精確和有效地成像地下結構和建立地下過程的模型需要數學家、工程師、化學家、物理學家和地球科學家之間的多學科合作。目前還沒有一種期刊的主要目標是為這些不同的科學團體之間的互動提供一個平臺。為了解決這一問題，我們建議建立一本新的計算地球科學雜志。這本國際期刊的目的是促進各學科之間、大學之間、工業和政府實驗室之間的思想交流。計算地球科學將發表高質量的數學建模、模擬數據分析、成像反演和解釋以及在地球科學中的應用論文。所涵蓋的主題和應用領域包括水庫和環境工程、水文、地球化學、地質力學、地震和電磁成像、地質統計學、水庫/含水層特征和高性能并行計算。更具體地說，計算地球科學歡迎諸如生物修復、擴散和分散地質學和地質統計學擴大多相流和反應輸運、地球物理成像和反演方法、地震和電磁建模、數值方法以及并行計算等方面的貢獻。邀請理論和應用科學家參加。計算地球科學主要關注可滲透介質中描述傳輸過程的模型的定量方面。它的對象是石油工程師、水文工程師、定量環境工程師、土壤物理學家、土壤和地球化學家、應用數學家、地質學家和地震學家。

Accurate and efficient imaging of subsurface structure and modeling of processes in the subsurface require multidisciplinary collaboration among mathematicians engineers chemists physicists and geoscientists. Presently there exists no journal whose main objective is to provide a platform for interaction among these diverse scientific groups. To remedy this we propose to establish a new journal Computational Geosciences . The aim of this international journal is to facilitate the exchange of ideas across the disciplines and among universities and industrial and governmental laboratories. Computational Geosciences will publish high quality papers on mathematical modeling simulation data analysis imaging inversion and interpretation with applications in the geosciences. The themes and application areas to be covered include reservoir and environmental engineering hydrology geochemistry geomechanics seismic and electromagnetic imaging geostatistics and reservoir/aquifer characterization and high performance parallel computing. More specifically Computational Geosciences welcomes contributions concerning for example bioremediation diffusion and dispersion geology and geostatistics scale up multiphase flow and reactive transport geophysical imaging and inversion methods seismic and electromagnetic modeling numerical methods and parallel computing. Both theoretical and applied scientists are invited to participate. Computational Geosciences focuses mainly on quantitative aspects of models describing transport processes in permeable media. It is targeted at petroleum engineers hydrologists quantitative environmental engineers soil physicists soil and geochemists applied mathematicians geologists and seismologists.