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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 31 May – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Eruption of Mount Nyirangongo in African Rift – seismic monitoring at regional observatory in Goma had not been working for several months – limnic eruption of Lake Kivu
- https://www.livescience.com/congo-volcano-mount-nyiragongo-erupts.html
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFNT7xkmyoY
- https://www.news24.com/news24/Africa/News/around-20-000-homeless-40-missing-in-congo-volcano-aftermath-says-un-20210526
- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/africa/nyiragongo-eruption-volcano-death-toll-rises-to-32-goma-battered-by-aftershocks-watch/
- https://www.dw.com/en/did-anyone-monitor-seismic-activity-at-mount-nyiragongo/a-57673038
- https://weather.com/news/news/2021-05-27-congo-goma-evacuates-mount-nyiragongo-eruption-fears
- https://phys.org/news/2021-05-limnic-eruption-dr-congo-volcano.html
Note to all “global warming alarmists” - warming effect of GHG “has been overestimated” – i.e., the modern climate models are wrong
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/warming-effect-of-greenhouse-gases-has-been-overestimated/ar-AAKumKV
- Paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/22/eabc1379
Investigating little known microbial community of the deep-sea floor
- https://news.asu.edu/20210428-deep-under-ocean-microbes-are-active-and-poised-eat-whatever-comes-their-way
- Paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/18/eabg0153
Human pollution from mining – not geology – is source of high levels of arsenic trioxide in Yellowknife
Geological wonders in Pennsylvania
Egyptian fish fossils from the PETM
Why do plunge pools below waterfalls periodically fill with sediment?
Reconstructing history of Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica
The “Great Dying” at the end of the Paleozoic era
Perspective: “Forays against the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant & Global Nuclear Energy” – Lubao Fault
Trove of vertebrate fossils discovered in Mokelumne River watershed in Calaveras County, California
In Memoriam: Frederick Bodholt (1940-2021) – petroleum geologist
Increasing holdings in the Idaho Cobalt Belt
Micro-climates mean species from the Ice Age persist in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin
Western fires appear to be burning at higher elevations in the mountains
Tracking Fagradalsfall magma in Iceland
- https://eos.org/articles/chasing-magma-around-icelands-reykjanes-peninsula
- https://us.cnn.com/videos/travel/2021/05/27/iceland-volcano-fagradalsfjall-erupting-lava-orig-kj.cnn
Assessing existing weather models for predicting meteo-tsunamis
Book Review: “Crustal Magmatic System Evolution: Anatomy, Architecture & Physico-Chemical Processes”
Slab transported fluids play key role in deep-focus earthquakes between 300 and 700 km depth
- https://phys.org/news/2021-05-deep-earth-mysterious-earthquakes.html
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020AV000304
Volcanic gas plumes transport potential toxic metals to be deposited on the landscape
- https://phys.org/news/2021-05-klauea-gas-plumes-reveal-hidden.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00146-2
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00145-3
Highly toxic human-derived mercury is accumulating in the deepest trenches of the Pacific Ocean
- https://phys.org/news/2021-05-scientists-alarm-unprecedented-mercury-accumulation.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-90459-1
Tibet the “Roof of the World” has risen 300 to 600 meters over past 15 to 18 million years
Landslide mega-blocks on seafloor reveal half of Anak Krakatau island causing 2018 Sunda Strait tsunami
- https://phys.org/news/2021-05-megablocks-seafloor-reveal-anak-krakatau.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22610-5
Examining the 2020 trans-Atlantic dust storm
- https://phys.org/news/2021-05-record-shattering-trans-atlantic-storm.html
- Paper: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/aop/BAMS-D-21-0014.1/BAMS-D-21-0014.1.xml?tab_body=pdf
Aetiocetus weltoni - Oligocene whale had both teeth and baleen
- http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/aetiocetus-weltoni-09690.html
- Paper: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab017/6278618
Eurasian horses diverged from North American Horses about 1 myo – impact of Bering Land Bridge
M6.1 and M7.3 earthquakes in China
Public lecture on where earthquakes hide in the desert
- https://www.usgs.gov/news/media-advisory-where-earthquakes-hide-desert-live-online-public-lecture
- Archived: https://www.usgs.gov/science-support/communications-and-publishing/public-lecture-series/multimedia
USGS to conduct aerial mapping of Colorado River
Sand is valuable and like all other natural resources is limited in supply
Great Sitkin Volcano erupts after several decades of quiescence
Mining legacy – arsenic in lake-bottom sediments near abandoned Montague gold mine in Halifax
Resolving the contraction of dry olivine in wet subducted tectonic plates
An explanation for earthquake lightning
Newfoundland and Labrador may become global geo-tourism destination
Revenge of the seabed burrowers – bioturbation in Cambrian Chapel Island Formation, Canada
Iceberg aggregates control calving on Jacobshavn Isbrae in Greenland
1860-1861 slow slip mega-earthquake off Sumatra lasted 32 years
Now we have “derecho season”
Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 31 May – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Advanced Test Reactor at Idaho National Lab being refurbished at cost of $170M
US Federal judge orders Dakota Access pipeline can remain open during new environmental review
Monster Wels catfish invading Europe – was illegally introduced into Spain – outcompeting native fish
Container homes – small, affordable, reuse of containers
Navajo Nation is now largest in US with Cherokee Nation now number 2 in population
Changing demographics – “the era of high fertility is ending” – Population exceeds carrying capacity
Time-lapse video of urban population growth
Wolves are apex predators – kill deer in Wisconsin reducing likelihood of human-deer accidents
Black female jaguar cub born at sanctuary in Kent, England
Technological hazard: mining cobalt for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries is killing children - lawsuit
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/are-children-dying-like-dogs-in-effort-to-build-better-batteries/ar-AAKja1Q
- Report: https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/AFR6231832016ENGLISH.PDF
Remember that skepticism is a fundamental principle of science – “man-made global warming” is not settled
Like all viruses the 1918 pandemic flu virus also mutated
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/a-clue-to-why-the-1918-pandemic-came-back-stronger-than-before/ar-AAKkduD
- Paper pre-print: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.14.444134v1.full.pdf
Legacy of nuclear testing in the Australian Outback – leaking plutonium
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/australian-outback-could-be-leaking-plutonium-60-years-after-testing/ar-AAKlebg
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-89757-5
Human-monkey chimera cell creations go beyond any bounds of reasonable ethics
Magnitude of the impact of coal burning on the Yangtze River in China
Melting glaciers in Greenland releasing accumulations of trapped air-borne mercury pollution into rivers & fjords – will likely bioaccumulate in food web
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/greenland-s-melting-glaciers-are-polluting-coasts-with-shocking-amounts-of-mercury/ar-AAKnkkz
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00753-w
Visualizing copper intensity of renewable energy – so called “clean energy technologies” – demand greatly exceeds supply – supply chain susceptible to disruptions – mines closed – lower grade ores
As consumption drops O&G companies shift to renewable energy & derived petrochemicals
Emerging cicadas may be noisy but few excuses for using insecticides to kill them – let animals eat them
Perspective: $260M Little Island Park built on old Pier 55 in Manhattan is a waste of money
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nyc-s-260-million-little-island-park-is-a-waste-of-money-opinion/ar-AAKn9xN
- Park: https://littleisland.org/visit-us
More than two-thirds of flooding incidents in Maryland take place outside FEMA-identified flood zones
- https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2021/05/25/new-study-reveals-impact-of-flooding-on-marylands-transportation-infrastructure
- Link to download report: https://www.icf.com/insights/transportation/flooding-impacts-maryland-transportation
Corcoran Bowl fastest-sinking area in US – excessive groundwater withdrawal in San Joaquin Valley
Invasive species are hitchhiking with bloodworms – used for fishing bait
Seven Tasmanian devils born at Barrington Wildlife Sanctuary – part of Devil Comeback project
Evolution of Tasmanian Devils in response to transmissible facial cancer
- https://phys.org/news/2021-05-ongoing-evolution-tasmanian-devils-response.html
- Paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.0577
Public response to carbon storage methodologies is based on perception of “naturalness”
They keep saying global warming is based on science – but there is discrepancy of about 5 gigatons of CO2 per year in net land-use emissions between global models (IPCC) and national GHG inventories
Persistent toxic human-made PFAS chemical process through wastewater treatment facilities
Sand is valuable and like all other natural resources is limited in supply – demand exceeds supply
On the 10th anniversary of the Solyndra scandal – government-backed solar panel firm was disaster
381 pesticides becoming increasingly toxic for pollinators and aquatic invertebrates over past 2 decades
2021 hurricane season has begun & spurs hog waste worries in North Carolina
Census Bureau creating “synthetic data” – inventing imaginary threats to confidentiality to reduce public access to data – but much data was not collected for all the population – all it did was “count” people
Endangered Amur Tiger has litter of 3 cubs
Construction underway on $3B Red River flood diversion project in Fargo-Moorhead area
Note to all “global warming alarmists” - warming effect of GHG “has been overestimated” – i.e., the modern climate models are wrong
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/warming-effect-of-greenhouse-gases-has-been-overestimated/ar-AAKumKV
- Paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/22/eabc1379
US Army COE may take more than one year to review appeal by Pebble Limited mine on Bristol Bay
Cheboygan, Michigan, getting new rain garden to help control excess storm water
Genetically modified salmon will be on the menu – though not identified as such – “huge threat to any vision of a healthy food system” – “escape is unlikely”
