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Hydrogeology Journal appeared in six issues containing a total of 710 pages and 48 major articles, including 31 Papers and 14 Reports, as well as some Technical Notes and Book Reviews. The number of submitted manuscripts continues to increase. The final issue of 2003 also contained the annual volume index. Hydrogeology Journal (HJ) is an international forum for hydrogeology and related disciplines and authors in 2003 were from about 28 countries. Articles advanced hydrogeologic science and described hydrogeologic systems in many regions worldwide. These articles focused on a variety of general topics and on studies of hydrogeology in 24 countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, France, India, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey, and U.S.A. The Guest Editor of the 2003 HJ theme issue on “Hydromechanics in Geology and Geotechnics”, Ove Stephansson, assembled a valuable collection of technical reviews and research papers from eminent authors on important aspects of the subject area.

Thanks!

The success and international reputation of the journal is due in large part to the many who contributed to its production. Most important are the authors from all parts of the world. The efforts and professionalism of our publisher, Springer-Verlag, are much appreciated. Special thanks are due to Christian Witschel, Wolfgang Engel, Erdmuthe Raufelder, and Petra Möws, who cared for journal production in 2003. We are very grateful to Michel Bakalowicz and Alfredo Perez-Paricio who have translated an increasing number of abstracts into French and Spanish for several years. Assistance in the production of publishable manuscripts from articles that were technically acceptable, but that required major language editing, was provided by William D. Johnson, Jr. The volunteer HJ Associate Editors, listed on page A2 in this issue, have been invaluable in conducting and arranging for reviews, and for giving advice on the quality of submitted articles. In addition, many others volunteered their time and talents to review manuscripts. At the end of this message there is a list of 210 technical reviewers of manuscripts processed in 2003 (not including the Associate Editors). Many thanks are due to all of you for your support!

2005 HJ Theme Issue: “The Future of Hydrogeology”

This is the final call for submittal of your essay expressing your view of hydrogeology’s future, to be considered for inclusion in the 2005 theme issue. The issue was announced in the 2003 HJ 11(4) Editor’s Message and it will contain both full-length invited articles and volunteered short essays. Essays will have a maximum length of four journal pages (with no abstract). Please tell your colleagues about this opportunity and take the time to express your own vision concerning the future of some aspect of hydrogeology in this exciting HJ issue.

Some full article topics and authors, either already in preparation as this Message is being composed or under consideration, are: Contaminant Hydrology and Bioremediation, Michael Barcelona; Dealing with Spatial Heterogeneity, Ghislain de Marsily; Extraterrestrial Hydrogeology, Justin Ferris; Groundwater Physics, Jacob Bear and Ezzedine Souheil; Historical Perspective-Extrapolating Directions, T.N. Narasimhan; The Hydrogeologic Surprise and Conceptual Modeling, John Bredehoeft; Karst Hydrogeology, Michel Bakalowicz; Subsea Hydrogeology, Andrew Fisher; Inverse Modeling, Jesus Carrera; Stochastic Hydrogeology, Benoit Noetinger; Groundwater-Economics, Aditi deb Roy; Geochemistry and Environmental Tracers, Pierre Glynn and Neil Plummer; Groundwater Ecology, Peter Hancock, Andrew Boulton and Bill Humphreys; as well as the topics: Mechanics and Fluids-Faulting and Earthquakes; Exposure-Dose Evaluation; Hydrogeologic Repositories; Coastal Groundwater; Deep Fluids and Geologic Processes; Geophysics and Remote Sensing; and, Unsaturated Zone, Soils and Recharge.

