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The articles displayed herein are selected by Dr. Elaine J. Hanford. I do not necessarily agree with the viewpoints expressed and the article descriptions that precede each link.
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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 20 February 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Turkey earthquake fissure viewed from Space
- https://www.space.com/turkey-earthquake-satellite-images-200-mile-rupture
- https://www.space.com/turkey-earthquake-space-satellite-photos-february-2023
What was an olive orchard is now a chasm following the earthquake in Turkey
Energy released from twin Türkiye earthquakes was comparable to largest nuclear test ever conducted
Animal behavior prior to the major earthquake in Turkey & Syria
How, where and why earthquakes occur
Will the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) resist earthquake? – No info on seismic safety
One look at the picture and it is obvious why Highway 1 is periodically closed due to landslides
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-highway-1-opens-public-013723156.html
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-not-highway-1-reopen-034644897.html
Rumisha Henry Kimambo (1934-2022) – father of geology in Tanzania
Source of sulfuric acid that helps create cave systems in the Pyrenees Mountains in southern France
Geology and history of Knox Cave in New York State
Saudi Arabia dismisses predictions of potential earthquake in the Red Sea
History of lithium reserves in Salal-Haimana area of India
Asphalt volcanoes - natural oil seeps in the Santa Barbara Channel off the coast of California are habitat of unique animal communities
Maps of probability for radon & uranium in groundwater in New Hampshire
- https://www.usgs.gov/news/state-news-release/new-maps-show-probability-radon-and-uranium-new-hampshires-groundwater
- Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1752-1688.13075
Mohave County, California, Geology – Kaiser Spring Volcanic Field
Zoom Presentation: Exploring offshore turbidites and the paleo-seismicity of Cascadia Subduction Zone
Evolution, extinction and mineral resource formation over geologic time
Northern Morocco was wetlands between half and three million years ago
Great Bear open-pit mine in Ontario, Canada, may host multi-decade high grade mining complex
Mapping lightning in 3D using broadband radio-frequency interferometry & polarization detection
Visualizing the mineral supply versus the EV demand – significant impacts on mining & the environment
- https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/how-mineral-supply-will-change-ev-forecasts/
- https://markettactic.com/lithium-supply-crisis-why-its-worse-than-you-think-3/5541232/
Origins of modern-day latitudinal biodiversity gradient began 15 myo revealed by planktonic foraminifera
- https://phys.org/news/2023-02-large-scale-fossil-reveals-modern-day-biodiversity.html
- Paper: https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/20/121/2023/
Holocene global temperature conundrum is function of climate models not Nature – last 6,500 years marked mostly by global cooling
- https://phys.org/news/2023-02-global-earth-cooling.html
- https://phys.org/news/2023-02-late-cenozoic-climate-cooling-biogeographically.html
Late Triassic Aetosaur “eagle lizards” were gregarious
- https://www.sci.news/paleontology/gregarious-aetosaurus-ferratus-11649.html
- Paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2023.2168196
Rifted continental margins and sediment accumulation
USGS soliciting proposals for collection of data on mine waste – applications due by 12 April 2023
Forest landslide frequency & size influence more by roads and logging compared to heavy rain in Pacific NW
Kumimanu fordycei & Petradyptes stonehousei – two new species of Late Paleocene Giant Penguins
- https://www.sci.news/paleontology/kumimanu-fordycei-petradyptes-stonehousei-11641.html
- Paper: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/largestknown-fossil-penguin-provides-insight-into-the-early-evolution-of-sphenisciform-body-size-and-flipper-anatomy/8D4A78B2CA0A716134F8E60169A633FD
Reconstructing endocasts of Early Cretaceous Baryonyx walkeri and Ceratosuchops inferodios spinosaurs
- https://www.sci.news/paleontology/spinosaur-brains-11653.html
- Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.13837
Global atmospheric dust from desert dust storms has overall cooling effect on global climate
High-resolution airborne magnetic & radiometric surveys to map geology of Puerto Rico & surrounding waters
More detailed understanding of complex movement of glaciers within the Greenland Ice Sheet
- https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Researchers_build_more_detailed_picture_of_the_movement_of_Greenland_Ice_Sheet_999.html
- Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq5180
Silicate weather on 12% of landscape strongly influences long-term climate
Experimental data suggests geological processes at the Core-Mantle boundary
