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08 July 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Earth & Environmental Sciences               Charge-to-mass Ratio of Saltating Particles in Wind-Blown Sand ▶     Tian-Li Bo, Huan Zhang, Xiao-Jing Zheng     The electrification of sand particles plays an important role in aeolian events. In this paper, the charge-to-mass ratio vertical profiles of saltating particles in wind-blown …             Environmental variability and biodiversity of megabenthos on the Hebrides Terrace Seamount (Northeast Atlantic) ▶     Lea-Anne Henry, Johanne Vad, Helen S. Findlay et al.     We present the first remotely operated vehicle investigation of megabenthic communities (1004–1695 m water depth) on the Hebrides Terrace Seamount (Northeast Atlantic). …             Ancient harbour infrastructure in the Levant: tracking the birth and rise of new forms of anthropogenic pressure ▶     Nick Marriner, Christophe Morhange, David Kaniewski et al.     Beirut, Sidon and Tyre were major centres of maritime trade from the Bronze Age onwards. This economic prosperity generated increased pressures on the local environment, through …             Warming climate extends dryness-controlled areas of terrestrial carbon sequestration ▶     Chuixiang Yi, Suhua Wei, George Hendrey     At biome-scale, terrestrial carbon uptake is controlled mainly by weather variability. Observational data from a global monitoring network indicate that the sensitivity of …             Soot superaggregates from flaming wildfires and their direct radiative forcing ▶     Rajan K. Chakrabarty, Nicholas D. Beres, Hans Moosmüller et al.     Wildfires contribute significantly to global soot emissions, yet their aerosol formation mechanisms and resulting particle properties are poorly understood and parameterized in …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Research Fellow     Trinity College Dublin            Research Associate     University of Glasgow            Research Associate     The University of Sheffield            Postdoctoral fellow     New York University Medical Center            PhD Studentships (3 Posts)     University of Liverpool            Junior Fellows     The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology            Postdoctoral Fellow     University of Texas - Austin            Ph.D. Position     Leibniz-Institute for Farm Animal Biology            Postdoctoral Fellow     Karolinska Institutet (KI)            Research Fellow     University of Aberdeen          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. Keep up-to-date with the latest sector trends, vote in our reader poll and sign-up to receive the monthly Naturejobs newsletter.           • Scientific Reports events Directory featured events           natureevents directory featured events         International Conference on Climate Change Innovation and Resilience for Sustainable Livelihood     12 January 2015 Kathmandu, Nepal         Natureevents Directory is the premier resource for scientists looking for the latest scientific conferences, courses, meetings and symposia. Featured across Nature Publishing Group journals and centrally at natureevents.com it is an essential reference guide to scientific events worldwide.                 Your email address is in the Scientific Reports: Earth Sciences mailing list. You have been sent this Table of Contents Alert because you have opted in to receive it. You can change or discontinue your e-mail alerts at any time, by modifying your preferences on your nature.com account at: www.nature.com/nams/svc/myaccount (You will need to log in to be recognised as a nature.com registrant). For further technical assistance, please contact our registration department For other enquiries, please contact our customer feedback department Nature Publishing Group | 75 Varick Street, 9th floor | New York | NY 10013-1917 | USA Nature Publishing Group's offices: Principal offices: London - New York - Tokyo Worldwide offices: Basingstoke - Boston - Buenos Aires - Delhi - Hong Kong - Madrid - Melbourne - Munich - Paris - San Francisco - Seoul - Washington DC Macmillan Publishers Limited is a company incorporated in England and Wales under company number 785998 and whose registered office is located at Brunel Road, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. © 2014 Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved.