Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geoscience; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 3 October 2022

Spent the weekend in Astoria, OR. Mary Frances and I celebrated our 29th anniversary. Columbia River is really impressive.

Photo from the Port of Astoria.

Enjoy!

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Geoscience Bulletin Board - 3 October 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Declining water levels in Lake Mead once again exposing deposits volcanic ash layers – most are 6 to 12 myo but also as young as 32,000 years

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/low-lake-mead-water-levels-now-revealing-ancient-volcanic-eruptions/ar-AA12ik72
• https://www.unlv.edu/news/release/geologic-secrets-lake-mead
• Abstract: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2022CD/webprogram/Paper374326.html

Some calling for publisher to withdraw a peer-reviewed study that says evidence of a climate crisis is lacking – like the IPCC does not cherry pick data

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/scientists-urge-top-publisher-to-withdraw-faulty-climate-study/ar-AA12ieHx
• Paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-02243-9

Satellite-based measurements of land surface temperatures

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/satellites-can-accurately-take-earths-temperature
• Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022EA002317

Tracking ship exhaust that releases sulfur oxides & other aerosols

• https://eos.org/articles/tracking-climate-through-ship-exhaust
• Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn7988

Seismic sources of tsunamis in the Aleutian Islands – seismic gaps

• https://eos.org/features/seismic-sources-in-the-aleutian-cradle-of-tsunamis

“Landslide Graveyard” contains long-term history of tsunamis in New Zealand - “Ka mua, ka muri.”

• https://eos.org/science-updates/landslide-graveyard-holds-clues-to-long-term-tsunami-trends

Simulations of long-lasting impacts of large-scale nuclear war on the ocean

• https://eos.org/editor-highlights/the-long-lasting-impact-of-a-nuclear-war-on-the-ocean
• Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021AV000610

Cache of fish fossils from southern China includes oldest teeth ever found

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/fish-fossil-catch-from-china-includes-oldest-teeth-ever/ar-AA12lRqJ

Photo-essay:  Tour of Athabasca Glacier

• https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2022/09/indigenous-led-tour-athabasca-glacier

DART hit the asteroid and then went silent

• https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/dart-goes-silent-after-hitting-an-asteroid/

A plane plunges into the eyewall of a hurricane to gather real-time data

• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/What_happens_when_a_plane_plunges_into_the_eyewall_of_a_hurricane_999.html

CryoSat-2 provides year-round satellite measurements of thickness of Arctic Sea ice

• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/For_the_first_time_we_can_measure_the_thickness_of_Arctic_sea_ice_all_year_round_999.html

Water stored in Transition Zone (TZ) between ipper and lower mantle

• https://sciencesprings.wordpress.com/tag/ocean-water-accompanies-subducting-slabs-and-thus-enters-the-transition-zone/

Global tsunamis caused by submarine volcanic eruptions

• https://beta.nsf.gov/news/global-tsunamis-driven-underwater-volcanic-eruptions
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05170-6

Antarctic deep-sea coral larvae may be resistant to warming water

• https://beta.nsf.gov/news/antarctic-deep-sea-coral-larvae-may-be-resistant-climate-change

USGS releasing National Strategy for Landslide Loss Reduction

• https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/new-nationwide-strategy-brings-scientists-communities-together-help
• Open-File Report 2022-1075: https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2022/1075/ofr20221075.pdf

Wufengella bengtsoni – Extinct species of Cambrian tommotiid worm found in China

• https://www.sci.news/paleontology/wufengella-bengtsoni-11236.html

Serpentisuchops pfisterae – newly discovered Cretaceous plesiosaur found in Wyoming had both long neck and elongated jaws

• https://www.sci.news/paleontology/serpentisuchops-pfisterae-11234.html
• Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004222013050

Decline of dinosaur biodiversity began millions of years before Chicxulub impact & Deccan Trap volcanism

• https://www.sci.news/paleontology/cretaceous-dinosaur-biodiversity-11228.html

Protocodium sinense – Latest Ediacaran fossil algae provide insight into early diversification of plant kingdom

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/09/220920211225.htm
• Paper: https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-022-01394-0

Rethinking evolution of “bird-hipped” dinosaurs – evolved from silesaurs

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/09/220922103147.htm
• Paper: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac062/6680019

2021 Acapulco Bay tsunami amplification – resonant interactions with shelf modes & edge waves

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/09/220927133413.htm

Can gold mining be more “sustainable” meaning can it have less adverse environmental impacts?

