Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Quaternary, I am pleased to announce the five winners of the Quaternary 2018–2019 Best Paper Award.

The award has been granted to:

Article: Erosive Response of Non-Glaciated Pyrenean Headwater Catchments to the Last Major Climate Transition and Establishing Interglacial Conditions
By Kurt Martin Stange, Ivar Midtkandal, Johan Petter Nystuen, Andrew Murray, Reza Sohbati, Warren Thompson, Cornelia Spiegel and Hans-Joachim Kuss
Quaternary 2019, 2(2), 17; doi:10.3390/quat2020017

Article: Last Interglacial Climate in Northern Sweden—Insights from a Speleothem Record
By Martin Finné, Sakari Salonen, Norbert Frank, Karin F. Helmens, Andrea Schröder-Ritzrau, Michael Deininger and Steffen Holzkämper
Quaternary 2019, 2(3), 29; doi:10.3390/quat2030029

Article: Climatically Controlled River Terraces in Eastern Australia
By James S. Daley and Tim J. Cohen
Quaternary 2018, 1(3), 23; doi:10.3390/quat1030023

Article: Dropstones in Lacustrine Sediments as a Record of Snow Avalanches—A Validation of the Proxy by Combining Satellite Imagery and Varve Chronology at Kenai Lake (South-Central Alaska)
By Sien Thys, Maarten Van Daele, Nore Praet, Britta J.L. Jensen, Thomas Van Dyck, Peter J. Haeussler, Elke Vandekerkhove, Veerle Cnudde and Marc De Batist
Quaternary 2019, 2(1), 11; doi:10.3390/quat2010011

Article: From Climatic to Anthropogenic Drivers: A Multi-Proxy Reconstruction of Vegetation and Peatland Development in the French Jura Mountains
By Emilie Gauthier, Vincent E.J. Jassey, Edward A.D. Mitchell, Mariusz Lamentowicz, Richard Payne, Frédéric Delarue, Fatima Laggoun-Defarge, Daniel Gilbert and Hervé Richard
Quaternary 2019, 2(4), 38; doi:10.3390/quat2040038

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 300 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Quaternary in 2022.

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 Quaternary and the Award Committee for voting and providing assistance with these awards.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Jef Vandenberghe, Quaternary