Nature
Research Highlights
1. Jagged jaws identify mollusk
Comment
2. Time to raft up
Correspondence
3. Institute to continue climate monitoring
Olaf Morgenstern, Richard McKenzie & Vanessa Sherlock
News & Views
4. Scorecard for the seas
Derek P. Tittensor
→海洋の健全性を評価する指標の1つでは、世界全体の海に対する採点として100点満点の60点という値が出た。だが、1つの数字で環境状態と海が人間に与える恩恵の両方を包括できるという考え方は、議論を呼ぶかもしれない。
An index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean.Halpernのレビュー．
5. Ancient burial at sea
Heather Stoll
→4300万～3300万年前、地球の温暖な「温室」状態が終わって、氷で覆われた惑星に変わっていくのに伴い、太平洋海底では生物起源の炭酸カルシウムの堆積速度が周期的に変化していたことが明らかになった。
A Cenozoic record of the equatorial Pacific carbonate compensation depthのレビュー．
Article
6. A Cenozoic record of the equatorial Pacific carbonate compensation depth
Pälike, H., Lyle, M. W., Nishi, H., Raffi, I., Ridgwell, A., Gamage, K., Klaus, A., et al. doi:10.1038/nature11360
→過去約5000万年間の炭酸塩の埋積記憶に関して．炭酸補償深度は始新世の中期及び後期に短いスケールで変動していたらしい．風化と有機炭素の輸送モードが関係か？
7. An index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean.Halpern,
B. S., Longo, C., Hardy, D., McLeod, K. L., Samhouri, J. F., Katona, S. K., Kleisner, K., et al.
doi:10.1038/nature11397
Letters
8. Potential methane reservoirs beneath Antarctica
Wadham, J. L., Arndt, S., Tulaczyk, S., Stibal, M., Tranter, M., Telling, J., Lis, G. P., et al. doi:10.1038/nature11374
→南極氷床のメタン貯蔵量に付いての評価．堆積盆地おいてメタンハイドレートがある可能性が示唆された．これはメタンの全球的な収支に重要な役割を果たしていることを示している．
Science
Letters
9. Iconic CO2 Time Series at Risk
→NOAAが添加しているCO2観測網が経済危機により、財政が悪化している．
Policy Forum
10. Climate Negotiators Create an Opportunity for Scholars
Joseph E. Aldy and Robert N. Stavins
Perspective
11. Bad News for Soil Carbon Sequestration?
Kowalchuk, G. doi:10.1126/science.1227303
→Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Increase Organic Carbon Decomposition Under Elevated CO2.のレビュー．
Reports
12. Interception of Excited Vibrational Quantum States by O2 in Atmospheric Association Reactions
Glowacki, D. R., Lockhart, J., Blitz, M. a., Klippenstein, S. J., Pilling, M. J., Robertson, S. H., & Seakins, P. W.
doi:10.1126/science.1224106
13. Biogenic Potassium Salt Particles as Seeds for Secondary Organic Aerosol in the Amazon
Pohlker, C., Wiedemann, K. T., Sinha, B., Shiraiwa, M., Gunthe, S. S., Smith, M., Su, H., et al.
doi:10.1126/science.1223264
→アマゾンでは生物起源の粒子が雲の凝結核となり、降水量に関与してるらしい．
14. Radiative Absorption Enhancements Due to the Mixing State of Atmospheric Black Carbon
Cappa, C. D., Onasch, T. B., Massoli, P., Worsnop, D. R., Bates, T. S., Cross, E. S., Davidovits, P., et al.
doi:10.1126/science.1223447
15. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Increase Organic Carbon Decomposition Under Elevated CO2.
Cheng, L., Booker, F. L., Tu, C., Burkey, K. O., Zhou, L., Shew, H. D., Rufty, T. W., et al. (2012). Science, 337(6098), 1084–1087. doi:10.1126/science.1224304
→炭素を土壌に固定すると考えられてきたAMF（アーバスキュラー菌根菌）は、二酸化炭素が多い状況下だと土壌中の有機炭素の量を減少させることが分かった．
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
16. Arthropods in amber from the Triassic Period
Schmidt, a. R., Jancke, S., Lindquist, E. E., Ragazzi, E., Roghi, G., Nascimbene, P. C., Schmidt, K., et al.
doi:10.1073/pnas.1208464109
17. Brown carbon and internal mixing in biomass burning particles
Lack, D. a, Langridge, J. M., Bahreini, R., Cappa, C. D., Middlebrook, A. M., & Schwarz, J. P.
