Volcanoes on the big island of Hawai'i from the USGS. For more information check out Elaine's entries in her very first post.
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Geoscience Bulletin Board - 5 December 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Mauna Loa Volcano erupts after 40 years – Code Red – warning of Pele’s Hair
- https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/alert-level-raised-hawaiis-mauna-loa-volcano-after-eruption-usgs-2022-11-28/
- https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mauna-loa/volcano-updates
- https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/news/vanvona-mauna-loa-redwarning-eruption-moved-northeast-rift-zone
- Data, webcam: https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mauna-loa/mauna-loa-eruption-webpage
- Images & video: https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/11/28/photos-hawaii-island-residents-awake-fiery-spectacle-mauna-loa-eruption/
- https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/mauna-loa-erupts-hawaii-officials-190916911.html
- https://people.com/human-interest/what-to-know-mauna-loa-eruption-hazards-peles-hair-lava-smog/
- Magma source: https://theconversation.com/where-mauna-loas-lava-comes-from-and-why-hawaiis-volcanoes-are-different-from-most-195633
- Aerial video: https://www.foxnews.com/us/hawaii-mauna-loa-aerial-video-shows-lava-flow-summit-historic-eruption-draws-tourists
Safford Ranger District of Coronado National Forest in Arizona seeing to hire full-time geologist (GS7-11)
- https://gilaherald.com/safford-blm-seeks-geologist/
- Details & to apply: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/691752500
Eruption of Mauna Loa forces closure of CO2 monitoring facility – in accessible due to lava flow
Perspective: Nuclear Winter and the Anthropocene
Geology helping to protect marine life in the Galapagos
- https://www.wired.com/story/the-geological-fluke-thats-protecting-sea-life-in-the-galapagos/
- https://hakaimagazine.com/news/the-galapagos-islands-will-be-a-cool-refuge-in-a-warming-world/
Free Book: “Groundwater Velocity” – failures of remediation plans at some sites that resulted from inadequate hydrogeologic investigation
Expecting the long-awaited Istanbul earthquake
Mineral potential abounds in the geology of Papua New Guinea
Some of the most common fossils in Minnesota are shark teeth
Stark’s Knob near Schuyerville in Saratoga County, New York, is a prehistoric volcanic stem
Insights from core samples of serpentinized ultramafic rocks of the Samail Ophiolite
Pennsylvania to invest $6M in Geological Survey – new building to house library of core samples
VIRS image of Nastapoka Arc of core of Canadian Shield & North American Craton - Trans-Hudson orogeny
Yes, there is still a need to debunk the “Flat Earth” – but then these are “social media” diehards
17-ton El Ali meteorite yields 2 minerals not found on Earth – elaliite & elkinstantonite
- https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2022/11/new-minerals-discovered-in-massive-meteorite-may-reveal-clues-to-asteroid-formation.html
- Space Exploration Symposium 2022 Presentation: https://www.ualberta.ca/institute-for-space-science-exploration-and-technology/media-library/symposium2022-videos/herd.mp4
Illegal building caused deadly landslide in Casamicciola Terme in Ischia, Italy
- https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/illegal-building-blamed-ischia-landslide-death-toll-rises-2022-11-28/
- https://apnews.com/article/europe-naples-natural-disasters-climate-and-environment-d9f17dded4c4fd3f3d82ee3a4563416e
Aralkum desert is the dry lake bed of Aral Sea – source of dust blown to Central Asia – COSMO-MUSCAT model quantifies transported dust
- https://eos.org/research-spotlights/when-the-aral-sea-dried-up-central-asia-became-dustier
- Paper https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JD036618
2,000-year record of Atlantic hurricanes – stormier periods in the past compared to modern time revealed by sediment cores
Rethinking when Yosemite Valley formed – may only be 5 to 10 myo
- https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2022/11/geologists-give-new-age-yosemite-valley
- https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/10/20/how-old-is-yosemite-valley/
Weak seismic shaking can trigger landslide acceleration even several years after significant earthquake
- https://phys.org/news/2022-11-landslide-earthquake-satellite-imagery.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35035-5
Basaltic reservoirs in the mantle transition zone are result of multiple cycles of subduction, segregation & accumulation
Possible role of methane created by volcanic activity burning fossil fuel deposits in Late Permian Mass Extinction around 260 myo
- https://phys.org/news/2022-11-methane-discovery-world-largest-mass.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-34645-3
New thoughts on origins of atmospheric oxygen on Earth during the Archeon Eon
Laboratory method mimics delayed seismic activity in creep front following an earthquake
- https://phys.org/news/2022-11-earthquake-lab-aftershock-like-behavior.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-34397-0
Melt/rock reactions in cratonic roots produce diamonds, dunites & metasomatic rocks
- https://phys.org/news/2022-11-diamonds-linked-exotic.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-022-00630-3
Fossilized skeletal fragments dispelling long-held assumptions about the origins of modern birds
Oldest known fossil of Pterodactylus – Late Jurassic between 155 and 152 myo Plattenkalk deposits
- https://www.sci.news/paleontology/painten-pterodactylus-11435.html
- Paper: https://fr.pensoft.net/article/90692/
Late Miocene Steneofiber depereti lived in large family groups
- https://www.sci.news/paleontology/steneofiber-depereti-11432.html
- Paper: https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app67/app009972022.pdf
Just for fun: What if non-avian dinosaurs had not gone extinct 66 myo?
