Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geosciences; 2) Environmental Sciences; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 30 January 2017

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1) Geosciences Bulletin Board – 30 January 2017 - compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

M9.0 Cascadia Subduction Zone EQ of 26 January 1700 (photo gallery & video)

• http://komonews.com/news/back-to-school/january-26-1700-a-90-cascadia-subduction-zone-earthquake-strikes-the-northwest

An explanation for the cataclysmic eruption of Mt Toba 73,000 years ago

• http://www.businessinsider.com/why-volcanoes-erupt-science-2017-1

Rotation of large blocks of land reshaped the Gibraltar Arc after 9 mma

• https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-01/uog-asr012717.php

Photo-essay: the Bradshaw Layered Amphibolite

• http://blogs.agu.org/mountainbeltway/2017/01/27/friday-fold-bradshaw-layered-amphibolite/

New study suggests “Great Dying” end-Permian extinction event may be overestimated

• https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/downgrading-great-dying

Career of internationally acclaimed Aberystwyth geologist Robin Whatley to be celebrated

• http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/article.cfm?id=111692&headline=Geologist%E2%80%99s%20work%20to%20be%20celebrated%20in%20London&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2017

Geothermal energy – Part 1: under-exploited source; Part 2: how to harness

• Part 1: http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/technology/geothermal-energy-an-under-exploited-energy-source-part-1/article/484242
• Part 2: http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/technology/geothermal-energy-how-we-harness-this-energy-source-part-2/article/484581

By its own volition, CDC cancels planned climate change conference – Al Gore to save it?

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-health-officials-cancel-climate-conference-dont-why-193900345--politics.html
• http://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-01-26/al-gore-climate-groups-announce-alternative-conference

USGS is near midpoint of survey of quality of aquifers used for drinking water resources across the country

• https://www.usgs.gov/news/quality-nation-s-groundwater-progress-a-national-survey

Miocene, Siamagale melilutra, badger-like otter weighed about 110 pounds

• http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/giant-prehistoric-otter-had-crushing-bite-180961826/

Where did meteorites come from? Some from asteroid belt & from asteroid collision 466 mya

• http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-asteroid-collision-still-raining-meteorites-earth-180961902/

NOAA releases high-definition images of Earth from newest orbiting weather satellite – GOES-16

• http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/23/511216488/like-high-definition-from-the-heavens-noaa-releases-new-images-of-earth
• Images: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-noaa-nasa-weather-satellite-goes-16-photos_us_58867020e4b0e3a7356b2d1f

EQ warning system has limitations since initial EQ behavior does not predict the outcome

• https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/initial-earthquake-behavior-does-not-predict-outcome

Largest coral reef in Japan is experiencing another bleaching event

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/japan-coral-reef-bleaching_us_58871616e4b070d8cad5292f

“Taming” devastating tsunamis by blasting them with deep-ocean sound waves?

• http://www.mirror.co.uk/science/deep-ocean-sound-waves-could-9691994
• http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/devastating-tsunamis-could-stopped-using-12503354

Early humans, not climate change, were primary cause of extinction of megafauna in Australia OR is it the other way around?

• http://earthsky.org/earth/early-humans-wiped-out-big-animals-in-australia
• http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/changing-climate-not-humans-killed-australias-massive-mammals-180961911/

Photo-essay: Y-shaped joints observed in basalt flow at Lake Mývat in Iceland

• http://blogs.agu.org/mountainbeltway/2017/01/25/y-shaped-joints-basalt-flow-lake-myvatn-iceland/

Impact of volcanic eruptions on climate and human history is complicated

• http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2017/01/25/volcanic-eruptions-changed-climate-and-history-but-its-complicated/#395a9dad50ce

Mediterranean, a remnant of the Tethys Ocean, is a “paleontological paradise”

• https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/25/sun-sea-and-fossils-the-mediterranean-is-a-surprising-palaeontological-paradise

Discovering the origins of Lake Cheko in Siberia and its relationship to the 1908 Tunguska event

• http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/russian-scientists-attempt-solve-mystery-surrounding-lake-cheko-siberia-1602818

Louis Agassiz first proposed past ice ages on Earth, findings that led to an exclusive story published in the Scotsman on 7 October 1840

• http://www.scotsman.com/future-scotland/tech/how-the-scotsman-broke-the-story-of-the-ice-age-1-4348957

Expedition to verify the height of Mount Everest and determine if it “shrunk” after the 2015 EQ

• http://mashable.com/2017/01/25/mount-everest-shrunk-nepal-quake/

Another large subsidence fissure is located in the Tator Hills in Pinal County, Arizona

• http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/found-a-giant-crack-in-the-arizona-desert

Date for eruption of Mount Paektu in North Korea from fossilized tree rings as the winter of 946 – matches Greenland ice core record – and 3 Nov 946 temple record by monks of “white ash falling like snow”

