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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 4 July 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
M5.9 Afghanistan eartthquake 46 km SW of Khōst
US BLM approvals for permits for O&G drilling on public lands declined over last several months
Video footage of thunderstorm & lightning
Mastodons in North America, like modern-day elephants in Africa, migrated seasonally
Current conceptual model for Superfund cleanup of Wyckoff wood-treating creosote plant on Bainbridge Island
Valley of the Gods & Natural Bridges Monument in Utah
PyBacktrack 1.4 released – generates paleobathymetry grids from submerged present-day crust
- https://www.earthbyte.org/pybacktrack-1-4-released/
- Background paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018TC005462
- https://pybacktrack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pybacktrack_paleo_bathymetry.html
- Pacific Ocean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgZYoIw0TYU
- Atlantic Ocean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5UDzeBY55k
Lahar warning issued for Mount Bulusan in the Philippines
New dating method puts age of Sterkfontein Cave fossils to 3.4 to 3.7 million years – older than “Lucy”
- https://www.technologynetworks.com/analysis/news/cradle-of-humankind-fossils-may-be-over-a-million-years-older-than-previously-thought-363096
- Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2123516119
Large historic earthquake on Mount Hood Fault Zone may have triggered massive “Bonneville Slide” in Columbia River Gorge
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/research-raises-question-whether-big-mt-hood-quake-triggered-massive-bonneville-landslide/ar-AAYT0dG
- Paper: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/quaternary-research/article/age-of-the-late-holocene-bonneville-landslide-and-submerged-forest-of-the-columbia-river-gorge-oregon-and-washington-usa-by-radiocarbon-dating/7F37B7D73AB996477E7FB23E41761FED
Government imposing anti-smog requirements on Permian Basin would create “uncertainty on permitting and insert unnecessary regulatory barriers …to production”
Increasing number of EQs in Delaware Basin of West Texas & New Mexico linked to O&G production
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/957152
- https://phys.org/news/2022-06-hindcasting-earthquakes-delaware-basin.html
Seismic noise could help monitor potential hazards in active mines
Clues to the origin of jaws in vertebrates – mandibular arch-derived gill
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/957209
- Paper: https://elifesciences.org/articles/78170
- Paper: https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/doi/10.1242/dev.200184/275771/The-pseudobranch-of-jawed-vertebrates-is-a
2021 Cumbre Vieja basanite lava had ultra-low viscosity
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/957251
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30905-4
Nearly complete 30,000-year-old mummified baby woolly mammoth unearthed in Canada
Seismic reprocessing project to secure exploration success in Western Margins of Central North Sea
View of the West Salt Creek Landslide from 30,000 feet on a transcontinental flight – keep the shades up
Links between snow-capped Himalayan peaks and stream patterns
Intense hailstorm hit Mexico City – “is it caused by climate change?” is the wrong question
Earthquakes triggered by wastewater injection
Visualizing raw material inflation (2% to 95%) in Canada – including: coal, crude oil & bitumen, natural gas, scrap metal, potash, lead & zinc ores, sand gravel & clay, nickel ores, gold ores
Whale entanglements declining but remain threat to endangered species
- https://www.npr.org/2022/06/29/1108510767/whale-entanglements-may-be-dropping-but-the-threat-remains-feds-say
- Report: https://media.fisheries.noaa.gov/2022-06/National%20Report%20on%20Large%20Whale%20Entanglements%20Confirmed%20in%20the%20United%20States%20in%202019.pdf
Algal mats may be base of Arctic food web
- https://eos.org/articles/algal-mats-may-be-a-key-to-the-arctic-food-web
- Paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.841720/full
How many major Ice Ages have occurred on Earth – humans survived the last one but what about the next Ice Age?
