Seeking and maintaining high editorial standards of scientific manuscripts is an important responsibility. This task can be accomplished only with the advice and input from a large number of colleagues who are invited to review submitted papers. Their critical comments and helpful suggestions have played a major role in making Vadose Zone Journal a success. Members of the VZJ Editorial Board want to express their appreciation to the following individuals who helped review manuscripts in 2016. We extend our apologies and thanks to any reviewer whose name may have been inadvertently omitted from this list.
Akagawa, S., Cryosphere Engineering Lab., Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
Arthur, E., Aarhus Univ., Dep. of Agroecology, Tjele, Midtjylland, Denmark
Assouline, S., Bet Dagan, Israel
Attenborough, K., The Open Univ., Milton Keynes, UK
Babcock, R., Univ. of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
Baille, W., Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Baroni, G., Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany
Bayabil, H., Prairie View A&M Univ., Prairie View, TX
Bechtold, M., Thünen Institut, Braunschweig, Germany
Bekele, D., Univ. of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
Bell, J., NOAA, Asheville, NC
Benson, C., Madison, WI
Berg, A., Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Berli, M., Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas, NV
Biswas, A., Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Boaga, J., Univ. of Padova, Padova, Italy
Bodner, G.
Bogena, H., Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Boll, J., Pullman, WA
Bottcher, J.
Brangarí, A., Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Brennwald, M., Eawag, Dubendorf, Switzerland
Bristow, K., CSIRO Land and Water, Townsville, QLD, Australia
Brocca, L., National Research Council, Perugia, Italy
Brunner, P., CHYN, UniNe, Neuchatel, Switzerland
Caldwell, T., Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Capowiez, Y., INRA, Avignon Cedex 09, France
Carter, J., U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA
Chavez, J.
Chen, L., AECOM Technology Corp., Clifton, NJ
Christ, J., US Air Force Academy, USAF Academy, CO
Coppola, A., Univ. of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy
Cosh, M., USDA–ARS, Beltsville, MD
Costabel, S., Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Berlin, Germany
Couvreur, V., Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Culver, D.
Czigany, S., Univ. of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
Dahlke, H., Univ. of California, Davis, CA
Daigh, A., North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND
Daly, K., Southampton, UK
Das, D., Loughborough, UK
de Jong van Lier, Q., Univ. of Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil
de Rooij, G., Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Halle (Saale), Germany
Deb, S., Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX
Demirkanli, I., Pacific Northwest National Lab., Richland, WA
Di Pietro, L., INRA, Avignon, France
Diamantopoulos, E., Institut für Geoökologie, Braunschweig, Germany
DiCarlo, D., Austin, TX
Dunbar, J., Baylor Univ. College of Arts and Sciences, Waco, TX
Durner, W., TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Dusek, J., Ceske Vysoke Uceni Technicke v Praze, Praha, Czech Republic
Elsen, E., Alterra–Wageningen Univ. and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Eng Choon, L., Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore, Singapore
Evans, T., Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR
Faimon, J., Masaryk Univ., Brno, Czech Republic
Fank, J., Joanneaum Research, Graz, Austria
Farmer, C.
Flammini, A.
Flury, M., Washington State Univ., Puyallup, WA
Fredlund, D., Golder Associates, Redmond, WA
Fritz, K.
Furman, A., Technion, Haifa, Israel
Gan, Y., University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Gerhard, J., Western Univ., London, ON, Canada
Germann, P., Univ. of Bern, Bolligen, Switzerland
Ghanbarian, B., Wright State Univ., Dayton, OH
Ghezzehei, T., Univ. of California, Merced, CA
Goldberg, S., USDA–ARS, Riverside, CA
Graf, T., Leibniz Univ. Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Graham, D., DHI Group, Horsholm, Denmark
Green, C., US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA
Green, T., USDA–ARS, Fort Collins, CO
Groh, J., Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
Grunewald, E., Vista Clara Inc., Seattle, WA
Gulley, J., Santa Fe College, Gainesville, FL
Gurdak, J., San Francisco State Univ., San Francisco, CA
Gustafsson, J., Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Haghverdi, A., Univ. of California, Riverside, CA
Hamamoto, S., Saitama Univ., Saitama, Japan
Hammecker, C., IRD, Montpellier Cedex 2, France
Hausner, M., Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas, NV
Hayashi, M., Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Heinen, M., Alterra, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Heitman, J., Raleigh, NC
Holden, P.
Hopmans , J., Davis, CA
Hu, W., Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Hunt, A., Wright State Univ., Dayton, OH
Iden, S., Braunschweig Technical Univ., Braunschweig, Germany
Ippisch, O., TU Clausthal, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
Jackson, R., Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA
Jacques, D., Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie, Mol, Belgium
Jalali, M.
Jarvis, N., SLU, Uppsala, Sweden
Javaux, M., Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Jerszurki , D., Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet, Israel
Jougnot, D., UPMC, Paris
Kammerer, G., Univ. fur Bodenkultur Wien, Wien, Austria
Kampf, S.
Kandelous, M., Univ. of California, Davis, CA
Katuwal, S., Aarhus Univ., Tjele, Denmark
Keiluweit, M.
Kelleners, T., Laramie, WY
Keller, T., Agroscope, Zürich, Switzerland
Kluitenberg, G., Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS
Knappett, P., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
Knight, J., Sydney, NSW, Australia
Koestel, J., Uppsala, Sweden
Kool, D., Agricultural Research Organization, Israel
Kozlowski, T., Politechnika Swietokrzyska, Kielce, Poland
Krounbi , L., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
Kurtzman, D., ARO, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel
Kurwadkar, S., California State Univ., Fullerton, CA
Kurylyk, B.
