Webinar: Oregon Groundwater Sustainability DIPLOMA Framework
Wednesday, 15 March 2023, 1 - 2 PM EDT
THE SPEAKER Todd Jarvis is an engineering geologist, water rights examiner, and mediator specializing in dispute prevention and conflict resolution for groundwater, aquifers, and water well construction. He works at the Institute for Water & Watersheds at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, one of the 54 Water Resources Research Institutes funded by the US Geological Survey and distributed across the United States and US territories. He is a board member on the Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Licensed Surveying.
DESCRIPTION Groundwater depletion in Oregon is a media darling. The 2016 "Draining Oregon" Exposé in The Oregonian prompted the Oregon Water Resources Commission to consider sustainable groundwater management planning yet groundwater depletion is current news today. The institutional response has thus far followed a pedagogy of learning from good practice and failure. Like an undergraduate college diploma, the Oregon Groundwater Sustainability DIPLOMA framework acknowledges that the requirements for graduating varies by discipline and jurisdiction. Different skills and flexible requirements will be essential for the statewide groundwater curriculum. Extra credit can be earned through innovations in new sources, new options for storage, new agreements, and new toolkits for groundwater and aquifer stewardship.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Describe unsustainable groundwater utilization in volcanic rock aquifers
- Endorse conflict resolution through aquifer user agreements and "honest brokers" in the academies
- Demonstrate transdisciplinary strategies to develop groundwater portfolios
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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 – 13 March 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Construction begins for open-pit mine at largest lithium deposit in the US - $2.4B over 5,000 acres
Pursuing science with passion – “Fire of Love” is story of intrepid volcanologists
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04032023/katia-maurice-krafftt-french-volcanologists-fire-of-love/
- https://films.nationalgeographic.com/fire-of-love
Assessing induced seismicity in the Permian Basin
- https://www.mrt.com/business/oil/article/water-energy-conference-rrc-becoming-proactive-17814960.php
Creating “flexible” geothermal power plants in Nevada by pumping water underground to heat up – a new name for using hot dry rock
Assessing impact of extreme wildfires on local weather conditions
Seismic mapping of fizzy brines & fluid-filled fractures beneath Uturuncu volcano in Bolivia
Monitoring seismic activity & seismic cycles of oceanic transform faults
Proglacial lakes can influence movement of glaciers
- https://eos.org/articles/lakes-can-change-how-glaciers-move
- Paper: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology/article/terminus-change-of-kaskawulsh-glacier-yukon-under-a-warming-climate-retreat-thinning-slowdown-and-modified-proglacial-lake-geometry/F0E137DCC200D30DB157F13F707E9FA7
Visualizing the global titanium supply chain – China dominates with 36%
Mercury in the marine food chain – point & non-point pollution bioaccumulates
“Rapid and unprecedented” increase in ocean plastic pollution since 2005 – exponential growth in micro-plastics
- https://www.treehugger.com/ocean-plastic-staggering-increase-since-2005-7229722
- Paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281596
Viewing eruptions in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Rockslide causes derailment of empty coal train in New River Gorge National Park & Preserve in West Virginia
Humans love to classify things – intensity rating for atmospheric rivers based on duration & moisture content
- https://phys.org/news/2023-03-world-atmospheric-rivers-intensity-hurricanes.html
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JD037180
Using satellite & radar data to improve thunderstorm forecasts
Anticipating variation of Asian “water tower”
- https://phys.org/news/2023-03-reveals-climate-threatens-asia-tower.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05643-8
Meteorological analysis of June 2021 heat wave in Pacific Northwest
Bakken Shale yields not only oil & natural gas but also paleontological & biogeochemical data on Earth history
Thumping interval in Doublet Pool in Yellowstone reflects amount of heat energy & heat transfer
