Nature Geoscience contents: January 2018 Volume 11 Number 1

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TABLE OF CONTENTS January 2018 Volume 11, Issue 1 Editorial Comment News & Views Perspectives Review Articles Articles   Editorial   A decade of Earth science    p1 doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0052-x Comment   Exploring ocean worlds on Earth and beyond    pp2 - 4 Kevin Peter Hand & Christopher R. German doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0045-9 Atmospheric science looks to Venus    pp4 - 5 Kevin McGouldrick doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0037-9 News & Views   Methane multiplication    pp6 - 7 Thomas A. Laakso doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0043-y Intra-plate volcanism    p8 James Tuttle Keane doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0048-6 From orogenies to oxygen    pp9 - 10 Noah Planavsky doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0040-1 Hydrothermal stamp on the oceans    pp10 - 12 Susan Q. Lang doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0044-x Slow warming and the ocean see-saw    pp12 - 13 Yu Kosaka doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0038-8 Mantle signatures in the surface    p14 Amy Whitchurch doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0050-z New directions for ocean nutrients    pp15 - 16 Tim DeVries doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0042-z Telltale tungsten and the Moon    pp16 - 18 Kaveh Pahlevan doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0047-7 Regional climate goes global    pp18 - 19 Helen McGregor doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0046-8 Tropical interchange    p20 Alicia Newton doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0049-5 GEOSCIENCE JOBS of the week The International Young Scholars Shenzhen Forum of Sun Yat-sen University in 2017 Sun Yat-sen University Career Opportunities of South China Normal University for High-level Talents South China Normal University More Science jobs from GEOSCIENCE EVENT International Conference on Geology & Earth Science 02.05.18 Rome, Italy More science events from Perspectives   The Martian subsurface as a potential window into the origin of life    pp21 - 26 Joseph R. Michalski, Tullis C. Onstott, Stephen J. Mojzsis, John Mustard, Queenie H. S. Chan et al. doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0015-2 Ancient hydrothermal deposits formed in the Martian subsurface may be the best targets for finding evidence for ancient life on Mars, and clues about the origin of life on Earth.   Review Articles   Influence of diatom diversity on the ocean biological carbon pump    pp27 - 37 Paul Tréguer, Chris Bowler, Brivaela Moriceau, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Marion Gehlen et al. doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0028-x Size, morphology, silica content and life cycle of diatoms affect their contribution to the export of carbon to the deep ocean, suggests a literature review.   Articles   Southward shift of the global wind energy resource under high carbon dioxide emissions    pp38 - 43 Kristopher B. Karnauskas, Julie K. Lundquist & Lei Zhang doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0029-9 Wind power for energy generation is projected to decrease in northern mid-latitudes and increase in the tropics and Southern Hemisphere, suggests an analysis of climate model simulations utilizing an industry wind turbine power curve.   Substantial large-scale feedbacks between natural aerosols and climate    pp44 - 48 C. E. Scott, S. R. Arnold, S. A. Monks, A. Asmi, P. Paasonen et al. doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0020-5 Extratropical feedbacks between climate and aerosols from landscape fire and biogenic secondary organic aerosols are significant, according to a global aerosol model that is constrained by observations.   Subsurface iceberg melt key to Greenland fjord freshwater budget    pp49 - 54 T. Moon, D. A. Sutherland, D. Carroll, D. Felikson, L. Kehrl et al. doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0018-z Iceberg melt is the largest annual freshwater source in a south Greenland fjord, with release largely below 20 m depth, according to iceberg-model simulations. Furthermore, iceberg melt peaks later in the year than other sources of freshwater.   Effects of primitive photosynthesis on Earth's early climate system    pp55 - 59 Kazumi Ozaki, Eiichi Tajika, Peng K. Hong, Yusuke Nakagawa & Christopher T. Reinhard doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0031-2 Amplification of the methane cycle by anyoxygenic photosynthesis could have warmed early Earth and countered the faint young Sun, geochemical modelling suggests. A combination of H2-based and Fe2+-based photosynthesis acts to enhance methane fluxes.   Creeping subduction zones are weaker than locked subduction zones    pp60 - 64 Jeanne L. Hardebeck & John P. Loveless doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0032-1 The faults in creeping segments of subduction zones are weaker than those in locked segments, according to analyses of stress orientations and GPS data from subduction zones globally.   Water-rich sublithospheric melt channel in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean    pp65 - 69 Fares Mehouachi & Satish C. Singh doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0034-z A water-rich layer of partial melt marks the base of the lithosphere in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean, according to analyses of seismic data.   Western US volcanism due to intruding oceanic mantle driven by ancient Farallon slabs    pp70 - 76 Quan Zhou, Lijun Liu & Jiashun Hu doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0035-y Volcanism in the western US may result from warm oceanic mantle beneath the Pacific Ocean being drawn eastwards by mantle flow induced by the sinking of Farallon slabs, according to numerical model simulations.   Heterogeneous delivery of silicate and metal to the Earth by large planetesimals    pp77 - 81 S. Marchi, R. M. Canup & R. J. Walker doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0022-3 Collisions of large differentiated impactors during the late stages of Earth's accretion may have heterogeneously mixed projectile material into the Earth, explaining observed chemical and isotopic heterogeneities in mantle materials.   Natureevents is a fully searchable, multi-disciplinary database designed to maximise exposure for events organisers. The contents of the Natureevents Directory are now live. The digital version is available here. Find the latest scientific conferences, courses, meetings and symposia on natureevents.com. For event advertising opportunities across the Nature Publishing Group portfolio please contact natureevents@nature.com More Nature Events

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