Technical Reviewers in 2003

Pierre Adler

Vahid Alavian

Carlos Almeida

Evan Anderman

Luc Aquilina

Bruno Arfib

Don Armstrong

Karen Assaf

Dora Avanidou

Earl W. Bardsley

John Black

William Blomquist

John Bloomfield

John Van Brahana

Thomas J. Burbey

James Butler

Jonathan Saul Caine

Patricia Calahorra Fuertes

Philip Carpenter

Jesus Carrera

Ian Cartwright

Chia-Shyun Chen

Jianyao Chen

Chuntian Cheng

Jordan F, Clark

Peter G. Cook

Tom Corbet

Catherine Coxon

David Culver

Philip Kwaku Darko

George Darling

Alain Dassargues

Matthew Davis

Ralph K. Davis

Jacob J. De Vries

Jenny Deakin

Joe Depner

John F. Devlin

Sarah Dickson

Jonas Diliunas

Ariel Dinar

Barnali Dixon

Shawan Dogramaci

Jan Dowgiallo

Joe Downey

Charles Dunning

Christophe Emblanch

Oscar Escolero

Hedeff Essaid

Scott Evans

Robert P. Ewing

Claudia Faunt

Vincent Fitzsimons

Stephen Foster

Catherine Freissinet

Klaus Froehlich

John Gale

Devin Galloway

Hector Garduno

Alberto Garrido

Thomas Gimmi

Mark Goldman

Daniel Gomes

Jaime Gomez-Hernandez

Laurence Gourcy

Earl Greene

Leonardo José Do Nascimento Guimaraes

Jeff Hanor

William G. Harrar

Chris Hartnady

Juliane C Heiland

Jim Hendry

Hans Jorgen Henriksen

Eric Henry

Martin Herfort

Warren Hicks

Kevin Hiscock

Eduard Hoehn

Thilo Hofmann

Ian P. Holman

Zbynek Hrkal

Paul Hsieh

Max Hu

Hai Huang

Motomu Ibaraki

John A. Izbicki

Scot K Izuka

Blanca Jimenez

William Johnson

Paul Johnston

Norm Jones

Uri Kafri

Wojtek Kawecki

Raziuddin Khaleel

Kenneth Kipp

Antanas Algirdas Klimas

Gerard J. Kluitenberg

Toshiharu Kojiri

Ewa Krogulec

Himanshu Kulkarni

M. Dinesh Kumar

Patrick Lachassagne

Christian Langevin

Adrian Lawrence

Eung-Seok Lee

Hailong Li

Yu-Feng Lin

Jane Long

Andrew Love

Richard Luckey

Angela Lundberg

Allen Macfarlane

Piotr Maloszewski

Marisol Manzano

Jean Christophe Marechal

Jjonas Mazeika

Agustin Medina

Eduardo Mestre

Philippe Meus

Robert L. Michel

Hugh Middlemis

Allain Millard

Ziad Mimi

Fred J. Molz

Willard S Moore

Jacek Motyka

Eigor Mucha

Jacques Mudry

Jerry Muys

Peter Nemethy

Roseanna Neupauer

Sudarto Notosiswoyo

Kent Novakowski

Zbigniew Nowicki

Theo N. Olsthoorn

Gary Parkin

Johan Patyn

Eric W Peterson

Hans Olaf Pfannkuch

Steven Phillips

Shammy Puri

Allan Randall

Robert Reedy

François Richard

Stuart Rojstaczer

Daniel Ronen

Eliahu Rosenthal

Alain Rouleau

Charles Rovey

Andrzej Rozkowski

Jonny Rutqvist

Jale Sakiyan

Xavier Sanchez-Vila

Ira Sasowsky

Martin Sauter

Martine Savard

Bridget Scanlon

Traugott Scheytt

Manuel Schiffler

Bill Schuh

Horst Schulz

Jan Seibert

Paul Shand

Michael Sholley

Matthew J Simpson

Damien Skinner

Pauline Smedley

Keith Smettem

Val Snow

Miguel Solanes

Kip Solomon

Xianfang Song

Abraham Springer

Fritz Stauffer

Peter Styles

Peter W. Swarzenski

Joseph Szilagyi

Teodora Szocs

Siep Talma

Carlos Tamayo

Paul Tammetta

Richard Taylor

Kevin Telmer

Rene Therrien

Kathryn W Thorbjarnarson

Geoffrey Thyne

Vince Tidwell

Yves Travi

Yvonne Tsang

Jeffrey Turner

Phaedra Upton

Eduardo J. Usunoff

Angela Vallejos

Elmer Van Den Berg

Garth Van Der Kamp

Koen Verbruggen

Chi-Yuen Wang

Jinxia Wang

Patrick Wang

John Weaver

Don Whittemore

Ann Williams

Richard Winston

Alan Woodford

Geoff Wright

Jianfeng Wu

Xongxin Xu

Paul L. Younger

Fred Zhang