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230308171645.htm
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GL101175
New model offers simplified verification of relationship between Milankovitch orbital cycles and glaciation
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230307114402.htm
- Paper: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0127715
Sulfurimonas microbes thrive around hydrothermal vents
- https://www.sciencealert.com/bacteria-found-riding-the-plumes-of-deep-sea-vents-hint-at-how-ancient-life-spread
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-023-01342-w
Newly discovered asteroid 2023DW has “very small” likelihood of impacting Earth in 2046 – 165-foot diameter
Redescribing enigmatic Late Jurassic shark - Protospinax annectans
- https://www.sci.news/paleontology/protospinax-annectans-11704.html
- Paper: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/15/3/311
After 20 years of negotiating a new “High Seas Agreement” is announced by UN Intergovernmental Conference on Marine as Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) – only 1% of marine species now protected under UN Convention on the Law of the Sea – BBJN ratification by UN members will take years
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/03/05/un-ocean-treaty-high-seas/
- https://gizmodo.com/high-seas-agreement-what-to-know-ocean-protection-1850194045
- https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-09/un-high-seas-agreement-should-inspire-less-war-and-more-cooperation
- https://splash247.com/ratification-of-high-seas-treaty-expected-to-take-many-years/
Retrospective on the 1933 Long Beach earthquake in southern California
500 myo “Bryozoan” fossils may have been created by seaweed during Cambrian explosion
Formation of the Denali Fault impacted by thickness of tectonic plates
Seismic activity at Takawangha & Tanaga Volcanoes in Alaka could presage eruptions
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/earthquakes-at-2-alaska-volcanoes-could-signal-eruption/ar-AA18rBje
- https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/03/09/news/alaska-volcano-shows-signs-impending-eruption
Formation of silicate minerals and the growth of life on Yellowstone hot spring sinter deposits - hypoliths
Three geologists killed in collapse in new section of Cabanasses de Súria potash mine in northeast Spain
Using seismic attenuation tomography & seismic anisotropy as exploration tool for critical metals
- https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-03-10-new-method-shows-promise-locating-deposits-critical-metals
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2022GL100974
Merapi volcano in Indonesia erupting again (video)
- https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indonesias-merapi-volcano-erupts-spews-hot-cloud-2023-03-11/
- https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/55804/20230311/merapi-volcano-eruption-shoots-hot-clouds-4-miles-up-evacuation.htm
Investigating fossil earthquakes – mechanisms that trigger earthquakes up to 40 km depth
Documentary film will focus on human side of earthquake science
New dynamic geological model of surficial changes on Earth over past 100 million years
Macquarie Island deserves lager marine park
Unique geology of Red Rock Country in Moab, Utah
Geology beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet revealed by rocks from glacial moraines
- https://phys.org/news/2023-03-glacial-reveal-geology-hidden-beneath.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-33791-y
Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 13 March 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Refinery in Martinez, California, accidentally released 20 tons of metal-laden dust – aluminum, barium, chromium, nickel, vanadium & zinc - warning against eating veggies grown in contaminated soil
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/residents-of-california-city-warned-not-to-eat-food-grown-in-gardens-after-toxic-dust-release/ar-AA18h52n
- https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/health-officials-demand-consequences-after-toxic-dust-falls-on-martinez/
- https://cchealth.org/hazmat/pdf/MRC-Catalyst-Release-FAQs.pdf
US government spent at least $31.9 billion of your tax dollars to develop, produce & purchase mRNA vaxx just through March 2022 – does not include US funding to Wuhan Lab for gain-of-function research to create virus & did not “flatten the curve”
