Journal of Environmental and March 2020
Volume 25
Engineering Geophysics
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Editor’s Foreword
Dale Rucker, Editor
Happy 25th Anniversary to the Journal of Environ-
mental and Engineering Geophysics. What began as a
fledgling publication for disseminating applied re-
search in the area of near surface geophysics has
grown to a significant scientific contribution with
articles from all over the world. To celebrate the
achievement, we embarked on a journey to redesign
the face of the journal including an upgrade to the
article layout and a modern looking cover. The design
process was crowd sourced through the EEGS board
and fellow geophysicists. I would like to particularly
thank Shawn Calendine and Mark Dunscomb for their
design ideas for the cover.
As we head into the next 25 years, it is interesting
to imagine where the science will take us. New
acquisition hardware and software will allow us to
acquire and process data faster, upscaling the surveys
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significantly. New parameterizations will help us
bridge into complementary sciences of hydrology,
mining, and engineering. Applications will be geared
towards the tracking of long term effects of climate
change. I look forward to reading of their investiga-
tions between the covers of JEEG.
I am writing this editorial from the confines of my
house, sitting at a makeshift desk made from a plastic
card table in the guest bedroom. The coronavirus has
forced us all in doors for the past month and it is
unknown when we will be able to emerge and return
to life as we knew it. Millions of people are already
infected and it is expected that many will perish. For
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this reason, the annual meeting SAGEEP was post-
poned. I typically announce the winner of the Alan
Witten Best Paper Award during conference, but I am
happy to do it here as well. The winner is Gungor
Bidem Beskardes with her paper titled ‘‘Power
Density Distribution in Subsurface Fractures Due to
an Energized Steel Well-casing Source’’ (Beskardes et
al., 2019). The paper explores a novel method of
remotely powering underground sensors with electro-
magnetics. The competition was stiff and I encourage
you to read the four papers that made the final round,
including the works by Huntley et al. (2019), Rahimi et
al. (2019), and Wu et al. (2019).
References
Beskardes, G.D., McAliley, W.A., Ahmadian, M., Chapman, D.T., Weiss, C.J. and Heath,
J.E., 2019, Power density distribution in subsurface fractures due to an energized
steel well-casing source: Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics,
24, 285–297.
Huntley, D., Bobrowsky, P., Hendry, M., Macciotta, R. and Best, M., 2019, Multi-
technique geophysical investigation of a very slow-moving landslide near Ashcroft,
British Columbia, Canada: Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics,
24, 87–110.
Rahimi, S., Moody, T., Wood, C., Kouchaki, B.M., Barry, M., Tran, K. and King, C., 2019,
Mapping subsurface conditions and detecting seepage channels for an
embankment dam using geophysical methods: A case study of the Kinion Lake
Dam: Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, 24, 373–386.
Wu, X., Fang, G., Xue, G., Liu, L., Liu, L. and Li, J., 2019, The development and
applications of the helicopter-borne transient electromagnetic system CAS-HTEM:
Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, 24, 653–663.