Editors’ Message: The 2014 Editors’ Choice articles and the 2014 ‘Coolest Paper’ award

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“Editors’ Choice” articles are ones selected for special attention by the Hydrogeology Journal (HJ) editorial team (Liz Screaton, Maria Schafmeister, Jimmy Jiao, Vincent Post, Cliff Voss) and the guest editors of the 2014 HJ theme issue (Diana Allen, Peter Bayer, Grant Ferguson, Philipp Blum). These articles may be selected for any of several good reasons including: outstanding science, innovative approach, potentially important conclusions, interesting field area or phenomenon, unusual topic, political/social/historical/philosophical interest, etc. At the conclusion of each publishing year, the editors select up to five articles from among the year’s crop of about 150 published articles. The HJ editors believe that our readers will find these articles to be somehow interesting or valuable. Both authors and readers of the selected articles benefit because Editors’ Choice articles are: (1) highlighted on the International Association of Hydrogeologists’ (IAH) website and in the IAH newsletter, and (2) Springer, HJ’s publisher, makes these articles freely available on their website for full viewing and downloading at no cost to everyone for 2 years. …