Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geoscience; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 22 March 2021

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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 22 March – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Pacific Ocean cooled faster than continent of Africa due to plate tectonics over past 400 million years

• https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/one-side-earth-rapidly-getting-141800651.html

World Meteorological Organization considering redefining length of hurricane season

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/assumptions-hurricane-season-face-winds-151500599.html
• https://www.khou.com/article/weather/severe-weather/you-could-hear-about-tropical-activity-earlier-this-year-due-to-a-change-at-the-national-hurricane-center/285-9d4e9f20-344b-4670-bb47-d08bb07f7970

NWS releases names of storms for Hurricane Season 2021

• https://www.silive.com/news/2021/03/hurricane-season-2021-what-are-the-names-of-this-years-storms.html

Measuring geothermal heat flux in Antarctica

• https://eos.org/editor-highlights/taking-the-temperature-of-antarcticas-crust

Dense seismic network in operation in seismically active Himalayan regions

• https://eos.org/science-updates/discerning-structure-and-seismic-hazards-in-the-sikkim-himalayas

CRUTEMS - New land surface air temperature global data set updated to 2019

• https://eos.org/editor-highlights/new-land-surface-air-temperature-global-dataset
• Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JD032352

Seafloor sediment proxy yields high-resolution record of early Paleozoic climate

• https://eos.org/articles/geologists-have-a-new-tool-for-reconstructing-the-ancient-climate

Newest version of Community Earth System Model

• https://eos.org/opinions/building-a-better-model-to-view-earths-interacting-processes

Sea cucumbers provide significant excremental contribution to reef habitats with bioturbation rates

• https://eos.org/articles/sea-cucumbers-the-excremental-heroes-of-coral-reef-ecosystems

Diatoms evolved to substitute zinc for cadmium and vice-versa

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/how-did-diatoms-evolve-to-swap-zinc-for-the-toxic-metal-cadmium

Angstrom-scale view of physical and chemical weathering processes

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/the-first-angstrom-scale-view-of-weathering

Ground radiant temperatures increase prior to volcanic eruptions

• https://eos.org/articles/volcanic-lands-warm-before-eruptions

Visualizing gold exploration potential in the Pacific Ring of Fire & in Québec, Canada

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/erupting-gold-exploration-potential-the-pacific-ring-of-fire/

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/gold-exploration-quebec-cartier-benoist/

Visualizing the drainage basins of the 30 longest rivers

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-drainage-basins-of-the-worlds-longest-rivers/

Massive dust storm hits across China

• https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148052/early-season-dust-storm-hits-beijing
• https://www.npr.org/2021/03/15/977397941/desert-dust-sweeps-into-beijing-causing-chinas-worst-sandstorm-in-10-years

Large fast-moving asteroid 2001 FO32 will pass by Earth on the Spring Equinox

• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/golden-gate-bridge-asteroid-buzzing-earth_n_604d752bc5b672fce4ed337a

NASA using Navajo language to name features & rocks on Mars

• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nasa-mars-navajo-names_n_604be458c5b672fce4eca2d8

Understanding reversals of the magnetic field of Earth

• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/When_North_was_South_and_South_was_North_999.html

Pressure accumulated over a decade triggered eruption of Kilauea

• https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=302313&org=GEO&from=news
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19190-1

Arctic freshwater affecting marine environments & currents in Atlantic Ocean

• https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=302312&org=GEO&from=news
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21470-3

Camp Century ice core from Greenland reveals million-year-old plant fossils

• http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/greenland-plant-fossils-09455.html

Late Pleistocene glaciers & enigmatic stone stripes in the highlands of Ethiopia

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210312155451.htm
• Paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/11/eabb6826

New insight into formation of copper deposits – crystal mush kikes at Yerington, Nevada

• https://phys.org/news/2021-03-insight-formation-copper-deposits.html
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00128-4

Imagining into ferro-volcanism

• https://phys.org/news/2021-03-volcanoes-metal.html
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21582-w