New video of MIT-WHOI Joint Program ocean exploration
“State-of-the-art” 4D seismic monitoring technology to be installed in offshore Santos Basin in Brazil
Modeling the Innermost Core
- https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-detect-signs-of-hidden-structure-inside-earths-core
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020JB020545
Backcountry skiers should be aware of potential for avalanches
In Memoriam: Dr Carleton B. Moore (1932-2023) – pioneer in field of meteorite studies & supervising professor of my first teaching assistantship at ASU
Five oldest mountains on Earth are 2 to 3.6 billion years old
Dr Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928-1997) – pioneer in planetary science – only person buried on the Moon
NSF grant to create national center for study of geohazards with one hub in Puerto Rico
Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 20 February 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
President Erdoğan makes same accusations of building negligence following deadly earthquake in Turkey as he did more than a decade ago – did not learn any lessons – Disaster Management Plan never implemented
- 2023 headline: https://www.ft.com/content/a8419771-6cd9-4fec-8075-62c7e604aca7
- 2011 headline: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/26/turkey-earthquake-building-negligence-erdogan
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/earthquake-in-turkey-exposes-gap-between-seismic-knowledge-and-action/
- https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/opinion/the-brief-erdogan-between-two-earthquakes/
Importance of SCOTUS decision on BSER codifies “major questions” doctrine regarding environmental issues - curtailing powers of big government
Bronze Age civilization collapsed due to drought – but there was no man-made global warming then
- https://insideclimatenews.org/todaysclimate/scientists-say-climate-change-contributed-to-the-bronze-age-collapse-one-of-historys-biggest-riddles/
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05693-y
Since the beginning of the pandemic heat attack deaths have become more common across all age groups
Amanita phalloides – death cap mushroom is spreading across the US – reproduces by asexual spores
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-know-how-the-world-s-deadliest-mushroom-is-spreading-across-the-u-s/ar-AA17lR1q
- Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.30.525609v2.full
Lacking common sense to ask basic question before spending $276M on trains too tall for Spanish tunnels
Declining life expectancy for Native Americans – poverty, unemployment & lack of health care – US government policies sanctioned inequality for many decades
Sacrificing the environment to build more hubs for internet traffic & infrastructure in Virginia – residents upset – loss of “irreplaceable historic resources”
EV companies are “far off track” from meeting artificial global warming targets
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/ev-companies-call-out-their-own-weaknesses-in-new-clean-energy-report/ar-AA17kU5M
- Report: https://www.kearney.com/automotive/article/-/insights/polestar-and-rivian-pathway-report-
It has always been a question of economic (consumerism for profit) or the environment – not just petroleum
Pennsylvania DEP did not visit site of Christmas Day fire at cryogenic natural gas processing plant until 3 January to begin investigation – another “significant flaring event” on 8 January
Prickly pear cacti are invading the Swiss Alps
Call for addressing cause of lithium battery fires in all vehicles – flammable toxic gases spark fast spreading fires
Lake Tahoe suffering from people problem – now on “no list” for travel – environment is being degraded
People who climb Mount Baldy are ill prepared – get hurt or lost and have died
Opportunity to learn lessons from train derailment in Ohio – toxic vinyl chloride exploded and burned
Pros & cons of desalination – requires massive amounts of energy & is only partial solution – politics & logistics
Fearmongering does not end with the end of the pandemic on 11 May 2023
- https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/people-havent-had-covid-likely-144149735.html
- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00294-9
Outbreak of “Canadian horse disease” in 1872-1873 – later identified as equine flu – good thing they did not respond by culling (i.e., slaughtering) all horses as they are doing today with avian flu in turkeys & chickens
Producing E-fuels by electrolysis of water is not a good thing – cost prohibitive – water already in high demand
Farmers in Illinois not lending support to proposed carbon pipeline across their lands not even for $18.9M
Potential conflict of interest in recent fracking settlement involving Judge & Coterra Energy
Evolution, extinction and mineral resource formation over geologic time
900% increase in Mississippi for babies diagnosed with congenital syphilis from 2016 to 2021
