name: Dr. Donatas Pupienis
Affiliation: Laboratory of Geoenvironmental Research, Nature Research Centre, 08412 Vilnius, Lithuania
Website: https://www.hkk.gf.vu.lt/biografijos/biografijos-donatas-pupienis/
Interests: Baltic Sea; coastal processes; sediment transport; heavy minerals; coastal morphology; sea level; environment monitoring; sedimentary environments and processes in different water bodies; coastal management; coastal and marine geology; aeolian processes; deltaic processes; storm analysis; climate change

Name: Dr. Junfeng Xiong
Affiliation: Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9409-5797
Interests: remote sensing of inland water; applications of machine learning for satellite monitoring

Name: Dr. Zhuangcai Tian
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Construction and Healthy Operation and Maintenance of Deep Underground Engineering (Research Center for Deep Ocean Science and Underwater Engineering), China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
Website: http://faculty.cumt.edu.cn/TZC/en/index.htm
Interests: marine engineering geology and environment

Name: Dr. Zhanbin Luo
Affiliation: Department of Land Resource Management, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China
Website: https://ggy.hhu.edu.cn/_t1473/2024/0909/c12362a288320/page.psp; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-7620
Interests: soil ecohydrology; efficient utilization of water and soil resources; territorial space protection and restoration; ecological carbon sink

Name: Dr. Tausif Ahmad
Affiliation: Advanced Materials and Porous Membrane Center, King Abdullah University Of Science And Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1286-3669
Interests: water treatment technologies and membrane science

Name: Dr. Barlin Orlando Olivares Campos
Affiliation: Biodiversity Management Research Group (GESBIO-UCO), Rabanales Campus, University of Córdoba, National Highway IV km 396, 14014 Córdoba, Spain
Website: https://www.uco.es/investiga/grupos/gesbio/quienes-somos/
Interests: exploring critical areas such as plant biology, soil science, environmental stress, and food systems to tackle global challenges like climate change, food security, and sustainability; leveraging advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, to model complex biological and environmental processes, predict climate impacts, and optimize agricultural practices

Name: Dr. Guanxi Yan
Affiliation: School of Civil Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1466-7805
Interests: geotechnical engineering; geophysics; groundwater; hydrogeology; unsaturated soil mechanic

Name: Dr. Jinjun Zhou
Affiliation: College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
Website: https://english.bjut.edu.cn/info/1351/5412.htm
Interests: urban flooding; stormwater simulation; urban drainage network simulation; rainfall forecast; resilient city

Name: Dr. Wangjun Jiang
Affiliation: China Geological Survey, Tianjin 300170, China
Website: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-1670-3626
Interests: environment; water quality; hydrogeochemistry; environmental geochemistry; hydrochemistry; water chemistry

Name: Dr. Márton Veress
Affiliation: Department of Geography, Savaria University Centre, Eötvös Lóránd University, 9700 Szombathely, Hungary
Website: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6603108458
Interests: geomorphology; karst morphology; karst types

Name: Dr. Hao Han
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China
Website: https://www.iahr.org/individual-member/user?member_no=32020
Interests: hydrology and water resources; flood modeling; sponge city using high-precision remote sensing data

Name: Dr. Xiaoyu Guo
Affiliation: ¹ State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment and Resources (TPESER), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China;
² Motuo Observation & Research Center for Earth Landscape and Earth Systems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Website: https://itpcas.cas.cn/sourcedb_itpcas_cas/cn/expert/202306/t20230621_6784280.html; https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57211169638
Interests: hydrometeorology; isotope hydrology

Name: Dr. Kul Khand
Affiliation: ASRC Federal Data Solutions, Contractor to USGS EROS Center, Sioux Falls, SD 57198, USA
Website: https://www.usgs.gov/earth-resources-observation-and-science-eros-center
Interests: hydrology; remote sensing; climate change; water and food security

Name: Dr. Omer Mermer
Affiliation: IIHR Hydroscience and Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Website: https://www.iihr.uiowa.edu/people/omer-mermer/
Interests: hydroinformatics; environmental science; machine learning model development; feature engineering; XAI; smart sensors; IoT technologies; system engineering

Name: Dr. Qi Zhang
Affiliation: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1267-4822
Interests: unsaturated soil mechanics; THM; slope instability; plant–soil interactions; environmental geotechnics; climate change

Name: Dr. Farhad Bahmanpouri
Affiliation: Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, National Research Council (CNR), 06128 Perugia, Italy
Website: http://hydrology.irpi.cnr.it/people/farhad-bahmanpouri/
Interests: experimental and numerical methods in hydraulic and river engineering; hydrological modeling; sediment transport; entropy model; CFD in hydraulic and hydrologic engineering; flood modeling

Hydrology Editorial Office

World Wetlands Day is celebrated each year on 2 February to raise awareness about wetlands. This day also marks the anniversary of the Convention on Wetlands, which was adopted as an international treaty in 1971.