Transform faults play active role in shaping ocean floor – extension & crustal accretion

• https://phys.org/news/2021-03-faults-role-ocean-floors.html

Responses of biocrusts in arid regions to warming & drought

• https://phys.org/news/2021-03-scientists-reveal-responses-biocrusts-drought.html

Quantifying movement of water from rivers to aquifers across the country – gradient driven

• https://phys.org/news/2021-03-reveal-extent-rivers-country-aquifers.html

Latest cycle of geothermal exploration in Nevada – this time using UAV magnetometry

• https://www.mining.com/university-of-nevada-ramps-up-exploration-for-geothermal-systems/

Human-caused most-powerful non-nuclear explosion of ammonium nitrate in Beirut created atmospheric wave that led to electron disturbances in ionosphere

• https://phys.org/news/2021-03-blast-shook-ionosphere.html
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82355-5

Ocean trawling destroys seafloor & releases massive amounts of emissions from marine sediments

• https://www.zmescience.com/science/ocean-trawling-doesnt-just-destroy-ecosystems-it-also-releases-massive-emissions/

Deep-sea buoys trigger tsunami warnings

• https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/124569006/how-deepsea-buoys-trigger-tsumani-warnings-after-big-earthquakes

About 125,000 years ago during last interglacial Greenland was green and lush

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210317141654.htm

Geologist calls for exploration of “elephant country” in South Africa

• https://www.miningweekly.com/article/northern-cape-elephant-country-needs-exploration-boost-says-geologist-2021-03-17/rep_id:3650

Still debating “the golden spike” that defines beginning of the Anthropocene – maybe they should recognize it began at the beginning of the Holocene

• https://www.npr.org/2021/03/17/974774461/drawing-a-line-in-the-mud-scientists-debate-when-age-of-humans-began

Meandering rivers create point bars

• https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/uota-mrc031621.php

“river of rocks” influencing tectonic activity in the Caribbean – low-viscosity asthenosphere flow

• https://phys.org/news/2021-03-geologists-powerful-river-caribbean.html
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21723-1

Armored mud balls in Franklin County, Massachusetts

• https://www.recorder.com/my-turn-little-GeologicalMudBalls-39431869

Book Review:  “Notes from Deep Time”

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00660-5

The origins of the largest aquamarine crystal

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2021/03/16/how-worlds-largest-aquamarine-gem-came-be/

Traces of primordial magma found in rocks in Greenland

• https://www.iflscience.com/environment/traces-of-the-primordial-magma-ocean-found-for-the-first-time/
• Paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/11/eabc7394

PEACH is 5-year project to monitor the Gulf Stream off Cape Hatteras – 10-minute video

• https://vimeo.com/279906819

Benthic habitats & communities of islands & seamounts of Nazca Desventuradas Marine Park

• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-85516-8

Stratus Ocean Reference Station buoy launched in tropical Pacific

• https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/buoy-deployed-in-tropical-pacific/

After 6,000 years of dormancy, Mount Fagradalsfjall erupts in Iceland

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/a-6-000-year-dormant-icelandic-volcano-just-erupted-and-it-s-awesome/ar-BB1eNjp2

Exploring the plumbing of Steamboat Geyser

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210315160708.htm
• https://www.ksl.com/article/50127248/yellowstones-steamboat-geyser-much-deeper-than-old-faithful-researchers-say-but-still-a-science-mystery

Even before the Brunt Ice Shelf calved, the ocean floor was teeming with life

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-calved-brunt-ice-shelf-reveals-a-seafloor-teeming-with-life-hidden-for-50-years/ar-BB1eNefO

Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 22 March – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

World Water Day – 22 March 2021 – images of polluted waters around the world

• https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/seen-from-the-sky-polluted-waters-around-the-world

CRISPR - regulation, public trust and question of ethics regarding gene editing – “model embryo”

