School of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University, Palmerston North Private Bag 11-222, New Zealand;Dr. Lucy Burkitt’s research focuses on soil health and nutrient management in pastoral agriculture, with a specific focus on loss of phosphorus and nitrogen from agricultural soils, water quality, strategies to attenuate/mitigate nutrient loss and the impacts of diverse pasture and regenerative management on soil health and the environment. She is the Soil Research Lead for the Whenua Haumanu regenerative agriculture program. She also co-ordinates undergraduate Integrated Farm and Environmental Management, in addition to the Intermediate and Advanced Freshwater Farm Planning professional development courses, and teaches on both the Intermediate and Advanced Sustainable Nutrient Management courses at Massey University.

Department of Rural and Bio-Systems Engineering (Brain Korea 21), Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Republic of Korea;AgriBio Institute of Climate Change Management, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Republic of Korea;Dr. Woo-Jung Choi has been a professor at Chonnam National University, South Korea, since 2005. He earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Agricultural Environment (Soil Science) from Seoul National University and completed his postdoctoral research at the University of Alberta, Canada. His research interests encompass soil management, water pollution source tracing, and climate change mitigation, with a specialization in the application of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes for environmental studies. Dr. Choi has published over 200 scientific papers and authored six books or book chapters. He has also served as an Associate Editor for various journals, including Biology and Fertility of Soils, Journal of Soils and Sediments, Canadian Journal of Soil Science, and Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis.

State Key Laboratory of Regional and Urban Ecology, Ningbo Observation and Research Station, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, 361021, China;Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Pollution Control for Port-Petrochemical Industry, CAS Haixi Industrial Technology Innovation Center in Beilun, Ningbo, 315830, China;Dr. Ruixia Han’s research focuses on microbially driven iron redox processes, reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation, and their roles in contaminant transformation in soils. Her work has elucidated the mechanisms of hydroxyl radical production during microbial iron cycling, identified key environmental controls on soil ROS generation, and revealed ROS-mediated arsenic oxidation and transformation. These studies contribute to a better understanding of soil biogeochemical processes that regulate contaminant mobility, soil environmental quality, and the safety of agricultural ecosystems. She has published more than 30 SCI papers, including first-author articles in Environmental Science & Technology and Water Research. She has led projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Her current research aims to advance mechanistic understanding of soil redox processes and support sustainable soil management, contaminant risk mitigation, and food security.

School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4067, Australia;Dr. Tong Li is an Early Career Research Fellow at The University of Queensland, Australia. His research focuses on soil health, soil organic carbon, digital soil science, and sustainable agricultural systems, with expertise in proximal and remote sensing, soil spectroscopy, spatial analysis, and machine learning. To date, he has published more than 90 peer-reviewed papers and has a Google Scholar h-index of 28. He also holds editorial roles at several international journals, including serving as an Associate Editor for Ecological Indicators and Land Degradation & Development and as an editor for Engineering and Geography and Sustainability. His work aims to integrate advanced sensing and data-driven approaches to support sustainable soil and land management.