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Introduction to the special issue on site characterization for geological storage of CO2

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Acknowledgments

As guest editors, we thank the authors for their interesting contributions, and the many reviewers for their careful and constructive comments and suggestions. On behalf of all the authors and ourselves, we express our sincere appreciation to Philip E. LaMoreaux, the editor-in-chief of Environmental Geology, for providing the opportunity to publish these 11 papers in a special issue of the journal. Special thanks are due to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for sponsoring the CO2SC symposium in Berkeley that laid the ground for this special issue.

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  1. Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, MS 90-1116, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    Jens Birkholzer & Chin-Fu Tsang

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Birkholzer, J., Tsang, CF. Introduction to the special issue on site characterization for geological storage of CO2 . Environ Geol 54, 1579–1581 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00254-007-0938-9

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