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00672-1
• https://www.smh.com.au/national/scientists-create-model-embryos-in-lab-raising-major-ethical-questions-20210317-p57bkc.html
• https://www.smh.com.au/national/australia-s-embryo-research-laws-face-strain-after-monash-breakthrough-20210318-p57c0s.html

US Dept of Interior announces details for public forum on federal O&G program

• https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-announces-details-public-forum-federal-oil-and-gas-program

Webinar:  Quantifying Ecosystem Functions to Facilitate Wetland Monitoring & Assessment

• https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/technical/nra/ceap/?cid=NRCSEPRD1576043

No such thing as a “natural disaster” – we’re doing it to ourselves

• https://www.undrr.org/news/sendai-framework-6th-anniversary-time-recognize-there-no-such-thing-natural-disaster-were

Permanent daylight savings time would reduce human health risks – Sunshine Protection Act of 2021

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/daylight-saving-time-ends-sunday-185500890.html
• https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/daylight-saving-health.html

K2 Gold mining company wants to transform 22,500 acres of public lands into open pit cyanide heap leach mine between dusty Owens Valley floor and Death Valley National Monument

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/a-corporation-wants-to-mine-for-gold-near-death-valley-native-tribes-are-fighting-it/ar-BB1ezCAF

Influx of firefly tourists is harming the species along with habitat loss, light pollution & insecticides

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/firefly-tourism-has-a-surprising-dark-side/ar-BB1eB9xm
• https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/csp2.391

Intense sand storm turns skies orange in Beijing, China

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/most-intense-sandstorm-decade-turned-160545214.html

Outflow from Glen Canyon Dam will drop to 4,000 cfs – about one-third average release rate

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/parts-grand-canyon-visible-first-155541632.html

15 countries with highest per capita carbon emissions – if that matters

• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/15-countries-highest-average-carbon-161359972.html

Gas prices at the pump are significantly increasing

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-blame-rising-gas-prices-144600669.html

Strong winds are churning up deep water in the Great Lakes – impacting water quality

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-climate-whipped-winds-pose-180653142.html

Drinking water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi

• https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2021/03/07/more-communities-helping-jackson-mississippi-water-crisis-continues/4619598001/
• https://news.yahoo.com/crumbling-infrastructure-leaves-water-buckets-100058315.html
• https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/14/us/jackson-mississippi-boil-water-tests-winter-storms/index.html

Soil erosion is a problem at solar farms

• https://www.smartbrief.com/original/2021/03/solar-farms-embrace-new-tool-fight-soil-erosion

Bad policies proposed in the CLEAN Future Act

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-s-climate-rhetoric-doesn-t-excuse-bad-policy/ar-BB1eBElz
• CFA hype: https://energycommerce.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/ec-leaders-introduce-the-clean-future-act-comprehensive-legislation-to
• HR 981-page Bill: https://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/files/documents/CFA%20Bill%20Text%202021.pdf

You are what you eat – but what fish are you really eating?

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/bait-and-switch-fish-fraud-rampant-worldwide-new-study-shows/ar-BB1eCfX7
• https://sustainablefisheries-uw.org/sustainability-mislabeled-fish-usa/

Tourists get upset when lion kills wild dog – guess we better go kill all the lions for being territorial

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/video-shows-lion-killing-wild-dog-pup-in-front-of-tourists-all-hell-broke-loose/ar-BB1eDVeK

Book Review:  “Under a White Sky” – can engineers fix the environmental problems they created?