• https://phys.org/news/2022-09-gold-sustainable.html
• Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ldr.4430

Extreme heat waves are not happening more than expected

• https://phys.org/news/2022-09-extreme-1.html

Comprehensive map of lightning strikes over the UK and Ireland over past 12 years

• https://phys.org/news/2022-09-major-lightning.html
• Paper: https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.7680

Influence of Tibetan uplift on evolution of Westerly circulation

• https://phys.org/news/2022-09-tibetan-uplift-affects-evolution-westerly.html

15-mile-wide asteroid created the Vredefort Crater in South Africa about 2 billion years ago

• https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ancient-asteroid-which-hit-earth-was-15-miles-wide-160505283.html

Glass beads reflect asteroid bombardments on the Moon and Earth

• https://theconversation.com/glass-beads-in-lunar-soil-reveal-ancient-asteroid-bombardments-on-the-moon-and-earth-191342
• Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq2542

Planetary geology:  Cryptomaria on the Moon

• https://aasnova.org/2022/09/28/deciphering-the-cryptic-mystery-of-buried-ancient-lava-flows/
• Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac8670

Plan to assess gold and other valuable minerals at Kinsley Mine property in Elko County, Nevada

• https://elkodaily.com/mining/geologist-assessing-gold-reserves-of-elko-county-property/article_a160dc92-3e93-11ed-9749-ab843d64e3a0.html

Little Springs Lava flow in Arizona

• https://www.knau.org/knau-and-arizona-news/2022-09-28/earth-notes-little-springs-lava-flow

Elevation of a delta is a balance between sediment load, subsidence and sea level

• https://hakaimagazine.com/news/river-deltas-are-running-out-of-land/

1961 Kurenivka mudslide in Ukraine

• https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2022/09/28/the-1961-kurenivka-mudslide-in-ukraine/

Considering sunlight as it impacts the fate of oil spills at sea

• https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/sunlight-and-the-fate-of-oil-at-sea/

Suggesting technology could help reduce noise that results in deaths of whales

• https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/world/whales-noise-pollution-anti-collision-c2e-spc-intl-scn/index.html

Enhanced mantle cooling during last 1B years marked onset of modern plate tectonics

• https://phys.org/news/2022-09-mantle-cooling-late-neoproterozoic-onset-modern.html

Asymmetrical tropical precipitation due to lag time for ocean to respond to carbon dioxide removal

• https://phys.org/news/2022-09-ocean-response-carbon-dioxide-asymmetric.html

Amasia – simulation suggests next supercontinent most likely to form when Pacific Ocean closes in 200-300 million years

• https://phys.org/news/2022-09-pacific-ocean-world-supercontinent.html
• Link to Paper pdf: https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwac205/6726649

Just for fun:  Mount Doom in Lord of the Rings – the Rings of Power

• https://www.slashfilm.com/1033158/one-of-the-biggest-landmarks-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-was-in-plain-sight-this-whole-time/

Neighborhoods are at risk of sinkhole damage

• https://www.heraldonline.com/living/article266612751.html

Stromboli volcano on Eolian Islands in Italy exhibits sudden major explosive eruption

• https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/stromboli/news/193054/Stromboli-volcano-Eolian-Islands-Italy-sudden-major-explosion-yesterday.html

Large landslide disasters of the 1960s

https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2022/09/30/1960s-landslide-disasters/

 

Environmental Science Bulletin Board - 3 October 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

US Preventive Services Task Force recommends anxiety screening for just about everyone –the next pandemic – will they mandate antidepressant drugs for a whole lot of people? – open for public comment till 17 October 2022

• https://europa.duhuta.com/the-next-pandemic-anxiety-over-life-itself/
• https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/file/supporting_documents/depression-suicide-risk-anxiety-adults-screening-draft-rec-bulletin.pdf
• Draft Recommendations download: https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-evidence-review/anxiety-adults-screening

Taking common antidepressants (SSRIs) may increase risk of heart disease (34%) and early death from heart disease (87%)

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/common-antidepressants-may-increase-risk-050000700.html

Final recommendation on screening for syphilis infection at increased risk for infection (i.e., sexually active) – separate recommendation for those who are pregnant

• https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/file/supporting_documents/syphilis-nonpregnant-adults-adolescents-screening-final-rec-bulletin.pdf
• https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/syphilis-infection-in-pregnancy-screening

Proposed “Project Bison” in Wyoming is intended to remove 5 metric tons of CO2 per year by direct air capture (DAC) at estimated cost of $600-$700 per ton – compare that with 31.5 gigatons world emissions per year (5,130M metric tons by US) – will fail to be cost effective & will raise energy costs and subsidies

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/the-world-s-largest-carbon-removal-project-yet-is-headed-for-wyoming/ar-AA12abbO
• https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220908005446/en/CarbonCapture-Inc.-Announces-Five-Megaton-Direct-Air-Capture-and-Storage-Project-in-Wyoming
• https://cowboystatedaily.com/2022/09/13/wyoming-carbon-capture-project-will-be-largest-in-country-but-will-raise-energy-costs/
• https://singularityhub.com/2022/09/21/a-massive-carbon-capture-plant-in-wyoming-will-pull-5-million-tons-of-co2-from-the-air-each-year/

Irony:  “consumers seem to be concerned with their health and the things they put into their bodies” but still use weed, traditional or ‘clean’ processed

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/what-is-clean-weed-and-why-is-everyone-talking-about-it/ar-AA12at1f

Other than smallpox, can humans really wipeout viral diseases?

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01914-z

Number of sewer backups in New York City have doubled – blamed on ‘climate change’

• https://citylimits.org/2022/09/22/sewer-backups-nearly-doubled-in-nyc-last-year-due-to-climate-change/

Struggling to recover $Billions in plandemic aid stolen or fraudulently obtained & combined with  Federal Reserved & Dept of Education & green energy loan funds then the government has lost $Trillions

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/biden-administration-struggles-to-recover-billions-in-stolen-pandemic-aid/ar-AA129zB5
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-government-is-not-only-spending-trillions-it-s-losing-trillions/ar-AA12aS49

Perspective:  Biden’s Green Great Leap Forward – we need to learn from history

• https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/09/22/wsj-bidens-green-great-leap-forward/

Current purported cigar smoking & tobacco use in the US – FDA seeking to ban flavored cigars – economics, choice, or cancer?

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/flavored-cigar-ban-is-extreme-overreach-by-biden-s-fda/ar-AA12b58l

New tool provides estimate of your vacation “Carbon Footprint”

• https://travelandclimate.org/

More irony:  Al Gore calling out “greenwashing” risks of net-zero pledges

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/al-gore-calls-out-greenwashing-risks-as-funds-quit-green-club/ar-AA12e45X

Cost of heating a home with hydrogen 70% more expensive than using natural gas

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/hydrogen-could-nearly-double-cost-of-heating-a-home-compared-with-gas/ar-AA12e8Lq

Crossing the US Southern Border without authorization or inspection is a criminal act

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/yes-illegal-border-crossers-are-breaking-the-law/ar-AA12fLdK

Hunter killed one of the rare loan wolves roaming upstate New York

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/crying-wolf-one-of-three-gray-wolves-found-in-new-york-in-decades-killed/ar-AA12frwM

Conditions in meat packing plants in the early 1900s

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/were-1900s-meatpacking-plants-really-as-bad-as-they-say/ar-AA12d82r

Using antiseptic mouthwash may increase risks to your health – “oral nitrate-reducing bacteria are beneficial to the host” & are killed off by antiseptic mouthwash

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/common-bathroom-habit-may-spike-110303795.html
• Paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3605573/

Heat waves no more common today than in early 1900s – rapid growth in technology means massive power demand that cannot be met by wind & solar panels

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/energy-renewables-too-much-hot-air/ar-AA12ihff

US Bureau of Reclamation to use most of $4B for short-term conservation of Colorado River Basin water

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28092022/feds-will-spend-billions-to-boost-drought-stricken-colorado-river-system/

Visualizing the world population at 8 Billion

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualized-the-worlds-population-at-8-billion/

Some calling for publisher to withdraw a peer-reviewed study that says evidence of a climate crisis is lacking – like the IPCC does not cherry pick data

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/scientists-urge-top-publisher-to-withdraw-faulty-climate-study/ar-AA12ieHx
• Paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-02243-9

