Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geosciences; 2) Enviro-Sciences Awareness - 11 November 2013

Another week already and it's time for Elaine and Spot!

Geosciences Bulletin Board:

Photographs honoring the color of the geologic world

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/2013/11/the-science-behind-earths-many-colors/

 

How to clean up water in Silicon Valley….and make it potable
http://www.npr.org/2013/11/07/243711364/here-drink-a-nice-glass-of-sparkling-clean-wastewater

 

NYC wastewater resiliency plan to protect protect wastewater collection & treatment systems
http://www.cenews.com/news-nyc_wastewater_resiliency_plan_calls_for_$315_million_in_upgrades-2540.html

 

Preparing for potential impacts of the Rim Fire …. Rain storms may bring floods & debris flows
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-rim-fire-water-20131104,0,1790017.story#axzz2k0fU2xol

 

One of the dangers of “geoengineering climate”
http://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/news/10531/geoengineering-climate-could-reduce-vital-rains

 

Using “Google street view” to assess earthquake damage
http://www.geologytimes.com/research/Google_street_view_--_tool_for_recording_earthquake_damage.asp

 

OLD buildings survive earthquakes better than those built to modern EQ codes
http://www.livescience.com/40984-old-buildings-survive-earthquakes.html

 

Two swarms of earthquakes induced by drilling activities
http://www.livescience.com/41011-injection-wells-triggered-texas-earthquakes.html

 

Even good intentions do not prevent massive pollution from fracking….it cannot be clean up
http://article.wn.com/view/2013/11/06/Weve_Been_Down_the_Fracking_Road_Before/#/fullarticle

 

Now that the GOCE satellite has done its job mapping earth gravity…it will fall from the sky
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/science/space/satellite-will-fall-to-earth-but-no-ones-sure-where.html

 

“King of gore” dinosaur (early T-Rex relative) roamed what is now Utah about 80 million years ago
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24817884

 

US seismic array to move to Alaska
http://www.nature.com/news/us-seismic-array-eyes-its-final-frontier-1.14099?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20131107

 

Los Angeles Aqueduct to turn 100 years old
http://www.npr.org/2013/11/03/242819699/how-an-aqueduct-turned-los-angeles-into-a-garden-of-eden

 

Hetch Hetchy seismic improvement project approved
http://www.cenews.com/news-last_seismic_improvement_pipeline_project_approved_for_hetch_hetchy_water_system-2537.html

 

New report by anti-nuclear group says EQ risk at Hanford nuclear site is underestimated
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-hanford-nuclear-earthquake-underestimated-group.html

 

Are human goals and health of the ocean compatible?
http://globalpartnershipforoceans.org/sites/default/files/images/Indispensable_Ocean.pdf

 

Is an “oil crash” imminent?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029415.700-an-oil-crash-is-on-its-way-and-we-should-be-ready.html#.UnlQNiLTmM8

 

17 nests in nursery of big-clawed dinosaur found in Asia
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/nests-bizarre-big-clawed-dinosaurs-unearthed-mongolia-8C11535555

 

Photographs of the Kedarnath debris flow in India
http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2013/10/29/kedarnath-photo-2/

 

Why geologists scoff at most efforts “to save the earth”
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-11-03/does-the-earth-need-saving

 

Thermal image sequence of lava lake in Halema'uma'u Crater on Hawaii's Kilauea volcano
http://www.livescience.com/40928-lava-lake-thermal-timelapse-video.html

 

Balloting on Prop 5 in NY will determine if park land is swapped so wollastonite may be mined
http://pressrepublican.com/0111_environment/x934971815/Proposition-5-asks-voters-for-state-land-swap

 

Injection of carbon dioxide into wells causes small EQ cluster
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/11/131104-carbon-injection-earthquake-risks/

 

Giant toothed platypus helps to fill in the fossil record
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/11/131104-giant-platypus-evolution-science-animals-paleontology/

 

NOAA identifies 87 shipwrecks with high risk of leaking oil
http://www.earthmagazine.org/article/noaa-quantifies-oil-danger-shipwrecks

Enviro-Sciences Awareness Bulletin Board:

Incorporating social complexities into river restoration

http://aquadoc.typepad.com/files/baldi_article_naiman_inland_waters_sept2013.pdf

 

New “clay theory” for origin of life on Earth….science gets close to religious perspective
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10431863/Was-the-Bible-right-All-life-on-earth-may-have-come-from-clay.html

 

Special environments high in the Andes are hot spots of very rapid evolutionary change
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/12/science/high-above-sea-level-evolutionary-hot-spots.html

 

One of the dangers of “geoengineering climate”
http://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/news/10531/geoengineering-climate-could-reduce-vital-rains

 

Formation of Pangea about 250 m. y. ago resulted in environmental degradation and mass extinctions
http://www.geologytimes.com/research/The_biggest_mass_extinction_and_Pangea_integration.asp

 

Debating the concept of “global footprint” to assess human impact and global carrying capacity
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=humans-not-using-more-than-one-planet

 

Rejecting the predictions of “global warming catastrophe”
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/the-claims-are-exaggerated-john-howard-rejects-predictions-of-global-warming-catastrophe-20131106-2wzza.html

 

New global map of land use
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131105081400.htm
Related article: http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Researchers_Turn_to_Technology_to_Discover_a_Novel_Way_of_Mapping_Landscapes_999.html

 

Still striving for sustainability….and using more resources at higher cost in the attempts
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/realestate/aiming-for-truly-sustainable-buildings.html

 

Grove of giant sequoias to be restored in Yosemite….most development will be removed 
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-yosemite-mariposa-grove-20131104,0,355292.story#axzz2jnv4phfL

 

Aligning the health of humans and the ocean … (with link to full report
http://globalpartnershipforoceans.org/indispensable-ocean

 

Urban population growth in Pakistan is explosive….what are the potential consequences?
http://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2013/11/dialogue-pakistans-galloping-urbanization/#.UnlQryLTmM8

 

30,000 miles of raw roads cut through Amazon rain forest in last 3 years
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/rain-forest-threat-30-000-miles-amazon-roads-built-just-8C11523822

 

Climate change resulting in new outbreaks of mosquito-borne illnesses
http://www.onearth.org/articles/2013/11/dengue-and-yellow-fever-climate-change-california

 

What is the “optimum/sustainable population” for the state of Vermont??
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-11-05/how-many-people-can-a-state-sustain
Download the report:  http://www.vspop.org/htm/opt_sustainable_report_vt_2013_ver3.pdf

 

Man-made antibiotic resistant illness threaten many wildlife species….as well as humans
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=flying-the-coop-antibiotic-resistance-spreads-to-birds-other-wildlife

 

New TOP TEN list of “worst polluted places” is published….E-waste & other highly toxic sites
http://www.scmp.com//news/world/article/1348511/e-waste-and-other-toxic-pollution-threatens-hundreds-millions
Download the report:  http://www.worstpolluted.org/docs/TopTenThreats2013.pdf

 

What did John Wesley Powell’s vision of the Watershed States of the American West look like?
http://www.mountainwestnews.org/Page3.aspx?a=Perspectives&ID=174

 

Enjoy!

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