• https://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2021/03/15/under-a-white-sky/

FEMA grants for flood-prone areas not being used because of the financial strings that are attached (cost-sharing)

• https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/environment/article_1182c514-7ac1-11eb-a026-cff7d68cf2af.html

US Forest Service to receive $285M for maintenance & recreation infrastructure on national forests & grasslands under Great American Outdoors Act

• https://aashtojournal.org/2021/03/12/usda-investing-285m-in-transportation-infrastructure/

UN report “Making Peace with Nature” urges valuing the fundamental “natural capital”

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-new-un-report-proposes-a-radical-shift-in-the-way-we-think-about-nature/ar-BB1dOknw
• UN Report: https://www.unep.org/resources/making-peace-nature

$98M solar farm proposed for Louisiana

• https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/business/article_fc89377e-85a6-11eb-a2ab-8f770fd05470.html

Wanting clarification of “policy” on conservation goals – especially in Western states

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-republicans-recommend-more-input-detail-on-biden-conservation-goals/ar-BB1eDXWn

US Army COE says Detroit Dam in Oregon could fail during seismic event

• https://apnews.com/article/oregon-dam-could-fail-in-large-earthquake-640a51f1b5050ec00bd6a09d8f6632b5

China to crackdown on sand mining in Yangtze River

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-vows-crackdown-sand-mining-001648335.html

Attempting to battle Chronic Wasting Disease in white-tailed deer in Ohio

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/outdoors-deer-disease-biologists-high-183100259.html

American High-Speed Rail Act proposes $205B introduced into Congress – despite other projects that have not yet succeeded

• https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/american-high-speed-rail-act-introduced/596741/

New River Gorge in West Virginia is most recently designated National Park – but geology is ancient

• https://eos.org/features/the-new-river-gorge-ancient-river-old-mines-new-national-park
• National Park Service info: https://www.nps.gov/neri/index.htm

Visualizing “green energy” investments – lots of hype but still only 11% of energy output

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/capturing-the-renewable-energy-shift/
• US EIA: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/

Exploring Ivvavik National Park in Arctic Canada

• https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2021/03/exploring-canadas-most-accessible-arctic-national-park

Two excerpts from “The Monsanto Papers” which chronicles life of exposure to Roundup herbicides

• Part 1: https://www.ehn.org/monsanto-papers-2650517822.html
• Part 2: https://www.ehn.org/monsanto-papers-book-2650597124.html

Previously unknown bacterial species found on ISS

• http://www.sci-news.com/biology/methylobacterium-international-space-station-09458.html
• Paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2021.639396/full

Air pollution levels in 2020 exceeded WHO recommendations for small particulate matter

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Lethal_pollution_high_in_2020_despite_lockdowns_report_999.html

Development continues to cause urban flooding

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Combination_of_climate_change_development_to_fuel_urban_flooding_999.html

Recent summer droughts in Europe repeating conditions of a few thousand years ago

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210315132141.htm

Humans live in chemical soup – newly detected chemicals include 55 never reported & 42 “mystery chemicals” found in residents of San Francisco, California

• https://phys.org/news/2021-03-evidence-chemicals-people.html
• https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2021/03/420061/ucsf-study-finds-evidence-55-chemicals-never-reported-people

Perspective:  the 30x30 campaign – “protecting” the ocean from people

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00673-0

Dem blocks effort to adjust flood insurance rates – adjustment would more accurately reflect risks, reduce vulnerability & discourage construction in high-risk areas

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/senate-leader-stalls-climate-overhaul-135429850.html

States sue to overturn “illegal” government action to stop Keystone XL Pipeline

• https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-ken-paxton-lawsuits-montana-0cf1a378a99ade52cd8b24bb61313ba9

Endangered birds losing their songs & cannot find mates

• https://www.zmescience.com/science/this-endangered-bird-is-losing-its-song/
• https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56417544

March 2020 M5.7M earthquake in Utah – “no one is coming to save you”

• https://www.deseret.com/utah/2021/3/17/22325628/earthquake-lessons-from-a-year-ago-no-one-is-coming-to-save-you-utah-salt-lake-county-magna-disaster

Advanced nuclear reactors are not safer than conventional plants

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/advanced-nuclear-reactors-no-safer-044827082.html

Dams in Hawaii that date to the sugar cane plantations need repair or removal

• https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/03/relics-of-sugars-past-hawaii-dams-will-take-years-to-fix-or-remove/

