At the interface of estuarine tides and freshwater rivers lie wetland and aquatic ecosystems, which experience dramatic effects of sea level rise. Because tidal rivers lie at the disciplinary divide between fluvial and estuarine science, a knowledge gap has developed in scientists' understanding of the geomorphic and biogeochemical response of these environments to sea level rise, climate change, and anthropogenically driven variations in watershed exports.

Abrupt Climate Change: Mechanisms, Patterns, and Impacts brings together a diverse group of paleoproxy records such as ice cores, marine sediments, terrestrial (lakes and speleothems) archives, and coupled ocean-atmosphere climate models to document recent advances in understanding the mechanisms of abrupt climate changes.

Acceleration of sea-level rise (SLR) in response to global climate change is well under way. Global SLR averages about 3 millimeters per year over the past several decades, in comparison to an average rate of a fraction of a millimeter per year over the past few thousand years. The increased rate of SLR is exacerbated on a regional scale by decadal scale oscillations in sea level that are due to oceanographic processes, varying wave climate (wave height, period, and direction), coastal subsidence due to subsurface fluid extraction, and anthropogenic alterations in sediment supply to the shoreline, in particular the alteration of sediment delivery and distribution within deltas.

Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments is the first volume on this important and fascinating subject. With its underlying theme of bridging existing knowledge to future research, it is a benchmark in the history of subglacial lake exploration and study, containing up-to-date discussions about the history and background of subglacial aquatic environments and future exploration.

Conference participants recognized that the definition of ECEs varied by discipline and that a framework for assessing the frequency and magnitude of climate extremes, as well as the ecosystem response, is urgently needed.

Auroral Phenomenology and Magnetospheric Processes: Earth and Other Planets takes a holistic approach, treating the aurora as a fundamental process and discussing the phenomenology, physics, and relationship with the respective planetary magnetospheres in one volume.

This collection explores the cenozoic evolution of mountains, monsoons, and the biosphere.

Climates, Landscapes, and Civilizations brings together a collection of studies on the history of complex interrelationships between humans and their environment by integrating Earth science with archeology and anthropology. At a time when climate change, overpopulation, and scarcity of resources are increasingly affecting our ways of life, the lessons of the past provide multiple reference frames that are valuable for informing our future decisions and action plans.

There was general consensus among con-ference participants on the significant risksassociated with climate change. Discussionssometimes centered on the poor state of cli-mate change preparedness around the globe,but more often conference attendees ex-pressed optimism that there is so much thegreater community can do to improve the situa-tion.

Extreme events are key themes in geosciences research because of their devastating effects on society and their scientific complexities. The ever increasing economic and human losses from natural hazards underscore the urgency for improving understanding of extreme events to develop effective strategies to reduce their impact. Recent advances in nonlinear geophysics such as the role of long-term correlations and clustering, predictability of complex dynamical systems, and new approaches to nonequilibium phenomena have led to a new framework for understanding extreme events.

The Congo is the world's second largest river basin and home to 120 million people. Understanding the cycling of water, sediments, and nutrients is important as the region faces climatic and anthropogenic change. Congo Basin Hydrology, Climate, and Biogeochemistry: A Foundation for the Future explores variations in and influences on rainfall, hydrology and hydraulics, and sediment and carbon dynamics. It features contributions from experts in the region and their international collaborators.

This special collection addresses the processes by which solar wind mass, momentum, and energy enter the magnetosphere. Regions of interest include the foreshock, bow shock, magnetosheath, magnetopause, and cusps, the dayside magnetosphere, and both the dayside polar and equatorial ionosphere.

Dayside Magnetosphere Interactions outlines the physics and processes of dayside magnetospheric phenomena, the role of solar wind in generating ultra-low frequency waves, and solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling.

Oceanic detachments are large-offset normal faults along the flanks of mid-ocean ridges. They represent a mode of accretion of the oceanic lithosphere that is fundamentally different from classical “magmatic” models, resulting in lithospheric composition and structure that are strikingly different from the Penrose model established 40 years ago of a layered magmatic crust.

Dynamics of the Earth's Radiation Belts and Inner Magnetosphere draws together current knowledge of the radiation belts prior to the launch of Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RPSP) and other imminent space missions, making this volume timely and unique. The volume will serve as a useful benchmark at this exciting and pivotal period in radiation belt research in advance of the new discoveries that the RPSP mission will surely bring.