Environmetrics is the official journal of The International Environmetrics Society (TIES). It is a multidisciplinary journal that publishes refereed papers on the development and application of quantitative methods in the environmental sciences. The scope covers a broad range of statistical, mathematical and engineering topics dealing with the analysis of environmental changes and their impacts on humans and various life forms and ecological relationships. Therefore, the journal welcomes a wide diversity of applications in such areas as water and air quality, regulation and control, risk and impact analysis, waste management, transboundary pollution, health aspects of pollution, monitoring, field and laboratory quality control and climatic changes. In addition to publishing significant research and review papers, Environmetrics publishes book reviews, software reviews, descriptions of data sources and notices of general interest.