Land Tender - new tool for land management decisions in Lake Tahoe basin

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/land-tender-a-new-technology-aimed-to-prevent-wildfires-in-the-tahoe-basin/ar-AA12iGRy
• https://www.vibrantplanet.net/landtender
• https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3cda15682b394f8fa2aa769dc5a808a7

Waste plastic packaging from burgeoning marijuana industry adding to massive urban litter problem

• https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27092022/marijuana-plastic-packaging/

Feasibility of using constructed wetlands to minimize spread of micro-plastics in water & sediment

• https://news.griffith.edu.au/2022/09/26/manmade-wetlands-a-barrier-to-the-spread-of-microplastics/

NPS allocating $1.1M to improve transportation in parks & provide visitors with travel information

• https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2022/09/infrastructure-law-sends-11-million-national-park-service-transportation-needs

FAA issues new interim design standards & guidelines for U.S. vertiports, infrastructure for electric-powered, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft

• https://theconstructionbroadsheet.com/faa-issues-new-vertiport-design-reqs-florida-service-in-the-works-p1063-175.htm
• FAA Engineering Brief: https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/2022-09/eb-105-vertiports.pdf

USFS lost “control” of two prescribed burns in New Mexico – fire destroyed 100s of homes & watershed

• https://news.yahoo.com/mexicos-largest-wildfire-set-off-120452446.html

Energy crisis in California – change in federal & state policies created potential for failure

• https://news.yahoo.com/dodging-blackouts-california-faces-questions-145526111.html

New California law allows licensed hunters to kill unlimited number of feral hogs

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/california-lifts-all-restrictions-on-feral-hog-hunting-despite-local-hunter-opposition/ar-AA12jWWH

200+M pounds industrial discharges into waterways - Another dubious number 1 ranking for Texas

• https://motonewstoday.com/texas-is-now-the-nations-largest-polluter-of-toxic-substances-into-streams-rivers-and-lakes/65624/
• https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/3664240-200m-pounds-of-toxic-chemicals-dumped-into-us-waterways-in-2020-analysis/
• https://www.ehn.org/water-contamination-chemicals-2658354078.html
• https://environmentamerica.org/resources/wasting-our-waterways/
• Report: https://publicinterestnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Wasting-our-Waterways-Sep22.pdf

Too much trash in the US

• https://environmentamerica.org/center/resources/trash-in-america-2/
• Report: https://publicinterestnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/US_Trash-in-America-2021-SCRN.pdf

$7.4B on ag programs that do not achieve “climate goals” & some increase GHG emissions

• https://www.ewg.org/research/new-ewg-analysis-74b-spent-two-usdas-biggest-conservation-programs-recent-years-very

Visualizing 4 decades of global energy production by country

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/global-energy-consumption-and-production-since-1980/

Visualizing countries with the highest flood risks

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/countries-highest-flood-risk/

HFCs were commercially produced beginning in the 1990s as replacement for CFCs – but there are adverse consequences

• https://theconversation.com/cooling-conundrum-hfcs-were-the-safer-replacement-for-another-damaging-chemical-in-refrigerators-and-air-conditioners-with-a-treaty-now-phasing-them-out-whats-next-191172

26% of Amazon rainforest has already reached a “tipping point” due to deforestation & degradation

• https://www.treehugger.com/in-progress-native-amazonians-warn-the-amazon-approached-its-tipping-point-6743761
• Report: https://burness.com/assets/pdf_files/informe-regional-full-version-eng-vsf.docx.pdf

Exploited for oil or turned into a reserve for isolated indigenous tribes in Peruvian Amazon?

• https://www.treehugger.com/perenco-threatens-amazon-reserve-indigenous-6743762

Industry says “chemical recycling” could solve plastic waste crisis but need to consider environmental impacts and whether such an approach is economically viable

• https://www.ehn.org/chemical-recycling-grows-along-with-concerns-about-its-environmental-impacts-2658348681.html
• Report: https://echa.europa.eu/documents/10162/1459379/chem_recycling_final_report_en.pdf/887c4182-8327-e197-0bc4-17a5d608de6e

Canadian Army deployed to assist with cleanup from Hurricane Fiona

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Canada_army_deployed_for_hurricane_cleanup_999.html

Word parsing to create a non-existent climate crisis

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/it-makes-climate-change-real-how-carbon-emissions-got-rebranded-as-pollution/ar-AA12nT7I

Call to end flagrant abuse of power since “pandemic is over”

