Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geosciences; 2) Environmental Sciences; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 28 May 2018

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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 28 May 2018 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Kilauea – threatens Puna Geothermal Venture power plant & spilling into ocean

• https://www.usgs.gov/news/k-lauea-volcano-erupts
• https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/22/613315013/kilaueas-wrath-threatens-power-plant-and-hawaiis-most-powerful-industry
• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/kilaueas-lava-is-now-spilling-into-the-ocean-heres-why-thats-dangerous/

Comparing Hawaii & historic earthquakes in South Carolina

• http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/38170294/comparing-hawaii-and-south-carolinas-devastating-earthquakes

“Shark highway” in Pacific extends 500 miles from Cocos Galapagos islands – plan for protected wildlife corridor

• https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/22/611955569/scientists-take-a-ride-on-the-pacifics-shark-highway

Two new GRACE satellites to measure lumpy gravity of Earth

• https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/21/612980506/nasa-launching-new-satellites-to-measure-earths-lumpy-gravity

A thunder & lightning storm – why you should never run under a tree (video)

• https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lightning-strikes-tree_us_5afd3658e4b0a59b4e00a53f

2018 Final List of 35 minerals deemed critical to US National Security & the economy

• https://www.usgs.gov/news/interior-releases-2018-s-final-list-35-minerals-deemed-critical-us-national-security-and
• https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/05/18/2018-10667/final-list-of-critical-minerals-2018

1^stRussian sea-borne nuclear power plant arrives in the Arctic – Greenpeace calls it “nuclear Titanic”

• http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/russia-floating-nuclear-power-plant-1.4673054

New analysis of 22 named storms makes predictions of future hurricanes

• https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=245396&org=GEO&from=news

Heatwave in Karachi has killed dozens – heat to continue

• http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Dozens_feared_killed_in_Karachi_heatwave_charity_999.html

Widespread ocean anoxia may have caused mass extinction

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180521154304.htm

Rapid rise of continental land mass above sea level 2.4 byo triggered dramatic changes in climate

• https://phys.org/news/2018-05-sea-billion-years-planet-earth.html

Lightning in eyewall of Hurricane Patricia in 2015 beamed antimatter toward the ground

• https://phys.org/news/2018-05-lightning-eyewall-hurricane-antimatter-ground.html

                                                                         

Major shift in marine life during the Mesozoic – iso-crinoids most heavily affected

• https://phys.org/news/2018-05-major-shift-marine-life-million.html

130 myo fossils from Utah may change timing of super-continental split

• https://phys.org/news/2018-05-utah-fossil-reveals-global-exodus.html

Let’s keep those global warming alarmists happy

• https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/ioap-ect052318.php

IMA currently recognizes 5,327 distinct minerals – predicting “missing” minerals

• https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/data-driven-discovery-reveals-earths-missing-minerals

Book Review:  “Quakeland – on the road to America’s next devastating earthquake”

• https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/geomedia-books-quakeland-spotlights-seismic-risk

What can turtle & bird genomes tell us about dinosaurs?

• https://www.technology.org/2018/05/22/turtle-and-bird-genomes-provide-tantalizing-clues-to-dinosaur-genomics-according-to-isu-scientist/
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04267-9

Measurements of snow persistence may improve predictions of streamflow

• https://www.technology.org/2018/05/17/measuring-snow-persistence-can-help-predict-streamflow/

Weaponizing the weather

• https://www.newsmax.com/davidnabhan/weather-war-seismic-hurricane/2018/05/23/id/861979/

New sinkholes in Frederick, Maryland, increase awareness of geologic hazards

• https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/maryland/new-sinkholes-in-frederick-put-focus-on-hazardous-geology-in-region/65-557172801

Book Review:  “Wisconsin State Parks:  Extraordinary Stories of Geology and Natural History” – spent many hours at Devils Lake climbing the talus slopes

• http://www.wiscnews.com/baraboonewsrepublic/news/local/new-book-examines-unique-geology-of-devil-s-mirror-lakes/article_881dff0d-cd38-5882-a9da-dca0861d0b6c.html