• http://www.iflscience.com/environment/finally-know-explosive-eruptions-ever-took-place/

Bare-earth Lidar reveals fault capable of generating M6.5 to M7.5 EQ in Bitterroot Valley, Montana

• https://www.usgs.gov/news/maps-made-light-show-way

Environmental Sciences Bulletin Board – 30 January 2017 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford  

Headline that says “California’s drought is almost over” is wrong….groundwater is still needed

• http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/26/us/weather-california-drought/index.html

“Doomsday Clock” continues to tick toward moment that humans destroy the planet

• http://www.livescience.com/57641-doomsday-clock-update-2017.html

These cat species are not well known and may be on the brink of extinction

• http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/02/photo-ark-little-cats/

Controversial (ethical?) research on producing intra-species chimeras, this time human-pig

• http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/human-pig-chimeras-created-first-time-180961953/

Candida auris demonstrating resistance to 3 classes of anti-fungal drugs

• http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/01/24/510583882/new-medical-worry-deadly-fungal-infection-that-resists-treatment

Perspective: Time for a new look at flood management in Arroyo Seco in Pasadena, California

• http://www.sgvtribune.com/opinion/20170128/time-for-a-new-look-at-flood-management-in-pasadenas-arroyo-seco-guest-commentary

Selective breeding has removed flavor from tomatoes, can it be put back?

• http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/geneticists-quest-return-tomatoes-full-flavored-glory-180961933/

In wake of deadly tornadoes, a call for better building codes by FLASH

• http://gsnmagazine.com/article/47828/after_deadly_weekend_experts_reiterate_call_better

Excerpt from “The Physiology of Taste; or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”

• http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/dangers-erotic-truffles-physiology-taste-transcendental-gastronomy-book-excerpt-cultural-travel-180961646/

“You are what you eat” is more important as you age

• http://now.tufts.edu/articles/nutrition-challenges-we-age

Pharmaceutical pollution resulting from improper disposal or lack of sewage treatment impact crayfish, a keystone species, and other aquatic life

• http://greatlakesecho.org/2017/01/25/pharmaceutical-pollution-takes-toll-on-crayfish-and-other-species/

Two 63-year old oil pipelines exposed at the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac, “the worst possible place” for a spill in all the Great Lakes

• http://projects.jsonline.com/news/2017/1/18/dangerous-straits.html
• Related: http://projects.jsonline.com/news/2017/1/15/path-of-least-resistance.html

Drift of Monsanto herbicide Dicamba has spread across Great Plains, resistant super-weeds abound

• http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/the-ever-darkening-shadow-of-monsanto-fueled-superweeds/article_d76e8918-8125-564d-9983-c4d0bf268919.html

Photo-essay: 19 natural sights & wonders in our National Parks

• http://www.businessinsider.com/us-national-parks-photos-2017-1

International team warns the world is “grossly underprepared” for outbreaks of infectious disease

• https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-01-world-grossly-underprepared-infectious-disease.html

Berkeley Pit waters are toxic to migrating birds as water levels in pit reach critical levels near Butte MT

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/brimming-toxic-pit-nears-critical-level-after-bird-deaths/2017/01/23/1b3b7f5e-e143-11e6-a419-eefe8eff0835_story.html

Firefly gives a nutritional “nuptial gift” as part of post-mating sexual selection

• http://now.tufts.edu/news-releases/firefly-gift-giving-composition-nuptial-gifts-revealed

Snake catchers being brought into Florida to hunt Burmese pythons in the Everglades

• http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/snake-catchers-india-hunt-pythons-florida-everglades-45016104
• http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/indian-snake-catchers-caught-burmese-pythons-weeks-florida

GMO apples to hit supermarket shelves in the next month, resist “browning” for weeks

• http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/first-non-browning-gmo-apples-will-go-sale-next-month-180961875/

5,000 to 11,000 years ago the Sahara was a savannah and wooded grassland

• https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/green-saharas-ancient-rainfall-regime-revealed-scientists

Lead levels in drinking water in Flint, Michigan, fall below 15 ppb federal limit

• http://www.reuters.com/article/us-michigan-water-idUSKBN1582KV

Setting realistic pollution standards for the Chesapeake Bay

• https://www.usgs.gov/news/turning-tide-chesapeake-bay

Estimating nutrient (phosphorus) & suspended-sediment loads in the Klamath Basin

• https://www.usgs.gov/news/usgs-uses-state-art-science-estimate-nutrient-and-suspended-sediment-loads-klamath-basin

EPA freezes its extensive grants & contracts program and guidelines for press release are changed