3 large near-Earth objects detected including largest potentially hazardous asteroid
- https://beta.nsf.gov/news/largest-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-detected-8
- Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac8cff
New detailed maps of polar regions generated from high-resolution satellite data
- https://beta.nsf.gov/news/most-detailed-maps-polar-regions-ever-created
- video links: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/969346
525 myo fossil compels rethinking how brains evolved
“Young earth creationism” theory and “ideal time theory”
Retrospective on 1914-1915 volcanic eruption of Mount Lassen
Tyrannosaurus rex footprint discovered in Aniakchak National Monument & Preserve in SW Alaska
Geologic events shaped evolution of mammals in Asia
Hiking one billion years of Earth history on the Grand Canyon Trail of Time
- https://www.thetravel.com/why-hike-the-trail-of-time-on-the-grand-canyon/
- Trail of Time: https://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/the-trail-of-time.htm
Training next generation of hydrogeologists in the Sahel
Daspletosaurus wilsoni - 76 myo fossil from Judithian strata in Montana fills gap in T. rexhistory
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/76-million-year-old-fossil-fills-long-standing-gap-in-t-rex-history/ar-AA14KZd9
- Paper: https://peerj.com/articles/14461/
New Book: Geology of Missouri State Parks
Predicting the “Big One” in New York State
Seismic estimate of volume of magma beneath Yellowstone caldera at depths of prior rhyolite storage
Giant rogue wave hits Viking Polaris cruise ship bound for Antarctica – 1 dead & 4 injured
Mostly futile attempts to divert lava flows in Hawaii
Environmental Science Bulletin Board - 5 December 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Perspective: the Anthropocene – “human capability for rapid and destructive environmental change on a global scale” - as humans have their fingers on the nuclear buttons
Artificial sweeteners inhibit growth of multidrug-resistant bacteria – potential topical wound therapy
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-can-be-killed-by-artificial-sweeteners-from-sugar-free-foods/ar-AA14xXsX
- Paper: https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/emmm.202216397
Genetically engineered Chestnut Trees to be released to the forest – Draft EIS & Draft PRA
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/that-new-chestnut-usda-plans-to-allow-the-release-of-ge-trees-into-wild-forests/ar-AA14BAkU
- Links to EIS & PRA: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/11/10/2022-24360/state-university-of-new-york-college-of-environmental-science-and-forestry-availability-of-a-draft
Valley of Fire State Park – rugged & diverse landscape near Las Vegas, Nevada – I highly recommend it
Yusufeli Dam completed in Turkey – 558 MG 902-ft high hydroelectric dam has started filling reservoir
Fauci mandated masks even though stating in 2020 that they were ineffective – “covid tyranny is born”
Las Vegas man sentenced to 5 years in prison & ordered to pay $2.5M in restitution for covid fraud
Indigenous stewardship greatly benefitted bison and other species including prairie grass & even humans
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/bison-are-the-latest-indigenous-conservation-success-story/ar-AA14AFNK
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/26/bison-spread-as-native-american-tribes-reclaim-stewarsdhip
The Hopi culture is traditionally based on corn
Technological hazard: tech industry poses existential threat to humanity
Fauci says “we need to keep politics out of” investigating covid origins – but the whole pandemic was politically driven
Nebraska agriculture officials say another 1.8M chickens must be killed after case of bird flu found on farm – add that to the 50M already slaughtered nationwide – does it make sense to kill all those birds?
India intends to scrap all central & state government department vehicles more than 15 years old
Monkeypox is “racist & stigmatizing” so WHO changes name to mpox – woke ideology- don’t they have better things to do?