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/how-much-did-us-government-spend-on-mrna-vaccine-technology-before-and-during-the-pandemic-the-number-can-be-surprising/ar-AA18bRsI
- https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/how-much-could-covid-19-vaccines-cost-the-u-s-after-commercialization/
- https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-catalyzed-substantially-invested-mrna-covid-.html
- More money: https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3109705/dod-awards-174-billion-agreement-to-moderna-inc-to-secure-over-65-million-doses/
- Big Pharma revenue in 2022: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/31/pfizer-revenue-covid-19-vaccines-commercialized-00080373 :
- Another 1.5M doses in 2023: https://thehill.com/homenews/3855673-us-government-buying-another-1-5m-doses-of-novavax-covid-vaccine/
Perspective: America’s covid response was based on lies – abject failure of policies to “control” the virus
Emails show Fauci commissioned “scientific” paper to disproved Wuhan Lab leak theory – shady power moves
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/america-covid-response-was-based-on-lies-opinion/ar-AA18gL7q
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/fauci-s-shadowy-covid-power-plays-made-america-far-less-safe/ar-AA18lh5z
- https://ianmsc.substack.com/p/fauci-has-been-caught-in-yet-another
Policy makers & bureaucrats deliberately deceived everyone about covid – not the “embodiment of science” – politically motivated reasoning contrary to science – skewed the evidence to fit narrative to discredit lab leak
The Californication of Nevada – not enough land, not enough water, escalating home prices
US avoided “massive winter covid surge” – How? By doing nothing – no mandates – just living their lives with natural immunity
Perspective: “Green New World” is an expensive mess – US cannot handle it – many communities resist
Petition signed by 2.5M people to stop approval of new Willow Project oil drilling in Alaska
California to spend millions to take pointless stand against oil companies – gas prices higher than elsewhere due to state regulations & taxes
Snowfall in the Sierras measures more than 50 feet so far this winter – but the California drought is NOT over
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2023/03/01/snowfall-totals-california/11366374002/
- https://cww.water.ca.gov/
- https://sgma.water.ca.gov/CalGWLive/
- https://www.usgs.gov/centers/california-water-science-center/usgs-scientists-explain-how-aquifer-compaction-measured
- https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018JB016083
- https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-12-22/groundwater-depletion-is-accelerating-in-the-central-valley
- https://ca.water.usgs.gov/projects/central-valley/index.html
Pending legislation would make the mustang the state horse of Nevada – 86% of Nevadans want mustang protection
Gen Z is baffled in the workplace by basic technology
Dogs that survived Chernobyl reactor disaster may help understanding of chronic radiation exposure
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/in-the-shadow-of-chernobyl-a-pack-of-dogs-unlike-any-other-roams-the-wasteland/ar-AA18cddn
- Paper https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade253
Shifting population in US: Gen Z moving to urban areas, older Americans leaving
British government taxing wind farms out of existence – hampered by sclerotic planning system
CDC issues warning about increase in antibiotic resistant shigellosis
UN finalizes text of treaty on the oceans – BBNJ Agreement
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/03/05/un-ocean-treaty-high-seas/
- https://www.mfa.gov.sg/Newsroom/Press-Statements-Transcripts-and-Photos/2023/03/BBNJ
Cellular-connected smart-water-heater control modules create virtual power plant in Hawaii – does not create power but helps balance the grid by remotely turning water heaters on and off (exerting control)
Making a good decision recognizing $7B redesign of Penn Station is not feasible
A very unwise energy trade-off: choosing “green hydrogen” over heat pumps in Massachusetts
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06032023/green-hydrogen-massachusetts/
- Report: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/634abba43f1e2f4dfd5e07dc/t/6400f4e00845db41f84ddc36/1677784292826/GridImpactofGreenHydrogen+-+3-6-2023.pdf
Silver Line of DART costing $83M in overruns and permitting delays
Will Northeast Power Grid be able to support electric truck fleets?