Super bloom season for Saguaro cactus in Sonoran Desert
Technological hazard: Big Brother is watching and his name is Google
Ethanol plant near Mead, Nebraska, has been spewing array of pesticides into atmosphere for years – advertised as “green recycling” location but is threatening human and wildlife health
CORONAVIRUS
Coronavirus COVID-19 statistics by country (click on USA to get State statistics) & CDC tracker
- https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
- https://time.com/5800901/coronavirus-map/
- interactive map s: https://geodacenter.github.io/covid/map.html
- CDC Weekly Tracker: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/
“fact-check” retracted – new evidence that virus originated in Wuhan Lab
Wuhan Lab researchers sought hospitalization for virus symptoms in November 2019 – WHO to reinvestigate
- https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/china/wuhan-lab-researchers-sought-hospital-care-months-before-covid-19-disclosure-report.html
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/china-who-probe-coronavirus-investigators-pinpoint-overlooked-chinese-data-for-further-study-source-says/ar-AAKluJX
Timeline – lab-leak theory – Fauci’s statements
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/coronavirus/timeline-how-the-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-suddenly-became-credible/ar-AAKlIOr
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/how-the-liberal-media-dismissed-the-lab-leak-theory-and-smeared-its-supporters/ar-AAKl4Ti
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/timeline-of-what-dr-fauci-has-said-about-the-wuhan-lab-and-covid-s-origins/ar-AAKn3P3
Fauci no longer guaranteeing that Wuhan Lab did not use US funds for gain-of-function research
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-is-anthony-fauci-hedging-on-the-origins-of-the-coronavirus/ar-AAKkmw7
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/fauci-impossible-to-guarantee-u-s-didn-t-fund-gain-of-function-research-at-wuhan-lab/ar-AAKpBkE
“My body, my choice” – “medical freedoms” and personal choice – “vaccine victimhood”
Herd immunity in this stage of the trials of the experimental vaccines
Why case numbers are dropping – not just vaccines but also previous infections & natural immunity
What if the pandemic (i.e., the virus) was man-made?
US Senate unanimously passes ban on funding of gain-of-function research in China
Immunity may persist for years
Wuhan Lab, old copper mine, bat cave & guano
Investigating whether myocarditis is delayed side effect of the vaccine – in younger male patients
Vaccine mandate breaks Nuremberg Code – forcing employees to be human ‘guinea pigs’
Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 31 May – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Dead whales washing up in Unusual Morality Event (UME) along west coast since 2019
South Wetlands Park project to reuse crumbling piers from South Philadelphia
• https://source.asce.org/philadelphia-to-turn-crumbling-piers-into-a-waterfront-park/
Impact of polluted water discharge from Piney Point fertilizer plant to Tampa Bay
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/contamination-from-piney-point-has-diluted-in-tampabay-
researchers-say/ar-AAKkQfD
South Wetlands Park project to reuse crumbling piers from South Philadelphia
• https://source.asce.org/philadelphia-to-turn-crumbling-piers-into-a-waterfront-park/
Sponges that cover part of the Meso-American Barrier Reef absorb toxic chemical compounds
• https://coastalreview.org/2021/05/uncw-researcher-finds-sponge-that-eats-toxic-compounds/
Closure of the Colonial Pipeline by ransomware attack prompts two Jones Act waivers
• https://www.winston.com/en/maritime-fedwatch/coastal-pipeline-jones-act-waiver-postmortem.html
Potential impacts of overhaul of FEMA flood insurance on coastal cities
Pawleys Island headed toward final approval of housing design standards
• https://coastalobserver.com/town-eases-path-toward-home-design-standards/
Fishermen allege “backroom deal” and continue to oppose South Fork Wind Farm
Investigating why Georgetown & Horry Counties have been hit by several “1,000-year floods” over past few years
• https://coastalobserver.com/smart-river-project-will-provide-data-on-flooding/
Pod of scientific equipment lost off Outer Bank in 2019 washed up on Tobacco Beach in Bermuda
High-resolution imagery creates nationwide marsh vulnerability maps
• https://www.usgs.gov/news/usgs-releases-nationwide-marsh-vulnerability-maps
• Sea-level Rise portal: https://marine.usgs.gov/coastalchangehazardsportal/
CCC choice: preserve public beaches or protect coastal homes – a very expensive no win situation
DEC releases draft 2021-2025 Hudson River Estuary Action Agenda
• https://midhudsonnews.com/2021/05/27/dec-releases-draft-2021-2025-hudson-river-estuaryaction-agenda/
• DEC publications: https://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/5082.html
Key threats to the Salish Sea ecosystem
• Report: https://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=salish_pubs
Marsh restoration project at Point No Pint intended to help critical salmon habitat
Germany & Norway now have undersea energy link - Nordlink
USEPA shuts down Limetree Bay oil refinery on St. Croix – imminent risk to public health
"Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley (quoted in @TheWeek)
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