- https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/congenital-syphilis-mississippi-sees-900-201126702.html
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/time-sound-alarm-surge-babies-211500477.html
Inconvenient truth about EVs – you have to spend more money to get greater driving range
California power grid on brink of collapse
Concerns for quality of Ohio River following Norfolk Southern Railway train derailment - ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, ethlyhexyl acrylate and isobutylene along with vinyl chloride and hydrogen chloride
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ohio-river-drinking-water-map-toxic-chemical-spill-raises-impact-concerns/ar-AA17rrQg
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/we-basically-nuked-a-town-three-more-chemicals-discovered-at-train-derailment-site/ar-AA17qy5B
Local streams full of dead fish & chickens found dead in coop following train derailment in Ohio
Long-term risks of chemical exposure from train derailment in Ohio
Another new strategy for addressing water supply challenges in the Western US – start by throwing money
Hydropower cannot be the “reliable clean energy solution”
Foam panels to insulate older homes from the outside
44 drowning deaths in Eastern Kentucky linked to floods caused by poor strip-mine reclamation
Eurasian lynx at high risk of extinction in France
- https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Frances_lynx_at_high_risk_of_extinction_study_999.html
- https://phys.org/news/2023-02-european-big-cat-population-threatened.html
- Paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2023.1080561/full
Looking for solutions to antimicrobial resistance in animals & the environment prompted by over-use & abuse
Ford halts production & shipment of electric F-150 due to potential battery issue – did not disclose actual issue
Human activities lead to shift in melt timing for California snowpack
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/california-s-snowpack-is-melting-faster-than-ever-before-leaving-less-available-water/ar-AA17tjaT
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GL101235
Visualizing past and future of energy transitions
Visualizing the decline in consumer confidence – significant declines by country since 2020
US CBP found two stowaway insects in shipment of celery from Mexico to California at Otay Mesa Port of Entry – shipment sent directly back to Mexico
Visualizing 10 most littered plastic items in the US – cigarette butts are still the number 1 source at 9.7B
Visualizing the EV mineral shortages
Impacts of gold mining on the environment – one of the most destructive
Cocaine addiction makes the human brain age faster
- https://www.sciencealert.com/cocaine-addiction-makes-the-human-brain-age-faster-scientists-warn
- Paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1075250/ful
US District Judge upheld BLM decision to approve Thacker Pass Lithium Mine in northern Nevada – rejected Native American concerns for degradation of the environment on sacred lands
Upsurge in rocket launches could negatively impact the Ozone Layer
- https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Upsurge_in_rocket_launches_could_impact_the_ozone_layer_999.html
- Paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03036758.2022.2152467
What did Sumerians do for fun in southern Iraq 5,000 years ago? Went to the pub
- https://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-dig-up-5000-year-old-pub-in-iraq-frequented-by-regular-people/
- Photos: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/photos/world/in-pics-remains-of-a-5000-year-old-pub-discovered-in-iraq-10087411.html
Newsom signs order to protect California water supply from extreme weather – only many years too late after he refused to institute water restrictions during drought
Mono Lake Tribe seeks to assert water rights in call for emergency halt to water diversions to Los Angeles
Equatorial Guinea confirms outbreak of Marburg virus – 9 dead
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/equatorial-guinea-confirms-marburg-outbreak-120652014.html
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/deadly-marburg-virus-symptoms-causes-161649419.html
Western gray squirrel may become endangered in State of Washington – F&W review open for public comment
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/gray-squirrel-may-become-endangered-204019296.html
- Exec Summary Draft PSR: https://wdfw.wa.gov/publications/02410
- Full Draft Periodic Status Review: https://wdfw.wa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/02410/wdfw02410.pdf
Misleading advertising – Super Bowl ads sell the idea that Americans will be protected by new EV technology
Texans in Brooks County cannot get critical help from EMTS who are overloaded with calls from illegal aliens
WHO cancelled “second phase” of investigation into origins of covid – “politics…hampered progress”
New model demonstrates estimates of future sea-level rise depend on complex interactions beyond any human “control”
