2020 Associate Editor Excellence Awards and Editor's Citations For Excellence In Review

The Vadose Zone Journal editorial board has selected four individuals for recognition for excellence in performing their work as associate editors. The recognition is based on their efforts in establishing a quality review process—for timely and professional manuscript editing, for fair and rigorous integration of reviewer comments, and for overall excellence in managing a professional review process. The Editorial Board has also chosen four individuals for the Editor’s Citation for Excellence in Review. Members of the VZJ Editorial Board want to express their deepest appreciation for these associate editors and volunteer reviewers, who have benefited our journal, our community, and our sciences through their outstanding work.

The Vadose Zone Journal editorial board has selected four individuals for recognition for excellence in performing their work as associate editors. The recognition is based on their efforts in establishing a quality review process-for timely and professional manuscript editing, for fair and rigorous integration of reviewer comments, and for overall excellence in managing a professional review process. The Editorial Board has also chosen four individuals for the Editor's Citation for Excellence in Review. Members of the VZJ Editorial Board want to express their deepest appreciation for these associate editors and volunteer reviewers, who have benefited our journal, our community, and our sciences through their outstanding work.

Christine Stumpp
Christine Stumpp is professor and head of the Institute for Soil Physics and Rural Water Management (SoPhy) at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Austria. Her research focuses on understanding flow and reactive transport processes in soils and groundwater with the goal to improve the sustainability of water use and manage water resources to maintain ecosystem functioning. She has a main expertise in using various tracer methods, particularly water stable isotopes, to identify sources of water and to quantify fluxes and transport processes. She develops and uses experimental and modeling approaches to answer complex applied and basic research questions for understanding coupled interactions between hydrological, biogeochemical, and ecological processes.
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Behzad Ghanbarian
Dr. Behzad Ghanbarian is an assistant professor of engineering geology at Kansas State University. Before his current position, he worked as a postdoctoral-degree research fellow at the Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, for 2.5 years. Dr. Ghanbarian also worked as a reservoir engineer at the Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX. He is the author of more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and two books. Dr. Ghanbarian's research interests are upscaling techniques and modeling fluid flow and contaminant transport in heterogeneous porous media. He is a member of AGU, GSA, SPE, and SSSA and received the 2015 Donald L. Turcotte Award in nonlinear geophysics from the American Geophysical Union and the 2020 Soil Physics and Hydrology Early Career Award from the Soil Science Society of America.

Sarah Garré
Sarah Garré is currently researcher at the Flanders Research center for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO) and associate professor at ULiège. She completed a PhD at the research center in Jülich, Germany, on the monitoring of root water intake and solute transport using geophysical methods. Afterwards she coordinated an international project at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences of the KULeuven which aimed at measuring and monitoring water flows in intercropping managed fields in Thailand. Since May 2012, she has built up a research team in the field of soil-root interactions and hydrogeophysics at the bio-engineering faculty of the University of Liège (ULiège) in collaboration with the team of applied geophysics (Faculty of Applied Sciences). Since February 2020, she coordinates the research topic "water & agriculture" at the Center of Expertise for Agriculture and Climate at ILVO.

Hailong He
Hailong He is an associate professor at College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China. Graduated from the University of Alberta, Canada, with a PhD in water and land resources, he is a soil physicist and hydrologist motivated to work on the fate and transport of mass and energy in cold and arid regions. He develops and applies new techniques and methods to measure and model soil physical and hydrological properties from point to global scales. He has been serving the broader soil and hydrological science communities through extension and outreach. Examples include his membership of a wide range of professional societies (e.g., SSSA, ISMC, EGU, IACS, CSCS, and SSSC) or advisory boards and as a reviewer for national-or state-level science funding proposals, and his service as an Associate Editor (three journals: Vadose Zone Journal, Soil Science Society of America Journal, and European Journal of Soil Science) and as a reviewer for over 30 journals across a range of disciplines. He has also served as Chair/Convener/Moderator in many conference sessions on soil physics and hydrology.

Natalie Orlowski
Natalie Orlowski is Assistant Professor of Hydrology at the Chair of Hydrology in Freiburg (Germany). Her research is interdisciplinary and combines field, laboratory, greenhouse, and modeling methods to study linkages between hydrology and biogeochemistry. She is particularly interested in developing and applying innovative isotope techniques (e.g., in situ real-time stable water isotope measurements) to study soil-vegetation interactions and feedback processes with the hydrological cycle. She is currently using advances in stable water isotopy to quantify species-and interspecific ecohydrological feedback processes and water transit times of different tree stands in the Black Forest (Germany).

Sophie Guillon
Trained as an isotope geochemist, Sophie has worked since 2016 as a researcher at Ecole des Mines de Paris in France. She is trying to bring together isotope geochemistry and reactive transport modeling in pluri-disciplinary approaches, to improve the understanding of the biogeochemical functioning of the critical zone.

Miles Dyck
Dr. Miles Dyck is an Associate Professor of soil science in the Department of Renewable Resources in the Faculty of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences (ALES) at the University of Alberta. Dr. Dyck's primary research focus is the effect of long-term agricultural management practices on soil processes and properties, and transport of mass and energy in soil. He currently serves as chair of the Breton Plots Long-term Agricultural Research Site Management Team, and teaches 4th year courses in soil physics and soil formation. As principle and co-investigator, Dr. Dyck has secured research funding from federal, provincial and industrial sponsors. To date, Dr. Dyck, has authored/co-authored over 75 peer-reviewed publications. In 2015, Dr. Dyck received the ASTech (Alberta Science and Technology Leadership Foundation) Award for Innovation in Agricultural Science on behalf of the Breton Plots Management Team. He has also been recognized as an excellent teacher, receiving the UofA Ag Club Teacher of the Year Award (2011), the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture Distinguished Educator Award (2019), and ALES Teacher of the Year (2020). His interest in agricultural systems and soils began at a young age while he was growing up on his family's grain farm near Swift Current, Saskatchewan.