• https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/the-pandemic-is-over-so-stop-bidens-flagrant-abuse-of-power

Red Wolf – rarest canine species in the world – captive breeding releasing a few into wildlife refuges

• https://www.microsoftnewskids.com/en-us/kids/animals/the-quest-to-save-the-world-s-rarest-canine-faces-setbacks/ar-AA12nqVh

Post-Enumeration Survey (PES) reveals over- and under-counts of US population in 2020

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/2020-census-overcounted-democratic-states-undercounted-gop-states/ar-AA12o1jd

Swan Lake is an ephemeral playa lake north of Reno, Nevada – drying up & emitting odors since sewage effluent from two plants is directed there

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/smell-emitting-from-swan-lake-described-as-death/ar-AA12pG0D

A history of breaking treaties & now maneuvering to halt sale of ancestral land to Ute Indian Tribe

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ute-indian-tribe-responds-to-public-expos%C3%A9-of-tabby-mountain-irregularities/ar-AA12oSEV

Surprise:  Light Rail Project is 9 years behind schedule and $1.5B over budget – this one in Minnesota

• https://www.enr.com/articles/54884-minn-light-rail-project-is-nine-years-late-billions-over-budget
• Report: https://www.auditor.leg.state.mn.us/sreview/SWLRTbudgettimeline.pdf

Arable land is limited – can agrivoltaic farming balance conflict between food and energy?

• https://www.energymonitor.ai/tech/renewables/food-vs-energy-can-agrivoltaic-farming-solve-both-crises

Ice on frozen lakes may not be as thick as it once was – safety risk

• https://phys.org/news/2022-09-deteriorating-safety-frozen-lakes-world.html
• Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022EF002907

Perspective:  Need to assess potential impacts of new lithium mine in Quebec, Canada

• https://phys.org/news/2022-09-demand-evs-social-ecological-lithium.html

USDA Plant & Protection Quarantine (PPQ) uses molecular diagnostic methods to identify pests

• https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/planthealth/ppq-program-overview/plant-protection-today/articles/lab-identifies-pests-using-molecular-diagnostics

Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board - 3 October 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Louisiana still thinks ‘structural controls’ will work to prevent damage from storm surge – cost $31B next year

• https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_f95ab3d4-3abd-11ed-90c9-6fbd8bbc5b46.html

Nord Stream gas pipeline leaking beneath the Baltic Sea – plumes rising to surface – sabotage suspected

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/what-is-known-so-far-about-the-nord-stream-gas-pipeline-leaks/ar-AA12iyYW
• Video: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/leaking-natural-gas-from-the-damaged-nord-stream-pipelines-is-erupting-like-geysers-in-the-baltic-sea-danish-military-video-shows/ar-AA12iFAw
• Underwater blasts: https://www.gulftoday.ae/news/2022/09/28/underwater-blasts-recorded-prior-to-nord-stream-leaks
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sabotage-suspected-in-undersea-gas-pipeline-explosions-in-the-baltic/ar-AA12jrGY

US Army COE latest proposal is $52B plan for 12 moveable sea barriers around New York Harbor – seeking public comment on Draft Integrated Feasibility Report & Tier 1 Environmental Impact Statement

• https://gothamist.com/news/army-corps-52-billion-dollar-storm-surge-barriers-new-york-new-jersey-harbor-waterways
• https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2022/09/27/army-corps-of-engineers-releases-details-of-long-awaited-coastal-resiliency-plan/
• Draft IFR & EIS: https://www.nan.usace.army.mil/Portals/37/NYNJHATS%20Draft%20Integrated%20Feasibility%20Report%20Tier%201%20EIS.pdf

Port of Port Arthur plans further expansion - $13.6M grant from US DOT as part of $150M program

• https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/business/article/Federal-grant-will-help-Port-of-Port-Arthur-17423037.php

EPA may block TCEQ permit for first proposed marine desalination plant in Texas

• https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/22/texas-desalination-plant-corpus-christi-tceq-epa/

Entangled North Atlantic right whale “Snow Cone” enduring excruciating suffering off Nantucket

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gut-wrenching-dying-right-whale-snow-cone-facing-inexcusable-suffering/ar-AA12eOKR

Toward a global coastal carbon model – first simulations of biogeochemistry circulation coastal grid

