Special collections consist of articles on a specific topic, often overseen by a select group of expert Guest Editors. You can highlight your work and enhance your visibility within your field and community by submitting to one of our calls for papers for upcoming collections in Earth Sciences.
Calls for Papers - Earth Sciences
Collection
Open: 1-Aug-22
Deadline: 28-Feb-24
Extreme Ocean Events
This Collection in Scientific Reports brings together the latest research in extreme ocean events including methodologies and modelling of the causes, the predictions and the impacts, as well as innovations and case studies on damage mitigation strategies and adaptation solutions.
Dr Sandro Carniel, ISP-CNR and Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation, Italy; Prof Chau-Ron Wu, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan; Dr Barbara Zanuttigh, University of Bologna, Italy
Collection
Open: 7-Sep-23
Deadline: 29-Feb-24
Advances in Internet of Things for Smart and Sustainable Agriculture
This Topical Collection in Discover Sustainability intends to collect contributions in the form of original research articles and a limited number of reviews that explore innovations and achievements in the "IoT for Smart and Sustainable Agriculture."
Prof Mohammad Shabaz, Model Institute of Engineering and Technology, India; Prof Azeem Irshad, GGC Asghar Mall, Pakistan
Collection
Open: 7-Jun-23
Deadline: 7-Mar-24
Ecosystem restoration, regeneration and rewilding
In support of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 6: Clean water and sanitation, 13: Climate action, 14: Life below water and 15: Life on land, BMC Ecology and Evolution welcomes research on the design, application, optimization, management, and outcomes of restoration and rewilding projects in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems.
Carmel McDougall, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK; Nancy Shackelford, University of Victoria, Canada
Collection
Open: 15-Mar-23
Deadline: 15-Mar-24
The 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake Sequence
In this collection between Communications Earth & Environment, Communications Engineering, Nature Communications, and Nature Geoscience we bring together and invite research and opinion ranging from the seismological characteristics of the earthquakes to lessons and strategies for resilience and the human response.
Dr Luca Dal Zilio, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland; Dr Carmine Galasso, Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering, University College London, UK; Dr Derya Gürer, Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra & Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia; Dr Joe Aslin, Communications Earth & Environment, London, UK; Dr Stefan Lachowycz, Nature Geoscience, London, UK; Dr Sebastian Müller, Nature Communications, Munich, Germany; Dr Mengying Su, Communications Engineering, Shanghai, China
Collection
Open: 26-Sep-23
Deadline: 26-Mar-24
Food waste management strategies
This Collection in npj Sustainable Agriculture explores innovative food waste management strategies, their environmental and societal impacts, and the role of technology and consumer behavior in reducing global food waste.
Dr Ke Yin, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China
Collection
Open: 27-Sep-23
Deadline: 27-Mar-24
Coastal dynamics
This Scientific Reports Collection welcomes original and interdisciplinary research from all fields of geology, hydrology, engineering and environmental sciences, with a focus on coastal regions, their natural dynamic evolution and long-term management.
Dr Arjen Luijendijk, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; Dr Fantina Madricardo: Institute of Marine Sciences, National Research Centre, Italy; Dr Xiao Yu, University of Florida, USA
Collection
Open: 27-Sep-23
Deadline: 27-Mar-24
Water use efficiency in agriculture
This Scientific Reports Collection welcomes original research on multi-disciplinary strategies to increase water use efficiency in agriculture, from hydrological studies to agricultural landscaping and engineering.
Dr Aavudai Anandhi, Florida A&M University, USA; Dr Ram L Ray, Prairie View A&M University, USA
Collection
Open: 25-Apr-23
Deadline: 31-Mar-24
Moving towards Climate-smart Ocean Planning
This collection in npj Ocean Sustainability welcomes original articles, perspective papers, and comments, from both the Global North and Global South, that address different dimensions and issues related to the development and implementation of climate-smart MSP. Contributions may focus on conceptual discussions or applications to specific case studies.
Catarina Frazão Santos, University of Lisbon, Portugal; Elena Gissi, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, USA and National Research Council, Italy
Collection
Open: 10-Feb-23
Deadline: 31-Mar-24
Assessment of the 2021 Extreme Summer Flood in Central Europe
The aim of this series in Environmental Sciences Europe is to provide an overview of the current state of integrated investigations on the effects of the severe flood events in summer 2021 in Central Europe. Scientists from different disciplines, such as Geoecology, Geomorphology, Hydraulic engineering, Environmental chemistry, Ecotoxicology, Social ecology, Sociology and Economics are encouraged to submit to this series.
Frank Lehmkuhl, RWTH Aachen University, Germany; Holger Schüttrumpf, RWTH Aachen University, Germany; Catrina Brüll, RWTH Aachen University, Germany; Michael Dietze, University of Göttingen, Germany; Jan Schwarzbauer, RWTH Aachen University, Germany; Peter Letmathe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany; Carolin Völker, ISOE, Germany
Collection
Open: 2-Jun-23
Deadline: 31-Dec-24
The Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine Debates Series
This collection in The Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine seeks articles focused on some of the big questions that ethnobiology and ethnomedicine are facing today to frame their role in supporting global sustainable development. We invite researchers and practitioners to contribute the debate and make the case either "For" or "Against" contentious topics in ethnobiology, environmental studies, and medical and food anthropology.
