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Best Paper Awards for 2005
Environmental Modelling & Software 22 (2007) 1 www.elsevier.com/locate/envsoft
Editorial
Best Paper Awards for 2005 As one of its initiatives, the Editorial Board of EMS recently instituted an annual Best Paper Award. The aim is to recognize those authors whose paper epitomizes the aims and scope of the journal. Characteristics of candidate papers are that they must possess as many as possible of the following features: high quality, innovative, interdisciplinary, generic in their utility and rigorous in the way their model or software testing is performed and reported. We are pleased to report on the results of voting by the Associate Editors (AEs). The best paper was awarded to W. Matt Jolly, Jonathan M. Graham, Andrew Michaelis, Ramakrishna Nemani and Steven W. Running for their paper on ‘‘A flexible, integrated system for generating meteorological surfaces derived from point sources across multiple geographic scales.’’ It satisfied all of the above criteria at a high level. The AEs particularly valued the integration approach, the use of cross-validation for five meteorological variables and comparison of three different interpolation methods. The AEs also decided to award two runner-up teams for the quality and relevance of their papers in 2005. One team comprised Jens Christian Refsgaard, Hans Jorgen Henriksen, William G. Harrar, Huub Scholten and Ayalew Kassahun for their paper on ‘‘Quality assurance in model based water management e review of existing practice and outline of new
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approaches’’; and the other team was Maja Schlter, Andre G. Savitsky, Daene C. McKinney and Helmut Lieth for ‘‘Optimizing long-term water allocation in the Amudarya River delta: a water management model for ecological impact assessment.’’ Congratulations to all three teams for producing such excellent and valuable papers. These awards were presented at the Summit on Environmental Modelling and Software, held last July in Burlington and convened by Alexey Voinov for the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society. At our next Biennial meeting in Barcelona in July 2008 (see www.iemss.org/ iemss2008) we will be presenting the EMS Best Paper Awards for both 2006 and 2007. So please keep those good papers coming and hoping to see you in Spain. Anthony J. Jakeman,* Editor-in-Chief and Editor, Environmental Modelling Andrea E. Rizzoli, Editor, Environmental Modelling Software and Informatics Australian National University, Centre for Resource & Environmental Studies, Building 48A, Linnaeus Way, Canberra 0200, Australia *Corresponding author. Tel.: þ61 2 6125 4742; fax: þ61 2 6125 8395. E-mail address: [email protected] (A.J. Jakeman)
Editorial
Best Paper Awards for 2005 As one of its initiatives, the Editorial Board of EMS recently instituted an annual Best Paper Award. The aim is to recognize those authors whose paper epitomizes the aims and scope of the journal. Characteristics of candidate papers are that they must possess as many as possible of the following features: high quality, innovative, interdisciplinary, generic in their utility and rigorous in the way their model or software testing is performed and reported. We are pleased to report on the results of voting by the Associate Editors (AEs). The best paper was awarded to W. Matt Jolly, Jonathan M. Graham, Andrew Michaelis, Ramakrishna Nemani and Steven W. Running for their paper on ‘‘A flexible, integrated system for generating meteorological surfaces derived from point sources across multiple geographic scales.’’ It satisfied all of the above criteria at a high level. The AEs particularly valued the integration approach, the use of cross-validation for five meteorological variables and comparison of three different interpolation methods. The AEs also decided to award two runner-up teams for the quality and relevance of their papers in 2005. One team comprised Jens Christian Refsgaard, Hans Jorgen Henriksen, William G. Harrar, Huub Scholten and Ayalew Kassahun for their paper on ‘‘Quality assurance in model based water management e review of existing practice and outline of new
1364-8152/$ - see front matter Ó 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2006.09.001
approaches’’; and the other team was Maja Schlter, Andre G. Savitsky, Daene C. McKinney and Helmut Lieth for ‘‘Optimizing long-term water allocation in the Amudarya River delta: a water management model for ecological impact assessment.’’ Congratulations to all three teams for producing such excellent and valuable papers. These awards were presented at the Summit on Environmental Modelling and Software, held last July in Burlington and convened by Alexey Voinov for the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society. At our next Biennial meeting in Barcelona in July 2008 (see www.iemss.org/ iemss2008) we will be presenting the EMS Best Paper Awards for both 2006 and 2007. So please keep those good papers coming and hoping to see you in Spain. Anthony J. Jakeman,* Editor-in-Chief and Editor, Environmental Modelling Andrea E. Rizzoli, Editor, Environmental Modelling Software and Informatics Australian National University, Centre for Resource & Environmental Studies, Building 48A, Linnaeus Way, Canberra 0200, Australia *Corresponding author. Tel.: þ61 2 6125 4742; fax: þ61 2 6125 8395. E-mail address: [email protected] (A.J. Jakeman)