• https://eos.org/editor-highlights/substantial-advance-towards-a-global-coastal-carbon-model
• Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021MS002789

Mexico plans LNG export hub in port of Coatzacoalcos on Gulf of Mexico – estimate pipeline cost of $4.5B

• https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/mexico-plans-4-5-bln-lng-hub-gulf-port-president-says-2022-09-27/

Suggesting amphibious houses & floating cities to house increasing coastal population in risky area

• https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/27/amphibious-houses-oceanixs-floating-city-adapt-to-sea-level-rise.html

Sprawling coastal cities in Asia are sinking faster than elsewhere in the world

• https://phys.org/news/2022-09-asian-coastal-cities-fast.html

Hurricane Ian to cross coastal Florida cities with growing populations

• https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/23372996/hurricane-ian-tampa-florida-miami-storm-surge-flood

USGS expecting Hurricane Ian to cause significant changes along Gulf Coast of Florida

• https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/hurricane-ian-expected-cause-significant-coastal-change-along-floridas

Hurricane Ian impacts along Texas Coastal Bend

• https://www.audacy.com/krld/news/state/hurricane-ian-churns-up-problems-along-the-coastal-bend

Shellfish growers will need to obtain proper permits to build floating structures in coastal NC waters

• https://coastalreview.org/2022/09/shellfish-growers-will-need-approval-to-build-floating-structures/

Wales reappoints Chair of the Flood & Coastal Erosion Committee (FCEC)

• https://gov.wales/chair-flood-and-coastal-erosion-committee-reappointed-continue-delivering-face-climate-change

New report approved by ERDC:  Wave Attenuation of Coastal Mangroves at a Near-Prototype Scale

• https://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/Media/Publication-Notices/Article/3171557/wave-attenuation-of-coastal-mangroves-at-a-near-prototype-scale/
• Abstract & download link: https://erdc-library.erdc.dren.mil/jspui/handle/11681/45565

Reduction in O&G spills from tankers & pipelines in US waters from 1990s to 2010-2019

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-report-oil-spills-from-offshore-transportation-way-down/ar-AA12lR53
• Link to download report: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26410/oil-in-the-sea-iv-inputs-fates-and-effects

Desalination of sea water is a “solution” that causes significant environmental impacts in coastal regions

• https://theconversation.com/desalinating-seawater-sounds-easy-but-there-are-cheaper-and-more-sustainable-ways-to-meet-peoples-water-needs-184919

Déjà vu:  US Army COE announces it will build 45-ft-high 1500-ft-wide underwater sill of dredged sediment to block “wedge” of saltwater from reaching Plaquemines' Belle Chasse and Dalcour water treatment plants – how it is intended to work and how it will actually work may be two very different things

• https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_cbd1d586-3f55-11ed-a3bb-ef55e88078a6.html

Investigating population collapse of sea otters in southwest Alaska in the 1990s

• https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/revisiting-marine-mammal-mystery-help-new-data-and-powerful-statistics
• Paper: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecm.1472

Chemical waste & forever chemicals dumped into Maryland waterways slow efforts to restore Chesapeake Bay

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30092022/toxic-releases-from-industrial-facilities-compound-marylands-water-woes-a-new-report-found/

New Jersey BPU approves proposed transmission line through Ocean City from offshore wind farm

• https://ocnjdaily.com/bpu-approves-transmission-line-ocean-city-wind-farm/

Port of New Orleans hopes to start construction for new $1.5B shipping terminal near Violet by 2025

• https://www.fox8live.com/2022/09/29/port-new-orleans-hopes-have-new-shipping-terminal-violet-by-2025/

Hurricane Ian may increase pollution from old phosphate fertilizer industry ponds into Florida waters

• https://apnews.com/article/hurricanes-florida-storms-pollution-e82ff089f4ffc2e16c73c29e9818f58b

Port of Albany foregoes $29.5M federal funds to speed up permitting process as $350M wind turbine tower manufacturing facility falls behind schedule – clearcut 80 acres waterfront land without federal permits

• https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Port-of-Albany-walks-away-from-25-million-for-17472551.php

Japan designates 108 municipalities across 7 prefectures as most likely to suffer tsunami damage

• https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220930/p2g/00m/0na/068000c

Sediment compaction is key to projecting coastal resilience – factor is often overlooked

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/when-projecting-coastal-resilience-sediment-compaction-is-key

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