Lessons to be learned from millennia of history of the Nile River - adapt

• https://theconversation.com/innovations-on-the-nile-over-millennia-offer-lessons-in-engineering-sustainable-futures-156801

Legal battle over 115-year-old Truckee Canal – to line or not to line – municipal water supply & water rights

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/nevada-town-sues-rights-water-153956947.html

Lake in SW Turkey is turquoise from heavy metal pollutants from Yatagan power plant

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-environmentalists-want-destroy-lake-100109279.html

Plague of mice hits rural eastern Australia

• https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-mice-idUSKBN2BB0VX
• https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australia-mice-plague-farmers-harvest-b1819574.html
• https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/03/are-poison-packed-drones-the-answer-to-eastern-australias-mouse-plague

CRS Report:  US Energy in 21^st Century – a primer

• https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46723

Lazarus taxon - video

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/animals/the-return-of-extinct-species/vi-BB1eOh9E

CORONAVIRUS

Coronavirus COVID-19 statistics by country (click on USA to get State statistics)

• https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
• https://time.com/5800901/coronavirus-map/
• interactive maps: https://geodacenter.github.io/covid/map.html

Pandemic now impacting demographics – with 7.8+B people on the planet that may not be a bad thing

• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/global-baby-drought-covid-19-000000504.html

News media finally realizing Florida pandemic response was a good one

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/boomtown-feel-floridas-pandemic-response-100015420.html

Fauci backed study that found 3-foot as good as 6-foot social distancing – but debate continues

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fauci-backed-a-study-that-found-3-foot-social-distancing-in-schools-was-as-good-as-the-recommended-6-feet-at-stopping-the-spread-of-covid-19/ar-BB1eBB2b
• Paper: https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab230/6167856
• https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/study-finds-3-ft-distancing-in-schools-is-enough-but-debate-is-far-from-over/

Understanding VAERS

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/vaccine-death-reports-are-not-what-they-seem/ar-BB1eLypl

Perspective:  Preparing for the next pandemic – will it truly be a deep dive into failures of the pandemic? Or the antibiotic resistance now being nurtured by human activity? Or re-emerging disease?

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01291-z
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01264-2
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01237-5

Italy seizes 400K doses of AZ vaccine after man dies hours after receiving shot

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/italy-seizes-nearly-400k-astrazeneca-doses-starts-investigation-after-man-dies-following-shot/ar-BB1eEbmG

It is time to restore our freedom rather than further attempts at compliance and control

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/one-coronavirus-time-restore-freedom-200004927.html

Questioning reports of vaccine efficacy – more data needed along with transparency & access to raw data

• https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/01/04/peter-doshi-pfizer-and-modernas-95-effective-vaccines-we-need-more-details-and-the-raw-data/

AZ vaccine halted in Europe after link to deadly blood clots – resumed after determination that the benefits outweigh the risks

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/astrazeneca-vaccine-linked-to-blood-clots-report/ar-BB1eLJZK

Herd mentality reflects concerns for AZ vaccine – blood clots & fatalities in Europe

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-europes-astra-zeneca-vaccine-fumble-could-be-bad-news-for-the-us-090020186.html

Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 22 March – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Residents on Outer Banks may face 50% increase in taxes to “protect” coastal property

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/tiny-town-big-decision-willing-121315761.html

Environmental group objects to Mumbai coastal road clearance

• https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/eac-did-not-consider-our-objections-on-mumbaicoastal-road-clearance-green-group/ar-BB1eGVrd

Proposal to increase Louisiana share of offshore O&G revenue and for wind energy

• https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_0c2320e6-82a5-11eb-92f3-533f128ba00b.html

Dispute between Somalia & Kenya over stretch of Indian Ocean believed to hold O&G deposits

• https://www.africadaily.net/reports/Sea_of_troubles_The_Somalia-Kenya_marine_border_spat_999.html

• https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/kenya/article/2001406589/kenya-will-lose-lamu-if-somaliawins-case