Nearly 90% of the world’s wetlands have been degraded since the 1700s, and we are losing wetlands three times faster than forests. Yet, wetlands are critically important ecosystems that contribute to biodiversity, climate mitigation and adaptation, freshwater availability, world economies and more.

“Protecting Wetlands for Our Common Future” is the theme for World Wetlands Day 2025.

“Extracting Wetlands in Coastal Louisiana from the Operational VIIRS and GOES-R Flood Products”
by Tianshu Yang, Donglian Sun, Sanmei Li, Satya Kalluri, Lihang Zhou, Sean Helfrich, Meng Yuan, Qingyuan Zhang, William Straka, Viviana Maggioni and Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm
Remote Sens. 2024, 16(20), 3769; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16203769

“Random Forest Classifier Algorithm of Geographic Resources Analysis Support System Geographic Information System for Satellite Image Processing: Case Study of Bight of Sofala, Mozambique”
by Polina Lemenkova
Coasts 2024, 4(1), 127-149; https://doi.org/10.3390/coasts4010008

“Evaluation of Remote Sensing Products for Wetland Mapping in the Irtysh River Basin”
by Kaiyue Luo, Alim Samat, Jilili Abuduwaili and Wenbo Li
Geosciences 2024, 14(1), 14; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences14010014

“Monitoring of Coastal Dunes and Lagoons: Important Ecosystems to Safeguard”
by Carmine Massarelli, Claudia Campanale and Vito Felice Uricchio
Environments 2023, 10(12), 211; https://doi.org/10.3390/environments10120211

“Monitoring the Kotychi Lagoon in Western Peloponnese, Greece, Using Remote Sensing Techniques and Environmental Assessment”
by Dionysios N. Apostolopoulos, Dionysios Giannikopoulos, Alexis Ramfos, Sara Faulwetter, Dionisios Panagiotaras, Konstantinos G. Nikolakopoulos and Pavlos Avramidis
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2023, 11(2), 411; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11020411

Special Issues:

“Monitoring and Simulation of Wetland Ecological Processes (Second Edition)”	“Remote Sensing for Mapping and Monitoring Wetlands and Their Ecosystems”

“Birds as Cultural Ambassadors: Bridging Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity Conservation in Wetland Planning”
by Michela Ingaramo, Anna Rita Bernadette Cammerino, Vincenzo Rizzi, Maurizio Gioiosa and Massimo Monteleone
Sustainability 2024, 16(23), 10286; https://doi.org/10.3390/su162310286

“Three Decades of Inundation Dynamics in an Australian Dryland Wetland: An Eco-Hydrological Perspective”
by Indishe P. Senanayake, In-Young Yeo and George A. Kuczera
Remote Sens. 2024, 16(17), 3310; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16173310

“Impacts of Freshwater Sources on Salinity Structure in a Large, Shallow Estuary”
by Mohamed Z. Moustafa, Zhen-Gang Ji and John Hamrick
Environments 2024, 11(4), 72; https://doi.org/10.3390/environments11040072

“Priming of Soil Organic Carbon Decomposition Induced by Exogenous Organic Carbon Input Depends on Vegetation and Soil Depth in Coastal Salt Marshes”
by Yaru Zhang, Xue Li, Baohua Xie, Xiaojie Wang, Mingliang Zhao, Guangxuan Han, Yongjin Chen and Weimin Song
Soil Syst. 2024, 8(1), 34; https://doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems8010034

“Forest Fuel Bed Variation in Tropical Coastal Freshwater Forested Wetlands Disturbed by Fire”
by Romeo de Jesús Barrios-Calderón, Dulce Infante Mata, José Germán Flores Garnica and Jony R. Torres
Forests 2024, 15(1), 158; https://doi.org/10.3390/f15010158

