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Environmental Science & Technology Presents the 2017 Reviewer Awards
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acing an e-mail inbox full of review requests, it is easy to forget one of the essential truths of research: Peer reviewer is rewarding. Critically reading a manuscript about a topic that is near to your heart often provides new insights into your own research. It is also an opportunity to give something back to the community that has provided you with the fresh perspective that comes from simultaneously knowing the topic and not being blinded by too much familiarity with the experimental setup and prior results. In a fast-paced world where everyone is expected to do more in less time, it is tempting to cut corners on peer review. After all, the anonymity inherent to the peer review process ensures that our efforts are not recognized. It is easy to assume that it is someone else’s job to ensure that erroneous analyses or poorly designed experiments do not get published. At Environmental Science & Technology, we value peer review because it is how we ensure that the papers published in our journal meet our high standard for quality. We thank every one of our reviewers who have submitted about 10 000 reviews over the past year. Duty, responsibility, and occasionally an enlightening experience; we celebrate and recognize the reviewers who went the extra distance to write reviews that were truly exceptions. For these distinguished few, we offer an award as one more reward. Our awards fall into two categories: an annual “Excellence in Review” award, which was established in 2003 to recognize contributions during a single year; and a “Super Reviewer Award,” which was first awarded in 2011 to reviewers who consistently make major contributions to the journal over multiple years. We could not do it without you!
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SUPER REVIEWER AWARD Barbara Ervens Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado at Boulder & NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory/Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, Colorado, United States Patricia Holden Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, United States Jun Ma Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China Lena Ma Soil and Water Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States Paul N. Williams The Institute for Global Food Security & School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom © 2017 American Chemical Society
EXCELLENCE IN REVIEW AWARD Lutz Ahrens Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden Alexandria Boehm Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States José Cerrato Department of Civil Engineering, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States Brian Chaplin Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States Baoliang Chen Department of Environmental Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Wei Chen College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, China Steven Droge Freshwater and Marine Ecology (FAME), Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Kathrin Fenner Department of Environmental Chemistry, Eawag, Dübendorf & Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland H. Christopher Frey Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States Patrick Höhener Laboratoire Chimie Environnement, Aix-Marseille Universite, Marseille, France Sanghamitra Majumdar Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, United States Patrick McNamara Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States Christian Mikutta Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Daisuke Minakata Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, United States
Published: November 7, 2017 12047
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b05472 Environ. Sci. Technol. 2017, 51, 12047−12048
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Environmental Science & Technology Jasquelin Peña Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, University of Lausanne, UNIL-Mouline, Lausanne, Switzerland Deborah Rodrigues Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States Xiangke Wang School of Environment and Chemical Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China Xiangru Zhang Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
David L. Sedlak, Editor-in-Chief
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Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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David L. Sedlak: 0000-0003-1686-8464 Notes
Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS. The author declares no competing financial interest.
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b05472 Environ. Sci. Technol. 2017, 51, 12047−12048