Questioning why geology is not part of the curriculum

• http://www.thehindu.com/education/why-no-geology-in-plus-two/article23934680.ece

Geology beneath the White House does not commonly lend itself to sinkholes – likely the result of a leaky water pipe

• http://wtkr.com/2018/05/23/white-house-lawn-troubles-sinkhole-near-entrance/ 

Inoceramus platinumwere common giant clams in the Western Interior Seaway during the Cretaceous

• http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180520/geology-fossils-of-giant-clams-tell-of-dinosaur-era-oceans

Book Review:  “Anomalies: Pioneering Women in Petroleum Geology 1917-2017”

• https://www.mrt.com/business/oil/article/Women-s-role-in-petroleum-geology-dates-back-a-12872107.php

Idaho has long history of “spectacular volcanism”

• https://ravallirepublic.com/lifestyles/recreation/article_e6483104-24a3-58b6-9235-d1d55d7937ba.html

New Book:  “Burning Planet: Story of Fire through Time” on history from fire fossils

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/future-fire-qa-180969005/

Florida is karst topography and the sinkholes are getting larger

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/science-behind-floridas-sinkhole-epidemic-180969158/

 

Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 28 May 2018 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

In memoriam:  Robert Kates (1929-2018) – pioneer in hazards research & risk perception

• https://hazards.colorado.edu/article/appreciation-for-a-1962-dissertation-reflections-on-the-work-of-robert-kates

Half of biomass on Earth has vanished since the beginning of human civilization

• https://www.newscientist.com/article/2169551-half-of-life-on-earth-has-vanished-since-we-arrived-on-the-scene/

Bd fungus that kills amphibians likely originated in Korea – spread globally by human actions

• https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/amphibians-decline-frogs-chytrid-fungi-bd-animals-science/

APHIS confirms cases of virulent Newcastle disease in backyard chicken flock in Los Angeles

• https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/egov/Press_Releases/Press_Release.asp?PRnum=18-033
• https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/newsroom/stakeholder-info/sa_by_date/sa-2018/sa-05/vnd

Pandas are difficult to photograph in their natural habitat – “Panda Love:  The Secret Lives of Pandas”

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-photographing-pandas-more-challenging-you-might-think-180969108/

Deception Valley is deadly for humans – a blessing for wildlife in the Kalahari Desert (video)

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/science/why-deception-valleys-deadly-heat-is-good-f/

No question levees make Mississippi River floods worse – but humans keep building them despite warning published in 1852

• https://www.npr.org/2018/05/21/610945127/levees-make-mississippi-river-floods-worse-but-we-keep-building-them

Pharmaceutical companies sending drug-spiked water to treatment plants across the US – treatment plants NOT designed to treat these types of compounds

• http://www.ehn.org/are-drugs-getting-in-water-2569695865.html
• USGS Study: https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70196708

MGM Resorts in Las Vegas consumes massive amounts of power – 100MW solar array of 336,000 panels on 640 acres being constructed – how ugly will that be?

• https://www.cpexecutive.com/post/mgm-resorts-bets-on-100mw-nevada-solar-array/
• Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone: http://blmsolar.anl.gov/sez/nv/dry-lake/

After human war, poverty & poaching almost killed all white rhino – thinking technology may save species

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/northern-white-rhino-brought-back-brink-extinction-180969000/
• http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Pregnancy_of_southern_white_rhino_at_US_zoo_could_save_subspecies_999.html

Chinese giant salamander heading for extinction as human demand has devastated wild populations

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/adorable-chinese-giant-salamanders-headed-toward-extinction-180969127/

Prop 68 on November California ballot will ask voters to approve $4.1B for parks & water projects

• https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/21/proposition-68-will-voters-approve-4-1-billion-for-parks-and-water-projects/

400MW wind farm to be built in rural northeast Missouri – 175 turbines will be 450-foot-tall

• http://www.newspressnow.com/news/state/ameren-to-build--megawatt-wind-farm-missouri-s-largest/article_0dd35a9f-cb37-5e25-b881-cc7681259ebc.html

In AUS, they are called brumbies – abandoning culling is being called “madness” & “disaster”

• https://www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/conservation/brumbies-cull-backflip-for-snowy-mountains-is-madness-professor-20180520-p4zggh.html

Teenager threw fireworks & started Eagle Creek wildfire burning 47,000 acres – ordered to pay $36.6M restitution to USFS, ODOT, Oregon State Fire Marshal, UP Railroad, individuals…

• https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/22/613374984/judge-orders-boy-who-started-oregon-wildfire-to-pay-36-million-in-restitution

USDA unveils prototypes for GMO food labels – adding to the confusion?