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/monkeypox-given-new-name-by-global-health-experts/ar-AA14Dupw
Cleanup still needed for former wood-preservative facility in Cass Lake on Leech Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota – pesticides, creosote & PCP impacting soil & aquifer & surface waters
Free Book: “Groundwater Velocity” – failures of remediation plans at some sites that resulted from inadequate hydrogeologic investigation
Houston, Texas, boil water notice due to loss of water pressure at East Water Purification Plant – then lifted
- https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/27/us/houston-boil-water-notice-schools-closed/index.html
- https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/29/houston-boil-water-lifted/
New Jersey to issue new rules for watershed & stormwater management in flood hazard inland areas
- https://www.nj.gov/dep/newsrel/2022/22_1027.htm
- IFPR: https://dep.nj.gov/inland-flood-protection-rule/
- Rule: https://dep.nj.gov/wp-content/uploads/inland-flood-protection-rule/docs/ifpr-fhaca-and-stormwater-rule-proposal.pdf
Cherokee Nation educating Congress on the failure to fulfill 1836 Treaty of Echota that provides for a Cherokee Delegate in the US House of Representatives
Genetic engineering modified tobacco plan to produce cocaine - addictive Scheule II controlled substance
Navajo Nation to address issues of water infrastructure – contextual engineering
Modern water woes in California are repercussions of decades of policy decisions
“Black Friday” causes enormous environmental impact & is prompting backlash to wasteful & excessive consumption
- https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/black-friday-faces-green-backlash-belgium-2022-11-25/
- https://insideclimatenews.org/todaysclimate/black-fridays-enormous-environmental-impact-sparks-a-green-backlash/
Marking the date when 230 Cheyenne and Arapaho were massacred at Sand Creek by Colorado territory militia – great impact on traditional knowledge, language, ceremonies & other cultural traditions
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/day-history-230-cheyenne-arapaho-023602392.html
- https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-haaland-commits-telling-americas-story-sand-creek-massacre-national-historic
Bigger is not always better and sometimes more is just more
Mexican police clash with illegal immigrants who are defecating into the Rio Grande
US Court of Appeals will rehear Apache Stronghold v US – developing underground private copper mine in Tonto National Forest will destroy sacred Oak Flat site
Deadline passed for appealing ruling against mandated gender reassignment surgeries - “Great news”
Romancing Another River: The Sib-Lea and the Missouri
Newest potential national monument: Avi Kwa Ame Wilderness – Mojave National Preserve
Visualizing carbon dioxide emissions around the world – part of the Carbon Cycle
Estimating on-road PM2.5 distribution to predict healthy route planning for commuters
- https://eos.org/research-spotlights/mapping-street-level-pollution-estimates-to-reveal-safer-routes
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GH000669
Long-distance airborne transport of bacteria in Israel - aerobiome
- https://eos.org/research-spotlights/bacteria-travel-thousands-of-kilometers-on-airborne-dust
- https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JG007022
First proposed hazardous waste landfill in Pennsylvania would be near schools & homes – sacrifice zone
Federal government conditionally pledges $250M toward California State projects for environmental cleanup and restoration around Salton Sea
Mining corporation being sued for alleged lead poisoning in Zambia – UN experts to testify
Peruvian mining city of La Oroya seeking to reopen heavy metal smelter – jobs or health in one of the most polluted places in the world
Widespread evidence that sperm counts in men continue to decline – rate of decline has increased due to exposures to pesticides & other endocrine-disrupting chemicals
- https://www.ehn.org/sperm-count-decline-chemicals-2658635273.html
- https://www.ehn.org/sperm-count-decline-2658644446.html
- FAQ: https://www.ehn.org/sperm-count-decline-faq-2658648595.html
- Paper: https://academic.oup.com/humupd/advance-article/doi/10.1093/humupd/dmac035/6824414
Key decisions at CITES Global Wildlife Summit
- https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Five_key_decisions_at_global_wildlife_summit_999.html
- https://www.france24.com/en/environment/20221125-global-wildlife-summit-approves-shark-protection-plan
Smoking marijuana deposits 4X the amount of tar in your lungs than smoking tobacco – impaired breathing & risk due to carcinogenic compounds in weed
Bringing back lost (i.e., slaughtered) endangered species revives ecosystems – wolves, buffalo & sea otters are keystone species
US Bureau of Reclamation warns California to prepare for “extremely limited water supply conditions in 2023” for Central Valley Project
New UN report hypes global warming but does not address issue of over-population & water shortages
- https://www.hindustantimes.com/environment/un-publishes-flagship-report-on-climate-change-impacting-water-resources-5-points-101669785114637.html
- https://public.wmo.int/en/our-mandate/water/state-of-global-water-resources
- Report: https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=11178
Convention on Biological Diversity declared failure of 10-year Aichi Biodiversity Targets – lots of work to prepare document but little success in reality