• https://www.modernghana.com/news/1068137/kenya-v-somalia-maritime-dispute-thedifficult.html

Manatee County considering rolling back some regulations for development in coastal areas vulnerable to flooding & storm surge

• https://www.statesman.com/story/news/local/manatee/2021/03/16/manatee-considersrelaxing-regulations-coastal-development/4715259001/

New market report on Territorial Border and Coastal Surveillance System Industry

• https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/territorial-border-and-coastal-surveillancesystem-market-overview-market-by-type-by-manufacturers-regions-industry-analysisforecast-by-2025-2021-03-17

Call for Congressional action to keep coastal waters free from sewage

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/day-congress-must-act-to-keep-coastal-waters-freefrom-sewage/ar-BB1etN1A

Computer modeling suggests coastal wastewater infrastructure (sewer lines & cesspools) may flood

• https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2021/03/14/wastewater-leakage-coast-water/

California Coastal Commission unanimously rejected appeal of Riverfront Project

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coastal-commission-rejects-riverfront-project-appeal-insanta-cruz/ar-BB1exmBu

Surigao del Sur coastal road bypass may be beneficial to Lianga economy

• https://news.yahoo.com/surigao-del-sur-coastal-road-000000577.html

Opportunities for public input to coastal resiliency planning & Meganticook River Watershed

• https://www.penbaypilot.com/article/coastal-resilience-planning-and-megunticook-riverwatershed-public-invited-community-/144701

Residents challenge permit to pump ocean-access waterway dredge material to Sunset Beach disposal site

• https://www.coastalreview.org/2021/03/residents-appeal-south-jinks-creek-permit/

Efforts to improve water quality in coastal fishing communities in North Carolina

• https://www.coastalreview.org/2021/03/groups-launch-fisheries-water-quality-effort/

Dare County approves process to help recover cost of $11M beach nourishment project

• https://www.coastalreview.org/2021/03/plan-to-fund-avon-nourishment-advances/

Delaware launched Coastal Corridors Study to assess travel routes for beach-resort access

• https://www.capegazette.com/article/deldot-begins-coastal-corridors-study/216547

Legal petition asking to extend offshore oil leasing halt

• https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/legal-petition-asks-biden-administrationto-extend-offshore-oil-leasing-halt-2021-03-16/

Norwegian Petroleum Directorate revises offshore Norway resource estimate

• https://www.offshore-mag.com/regional-reports/north-seaeurope/article/14197900/norwegian-petroleum-directorate-revises-offshore-norway-resourceestimate

Discussions to continue between Greece & Turkey toward fair sharing of resources in Eastern Mediterranean

• https://www.dailysabah.com/politics/diplomacy/greek-fm-dendias-to-visit-turkey-next-monthfor-east-med-talks

Politics amid the South China Sea dispute

• https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/amid-south-china-sea-dispute-philippines-palawan-isbesieged-by-political-split/

Greymouth Beach “starved” of gravel from river beds becomes more vulnerable to storms

• https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/438640/west-coast-council-accused-of-letting-companiestake-too-much-gravel-from-rivers

• https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-democracy-reporting/300255579/greymouthbeach-starved-of-gravel-becoming-more-vulnerable-to-storms

UK issues updated Marine Science Research (MSR) guidance

• https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/marine-science-research-msr-guidance/marinescience-research-msr-guidance

Primer for operational staffs and tactical leaders (Part 1) on Chinese Maritime Militia & Fishing Fleets

• https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/English-Edition-Archives/January-February-2021/Panter-Maritime-Militia/

Efforts to eradicate European green crabs from Stinson Beach Seadrift Lagoon in California was unsuccessful – species responded with dramatic population increase – lesson learned

• https://scienmag.com/when-eradicated-species-bounce-back-with-a-vengeance/

• Paper: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fee.2277

Florida Governor recommends $260M for relief for seaports

• https://www.wesh.com/article/relief-for-seaports/35866572

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