We are pleased to announce our new Geoscience Data Journal (GDJ) co Editors in Chief, Dr Anirudh Prabhu and Professor Qingxiang Li. Dr Anirudh Prabhu and Professor Qingxiang Li succeed Professor Katherine Royse and Professor Jian Peng. We thank Kate and Jian for their hard work and contribution to GDJ and welcome Anirudh and Qingxiang to the GDJ team.

Dr Anirudh Prabhu, started with the journal in February. He is a Research Scientist & Principal Investigator at the Earth and Planets Laboratory in the Carnegie Institution for Science. A data & information scientist by training, Dr Prabhu’s research focuses on advancing data science by developing and applying analytics, and machine learning techniques. He is on the Advisory Board for the Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance and has been a member of the Data Science Team of both the Deep Carbon Observatory and the 4D initiative since 2016.

Joining Anirudh from September, is Professor Qingxiang Li, a Distinguished Yixian Scholar at Sun Yat-Sen University specializing in climate change observation, physics, and uncertainty studies. Professor Li has received numerous awards and honours, including the Zou Jingmeng Meteorological Science and Technology Talent Award, recognition as a leading scientific and technological talent by the China Meteorological Administration, and the Distinguished Expert title in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

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