21 May 2013

• Southern California ozone pollution declining in recent decades
• Southern Ocean is less efficient at exporting carbon than thought
• Collisions of coronal mass ejections can be super elastic
• Measuring isotope variability in water vapor over Southern California
• Uneven warming shifts equatorial rain band, midlatitude westerlies
• Models without volcanic forcing underestimate sea level rise

7 May 2013

• Graphite lubricates fault zones
• Sediment processes can be significant source of ambient noise
• Evolution of the Qin Mountains as part of the supercontinent Rodinia
• Studying how flocculation affects acoustic reflection
• How do braided river dynamics affect sediment storage?
• Charting the growth of the Turkish-Iranian plateau

23 April 2013

• Beachfront nourishment decisions: the “sucker-free rider” problem
• Identifying the physical processes that control the stratigraphic record
• Uplift of Zagros Mountains slows down convergence of two plates
• Extensive Antarctic campaign finds cold bias in satellite records
• Measuring tidal displacement using GPS
• Hydrology affects carbon storage potential of prairie potholes

9 April 2013

• Characterizing the Moon’s radiation environment
• Three-dimensional mapping of airflow over dunes
• Forest organic runoff breaks down faster than agricultural, urban runoff
• Examining CO2¬ concentrations and flow dynamics in streams
• Measuring the forces generated by erosive debris flows
• Agulhas Current leakage could stabilize Atlantic overturning circulation

26 March 2013

• Global fires after the asteroid impact probably caused the K-Pg extinction
• Predicting fire activity using terrestrial water storage data
• Monitoring subsidence and vent wall collapse on Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii
• Italian all-sky imager tracks auroral red arcs over Europe
• Nonnative salmon alter nitrification in Great Lakes tributaries
• High rates of nitrogen fixation measured in equatorial upwelling region

12 March 2013

• Canadian Arctic glacier melt accelerating, irreversible
• Eyjafjallajökull's iron-rich ash fertilized North Atlantic Ocean
• A seismometer in orbit around Earth
• Distinguishing drought and water scarcity
• Evaluating the seismic risk of mineral carbon sequestration
• Tracing nitrate in watersheds
• Devastating East African drought made more likely by climate change
• Large solar proton event explains 774-775 CE carbon-14 increase

26 February 2013

• Brazil's sugarcane boom could affect regional temperatures
• A window into the interior of asteroid Vesta
• Citizen science finds spring could come a month early to warming U.S.
• Land use changes affect extreme temperatures
• Arctic climate warming leads to increased storm surge activity
• Predictive model to protect satellites from space weather
• Small agricultural impoundments affect pollutant transport

11 February 2013

• Global climatology of explosive cyclones
• For U.S. biomes, climate change will decrease vegetative productivity
• Lightning detected from space can indicate thundercloud height
• Storminess helps coastal marshes withstand sea level rise
• How many lakes are there, and how big are they?
• Characterizing noise in the global nuclear weapon monitoring system

28 January 2013

• Io's volcanism controls Jupiter's magnetospheric activity
• Projected U.S. water use likely to increase as climate warms
• Mercury's crust likely made of magnesium-rich basalt
• Assessing the Great Whirl, despite all the pirates
• Tracing the origin of Arctic driftwood
• Low density of Earth's core due to oxygen and silicon impurities
• Understanding the structure of subducting plates

14 January 2013

• Seabird activity influences Arctic methane and nitrous oxide emissions
• U.S. cities less susceptible to water scarcity than previously thought
• First direct evidence that breaking waves cause horizontal eddies
• Variability of transparent organic particles in Arctic floodplain lakes
• Tropical cyclone waves detected with infrasound sensor array
• Aftershocks to Philippine quake found within nearby megathrust fault