Human actions have caused unprecedented, consequential changes to river sediment transport
Fagradalsfjall eruption in Iceland provides opportunity to study deep crustal magma derived from the Mantle – no evidence for oxygen isotope depletion
- https://phys.org/news/2022-06-iceland-volcano-eruption-rare-window.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31348-7
White Paper: "Critical Materials, Green Energy and Geopolitics: A Complex Mix"
- https://phys.org/news/2022-06-white-paper-critical-materials-green.html
- https://www.leiden-delft-erasmus.nl/en/news/white-paper-critical-materials-green-energy-and-geopolitics-a-complex-mix
- White Paper: https://www.leiden-delft-erasmus.nl/uploads/default/attachments/Critical%20Materials_LDE%20White%20Paper_DEF20220627.pdf
Legacy effects of 2021 Dixie Fire and impacts of prescribed burns
- https://phys.org/news/2022-06-california-dixie-impact-legacy-effects.html
- Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac7735
Number of tropical cyclones has gradually decreased by about 13% since 1900
- https://phys.org/news/2022-06-tropical-cyclones-decreased-human-caused-global.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01388-4
2022 hurricane season is tracking behind pace of previous two years
Exotic carbon microcrystals found in dust from 2013 explosion of Chelyabisnk super-bolide
Seismic waves from 1997 Kermadec Island earthquake revealing changes in outer core
- https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Seismic_waves_from_earthquakes_reveal_changes_in_the_Earths_outer_core_999.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-022-00432-7
Deciphering atmospheric dynamic & land surface processes of the Tibetan Plateau – “Third Pole”
- https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Observational_and_modelling_data_help_to_decipher_the_third_pole_of_the_world_999.html
- Paper: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00376-022-2004-7.pdf
Crossvallia waiparensis – Paleocene penguins averaged 5 foot 2 inches tall and weighed 176 pounds
Geology of Greece
Geology of the Tour de France
- https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/explore-the-geology-of-the-tour-de-france/
- Website: https://geotdf.org/
Detailed catalog of the origins of minerals
Jay Kalbas named as new director of Kansas Geological Survey
Documenting an Ice Age landslide in the San Juans of Colorado
British Geological Survey launches app to access geology of subsurface Britain
Composite images of natural features and geology of Washington State
Longest-running series of recorded earthquakes in South Carolina history – Piedmont fault system
- https://www.live5news.com/2022/06/30/streak-midlands-earthquakes-longest-recent-history-geologists-say/
- https://www.wspa.com/news/state-news/geologists-ongoing-swarm-of-earthquakes-in-midlands-may-be-longest-in-scs-recorded-history/
Geological and structural survey of the Bronson Copper Property
New 3D model for exploration for rare earth elements in alkaline igneous systems
- https://phys.org/news/2022-06-3d-exploration-rare-earth-element.html
- Paper: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/segweb/economicgeology/article/doi/10.5382/econgeo.4956/614829/Alkaline-Silicate-REE-HFSE-Systems
Using neutron activation analysis in geological studies
Thin crust or thick? Not pizza, but continental crustal thickness
- https://news.yale.edu/2022/06/30/thin-crust-or-thick-yale-researchers-try-solve-continental-question
Volcanologists roamed the streets of Heraklion, Greece – “Cities on Volcanoes” conference
“City of Rocks” Sunday drive
High-resolution confocal Raman microscope installed in New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources lab
Cave deposits reveal history of sea level over past 4,000 years
- https://www.usf.edu/news/2022/hidden-in-caves-mineral-overgrowths-reveal-unprecedented-modern-sea-level-rise.aspx
- Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm6185
Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 4 July 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Salmon Creek Dam in SE Alaska dedicated as National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark
Monkeypox cases appear to have common origin – most closely associated with 2018-2019 cases
