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

02 January 2013      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports                 We've got something to show you...!  SEARCH - EXPLORE - DISCOVER - IDENTIFY  Tap in to find out more                 Earth & Environmental Sciences               Observing storm surges from space: Hurricane Igor off Newfoundland ▶     Guoqi Han, Zhimin Ma, Dake Chen et al.     Coastal communities are becoming increasingly more vulnerable to storm surges under a changing climate. Tide gauges can be used to monitor alongshore variations of a storm surge, …             Retention of potentially mobile radiocesium in forest surface soils affected by the Fukushima nuclear accident ▶     Jun Koarashi, Koichi Moriya, Mariko Atarashi-Andoh et al.     The fate of 137Cs derived from the Fukushima nuclear accident fallout and associated radiological hazards are largely dependent on its mobility in the surface soils of forest …             ERRATUM: The submarine volcano eruption at the island of El Hierro: physical-chemical perturbation and biological response ▶     E. Fraile-Nuez, M. González-Dávila, J. M. Santana-Casiano et al.                 The tectonic puzzle of the Messina area (Southern Italy): Insights from new seismic reflection data ▶     Carlo Doglioni, Marco Ligi, Davide Scrocca et al.     The Messina Strait, that separates peninsular Italy from Sicily, is one of the most seismically active areas of the Mediterranean. The structure and seismotectonic setting of the …             Organic carbon hidden in urban ecosystems ▶     Jill L. Edmondson, Zoe G. Davies, Nicola McHugh et al.     Urbanization is widely presumed to degrade ecosystem services, but empirical evidence is now challenging these assumptions. We report the first city-wide organic carbon (OC) budget …             Concentration of 3H in plants around Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station ▶     Hideki Kakiuchi, Naofumi Akata, Hidenao Hasegawa et al.     A large amount of radionuclides was released from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) following the damage caused by the tsunami due to the Great East Japan …             Languages cool as they expand: Allometric scaling and the decreasing need for new words ▶     Alexander M. Petersen, Joel N. Tenenbaum, Shlomo Havlin et al.     We analyze the occurrence frequencies of over 15 million words recorded in millions of books published during the past two centuries in seven different languages. For all …             Prevalent Glucocorticoid and Androgen Activity in US Water Sources ▶     Diana A. Stavreva, Anuja A. George, Paul Klausmeyer et al.     Contamination of the environment with endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) is a major health concern. The presence of estrogenic compounds in water and their deleterious effect …             Observation of Earth's free oscillation by dense GPS array: After the 2011 Tohoku megathrust earthquake ▶     Yuta Mitsui, Kosuke Heki     Day-scale Earth's free oscillation after large earthquakes has been detected by underground instruments such as strainmeters, gravimeters and seismometers, to investigate Earth's …             India-Asia collision was at 24°N and 50 Ma: palaeomagnetic proof from southernmost Asia ▶     Jun Meng, Chengshan Wang, Xixi Zhao et al.     How and when India collided with Asia is crucial for global climate and continental dynamics. We present new palaeomagnetic data showing that the Xigaze forearc basin of southern …             Mesoporous NiO crystals with dominantly exposed {110} reactive facets for ultrafast lithium storage ▶     Dawei Su, Mike Ford, Guoxiu Wang     Faceted crystals with exposed highly reactive planes have attracted intensive investigations for applications such as hydrogen production, enhanced catalytic activity, and …                         Scientific Reports is accepting submissions from all scientific fields. 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