• https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/05/19/612063389/usda-unveils-prototypes-for-gmo-food-labels-and-theyre-confusing

Ebola in the Congo – Urban area cases raises concerns – WHO does not declare international health emergency – experimental vaccine gets trial by fire

• https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democratic-republic-of-congo-ebola_us_5afca885e4b06a3fb50d5e87
• https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/who-ebola-international-health-emergency_us_5afed073e4b0463cdba12afc
• https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/vaccination-method-that-wiped-out-smallpox-gets-unleashed-today-on-ebola/

Waging war against invasive Lionfish in the Caribbean by supporting “eat ‘em to beat ‘em”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/lionfish-invaded-army-divers-chefs-fighting-back-180968999/

DBT used in making PVC plastic may be causing prediabetes and obesity – or are humans just eating too much junk food and not exercising?

• http://www.ehn.org/pvc-plastic-chemical-make-us-fat-2570800586.html

10 species “discovered” by humans this year

• https://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/top-10-newly-discovered-species-2018.html

Dolphins respond to overfishing by humans by breaking into nets to steal fish

• https://www.treehugger.com/animals/dolphins-break-nets-steal-fish-overfishing.html

Premature birth rates drop in California after 8 coal & oil fired power plants shut down

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22052018/air-pollution-coal-power-plants-oil-health-risks-premature-births-california

Pennsylvania DEP revokes permission to dump brine wastewater from drilling onto dirt roads

• http://www.post-gazette.com/news/environment/2018/05/22/DEP-brine-prohibited-roadways-pennsylvania-warren-county-gas-oil-drilling/stories/201805220114

Special Report:  Environmental impact of hog farms in North Carolina (video)

• http://www.wnct.com/news/local-news/9oys-special-report-environmental-impact-of-hog-farms/1193136480

$1.5B aluminum rolling mill to be built near Ashland, Kentucky

• https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2018/05/21/braidy-industries-mill-construction-start/628125002/

Price tag for modernization of Rinconada Water Treatment Plant in Los Gatos, California, increasing $50M

• https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/21/price-tag-for-better-tasting-water-just-increased-by-50-million/

Drug manufacturer in Florida used same uncleaned equipment to make drugs and pesticides

• https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/medicines-were-tainted-with-pesticides-in-sloppy-drug-facility-fda-warns/

Greenland ice cores help reconstruct Roman lead pollution in year-by-year detail

• https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/greenland-ice-cores-track-roman-lead-pollution-in-year-by-year-detail/

You are what you eat - Are cosmetic-inspired consumables safe?

• https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/in-the-name-of-beauty-people-are-now-eating-a-common-face-cream-ingredient/

Pollution-related disease presents global environmental challenge

• https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=245332&org=GEO&from=news

 

Wyoming F&G to allow first legal grizzly bear hunt in Yellowstone in over 40 years

• https://wgfd.wyo.gov/News/Conservative-hunting-regulations-approved-by-Game
• https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/wyoming-game-and-fish-approves-grizzly-bear-hunting-season/article_105e1268-5f6e-11e8-9584-03c11debe6e0.html

USDA APHIS publishes Final Rule to amend NEPA implementing procedures

• https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/newsroom/stakeholder-info/sa_by_date/sa-2018/sa-05/nepa-final-rule
• https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/05/24/2018-11083/national-environmental-policy-act-implementing-procedures

Still touting action to curb “global warming” but do the economics (or just projections) support it?

