About this Journal
ISSN: 1939-2621
Annals of Environmental Science has one aim in mind: to make high quality, peer-reviewed environmental research available to anyone, anywhere, at no charge.
Publication of high quality research is facilitated by peer-review and editorial systems that certify to the extent possible that high standards have been met.
The work then can be shared with the world.
The papers will be indexed and abstracted, but who knows who will be able to access them, and who knows who may benefit in one way or another from the information they contain?
Origin
The founders of Annals of Environmental Science (AES) are Drs. Elham Ghabbour, Geoffrey Davies and Robert Wershaw. Together, they determined that AES would be an on-line, rigorously peer-reviewed, open-access journal for the environmental sciences, broadly defined. The journal would be indistinguishable in all respects from any established and respected journal except it would be completely free to authors and readers on-line anywhere at any time in the world.
The idea for the journal came after a plenary lecture by Dr Robert Wershaw of the United States Geological Survey at a Conference at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts on July 21, 2002. His title "Establishment of a Web-based Forum for the Rapid Publication of Extended Abstracts" was in keeping with the strong growth of interest in on-line science publication to avoid the costs and limited library space for the many, print journals available at the time.
Thanks to the co-operation and generosity of Northeastern University, AES found a home on the powerful IRIS server in the Snell Library at Northeastern and the journal was officially launched on March 12, 2007. With the welcome assistance of voluntary Editors and a distinguished Editorial Board, the AES Editorial Office at Northeastern manages peer-review and timely publication of the highest quality research in the environmental sciences, broadly defined. And, as envisioned, AES is on-line, rigorously peer-reviewed, open-access and completely free of charge for seven days a week, three hundred and sixty five days a year - we hope to the benefit of environmental scientists and the public everywhere, broadly defined.
Audience
The papers published in Annals of Environmental Science (AES) address all aspects of the air, earth and water environments, including- environmental monitoring, measurements and data analysis
- soil and water processes
- air, soil and water remediation
- water treatment, purification and conservation
- environmental biology, microbiology and physiology
- human health effects
- environmental education and welfare
- environmental engineering
- environmental economics, justice, policy and regulation
The papers published in AES can address local, regional, nation-wide or world-wide environmental issues without restriction .
The AES audience thus comprises- engineers, scientists, teachers and technical experts in the natural and physical sciences
- environmental health officials, legislators, policy-makers and regulators
- undergraduate and graduate students studying aspects of understanding and protecting our environment, broadly defined
- members of the worldwide general public who wish to know and understand the state of their living space, our environment
Topical Coverage
Topics covered by AES include (but are by no means limited to) the following. Please contact the Editors for topics not listed.
| Adsorption, theory and practice | Instrumentation | |
| Air quality and monitoring | Kinetics | |
| Antibiotics, hormones | Microbiology | |
| Aqueous natural organic matter | Novel techniques | |
| Arsenic mobility in groundwater | Nuclear technologies | |
| Astronomy | Geochemistry | |
| Atmospheric science | PCA, environmental modeling | |
| Black carbon | Pesticide analysis | |
| Carbon sequestration | Physical chemistry | |
| Catalysis | Phytoremediation | |
| Chemical element distribution | Pollution | |
| Cosmochemistry | Radiation effects | |
| Decontamination | Remediation | |
| Degradation, explosives/toxins | Risk | |
| Economics | Scrapie transmission | |
| Ecotoxicity | Soil/water interface | |
| Gene-environment interactions | Soil science | |
| Geochemistry | Spectroscopy | |
| Geology | Structure/function relationships | |
| Herbicides | Theory | |
| Human food chain | Waste containment | |
| Human-induced changes | Water treatment |