New plan to address embankment infrastructure of New York State Canal System
Changing requirements for donating blood - strategy is controversial – would be based on individual honesty in answering questionnaire on sexual practice – risk of HIV/AIDS or monkeypox – prelim results of FDA study not released - need to maintain safety of blood supply
Small percentage of Earth (land & coastal waters) provides global human population with ecosystem services
- https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/small-percentage-globe-provides-critical-natural-benefits-most-humanity/
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01934-5
Perspective: Call for a new “planetary politics” grounded in ecological realism – Good luck with that as COP27 is yet another failure and global warming hype is still being touted despite the Carbon Cycle
Marking 50 years since the end of the egregious Tuskegee Study
- https://www.newsweek.com/cdc-director-slammed-calling-racist-tuskegee-study-sacrifice-1763656
- https://original.newsbreak.com/@sara-b-1598241/2815549632798-the-tuskegee-syphilis-study-40-years-of-unethical-human-experimentation-in-african-americans
Marking the history of Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex – secret radiological experiments in US cities
Error results in temporary posting data on more than 6,000 illegal immigrants
Dixie Valley toad granted Endangered Species Act protection – faces threat of geothermal energy project
Experimental HIV vaccine sounds like the covid vaccine: prompts some antibodies but does not offer protection and virus mutates rapidly into new strains which evade ‘immunity’ – note: no explanation why 2 of control group had HIV antibodies at end of the study
”Water theft” in California
Conceptual plan for $711M tunnel to connect downtown Louisville & Expo Center in Kentucky
Santa Cruz Regional Transportation Commission considering 22-mile electric rail system - $3.8M for only the first year of concept report with total concept report cost of $7.7M
Perspective: Biden administration is fearmongering about the environment – again – “PFAS alarmism”
FDA approves first fecal transplant – fecal microbiota product
Pine martens are successfully breeding in forest in New Forest in southern England
Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board - 5 December 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
King Tides begin hitting the Oregon coast
- https://thatoregonlife.com/2022/11/8-to-10-foot-king-tides-to-hit-oregon-coast-this-thanksgiving/
- King Tide Project: https://www.oregonkingtides.net/
Abandoned Ellinikon airport in Athens, Greece, to be transformed into 600-acre coastal park
Eco-tourism initiatives focus on cleanliness and efforts to educate citizens about water quality in Odisha
Developers can apply for Complete Communities Housing Solutions program to increase population density in San Diego beach communities
Modeling of Delaware Estuary to better understand “coastal squeeze” - $10M DOD funding for project
Plans for first tidal energy-powered deep sea container terminal on East Anglia coast of England
Considering combined highway-railroad bridge in Wilmington, North Carolina
3 Nigerian stowaways found on rudder of Alithini II oil tanker at Las Palmas Port in Canary Islands
Offshore wind industry abandons projects deemed no longer viable in spite of federal subsidies as costs become excessive – need to conserve tax dollars and preserve the shorelines
Mangroves survive in heavy metal contaminated environments
Federal government will pay $25M to each of 3 Native American tribes to relocate in Alaska & Washington at risk of coastal erosion
Using oyster reef ecosystem to reduce beach erosion
• https://whyy.org/articles/rutgers-university-develops-oyster-reef-ecosystem-toprevent-beach-erosion/
Seagrass can potentially reduce cliff erosion by up to 70%
• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221128101219.htm
Exercise in futility: Florida coastal communities scramble to restore beaches – all about tourists & money
• https://www.axios.com/local/tampa-bay/2022/11/29/florida-beach-erosionhurricane-ian-nicole
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/11/25/florida-beach-erosion-iannicole-sand/
Egypt plans to build 21 desalination plants in $3B Phase 1 of project in Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE)
US Coast Guard Cutter Oliver Berry added to living marine resources patrol in South Pacific
2022 Maritime Doctrine of the Russian Federation put in global context – redesigning borders
Subsea mining in the Blue Amazon that is the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of
Brazil
• https://maritime-executive.com/editorials/the-other-endangered-frontier-ofsubsea-
mining-brazil-s-blue-
FERC grants authorization for Commonwealth LNG Project on SW Louisiana coast – could not determine if projected CO2 emissions would be “significant or insignificant” – US is global leader in LNG
- https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-united-states-lng-leader-canada-lagging/
- https://www.bakerbotts.com/thought-leadership/publications/2022/november/ferc-order-authorizing-commonwealth-lng-project-highlights-commission-divides
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02122022/ferc-liquefied-natural-gas-louisiana/
- Project: https://commonwealthlng.com/project/
- FERC: https://www.ferc.gov/media/c-2-cp19-502-000
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