Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Earth and Environmental Sciences is an interdisciplinary field which incorporates the study of the earth surface, the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, biosphere, and environmental system processes. Scientists in this field analyse how the physical, chemical and biological systems of Earth interact with one another, make observations, identify patterns and processes, and model the impact of changes to these systems. As well as studying Earth systems currently, researchers make predictions about what will happen in the future and use evidence from the past to understand the present.
This collection includes the following disciplines, although submissions are not limited to these fields:

Atmospheric Sciences
Hydrology
Environmental Sciences
Physical Geography
Geology
Soil Science
Geochemistry
Oceanography
Palaeontology
Geophysics

The following collections in Earth and Environmental Sciences are also available:

Adaptation to Climate Change

Collection advisors: Olivier Pourret (UniLaSalle, France), Claudia Mohr (Stockholm University, Sweden), Win Cowger (The Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research, USA)

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Modernizing the TRIAD ecological risk assessment framework. Part I: Analytical integration for an updated TRIAD framework

Authors: Sama'a Djomehri, Eduardo P. Mateus, Vanessa G. Correia, Paula Guedes, Pavlos Tyrologou, Nikolaos Koukouzas, Paul Drenning, Yevheniya Volchko, Alexandra B. Ribeiro, Nazaré Couto

Funders: Horizon Europe, Missions

Peer reviewers: Willie Peijnenburg

Published: August 4, 2026
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Ecological harm and criminal thresholds: A pilot legal-ecological coding framework for environmental crime judgments

Authors: Esteban Morelle-Hungría

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Angus Nurse, Anna Rita Germani, Willy Naresta Hanum

Published: September 17, 2026
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A methodological framework for building interoperable sorption databases: application to cesium sorption in crystalline rocks

Authors: Tiziana Missana, Miguel García-Gutiérrez

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Euratom

Peer reviewers: Crina Bucur, Norbert MAES

Published: May 26, 2026
Data Note
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Zooplankton abundance and environmental variables at weathership station India, 59 o N 19 o W, from 1971 to 1975

Authors: Xabier Irigoien

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Camilla Svensen, Inma Herrera, Taketoshi Kodama

Published: October 7, 2025
Systematic Review
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Soil contamination in Europe unveiled: A review of pesticides and metabolites to watch

Authors: Raquel Carvalho, Paula Guedes, Eduardo P. Mateus, Vera Silva, Pavlos Tyrologou, Nikolaos Koukouzas, Alexandra B. Ribeiro, Nazaré Couto

Funders: Horizon Europe, Missions

Peer reviewers: Mohamed EL-Saeid, Zijian Li

Published: November 24, 2025
Research Article

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Reconstructing Italy’s rural landscape before the Great Acceleration: A geospatial baseline from the Catasto Agrario (1929)

Authors: Filippo Brandolini

Funders: Excellent Science, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Ebrahim Jahanshiri, Giuseppe Cillis, Vassilis Detsis, ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΧΑΛΚΙΑΣ

Published: June 27, 2025
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Encouraging reusability of computational research through Data-to-Knowledge Packages - A hydrological use case

Authors: Markus Konkol, Astra Labuce, Sami Domisch, Merret Buurman, Vanessa Bremerich

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: David Tarboton, Miguel Colom, lushv1@aston.ac.uk Victoria Lush

Published: September 22, 2025
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Connecting complex and simplified models of tipping elements: a nonlinear two-forcing emulator for the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

Authors: Amaury Laridon, Victor Couplet, Justin Gérard, Wim Thiery, Michel Crucifix

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Dipti Hingmire, Valérian Jacques-Dumas

Published: October 31, 2025
Open Letter
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Freshwater monitoring across the globe: the role of citizen science within the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and opportunities to incentivize the collaboration with environmental regulators

Authors: Bruna Gumiero, Leonardo Veronesi, Luisa Galgani, Riccardo Gaetano Cirrone, Alessio Corsi, Andrea Tafi, Steven Arthur Loiselle

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Ahmet Erkan KIDEYS, Laura Verbrugge, Rajaram Prajapati

Published: August 20, 2025
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Resolving three-dimensional wind velocity fields in complex terrain using sequential wind-Doppler LiDAR, CFD and wind turbine measurements - Gotthard Pass, Switzerland

Authors: Brandon van Schaik, Dylan Reynolds, Hendrik Huwald, Michael Lehning

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Baoyuan Deng, Feng Guo, Nikolas Angelou, Norman Wildmann, Shengming Tang

Published: March 23, 2026
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Devonian–Mississippian magmatism related to extensional collapse in Svalbard: implications for radiating dyke swarms

Authors: Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl, Sebastian Tappe, Gillian R. Foulger, Ingrid M. Anell

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Alexei Ivanov, Natasha Stanton

Published: December 12, 2024
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Impact of sub-basalt thrust systems on the Faroe continental shelf for the late Paleoproterozoic–Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the margin.