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/environmental-protection-grants-staff_us_5886825be4b0e3a7356b575f
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-admin-orders-epa-contract-freeze-media-blackout-193430974--politics.html
• http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/25/511572169/epa-scientists-work-may-face-case-by-case-review-by-trump-team-official-says

Create an insect habitat in your garden to shelter insects during the frosty winter months

• http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/creating-insect-habitat-ripley-garden-180961898/

Mississippi River is clean near its headwaters, rapidly becomes polluted downstream

• http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/4205127-mississippi-river-starts-clean-heavily-polluted-it-runs-south

Old World climbing fern is the latest and greatest invasive plant species threatening Florida

• https://www.wmfe.org/floridas-latest-invasive-species-a-fern-capable-of-toppling-trees-with-its-chokehold/68752

Perspective: On a possible transition from petroleum to renewable energy

• http://www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/climate-change/wide-gulf-between-rhetoric-and-reality-over-fossil-fuels-and-renewables-future-20170118-gttovj.html

More active tropical cyclone season may break a record drought in Australia

• http://www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/weather/looming-cyclone-may-break-a-record-drought-for-australias-region-20170123-gtxcwh.html

Australian Reptile Park is encouraging public to catch and donate deadly funnel-web spiders – need to replenish stock of anti-venom

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/australian-reptile-park-spiders_us_58877c62e4b096b4a234ac1b

Humans have tended to underestimate the intelligence of other animal species

• http://www.treehugger.com/animals/animals-are-much-smarter-most-people-realize.html

Viewpoint Snøhetta observation pavilion in Norway allows visitors to watch wild reindeer (video)

• http://www.treehugger.com/animals/watch-wild-reindeer-gorgeous-pavilion-norway.html

Here we go again! New Jersey to assess beach erosion following Nor’easter

• http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2017/01/24/jersey-shore-erosion-flooding/

Uranium levels in Pigeon Spring, north of the Grand Canyon, are like due to natural source
https://www.usgs.gov/news/uranium-spring-water-north-grand-canyon-likely-not-related-nearby-mining-activity

Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 23 January 2017 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

NOAA designates Heʻeia National Estuarine Research Reserve
·      http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2017/01/19/noaa-designates-heeia-national-estuarine-research-reserve/ 

Versova driving test track runs into roadblock - India
http://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/other/versova-driving-test-track-runs-into-roadblock/articleshow/56726506.cms

New FEMA flood maps show more Jacksonville Beach streets are at risk – Florida
·      http://www.wokv.com/news/news/local/new-fema-flood-maps-show-more-jacksonville-beach-s/ntcZT/

Big problem, big data: Groundbreaking apps aim to put Eastern Shore a step ahead of sea level rise

http://pilotonline.com/news/local/environment/big-problem-big-data-groundbreaking-apps-aim-to-put-eastern/article_ea08d5ee-9b9b-57b6-9dd3-aec0784353a0.html

Local author writes of Leigh’s role in estuary – Book review “Estuary: Out from London to the Sea”

·      http://www.leightimes.co.uk/article.cfm?id=106104&headline=Local%20author%20writes%20of%20Leigh%E2%80%99s%20role%20in%20the%20Estuary&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2017

CBA wants Marine Enhancement Center - Florida
·      http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/20170124/cba-wants-marine-enhancement-center

Britain’s worst natural disaster: The 1953 storm surge that kicked off the debate on climate change
·      http://www.citymetric.com/horizons/britain-s-worst-natural-disaster-1953-storm-surge-kicked-debate-climate-change-2744

Sea turtle hatchery in Nicaragua pays poachers for eggs
http://www.treehugger.com/endangered-species/sea-turtle-hatchery-nicaragua-pays-poachers-eggs.html

Endangered dotterels face eviction with new housing development – Auckland, New Zealand
 https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/01/endangered-dotterels-face-eviction-with-new-housing-development.html

New program will protect rare birds and plants at N.J. beaches·      http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/item/100770-strings-and-sticks-help-make-space-on-nj-beaches-for-rare-plants-and-birds

EPA nominee Pruitt now supports Chesapeake Bay cleanup
http://www.dailypress.com/news/science/dp-nws--pruitt-bay-about-face-20170123-story.html

River Severn tidal lagoon scheme could threaten wildlife habitat - warns trust – Britain
http://www.theforester.co.uk/article.cfm?id=102737

Barrier-island migration drives large-scale marsh loss - Virginia
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170124140812.htm

New technique quickly predicts salt marsh vulnerability·      https://phys.org/news/2017-01-technique-quickly-salt-marsh-vulnerability.html

Are we ready for oil spills in the Salish Sea?·      http://crosscut.com/2017/01/trans-mountain-pipeline-oil-spills-salish-sea/

Changes in rainfall, temperature expected to transform coastal wetlands this century
https://www.usgs.gov/news/changes-rainfall-temperature-expected-transform-coastal-wetlands-century 

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