Rien van Genuchten: A short autobiography

IF 2.5 3区地球科学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Vadose Zone Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-24 DOI:10.1002/vzj2.20322

Martinus Th. van Genuchten

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Abstract

1 INTRODUCTION

I am extremely honored to receive the 2023 Wolf Prize in the field of agriculture for “groundbreaking work in understanding water flow and predicting contaminant transport in soils,” and for that reason, being invited to contribute an autobiography to this special section of Vadose Zone Journal. Receiving the Wolf Prize reflects the guidance, support, and input I received from so many over the years, starting from the very beginning from my parents who instilled in me the beauty of the natural environment through their careful management of a small family farm in the Netherlands. They encouraged me to pursue my MS studies in Holland, after which I went to the United States, subsequently to Brazil, and back to the Netherlands. Throughout my life, I enjoyed enormous freedom to pursue whatever I felt was important to better describe fluid flow and contaminant transport processes in the near-surface environment. I could interact with a large number of colleagues from all over the world. This collaboration made me see not only the important gaps in science but also the difficulties of applying what we know to the many environmental and socio-economic problems facing this planet. As such, my appreciation goes to the Wolf Foundation for recognizing, through this award, the importance of us taking care of this planet and its inhabitants.

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1 引言我非常荣幸能够因 "在理解水流和预测土壤中污染物迁移方面的开创性工作 "而获得农业领域的 2023 年沃尔夫奖，并因此受邀为《沃德区期刊》的这一专栏撰写自传。获得沃尔夫奖体现了多年来许多人对我的指导、支持和帮助，我的父母从一开始就通过他们对荷兰一个小型家庭农场的精心管理，向我灌输了自然环境之美的理念。他们鼓励我在荷兰攻读硕士学位，之后我去了美国，后来又去了巴西，最后又回到了荷兰。在我的一生中，我享有极大的自由，可以从事任何我认为重要的研究，以更好地描述近地表环境中的流体流动和污染物迁移过程。我可以与来自世界各地的众多同事进行交流。这种合作不仅让我看到了科学领域的重要差距，也让我看到了将我们所知道的知识应用于解决地球面临的许多环境和社会经济问题的困难。因此，我感谢沃尔夫基金会通过这个奖项认可了我们关爱地球及其居民的重要性。

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Vadose Zone Journal 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

5.60

自引率

7.10%

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审稿时长

3.8 months

期刊介绍： Vadose Zone Journal is a unique publication outlet for interdisciplinary research and assessment of the vadose zone, the portion of the Critical Zone that comprises the Earth’s critical living surface down to groundwater. It is a peer-reviewed, international journal publishing reviews, original research, and special sections across a wide range of disciplines. Vadose Zone Journal reports fundamental and applied research from disciplinary and multidisciplinary investigations, including assessment and policy analyses, of the mostly unsaturated zone between the soil surface and the groundwater table. The goal is to disseminate information to facilitate science-based decision-making and sustainable management of the vadose zone. Examples of topic areas suitable for VZJ are variably saturated fluid flow, heat and solute transport in granular and fractured media, flow processes in the capillary fringe at or near the water table, water table management, regional and global climate change impacts on the vadose zone, carbon sequestration, design and performance of waste disposal facilities, long-term stewardship of contaminated sites in the vadose zone, biogeochemical transformation processes, microbial processes in shallow and deep formations, bioremediation, and the fate and transport of radionuclides, inorganic and organic chemicals, colloids, viruses, and microorganisms. Articles in VZJ also address yet-to-be-resolved issues, such as how to quantify heterogeneity of subsurface processes and properties, and how to couple physical, chemical, and biological processes across a range of spatial scales from the molecular to the global.