This is a greeting front the new Editors a JGR -Solid Earth, Andre Revil from the Colorado School of Mines, Tom Parsons front the U.S. Geological Survey, and Robert Nowack from Purdue University. We are very excited about taking on the challenges and responsibilities of JGR -Solid Earth, with this being the 60th year since the inception of the Journal of Geophysical Research in 1949 as a contin-uation of the earlier Journal of Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric Electricity. The wider range of research areas for the new JGR was noted by its first editor Merle Tuve [Tuve, 1949], "We have recognized the need ... for a scientific journal of high quality which endeavors to cover a broad range of subjects in geophysical research directed toward scientific goals...." This is much the same mission today for JGR, which now includes seven different sections of which JGR-Solid Earth in itself includes a wide range of research areas in the solid Earth sciences. This year is also the 90th year since the establishment of the American Geophys-ical Union in 1919 by the National Academy of Sciences [Smith, 1969]. It later became a scientific society, and in 1958 it assumed the responsibilities of JGR and transferred scien-tific papers to it from the Transactions of the AGU, which later became Eos. AGU added other journals, starting in the 1960s including Geophysical Research Letters and Reviews of Geophysics. In 1999, AGU began publishing the all electronic journal, G-Cubed (Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems), and now provides all AGU journals online as the version of record. JGR, with its different research topics, will continue to be a flagship scientific journal for the AGU, and we arc proud to carry on the JGR tradition as new Editors for JGR -Solid Earth.
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