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NOTE: To get off this list, send email to majordomo@aqua.ccwr.ac.za with the body of the message containing the line: unsubscribe sowacs Below is information on a new journal. Invitation from the Editor of Vadose Zone Journal The Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) is launching a new electronic journal called Vadose Zone Journal (VZJ). This new journal will provide an outlet for interdisciplinary research and assessment of the vadose zone, the mostly unsaturated zone between the soil surface and the permanent groundwater table. The scientific community has an increasing need for effective dissemination of information about the physical, chemical and biological processes operating in this zone. Currently no scientific journal focuses specifically on the vadose zone, and we trust that VZJ will fill this gap. The journal will provide a forum for vadose zone research and assessment using electronic procedures for manuscript submission, review and publication. The vadose zone has long been the focus of research and assessment by scientists concerned with soil water flow and the fate and transport of chemicals stemming from agricultural practices or waste disposal operations. This focus has broadened considerably in recent years. Many industrial, municipal and engineering activities are now also known to impact the vadose zone, and hence indirectly all of the subsurface environment. As a result, many state and federal agencies, such as EPA, DOE, DOD, NASA and NSF, are increasingly addressing vadose zone issues, including serving as funding agencies for vadose zone investigations. The vadose zone is now the active domain of scientists and professionals in a broad range of disciplines. These disciplines include soil physics, geophysics, hydrogeology, geochemistry, soil chemistry, microbiology, terrestrial ecology, environmental engineering, agricultural engineering, and engineering associated with construction, petroleum and chemical technologies. The Vadose Zone Journal will report fundamental and applied research from disciplinary and multidisciplinary investigations, including assessment and policy analyses of single- and multi-issue concerns involving the vadose zone. Our goal is to disseminate information to facilitate science-based decision-making and sustainable management of the vadose zone. Examples of topic areas suitable for VZJ are variably-saturated fluid flow, heat and solute transport in granular and fractured media, flow processes in the capillary fringe at or near the water table, water table management, regional and global climate change impacts on the vadose zone, carbon sequestration, design and performance of waste disposal facilities, biogeochemical transformation processes, microbial processes in shallow and deep formations, bioremediation, and the fate and transport of radionuclides, inorganic and organic chemicals, colloids, viruses and microorganisms. VZJ will also address yet-to-be-resolved issues, such as how to quantify heterogeneity of subsurface processes and properties, and how to couple physical, chemical and biological processes across a range of spatial from the molecular to the global. This is an invitation to publish your research in Vadose Zone Journal (VZJ), an international peer-reviewed electronic journal reporting science-based disciplinary and interdisciplinary research and assessment of the mostly unsaturated zone between the soil surface and the groundwater table. The scope of the journal covers all physical, chemical and biological aspects of the vadose zone at scales ranging from the molecular to the global in the environmental, agricultural and earth sciences. A more detailed description of VZJ is attached. The fully electronic review and publication process is currently being implemented by the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA). Pending this implementation we ask that you submit four hardcopies, using SSSA Journal style, to Rien van Genuchten Editor, Vadose Zone Journal George E. Brown, Jr. Salinity Laboratory 450 West Big Springs Road Riverside, CA 92507-4617 Tel. 909-369-4847 Fax. 909-342-4964 email rvang@ussl.ars.usda.gov Best Regards Rien Martinus Th. van Genuchten George E. Brown Jr. Salinity Laboratory, USDA, ARS 450 W. Big Springs Road Riverside, CA 92507-4617 Tel. 909-369-4847; Fax. 909-342-4964 Martinus Th. van Genuchten, Editor