Prof. Pasquale Borrelli is not able to serve as the Editor-in-Chief for WASWAC official journal - ISWCR. Although he has been appointed as the Editor-in-Chief for only a few months, a series of important contributions to the Journal have been made, such as introducing a couple of outstanding young scientists to our Editorial board, proposing the period online editorial meeting, and initialized the first meeting, proposed a couple of special issue in plan.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Baoyuan Liu from the Beijing Normal University is appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief. Prof. Liu’s research interests are related to soil erosion processes, soil erosion modeling, monitoring, and assessment of conservation practices. Prof. Liu has published more than 80 research articles in the International Journals in English and about 143 articles in Chinese with a total citation of over 7,100 times according to Google Scholar. Prof. Liu’s scientific contributions are widely known for deriving the equations for the slope gradient and length factors in the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) on steep slopes, establishing the Chinese Soil Loss Equation (CSLE) and its computer model grounded on GIS. Prof. Liu also designed the field soil erosion investigation technique in China, which has been applied in the National Census for Water Erosion.

Prof. Baoyuan Liu