Texas challenging recent EPA decision – wants SCOTUS to vacate new WOTUS ruling – House votes to overturn WOTUS rejecting expanded government over-reach
- https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/epa-fires-back-against-texas-challenge-of-bidens-waters-rule
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-votes-to-overturn-overreaching-biden-water-rule/ar-AA18r5nM
Romancing the River: Meanwhile back in Central Arizona
PureCycle Technologies in Ohio in serious financial trouble – plastic recycler close to defaulting on $250M in revenue bonds issued by local development agency – less than 1% recycling rate for polypropylene
Slashing maximum allowable acetaminophen content in pain meds by half has reduced hospitalizations & acute liver failure cases by up to 16% annually – acetaminophen (e.g., Tylenol) is toxic to liver
Latest drinking craze of “borgs” (blackout rage gallon) mix of vodka, electrolytes & energy drinks in gallon water jug is sending students to hospital emergency room
Constructing new Indonesian capital city (Nusantara) aimed toward a “sustainable forest city” – but how can city that plows up existing forest be sustainable? Further construction will speed up deforestation of one of oldest & largest tropical rain forests – native animals not being relocated – indigenous people lost land
- https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-new-capital-kalimantan-climate-d40917f6a61980a595dc2e4123baaebe
FEMA claims “Community Rating System” successfully created incentives for flood risk reduction – lower flood insurance premiums & reduced risk
Visualizing achieving the myth of Net-Zero by fudging numbers with carbon credits
Whitebark pine is listed as a threatened species – keystone species critical to ecosystem
Bees learn & culturally transmit communication skills – the honeybee dance language
- https://theconversation.com/unlocking-secrets-of-the-honeybee-dance-language-bees-learn-and-culturally-transmit-their-communication-skills-200896
- Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade1702
“Going green” means many more batteries – after they no longer work some can be recycled
Advancing modern data with traditional Native American knowledge
Aquatic organisms respond in different ways to flooding & drought
- https://beta.nsf.gov/news/aquatic-organisms-respond-flooding-drought
- Paper: https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lol2.10303
Officials in Washoe County, Nevada, hope $2+M pipeline will “prevent” flooding in Swan Lake
Ongoing incomprehensible & inconsistent government covid policies failed to stop pandemic & profoundly damaged economy and childhood education – more deaths per capita than nearly any other developed country
Bill Gates is wrong – individuals can make a difference in protecting the environment – he does not want to lead “impoverished lifestyle”
Process begins to remove dams on the Klamath River – estimated cost $450M
Disposing of “produced water” from fracking raises by injection concerns for threats to aquifers in West Texas
“Rights of Nature” to investigate possible environmental violations caused by construction of Tren Maya Railroad in Mexico – harms indigenous communities and irreparable damage to sensitive Yucatan ecosystems
Hikers who have need to be rescued on illegal Stairway to Heaven in Hawaii may have to pay to be saved
Pollution in the Great Lakes threatens Ojibwe rights to fish in Ceded Territory
Kentucky residents angered by proposed clear-cutting in Daniel Boone National Forest
Night-time clues to pollution – atmospheric chemistry is important
Why a national repository of consumer product led surveillance data is needed
Increasing opposition to plan to ship oil alongside the Colorado River prompted by recent train derailments
Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 13 March 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Dire report on coastal erosion in Alaska – “go with the flow” so no need for humans to “fix” things
Willamette Falls Locks opened in 1873 to be retrofitted for safety & seismic repairs
- https://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/willamette-locks-ready-for-seismic-repairs/article_4f3d7fee-6464-538d-ae16-0e2b3cbe07c2.html
- Disposition Study: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3ea19efb41794088852d8cd41eb2e591
Levees, dams & oil extraction cause loss of sediment & loss of Barataria Basin wetlands – not “global warming”
284 passengers & crews aboard Ruby Princess cruise ship became ill on round-trip voyage to Caribbean & Mexico – likely norovirus but needs to be confirmed
Port Arthur wants some of the $33B Texas surplus for infrastructure
Red tides hitting the beaches of Florida
3 endangered right whales prompt temporary closure of Cape Cod Canal to all vessel traffic (video)
Coastal huts in Marseille are flooded
Cape Cod National Seashore expecting decline in seagrasses
California man hiked beyond safety fence in Cap Kiwana State Natural Area in Oregon – slipped, tumbled down cliff and swept away by waves
2 years since the major coastal tar spill hit coast of Israel
Mussels & other aquatic animals protect critical coastal ecosystems
Perspective: Maine should shun initiatives to industrialize coastal communities & waters
Most Hawaiians support restoring health of near-shore areas & coastal reefs
Homebuyers still leaving big high-cost coastal & inland metro areas
Tijuana sewage in coastal water transfers into the air as aerosols in sea spray & impacts humans in southern California Beach communities
- https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/coastal-water-pollution-transfers-air-sea-spray-aerosol-and-reaches-people-land
- https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-09/millions-of-gallons-of-sewage-are-spewing-into-san-diego-waters-a-fix-could-take-weeks
Impacts of 800,000-liter oil spill off the coast of the Philippines – cannot fish in polluted waters
Heavy metal pollution poses significant threat to water & birds of iconic Nile River Delta
Humans just don’t get it – saving whales & other species might also mean saving our own
Photo-essay: Consequences of erosion along central coast of Vietnam
"Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby." - Langston Hughes
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