Introduction to this special section: General submissions

Readers familiar with The Leading Edge will notice that the current issue strays from the norm. Since the late 1990s, with but a handful of exceptions, each issue of TLE has featured a special section of technical papers grouped around a specific theme, technology, or geographic region. These special section topics are determined after thoughtful — often lengthy — discussion by an editorial board composed of experts from industry, academia, national laboratories, and elsewhere within the field of applied geophysics. The topics are scheduled each year in a published editorial calendar, giving authors ample time to collect research and publish their results. For the reader, it is hoped that these special sections will provide a deeper dive into a topic than what would be possible in a single article on the subject.