VOTE FOR THE BEST PAPER IN PEDOMETRICS

Jaap de Gruijter and Inakwu Odeh have nominated papers for the Best Paper in Pedometrics awards for 2005 and 2006 respectively. They were asked to consider peer-reviewed papers published in international journals, and to select the five that they considered to be most deserving of the title. We list below the nominations, in alphabetical order by the first author's name.

The awards will be announced at Pedometrics 2007 in Tübingen this August. Unlike previous years we would like the vote to be completed before the conference. Margaret Oliver, who chairs the Commission's awards committee, has kindly agreed to collate and report on the vote.

In another development, the journals involved in this vote have kindly agreed that the full text of the papers be made freely available online until the vote is complete. We are grateful for this, which should make it easier for all to participate in this award.

To participate in the award you should:

• Read each paper. This is now possible for everyone!
• For each of the two years, rank all five papers in order of preference. As in previous years, give rank 5 to the paper which you believe to be the best, rank 4 to the second-best and so on.
• Email your rankings for the two years to Margaret at bestpaper@pedometrics.org
• Votes must be received by 15th August 2007.

I would like to thank Jaap and Odeh for undertaking the considerable task of reading and assessing papers for nomination. It is no mean feat. Thanks also to Margaret, who is looking forward to receiving your votes.

Nominations for 2005 are:

• 2005_P1: Henderson, B.L., E.N. Bui, C.J. Moran, D.A.P. Simon. Australia-wide predictions of soil properties using decision trees. Geoderma, 124 (2005): 383-398.
• 2005_P2: Jost, G., G.B.M. Heuvelink, A. Papritz. Analysing the space-time distribution of soil water storage of a forest ecosystem using spatio-temporal kriging. Geoderma, 128 (2005): 258-273.
• 2005_P3: Monestiez, P., J.-S. Bailly, P. Lagacherie, M. Voltz. Geostatistical modelling of spatial processes on directed trees: Application to fluviosol extent. Geoderma, 128 (2005): 179-191.
• 2005_P4: Saito, H., K. Yoshino, T. Ishida, T. Nagano, W. Sirichuaychoo, A. Jongskul, N. Haraguchi. Geostatistical estimation of tropical peat-soil volume at Bacho, Thailand: impact of spatial support size and censored information. Geoderma, 125 (2005): 235-247.
• 2005_P5: Savelieva, E., V. Demyanov, M. Kanevski, M. Serre, G. Christakos. BME-based uncertainty assessment of the Chernobyl fallout. Geoderma, 128 (2005): 312-324.

Nominations for 2006 are:

• 2006_P1: Bishop T.F.A., Lark R.M. The geostatistical analysis of experiments at the landscape-scale. Geoderma 133 (2006): 87-106.
• 2006_P2: Follain S., Minasny B., McBratney A. B. Walter C. Simulation of soil thickness evolution in a complex agricultural landscape at fine spatial and temporal scales. Geoderma 133 (2006): 71-86.
• 2006_P3: Heuvelink G.B.M., Schoorl J.M., Veldkamp A., Pennock D.J. Space-time Kalman filtering of soil redistribution. Geoderma 133 (2006):124-137.
• 2006_P4: Kuzyakova I.F., Turyabahika F.R. Stahr K. Time series analysis and mixed models for studying the dynamics of net N mineralization in a soil catena at Gondelsheim (S-W Germany). Geoderma 136 (2006): 803-818.
• 2006_P5: Parasuraman K., Elshorbagy A., Si B. C. Estimating saturated hydraulic conductivity in spatially variable fields using neural network ensembles. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 70 (2006): 1851-1859.

With thanks, and best wishes for your work in Pedometrics.

Murray Lark
The Chair of Pedometrics