Returning to classical approach to education – restores knowledge, faith & sense of self in society
Review of Zoonotic Disease Threats to Non-Traditional Pet Owners – a Compendium…
- https://newsbeezer.com/canada/non-traditional-keepers-at-increased-risk-of-zoonoses/
- Paper: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/vbz.2022.0022
Humans killing other humans - genocide
Cone Mills Dam breached – 90-year-old smaller gate busted
Mass of billions of discarded wet wipes near Hammersmith Bridge are changing course of the Thames River
Uncertain future for National Flood Insurance Program – fund is $20.5B in debt
EPA proposed rule to (once again) redefine WOTUS to follow SCOTUS ruling on CWA
“Severely deteriorated” support columns on Government Center Garage for subway & road closures in Boston
Eating more seafood linked to higher risk of melanoma possibly linked to contaminants (PCBs, dioxins, arsenic and mercury)
Government trying to impose unaffordable EVs on Americans
Welcome to the “pandemicine” as humans continue to encroach on the natural world
Imprelis was marketed as “environmentally safe alternative to 2,4-D herbicide for broadleaf weeds – EPA banned Imprelis in 2011 – still damaging trees & ornamentals
Half of the rivers of the world are poisoned with OTC & prescription drugs
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/almost-half-the-world-s-rivers-poisoned-with-drugs/ar-AAYJGEM
- Paper: https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/etc.5355
Ethanol makes global warming worse – 24% more carbon intensive than gasoline
- https://www.producer.com/news/corn-based-ethanol-found-worse-for-climate-than-gasoline/
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/ethanol-is-poison-for-the-environment/ar-AAYVeCk
- Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2200997119
- Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2101084119
Little Round Top & Devils Den in Gettysburg National Military Park will be closed during repairs
Book Review: An Immense World – How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Texas Supreme Court rules eminent domain authority to take land for proposed private high-speed rail
Wyoming F&G plans to use rotenone to poison fish in Saratoga Lake – targeting non-native yellow perch but will kill all fish
VOCs in natural gas delivered to homes in the Boston, Massachusetts area – potential risks
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28062022/natural-gas-stove-boston-toxic/
- Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c08298
Opioid poisoning is increasing in Switzerland
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/957272
- Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666776222001314?via%3Dihub
Earthquake trauma fades once threat resolves – “quake brain”
They wanted you to love the pandemic
Farmers have been battling pests since the Neolithic period
"de facto amnesty” is erasing national borders & increasing risks to America & Americans
306 cases with no deaths due to Monkey Pox, but government will send 1.6M doses of vaccine – the pending pandemic?
- https://www.yahoo.com/gma/hhs-send-nearly-300-000-230015127.html
- https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220629/What-you-need-to-know-about-monkeypox.aspx
CDC is not being transparent on outbreaks of superbugs and hospital-acquired covid
Hundreds of thousands of bees in hives that were deliberately smashed by off-road vehicle
Grand Canyon National Park will not follow open-kill plan for bison
Fully vaxxed and twice-boosted Fauci got covid, took Paxlovid, got rebound covid & now more Paxlovid – Pfizer drug study stopped when drug failed to demonstrate reduced symptoms
Voluntary 2022 US National Anima Health Reporting System Reportable Diseases, Infections and Infestations List
Space tourism will result in significant pollution that will damage Ozone Layer
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29062022/space-tourism-climate/
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021EF002612
Administration wants to fund $14M to study potential deployment of SMRs in Romania – Energy Czar idea to fight “global warming” but what about nuclear risks?