Andrea Pieroni, University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo, Italy
Collection
Open: 10-Aug-23
Deadline: 31-Mar-24
Sustainable Practices to Improve Fruit Productivity and Its Quality
This special issue of Discover Agriculture aims to explore strategies to maintain yield and quality of crops in the face of environmental changes and anthropogenic factors, searching for sustainable solutions that growers and farmers could apply to sustain yield and fruit quality in the upcoming years.
Dr Lia-Tânia Dinis, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal; Dr Cátia Queijo Brito, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal; Dr Sandra Isabel Ribeiro Pereira, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal
Collection
Open: 1-Sep-23
Deadline: 31-Mar-24
Ocean Sustainability Challenges at the Food-Climate-Biodiversity Nexus
This Topical Collection in Discover Oceans invites submissions across different disciplines and geographical scales to discuss ocean sustainability challenges at the food-climate-biodiversity (FCB) nexus. The goal of this Special Collection is to mobilize knowledge, stimulate discussions and inspire new ideas and initiatives to address current and anticipated future ocean food-climate-biodiversity challenges.
Prof William Cheung, University of British Columbia, Canada; Prof Rashid Sumai, University of British Columbia, Canada
Collection
Open: 19-Sep-23
Deadline: 15-Apr-24
Green Urbanization – Finding Ecologically-Neutral Solutions for Urban Development
This Discover Sustainability collection aims to emphasize recent research findings and practices, focusing on cities' resilience towards climate change effects and active measures taken for mitigating pollution and biodiversity loss. Besides that, the collection's objective is to contribute to the critical debate on how urbanization can harm less environmental quality.
Prof Florian Marcel NUȚĂ, Danubius University from Galati, Romania; Dr Ibrahim CUTCU, Hasan Kalyoncu University, Turkey; Dr Azer DILANCHIEV, International Black Sea University, Georgia
Collection
Open: 30-Jun-23
Deadline: 30-Apr-24
Earthquake Swarm in the Northeastern Part of the Noto Peninsula
This special issue in Earth, Planets and Space will focus on multidisciplinary geoscientific research in the areas of seismology, geodesy, geoelectromagnetism, geochemistry, geomorphology, and geology, regarding this crustal activity and associated phenomena. This collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities and SDG 15: Life on Land.
Yoshihiro Hiramatsu, Kanazawa University, Japan; David Shelly, The U.S. Geological Survey, USA; Takuya Nishimura, Kyoto University, Japan; Junichi Nakajima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; Haruko Sekiguchi, Kyoto University, Japan; Tomoaki Morishita, Kanazawa University, Japan; Hiroshi Ichihara, Nagoya University, Japan; Aitaro Kato, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Collection
Open: 25-Jul-23
Deadline: 30-Apr-24
Marine biodiversity loss
BMC Zoology is calling for submissions to our Collection on marine biodiversity loss. This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 14: Life Below Water.
Dr Murtada Naser, Marine Science Center, University of Basrah, Iraq
Collection
Open: 21-Aug-23
Deadline: 30-Apr-24
Bioindication of agroecosystem pollution: integrating biochemical analyses with proximal and remote sensing technologies
This thematic series in Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture aims to consolidate research on various aspects of bioindication for environmental pollution, involving different scientific domains.
Marco De Mizio, Italian Aerospace Research Centre (CIRA), Italy
Collection
Open: 25-May-23
Deadline: 25-May-24
Flood risk
In this Collection across Communications Earth & Environment, Nature Communications, Nature Geoscience, and Nature Water, we explore the natural processes that drive flood hazard, the social and environmental factors that can exacerbate vulnerability and the measures that can be taken to assess and mitigate flood risks.
Dr Rahim Barzegar, Department of Bioresource Engineering, McGill University, Canada; Joe Aslin, Communications Earth & Environment, London, UK; Charles Axelsson, Nature Communications, New York, USA; Tom Richardson, Nature Geoscience, London, UK; Karin Sjöstrand, Nature Water, New York, USA; Yanhua Chen, Nature Water, Shanghai, China
Collection
Open: 4-Aug-23
Deadline: 31-May-24
Earth and Environmental Sciences: Life Cycle Assessment of Processes and Products
In this Discover Applied Sciences collection, we welcome articles focusing on the life cycle assessment of various products or processes. It can be a single evaluation or a comparison of different methods.
Dr Andras Jozsef Toth, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Collection
Open: 25-Oct-23
Deadline: 31-May-24
New trends in data acquisition, analysis and interpretation of seismicity
This special issue of Earth, Planets and Space aims to bring to light new methods for the analysis and quantitative interpretation of seismicity datasets collected across different scales and environments or using new seismic data acquisition technologies, such as fiber-optics-based sensors.
Bogdan Enescu, Kyoto University, Japan; Francesco Grigoli: University of Pisa, Italy; Yosuke Aoki, The University of Tokyo, Japan; Zhigang Peng, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; Jiancang Zhuang, Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan; Naoki Uchida, Tohoku University, Japan