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05219-5
• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05198-7

Examining the feasibility of a hyperloop (high-speed tube transit) system in Colorado Springs

• http://gazette.com/colorado-springs-must-show-support-to-get-hyperloop-transit-system-company-says/article/1626458

Official groundbreaking for 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline Project

• https://www.wvnews.com/news/wvnews/atlantic-coast-pipeline-construction-begins-with-groundbreaking-in-lewis-county/article_ba265a2f-35a5-5102-bada-6ef2b66e39cf.html

Obama Presidential Center gets zoning approval but raises concerns for infrastructure costs and damage to legacy park lands

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/zoning-committee-approves-obama-presidential-center-jackson-park/

Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 28 May 2018 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Kilauea – “Laze” hazard – Coast Guard enforcing Lava Entry Safety Zones

• http://mauinow.com/2018/05/21/laze-hazard-at-kilauea-lava-ocean-entry/

• https://bigislandnow.com/2018/05/20/coast-guard-enforces-lower-puna-safety-zone-invicinity-

of-kilauea-lava-flow/

• http://www.kitv.com/story/38231748/lava-threat-flow-may-cross-highway-137-on-saturday

Ship canal project in Seattle, Washington, cost increased by $150M to estimated $570M

• http://kuow.org/post/seattles-ship-canal-project-will-cost-150-million-more-expected

Coastal erosion threatening structures along Atlantic Coast of Senegal

• https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/world/africa/senegal-erosion-fisherman.html

Ancient Mound Building Native Americans carefully timed occupation of coastal Louisiana site

•https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180522114822.htmhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180522114822.htm

NRDC Perspective: Expanded offshore drilling poses potential threat to Coastal National Parks

• https://www.nrdc.org/resources/spoiled-parks-threat-our-coastal-national-parks-expandedoffshore-

drilling

ASBPA recognizes beach restoration projects – includes $38.5M in Dare County, North Carolina

• https://www.coastalreview.org/2018/05/dare-countys-beach-restoration-recognized/

Reviewing facts for Hurricane Harvey & when it made landfall

• https://www.caller.com/story/news/local/2018/05/21/what-know-hurricane-harvey-and-itseffect-

coastal-bend-rockport-port-aransas-corpus-christi/581670002/

Settlement between Hollister Ranch Owners Association & State of California grants public access

to short segment of coastal beach at Cuarto Canyon

• https://www.theinertia.com/surf/settlement-to-allow-coastal-access-to-hollister-ranch-if-youredown-

to-paddle-2-miles/

US, Canada, Russia, Denmark & Norway reaffirm commitment to peacefully settle differences over

resource-rich region in the Arctic

• https://www.thelocal.no/20180522/arctic-coastal-powers-back-peaceful-dialogue-overdisputes

Chances continue to rise for Gulf of Mexico storm over Memorial Day weekend – anticipating

disasters

• https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/05/chances_continue_to_rise_for_g.html

• Emergency declarations: http://start.att.net/news/read/article/the_associated_pressthe_

latest_florida_braces_for_subtropical_storm_al-ap/category/news

Coastal populations exploding & putting more human activity & people at risk

• http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1805/S00004/coasts-in-crisis.htm

How large a tsunami can be generated in the Caribbean?

• https://phys.org/news/2018-05-large-tsunami-caribbean.html

• https://www.earth.com/news/tsunamis-caribbean/

For baby sea turtles, beaches become safer but they face multiple hazards in the ocean

• https://www.ecowatch.com/sea-turtles-beaches-oceans-2563219557.html

“Respect the Water” campaign now in its 5th year in Kent, England

• http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/anti-drowning-campaign-asks-people-to-float-183450/

New Jersey DEP has till 23 June to approve 4 permits involving waterfront development, flood

hazard, coastal & freshwater wetland impacts of pipeline

• https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/local/land-environment/2018/05/18/transcoprotests-

ferc-permit-extension/613571002/

Offshore wind projects announced in Massachusetts & Rhode Island

• https://apnews.com/607625b908d04d1ba904049000fb2877/New-wind-projects-woulddeliver-

enough-power-for-600K-homes

"Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75." - Benjamin Franklin (tnx @jstorres)