The Mobilization, Speciation and Transformation of Organic and Inorganic Contaminants in Soil-Groundwater Ecosystems, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2025 | Viewed by 205
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Interests: microbial biogeochemistry; microbe-mineral interaction; soil and groundwater contamination; microbial ecology; hydrogeochemistry
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Interests: environment; water quality; hydrogeochemistry; environmental geochemistry; hydrochemistry; water chemistry
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Interests: pollution hydrogeology; geology; geochemistry
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soil and groundwater systems serve as a crucial link between the hydrosphere, pedosphere, atmosphere and anthroposphere. The well-being of soil and groundwater is vital for the health of the biosphere and human life under different land use types. However, in regions such as arid and semi-arid inland basins, plateau grassland areas and hilly mountainous areas, intensive human activities pose significant risks of contamination to soil and groundwater systems. Some contaminants, such as heavy metals, organic pollutants and nitrogen, are highly mobile and resistant to rapid microbial degradation, resulting in their prolonged retention in the soil and groundwater. The fate of these pollutants is influenced by various geogenic and anthropogenic factors, including local precipitation, groundwater flow system, vadose zone and aquifer lithology, land use type and functional microbial activities. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate the sources, migration and transformation of these pollutants in soil–groundwater systems across different media and interfaces. This Special Issue focuses on the spatiotemporal evolution of soil–groundwater contamination in different typical regions/sites, the associated ecological and human health risks, and natural attenuation and hydrogeochemical models for soil–groundwater systems.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Transportation and fate of soil and groundwater contaminants;
- Assessment of soil and groundwater contaminants;
- Hydrochemical characteristics of groundwater resources;
- Remediation strategy of contaminants at different land use sites;
- Biogeochemical activity of soil and groundwater systems.
Prof. Dr. Yizhi Sheng
Dr. Wanjun Jiang
Prof. Dr. Min Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- contaminant hydrogeochemistry
- isotopic hydrogeochemistry
- remediation of contaminants in soil and groundwater
- biogeochemical processes in multi-interfaces
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