Scientific Reports Earth Sciences Table of Contents e-alert: August 2013

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Frontiers Author   Be a part of the future of research publication            Earth & Environmental Sciences               A self-cleaning underwater superoleophobic mesh for oil-water separation ▶     Lianbin Zhang, Yujiang Zhong, Dongkyu Cha et al.     Oil–water separation has recently become a global challenging task because of the frequent occurrence of oil spill accidents due to the offshore oil production and transportation, …             Rapid on-site/in-situ detection of heavy metal ions in environmental water using a structure-switching DNA optical biosensor ▶     Feng Long, Anna Zhu, Hanchang Shi et al.     A structure-switching DNA optical biosensor for rapid on-site/in situ detection of heavy metal ions is reported. Mercury ions (Hg2), highly toxic and ubiquitous pollutants, were …             Activity concentrations of environmental samples collected in Fukushima Prefecture immediately after the Fukushima nuclear accident ▶     Masahiro Hosoda, Shinji Tokonami, Hirofumi Tazoe et al.     Radionuclide concentrations in environmental samples such as surface soils, plants and water were evaluated by high purity germanium detector measurements. The contribution rate …             Accelerated thermokarst formation in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica ▶     Joseph S. Levy, Andrew G. Fountain, James L. Dickson et al.     Thermokarst is a land surface lowered and disrupted by melting ground ice. Thermokarst is a major driver of landscape change in the Arctic, but has been considered to be a minor …             Secondary organic aerosols over oceans via oxidation of isoprene and monoterpenes from Arctic to Antarctic ▶     Qi-Hou Hu, Zhou-Qing Xie, Xin-Ming Wang et al.     Isoprene and monoterpenes are important precursors of secondary organic aerosols (SOA) in continents. However, their contributions to aerosols over oceans are still inconclusive. …             Forcing of anthropogenic aerosols on temperature trends of the sub-thermocline southern Indian Ocean ▶     Tim Cowan, Wenju Cai, Ariaan Purich et al.     In the late twentieth century, the sub-thermocline waters of the southern tropical and subtropical Indian Ocean experienced a sharp cooling. This cooling has been previously …             High arsenic in rice is associated with elevated genotoxic effects in humans ▶     Mayukh Banerjee, Nilanjana Banerjee, Pritha Bhattacharjee et al.     Arsenic in drinking water may cause major deleterious health impacts including death. Although arsenic in rice has recently been demonstrated to be a potential exposure route for …             Citizen Science: linking the recent rapid advances of plant flowering in Canada with climate variability ▶     Alemu Gonsamo, Jing M. Chen, Chaoyang Wu     The timing of crucial events in plant life cycles is shifting in response to climate change. We use phenology records from PlantWatch Canada ‘Citizen Science’ networks to study …             Enhancing gold recovery from electronic waste via lixiviant metabolic engineering in Chromobacterium violaceum ▶     Song Buck Tay, Gayathri Natarajan, Muhammad Nadjad bin Abdul Rahim et al.     Conventional leaching (extraction) methods for gold recovery from electronic waste involve the use of strong acids and pose considerable threat to the environment. The alternative …             Forecasting large aftershocks within one day after the main shock ▶     Takahiro Omi, Yosihiko Ogata, Yoshito Hirata et al.     Forecasting the aftershock probability has been performed by the authorities to mitigate hazards in the disaster area after a main shock. However, despite the fact that most of …             Seismic Evidence for a Geosuture between the Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks, South China ▶     Chuansong He, Shuwen Dong, M. Santosh et al.     South China, composed of the Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks and the intervening Jiangnan orogenic belt, has been central to the debate on the tectonic evolution of East Asia. Here …             The potential for carbon sequestration in Australian agricultural soils is technically and economically limited ▶     Shu Kee Lam, Deli Chen, Arvin R. Mosier et al.     Concerns about increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, primarily carbon dioxide (CO2), have raised worldwide interest in the potential of agricultural …             Ag nanoprisms with Ag2S attachment ▶     Shenglin Xiong, Baojuan Xi, Kang Zhang et al.     Triangular Ag nanoprisms are a type of most-studied noble-metal nanostructures over the past decade owing to their special structural architecture and outstanding optical and …             Modeling highly pathogenic avian influenza transmission in wild birds and poultry in West Bengal, India ▶     Pranav S. Pandit, David A. Bunn, Satish A. Pande et al.     Wild birds are suspected to have played a role in highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 outbreaks in West Bengal. Cluster analysis showed that H5N1 was introduced in West …             Specific Accumulation of Lipid Droplets in Hepatocyte Nuclei of PFOA-exposed BALB/c Mice ▶     Ling Wang, Yu Wang, Yong Liang et al.     Lipid droplets (LDs), which are important storage structures for neutral lipids and organelles of diverse functions, participate in various cellular activities. In this study, …             Rapid thinning of the late Pleistocene Patagonian Ice Sheet followed migration of the Southern Westerlies ▶     J. Boex, C. Fogwill, S. Harrison et al.     Here we present the first reconstruction of vertical ice-sheet profile changes from any of the Southern Hemisphere's mid-latitude Pleistocene ice sheets. We use cosmogenic …             The origin of the Canary Island Seamount Province - New ages of old seamounts ▶     Paul van den Bogaard     The Canary Island Seamount Province forms a scattered hotspot track on the Atlantic ocean floor ~1300 km long and ~350 km wide, perpendicular to lithospheric fractures, and …                 Naturejobs presents the: Naturejobs Career Expo September 19, 2013 The Business Design Centre, London, UK Click here for more information or to register for this conference today!         • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Research Technician     EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory)            Postdoctoral Researcher     The Ohio State University College of Medicine            Research Associate     UCL            Junior Research / Travel Fellowships     The Kay Kendall Leukaemia Fund            Research Associate, Basic Sciences     Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center            Research Asst I     MD Anderson Cancer Center            Post Doctoral Research Fellow     University of Canterbury, New Zealand            Junior Research Group     University of Tübingen, Faculty of Medicine            Clinical Trials Associate     Lunenfeld - Tanenbaum Research Institute            Researcher and Instructor     Koc University School of Medicine          No matter what your career stage, student, postdoc or senior scientist, you will find articles on naturejobs.com to help guide you in your science career. 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