doi:10.1073/pnas.1206575109
Geology
18. Canyon morphology on a modern carbonate slope of the Bahamas: Evidence of regional tectonic tilting
T. Mulder, E. Ducassou, H. Gillet, V. Hanquiez, E. Tournadour, J. Combes, G.P. Eberli, P. Kindler, E. Gonthier, G. Conesa, C. Robin, R. Sianipar, J.J.G. Reijmer, and A. François
doi:10.1130/G33327.1
19. New Zealand and UK Holocene flooding demonstrates interhemispheric climate asynchrony
Mark G. Macklin, Ian C. Fuller, Anna F. Jones, and Mark Bebbington
doi:10.1130/G33364.1
20. Periglacial weathering and headwall erosion in cirque glacier bergschrunds
Johnny W. Sanders, Kurt M. Cuffey, Jeffrey R. Moore, Kelly R. MacGregor, and Jeffrey L. Kavanaugh
doi:10.1130/G33330.1
21. The offshore export of sand during exceptional discharge from California rivers
Jonathan A. Warrick and Patrick L. Barnard
doi:10.1130/G33115.1
22. Thickness of the chemical weathering zone and implications for erosional and climatic drivers of weathering and for carbon-cycle feedbacks
A. Joshua West
doi:10.1130/G33041.1
23. The 8.2 ka event―Calendar-dated glacier response in the Alps
Kurt Nicolussi and Christian Schlüchter
doi:10.1130/G32406.1
→スイスの氷河に残された木の年代から、氷河が8.2ka前後に前進したことを示唆している．
24. Origin of giant wave ripples in snowball Earth cap carbonate
Michael P. Lamb, Woodward W. Fischer, Timothy D. Raub, J. Taylor Perron, and Paul M. Myrow
doi:10.1130/G33093.1
25. Coral reefs at 34°N, Japan: Exploring the end of environmental gradients
Hiroya Yamano, Kaoru Sugihara, Tsuyoshi Watanabe, Michiyo Shimamura, and Kiseong Hyeong
doi:10.1130/G33293.1
→高緯度に位置するサンゴについての論文．
26. Shallow-water methane-seep faunas in the Cenomanian Western Interior Seaway: No evidence for onshore-offshore adaptations to deep-sea vents
Steffen Kiel, Frank Wiese, and Alan L. Titus
doi:10.1130/G33300.1
27. Explaining the Phanerozoic Ca isotope history of seawater
Clara L. Blättler, Gideon M. Henderson, and Hugh C. Jenkyns
doi:10.1130/G33191.1
28. Coupling meteoric 10Be with pedogenic losses of 9Be to improve soil residence time estimates on an ancient North American interfluve
Allan R. Bacon, Daniel deB. Richter, Paul R. Bierman, and Dylan H. Rood
doi:10.1130/G33449.1
29. Glacier expansion in southern Patagonia throughout the Antarctic cold reversal
Juan L. García, Michael R. Kaplan, Brenda L. Hall, Joerg M. Schaefer, Rodrigo M. Vega, Roseanne Schwartz, and Robert Finkel
doi:10.1130/G33164.1
Nature geoscience
Editorials
30. Stop-and-go deglaciation
Commentary
31. Earth science for sustainability
Peter Schlosser & Stephanie Pfirman
doi:10.1038/ngeo1567
In the press
32. Trees and temperature
Mark Schrope
doi:10.1038/ngeo1565
Research Highlights
33. Dry heat
Anna Armstrong
doi:10.1038/ngeo1577
34. Tasman eddy express
Alicia Newton
doi:10.1038/ngeo1578
35. Cosmic rain
Tamara Goldin
doi:10.1038/ngeo1579
News and Views
36. Pacific and Atlantic synchronized
Samuel L. Jaccard
doi:10.1038/ngeo1563
37. Ice-free emigration
Alicia Newton
doi:10.1038/ngeo1570
Progress Article
38. Links between early Holocene ice-sheet decay, sea-level rise and abrupt climate change
Torbjörn E. Törnqvist & Marc P. Hijma
doi:10.1038/ngeo1536
→8.2kaイベントによってRhine-Meuse DeltaとMissippi Deltaの海水準の上昇が引き起こされたことが分かった．
Review
39. Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet responses to past climate warming
Anders E. Carlson & Kelsey Winsor
doi:10.1038/ngeo1528
→過去260万年間の氷床が温暖化に対してどのように応答したか、に関してのレビュー．
40. Regional climate control of glaciers in New Zealand and Europe during the pre-industrial Holocene
Aaron E. Putnam, Joerg M. Schaefer, George H. Denton, David J. A. Barrell, Robert C. Finkel, Bjørn G. Andersen, Roseanne Schwartz, Trevor J. H. Chinn & Alice M. Doughty
doi:10.1038/ngeo1548
41. Deep Arctic Ocean warming during the last glacial cycle
T. M. Cronin, G. S. Dwyer, J. Farmer, H. A. Bauch, R. F. Spielhagen, M. Jakobsson, J. Nilsson, W. M. Briggs Jr & A. Stepanova
doi:10.1038/ngeo1557
42. Bimodal Plio–Quaternary glacial erosion of fjords and low-relief surfaces in Scandinavia
Philippe Steer, Ritske S. Huismans, Pierre G. Valla, Sébastien Gac & Frédéric Herman
doi:10.1038/ngeo1549
