AUTHOR=Leeuwenburgh Olwijn , Emerick Alexandre A. , Jafarpour Behnam , Zhang Dongxiao , Luo Xiaodong TITLE=Editorial: Data Science Applications to Inverse and Optimization Problems in Earth Science JOURNAL=Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics VOLUME=7 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/applied-mathematics-and-statistics/articles/10.3389/fams.2021.756949 DOI=10.3389/fams.2021.756949 ISSN=2297-4687