Draft Texas EV Infrastructure Plan outlines plan for spending $408M to create network of charging stations to support 1% of registered vehicles in Texas – expect 10X as many EVs in next 6 years
- https://thetexan.news/texas-department-of-transportation-to-create-statewide-network-of-electric-vehicle-charging-stations/
- Plan: https://ftp.txdot.gov/pub/txdot/get-involved/statewide/EV%20Charging%20Plan/TexasElectricVehicleChargingPlan.pdf
Highly antibiotic-resistant MRSA in pigs could rapidly adapt to humans – CC398 evolved in European livestock over past 50 years – increasing human infections
SCOTUS impinges on Tribal authority for certain crimes on Native American lands in Oklahoma
Study suggests planting trees could lead to more severe drought conditions – counterintuitive
- https://eos.org/articles/large-scale-reforestation-efforts-could-dry-out-landscapes-across-the-world
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-00935-0
Humans have never set foot on Mars but still found a way to litter that planet
Battling invasive species in the National Park System
Global “hotspots” where human impacts on ecosystem have created most-stressed regions
- https://phys.org/news/2022-06-global-basins-hotspots-prioritize-areas.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28029-w
25% of world population exposed to significant flood risks in 1-in-100-year flooding
- https://phys.org/news/2022-06-globally-severe.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30727-4
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30725-6
Flooding increases exposure to industrial pollution in urban communities
- https://phys.org/news/2022-06-exacerbates-pollution-exposure-at-risk-urban.html
- Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac78f7
Gene flow in marine crab populations is affected by intensity & location of oceanographic fronts
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220629121209.htm
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-13941-4
Breeding dozens of endangered baby Komodo dragons at Surabaya Zoo in Indonesia
Potential for converting abandoned NY coal power plant to geothermal heat source created by using gyrotrons to vaporize rock – significant engineering challenges remain
Not only are EVs more expensive to buy but have also declined 11% in quality
Growing broccoli beneath solar panels – agrovoltaics
UN drug report in 5 booklets – policy implications – demand & supply – cannabis & opioids – market trends – drugs & the environment
- https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/06/1121472
- Report: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/data-and-analysis/world-drug-report-2022.html
- https://www.kcra.com/article/marijuana-users-25-likely-need-emergency-care-hospitalization/40438779#
“ignorance can kill people” – totally ill-prepared – ‘common sense’ is non-sequitur
Natural organic reduction or “human composting” as an alternative to casket burial or cremation
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/is-california-ready-for-human-composting-as-an-alternative-to-casket-burial-cremation/ar-AAZ2js5
- NRCS updates policy & guidance for dynamic soil properties https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDAFARMERS/bulletins/31e713c
- Guide: https://new.cloudvault.usda.gov/index.php/s/HB84Lw7EkKAyMC7?path=%2F#pdfviewer
Co-recycling may potentially reduce plastic waste – or not
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-recycling-method-could-eliminate-the-climate-impact-of-plastic/ar-AAZ50uO
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/957388
- Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652622022739?via%3Dihub
Companies, including P&G and Coca-Cola, guilty of greenwashing about package recyclability
California will spend another $4.2B on promised high-speed rail – 26 years but no train yet
Renegade Mexican sewage flows still cross our Southern Border through Tijuana River channel
Seeking public comment on proposed Goldendale pumped energy storage reservoirs in Washington State
- https://www.knkx.org/environment/2022-06-30/public-comment-period-open-for-largest-proposed-energy-storage-project-in-washington
- Draft EIS: https://apps.ecology.wa.gov/publications/documents/2206006.pdf
CRS In Focus: Regulating PFAS under the Clean Water Act
Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board - compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
$1M lawsuit for illegally setting 92 Dungeness crab traps in North Farallon Islands State Marine Reserve
Ocean City seeks to divert proposed offshore wind power lines from Ocean Wind 1
Horseshoe crabs are spawning in Maryland – yearly event for more than 300 million years
Advocates promoting electric boats for working the Maine waterfront
China making some progress on protecting coastline but more work needed
- https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/23/world/china-coastal-marine-ecosystem-unhealthy-water-pollution-intl-hnk-scn/index.html
- Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2123274119
Environmental organizations reach agreement with South Fork Wind offshore on further protections for rare North Atlantic Right Whales during construction & operation
Norwegian Cruise Line ship that hit iceberg in fog near Hubbard Glacier returning to Seattle for repairs
Seeking input from residents & visitors on Isle of Wight on coastal defences at Yaverland & Shanklin
Final site selection of 3 proposed locations for new Mississippi Bridge in Louisiana will depend on environmental studies
Carbon monoxide poisoning confirmed in deaths of 3 tourists at Sandals Emerald Bay Resort in Bahamas
Congressmen from Pacific NW seeing federal monies to create container port in Coos Bay, Oregon
Integrated sea level science at NASA
Hurricanes can spread invasive species
- Part 4: https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/hurricanes-can-spread-invasive-species-if-they-survive-ride
NOAA to allocate nearly $3B over 5 years for habitat restoration, coastal resilience & infrastructure
"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative." - H.G. Wells (quoted in @hospitalitynet via @TheWeek)
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