The subsurface is the world’s largest reservoir of fresh water, oil, gas, and ores. The strategic importance of near surface geophysics for global water and food security, ecosystem survival, and large-scale geohazard (landslides and sinkholes) mitigation has intensified as climate change results in increased variability in precipitation, soil moisture, and surface water (more frequent and intense floods and droughts). Sustainable management of subsurface natural resources becomes one of the keys to our adaptation to climate change. High-resolution characterization, long-term monitoring, and prediction of subsurface processes over basin and terrestrial scales thus become necessary.

This call invites articles of high research excellence, original ideas, and revolutionary strategies for characterization, modeling, and analyses of geofluid flow and solute transport in subsurface from pore to terrestrial scales, or others which will lead to a new level of our understanding and management of the Earth’s natural resources.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Data fusion concepts and technologies that integrate satellite remote sensing, near surface geophysics, hydrogeologist tests, and geochemistry data
• Research related to geofluid circulation between fields, basins, regions, continents, oceans, and atmosphere
• Exploring heterogeneous geological media using natural phenomena such as Earth tides, earthquakes, lighting, and river stage fluctuations
• Geophysical methods for improved understanding of flow and solute transport in heterogeneous geological media
• Novel approaches in multiphase flow and solute transport modeling in geological media
• Innovative numerical, laboratory, and field studies for geofluid flow and solute transport processes