“Horizontal Rates of Wetland Migration Appear Unlikely to Keep Pace with Shoreline Transgression under Conditions of 21st Century Accelerating Sea Level Rise along the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern USA”
by Randall W. Parkinson
Coasts 2024, 4(1), 213-225; https://doi.org/10.3390/coasts4010012

“Ecological Basis of Ecosystem Services and Management of Wetlands Dominated by Common Reed (Phragmites australis): European Perspective”
by Hana Čížková, Tomáš Kučera, Brigitte Poulin and Jan Květ
Diversity 2023, 15(5), 629; https://doi.org/10.3390/d15050629

“Examining the Hydro-Climatic Drivers of Lagoon Breaching and Healing in a Deltaic Barrier”
by Juan Felipe Gómez, Eva Kwoll, Ian J. Walker and Andrés F. Orejarena
Geosciences 2023, 13(4), 118; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13040118

“Scientific Evidence for the Effectiveness of Mangrove Forests in Reducing Floods and Associated Hazards in Coastal Areas”
by Christopher Ihinegbu, Stefan Mönnich and Thecla Akukwe
Climate 2023, 11(4), 79; https://doi.org/10.3390/cli11040079

“Dynamic Modeling of the Trophic Status of an Urban Tropical Wetland under ENSO Conditions”
by Leidy Gisselle García-León, Julio Eduardo Beltrán-Vargas and Carlos Alfonso Zafra-Mejía
Climate 2023, 11(3), 61; https://doi.org/10.3390/cli11030061

“Characterization of Phosphate Compounds along a Catena from Arable and Wetland Soil to Sediments in a Baltic Sea lagoon”
by Julia Prüter, Rhena Schumann, Wantana Klysubun and Peter Leinweber
Soil Syst. 2023, 7(1), 15; https://doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems7010015

“A Study of the Influence of Environmental Factors on Water–Heat Exchange Process in Alpine Wetlands”
by Yan Xie, Jun Wen, Yulin Zhang, Jinlei Chen and Xianyu Yang
Atmosphere 2023, 14(12), 1802; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14121802

“Conservation and Restoration of Mangroves in Response to Invasion of Spartina alterniflora Based on the MaxEnt Model: A Case Study in China”
by Lina Cui, Uta Berger, Minmin Cao, Yaqi Zhang, Junming He, Lianghao Pan and Jiang Jiang
Forests 2023, 14(6), 1220; https://doi.org/10.3390/f14061220

Special Issues:

“Wetland Conservation and Ecological Restoration”	“Effect of Mangrove Ecosystems on Coastal Ecology and Climate Change”

“Water CO₂ Emission Monitoring in a Romanian Peri-Urban Wetland to Enhance GHG Reporting”
by György Deák, Natalia Enache, Lucian Laslo, Monica Matei, Madalina Georgiana Boboc and Cristina Ileana Covaliu Mierla
Atmosphere 2024, 15(11), 1345; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15111345

“Surface Water (SW) and Shallow Groundwater (SGW) Nutrient Concentrations in Riparian Wetlands of a Mixed Land-Use Catchment”
by Bidisha Faruque Abesh, James T. Anderson and Jason A. Hubbart
Land 2024, 13(4), 409; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13040409

“Success Factors and Challenges: Implications of Real Options Valuation of Constructed Wetlands as Nature-Based Solutions for Wastewater Treatment”
by Casper Boongaling Agaton and Patricia Marie Caparas Guila
Resources 2024, 13(1), 11; https://doi.org/10.3390/resources13010011

“Evaluation of Phosphate and E. coli Attenuation in a Natural Wetland Receiving Drainage from an Urbanized Catchment”
by Charles Humphrey, Jarrod Underwood, Guy Iverson, Randall Etheridge, Mike O’Driscoll and Avian White
Hydrology 2024, 11(6), 74; https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology11060074

“Quantifying the Nitrogen-Removal Performance of a Constructed Wetland Dominated by Diffuse Agricultural Groundwater Inflows Using a Linked Catchment–Wetland Model”
by Linh Hoang, James P. S. Sukias, Valerio Montemezzani and Chris C. Tanner
Water 2023, 15(9), 1689; https://doi.org/10.3390/w15091689