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/new-study-claims-we-can-t-stop-the-rapid-global-sea-level-rise-due-to-warming/ar-AA17x9JI
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36051-9
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/cool-the-climate-alarmism/ar-AA17wvKp
California continues to destroy livelihoods of residents in rapid & unnecessary shift to wind & solar energy – sacrifice “on the altar of climate alarmism”
Video of destruction of launcher for Russian thermobaric rocket in eastern Ukraine
US DOJ says Government should be responsible for patent infringement (not Big Pharma) for vaxx
Nitric acid leak in Arizona – deadly tanker truck crash leaked hazardous material into desert near Tucson
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/arizona-nitric-acid-leak-what-officials-recommend-for-those-who-may-have-been-exposed/ar-AA17zwQ9
- https://www.kold.com/2023/02/15/what-do-if-youve-been-exposed-toxic-fumes-associated-with-nitric-acid-spill-i-10/
FDA concerned about cancer-causing nitrosamines in pharmaceutical drugs
Perspective: “This is where our rotting culture has taken us.” – Acknowledge that this is wrong
When it comes to traffic & building new highways, do not forget about induced demand
$74M more in subsidies for “green energy” to fund 7 enhanced geothermal energy (EGE) pilot projects
“Empty” chemical storage tank fire at Port of Catoosa in Oklahoma – hazmat team onsite
Global life expectancy declining
Idaho passes legislative intent to redraw State boundary to include part of western Oregon
Water levels in Lake Powell dropped to near record low – reservoir was created in 1963 by Glen Canyon Dam
Yet another announced delay for startup of Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant in Georgia – added cost $200M
- https://apnews.com/article/georgia-power-co-southern-climate-and-environment-business-3b1d6c65353c6a65b1ccfddede753ab7
- https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-southern-co-vogtle-nuclear/southern-co-boosts-cost-estimate-delays-timing-for-nuclear-reactors-idUSL1N34W21H
Proposed plan intended to end sewage-related water pollution in Susquehanna River in Harrisburg PA
California governor willing to sacrifice environment to maintain river water flow for humans
Reclaiming Native American ancestry versus “appropriating nonwhite identity”
Entitlement complex – disappointment, anger, negativity & constant need for reassurance of being “special”
Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 20 February 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Asphalt volcanoes - natural oil seeps in the Santa Barbara Channel off the coast of California are habitat of unique animal communities
Well-preserved shipwreck of Nucleus found in Shipwreck Coast of Lake Superior
Washaway Beach in Washington State experiment to assess coastal erosion
Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach, California
Merger will result in largest ferry and coastal ship firm in Japan
Humans continue to artificially expand urban coastlines by extending ports & residential waterfronts – then complain about coastal flooding due to “global warming” with more people at risk
- https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/New_land_creation_on_waterfronts_increasing_study_finds_999.html
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022EF002927
Hoping West Cliff Drive Adaptation & Management Plan will respond to storm damage in Santa Cruz, California
$110M federal grant to help fund new coastal bridge over Alligator River in NW North Carolina
Sheepshead season in coastal waters of Alabama
EPA approves dredging plan on Hudson River for Port of Albany for wind turbine tower factory – previous plan deemed by EPA to be too environmentally damaging to local sturgeon habitat
Exploring the “sustainability scene” in Singapore if metal “supertrees” are to be considered sustainable
Surfers rescued after taking refuge on rocks near Agate Beach on Oregon Coast
Increasing amount of micro-plastic pollution on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea – tripled over past 20 years
- https://eos.org/articles/seafloor-plastic-pollution-is-not-going-anywhere
- Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c04264
It won’t be long before another hurricane floods Central Florida – déjà vu from Hurricanes Ian & Nicole
UN sea level rise threats now of “biblical” proportions
In Kuwait effects of Turkey earthquake were limited to coastal areas
Le Signal apartment complex at Soulac-sur-Mer is torn down in “dynamic and ever changing” coastal zone
3-foot long 166 myo Megalosaurus-like dinosaur footprint found on beach in Burniston Bay, England
Turkey earthquake revives longstanding debate over large Akkuyu nuclear power station being built on Mediterranean coast
Rehabilitated manatees released back to the wild to make room for others that need care
Vertical ocean farming – concentrated pollution sources
Storm damaged Seacliff State Beach pier in Santa Cruz County to be demolished – almost 100 years old
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