Lakshmi, V., Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Lamorski, K., Institute of Agrophysics PAS, Lublin, Poland
Lefebvre, R., INRS Eau Terre et Environnement, Quebec, QC, Canada
Leitner, D., Linz, Austria
Leterme, B., Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie, Mol, Belgium
Li, X., Beijing, China
Lin, H., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA
Lockington, D., Brisbane, Australia
Looms Zibar, M., Univ. of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Lopez Periago, J., Univ. of Vigo, Ourense, Spain
Lu, N., Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
Manning, A.
Martinez, G., USDA–ARS, Beltsville, MD
Mboh, C., Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Univ., Bonn, Germany
McCartney, J., Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
McCray, J., Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
McKay Fletcher, D., Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
McMahon, P., U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO
Meheust, Y., Univ. Rennes 1, Rennes, France
Menon, M., Univ. of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Mohnke, O., RWTH Aachen Univ., Aachen, Germany
Molenat, J.
Moradi, A., Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
MORARI, F., Univ. of Padova, Legnaro, Padova, Italy
Mueller, M., Univ. of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Mumford, K., Queen’s Univ., Kingston, ON, Canada
Nachshon, U., ARO, Bet Dagan, Israel
Nasta, P., Univ. Federico II, Portici, Italy
Neuweiler, I., Univ. of Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Nguyen, F., Univ. of Liege, Liege, Belgium
Nobes, D., East China Univ. of Technology, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
Norgaard, T., Århus Univ., Tjele, Denmark
Norouzi, H.
Ochsner, T., Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK
Pachepsky, Y.
Paradelo, M., Aarhus Univ., Tjele, Denmark
Parkin, G., Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Partington, D., Adelaide, SA, Australia
Pelletier, M., USDA–ARS, Lubbock, TX
Petri, B., Integral Consulting Inc., Louisville, CO
Petric, M., ZRC SAZU, Postojna, Slovenia
Pettinelli, E.
Phelan, T.
Pianella, A.
Pierret , A., IRD, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Pollacco, J.
Porta, G., Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Priesack, E., Helmholtz Zentrum München Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany
Ramos, T., Univ. de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal
Ramsburg, A., Tufts Univ., Medford, MA
Reichardt, K.
Robinson, D., Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Bangor, Gwynedd, UK
Robinson, J., Rutgers Univ., Newark, NJ
Rojas, E., Univ. Autonoma de Queretaro, Queretaro, Mexico
Rolle, M., Danmarks Tekniske Univ., Lyngby, Denmark
Romano, N., Univ. of Napoli Federico II, Portici, Italy
Rony, W.
Rosenfeld, C., Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Ross, P., Townsville, QLD, Australia
Rothfuss, Y., Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Rucker, D., Tucson, AZ
Rudiyanto, R., Institut Pertanian Bogor, Bogor, Indonesia
Sadeghi, M., Utah State Univ., Logan, UT
Saito, H., Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Japan
Saito, T., Tottori, Japan
Sakaki, T., Nagra, Wettingen, Switzerland
Schack-kirchner, H.
Scheuermann, A., Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Schlüter, S., Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research, Halle, Germany
Schnepf, A., Jülich, Germany
Schwartz, R., USDA–ARS, Bushland, TX
Seltzer, A., Univ. of California, San Diego, CA
Seyfried, M., USDA–ARS, Boise, ID
Shin, Y., Kyungpook National Univ., Daegu, Korea
Si , B., Univ. of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Šimůnek, J., Univ. of California, Riverside, CA
Skaggs, T., US Salinity Lab., USDA–ARS, Riverside, CA
Skierucha, W., Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lublin, Poland
Smits, K., Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
Sohrt, J., Freiburg, Germany
Son, K., City College of New York, New York, NY
Stonestrom, D., US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA
Sun, Y., Beijing, China
Suzuki, K., Yokohama, Japan
Szypłowska, A., Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lublin, Poland
Temimi, M., City Univ. of New York, New York, NY
Thompson, D., Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Torres, R., Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Tracy, S., Nottingham
Trakal, L.
Troch, P., Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Tuller, M., Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Turk, J., Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Galloway, NJ
Turkeltaub, T., Midreset Ben-Gurion, Israel
Van Dam, J., Wageningen Univ. and Research Centre, Wageningen, the Netherlands
van der Ploeg, M., Wageningen Univ., Wageningen, the Netherlands
van Genuchten, M., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Vanderborght, J., Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Vereecken, H., Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Vetterlein, D., UFZ, Halle, Germany
Vithanage, M., Inst. Fundamental Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka
Vogel, H., Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Halle, Germany
Wang, K., Xi’an, China
Wang, T., Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Watanabe, K., Tsu, Japan
Wayayok, A., Univ. Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Wehbe, Y., Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Masdar City, United Arab Emirates
Wei, X., College of Earth and Environment, Lanzhou Univ., Lanzhou, Gansu, China
Weihermüller, L., Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Weisbrod, N., Ben Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Midreshet Ben Gurion, Israel
Weller, U., Helmholtz-Zentrum fur Umweltforschung UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
Wendroth, O., Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Wessolek, G., Technical Univ. of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Woo, M., Scarborough, ON, Canada
Wood, C., Institute for Environmental Research, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Wynne, J., Flagstaff, AZ
Young, K., York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada
Young, M., Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Youngs, E.
Zhang, Y., Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Zhao, C., Central South Univ., Changsha, Hunan, China
Zhao, Y., College of Resources and Environmental Science, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
Zheng, W., Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE
Zhou, L., Hohai Univ., Nanjing, China
Zuecco, G., Univ. of Padova, Legnaro, Italy