“Assessing the Zooplankton Metacommunity (Branchiopoda and Copepoda) from Mediterranean Wetlands in Agricultural Landscapes”
by Juan Diego Gilbert, Francisco J. Márquez and Francisco Guerrero
Diversity 2023, 15(3), 362; https://doi.org/10.3390/d15030362

“A Connectivity Approach to Agricultural Diffuse Pollution in Tropical Montane Catchments Dominated by Swidden Landscapes”
by Luc Sandevoir, Laurent Lespez and Candide Lissak
Land 2023, 12(4), 784; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12040784

“Habitat Mapping and Spatiotemporal Overlap of the Amazon River Dolphin, Fishers, and Tourism in the Central Region of the Brazilian Amazon”
by Cadi Y. Fung, Brad G. Peter and Cynthia S. Simmons
Conservation 2023, 3(4), 523-542; https://doi.org/10.3390/conservation3040034

Special Issues:

“Impacts of Climate Change and Human Activities on Wetland Hydrology”	“Methods and Practices for the Sustainable Management of Lake and River Hydrological Systems”

The editorial team at Hydrology extends our heartfelt thanks to the dedicated reviewers whose expertise and commitment have been key to the journal's success in 2024. Last year, Hydrology received 1208 review reports from 692 reviewers representing 78 countries and regions worldwide.

To recognize the invaluable time, effort, and attention to detail that each reviewer dedicates, Hydrology expresses its sincere gratitude through an annual acknowledgment of reviewers.

We are honored to recognize the reviewers who allowed us to publish their names each year. The names of these reviewers are listed below in alphabetical order by first name:

Nine new journals covering multiple subjects launched their inaugural issues in December 2024. We are excited to be able to share with you the newest research rooted in the value of open access.

We would like to express our deepest appreciation to all of the Editorial Board Members, and each journal will ensure its high-quality output by using excellent editorial and rigorous peer-review processes, to ensure that the articles achieve high impact and visibility.

Please feel free to browse and discover more about the new journals below.

Journal	Founding Editor-in-Chief	Journal Topics (Selected)
	Prof. Dr. Zhaoyang Dong City University of Hong Kong, China Editorial | View inaugural issue	energy storage technologies; energy storage system management; energy storage applications; strategies in renewable energy generation grid integration; distributed storage systems; economics and markets for energy storage View journal scope | Submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Yang-Hui He 1. London Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Royal Institution, UK 2. University of Oxford, UK Editorial | View inaugural issue	Euclidean geometry; differential geometry; algebraic geometry; complex geometry; discrete geometry; computational geometry; geometric group theory;  convex geometry View journal scope | Submit an article
	Dr. Michel Planat Université de Franche-Comté, France Editorial | View inaugural issue	differential topology; algebraic topology; manifold topology; homology theory; low-dimensional topology; fuzzy sets View journal scope | Submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Rashid Al Abri 1. Sultan Qaboos University, Oman 2. Oman Medical Association, Oman Editorial | View inaugural issue	clinical practices as well as research and innovation in medical education, risk management in healthcare, and patient safety View journal scope | Submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Ecevit Bilgili* New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA *Prof. Dr. Ecevit Bilgili passed away before the completion of the inaugural issue. His dedication and vision for JPBI will always be remembered and serve as a guiding inspiration. Editorial | View inaugural issue	early drug discovery and development; product characterization and pre-clinical testing; drug delivery systems and drug design; active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) production View journal scope | Submit an article
	Dr. Weiyong Liu Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Editorial | View inaugural issue	theories, methodologies, technologies, and applications in the fields of laboratory medicine and clinical chemistry View journal scope | Submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar University of Granada, Spain Editorial | View inaugural issue	scientometrics; informetrics; bibliometrics; altmetrics; webometrics; research evaluation View journal scope | Submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Fei Fan Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China Editorial | View inaugural issue	regional growth theory and methods; regional system modeling and optimization; regional development policy; regional spatial evolution; environmental policy and instrument choice View journal scope | Submit an article
	Dr. Kevin Cianfaglione Université Catholique de Lille, France Editorial | View inaugural issue	wild species and their habitats; wild environments and biodiversity; natural environment management; wild land preservation View journal scope | Submit an article

We wish to thank everyone who has supported the development of open access publishing. You are welcome to send an application here, or contact the New Journal Committee (newjournal-committee@mdpi.com) if you would like to create more new journals.