Authors: Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl, David W. Jolley, Alexander L. Peace, Jhon M. Muñoz-Barrera, Gillian R. Foulger

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Martyn Stoker, Piotr Krzywiec

Published: December 7, 2024
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On the Billefjorden fault zone in Garmdalen, central Spitsbergen: implications for the mapping of major fault zones during geological fieldwork and for the tectonic history of Svalbard

Authors: Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl, Eirik M. B. Stokmo, Jhon M. Muñoz-Barrera

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: David Vasconcelos, Mehmet Köküm, Oleksii Bartashchuk

Published: October 2, 2024
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Optimization of the autolysis of rainbow trout viscera for amino acid release using response surface methodology

Authors: Haizea Domínguez, Bruno Iñarra, Jalel Labidi, Carlos Bald

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Bui Xuan Dong, Sharon Nuñal, Ulfah Amalia

Published: November 14, 2024
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Enriching Earth observation datasets through semantics for climate change applications: The EIFFEL ontology

Authors: Benjamin Molina, Carlos E. Palau, Jaime Calvo-Gallego

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Antonis Troumpoukis, Despina-Athanasia Pantazi, GUOHUI XIAO, Raul Palma, lushv1@aston.ac.uk Victoria Lush

Published: October 18, 2024
Study Protocol

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Exploring our relationship with nature: A modified-Delphi study protocol

Authors: Cassandra Murphy, Tadhg MacIntyre, Elaine Gallagher

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Alexia Barrable, Stephanie Wilkie

Published: May 30, 2024
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On the need to better integrate the social environment in research on climate change and health: recommendations and thinking tools

Authors: Laurence Mabile, Lola Neufcourt, Matthew Chersich, Valériane Leroy, Cyrille Delpierre, Michelle Kelly-Irving

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Panagiota Kotsila, Rhiannon Thompson, Roger FEW, Rosemary Hiscock, Sandrah Eckel

Published: January 14, 2025
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Atlantic mackerel population structure does not support genetically distinct spawning components

Authors: Alice Manuzzi, Imanol Aguirre-Sarabia, Natalia Díaz-Arce, Dorte Bekkevold, Teunis Jansen, Jessica Gomez-Garrido, Tyler S. Alioto, Marta Gut, Martin Castonguay, Sonia Sanchez-Maroño, Paula Álvarez, Naiara Rodriguez-Ezpeleta

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: GAETANO CATANESE, John Hargrove, Julia Tovar Verba, Natalia J Bayona Vásquez, Sven Winter, Yusuf Bektas

Published: January 20, 2025
Data Note

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Greenland 2022 GHOST project: Sampling Greenland geothermal springs - expedition report

Authors: Donato Giovannelli, Matteo Selci, Margaret Cramm, James A. Bradley, J. Maarten de Moor, Peter H. Barry, Shaunna M. Morrison, Monica Correggia, Luciano di Iorio, Angelina Cordone, Stefano Caliro, Saemundur A. Halldórsson

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Jaime Alcorta, Jian Gong, Stephen Noell

Published: April 19, 2024
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Orogenic bridge theory: towards a predictive tool for past and future plate tectonics

Authors: Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl, Gillian Foulger

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Gabriela Fernandez-Viejo, Juan I. Soto, Laurent Jolivet, Samuel Rybar, Valentin Rime, William Sager, Zhong-Hai Li, zhikun ren

Published: May 23, 2025
Open Letter

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CO 2 emissions: A challenge but also a big opportunity for Spain

Authors: Paolo Dessi, Teresa Bosch-Vilardell, Sebastià Puig

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Paniz Izadi, Pedro Linares

Published: April 12, 2024
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Natural sea water and artificial sea water are not equivalent in plastic leachate contamination studies

Authors: Clemens Vinzenz Ullmann, Maria Ina Arnone, Eva Jimenez-Guri

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Amitava Mukherjee, Atsuko Sato, Seren Acarer Arat

Published: October 17, 2024
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Addressing ocean planning challenges in a highly crowded sea space: a case study for the regional sea of Catalonia (Western Mediterranean)

Authors: Daniel Depellegrin, Stefano Menegon, Andrej Abramic, Simón Aguado Hernandez, Francesca Larosa, Santiago Salvador, Carolina Marti Llambrich

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Aurelija Armoskaite, Humood Naser

Published: March 1, 2024
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Modelling drift of cold-stunned Kemp's ridley turtles stranding on the Dutch coast

Authors: Darshika Manral, Ilse Bos, Mark de Boer, Erik van Sebille

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Casper van de Geer, Lesley Stokes, Philippe GASPAR

Published: October 25, 2024
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Underground hydrogen storage: The techno-economic perspective

Authors: Eleni Gianni, Pavlos Tyrologou, Nazaré Couto, Júlio Ferreira Carneiro, Eva Scholtzová, Nikolaos Koukouzas

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Mrityunjay Singh, Soon Hyeong So, Zaid Jangda

Published: May 29, 2024