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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 2 October 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
New “Roadside Geology of Kansas” – “flyover country”
The discovery by Marie Tharp of a rift in the Atlantic Ocean floor – translated 3,000 feet of echo sounding lines
The shared geological landscape of Pennsylvania and Portugal
Geologists with MDEQ find the lost Mississippi Mound Trail marker sign for the Rolling Fork Mounds
Uttarakhand High Court in India agrees there is no reason to keep Joshimath subsidence investigation records secret – “would provide vital information to the public”
“Father of American geology” and others ventured on the keelboat Philantropist to settle in Indiana frontier in New Harmony in 1825-1826
GPS data outliers – interpreting data & monitoring ground deformation in Yellowstone
More seismic activity in the Camp Flegrei volcanic field that is pushing up the ground by 1.5 cm per month
Marine sediment record of climatic conditions during Late Pliocene and Plio-Pleistocene transition
- https://eos.org/editors-vox/marine-sediments-reveal-past-climate-responses-to-co2-changes
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022RG000793
Assessing the compound earthquake risk in Seattle, Washington - Dendrochronology pinpoints seismic event from late AD 923 or early 924 in Puget Sound – 25-ft displacement, tsunami & landslides
- https://phys.org/news/2023-09-tree-reveal-kind-earthquake-threat.html
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/earthquake-threat-to-major-us-city-likely-underestimated-scientists-say/ar-AA1hmblK
- Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh4973
Flowing lower crust could be cause of low-angle normal faults
- https://eos.org/articles/flowing-crust-pushes-faults-on-their-backs
- Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X23003229
Visualizing oil production by country in 2022
Visualizing the depths of submarine cables around the world
Protecting bats and mineral deposits in Jewel Cave National Monument in South Dakota
Soil liquefaction can occur under drained conditions at remarkably low seismic-energy density levels
- https://phys.org/news/2023-09-reveals-insights-soil-liquefaction-earthquakes.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41405-4
Linked faults explain mythology of Scylla & Charybdis and geologic hazards in Strait of Messina
“AI will transform science – now researchers must tame it” – isn’t that like closing the barn door after the horse runs away? Or in this case, letting the computer do the ‘thinking’ which reminds me of “garbage in, garbage out”
Damage Information Reporting Tool – 2022 Analysis – download report on underground structure damages
- https://dirt.commongroundalliance.com/
- Report: https://commongroundalliance.com/Portals/0/Common%20Ground%20Alliance%20DIRT%20Annual%20Report%202022%20-%20FINAL%20(1).pdf
What happens when an earthquake hits flood-damaged coastal building & corroded by saltwater?
“Deep Sleep” glamping in Wales within Cwmorthin Slate Quarry
Strongest M8.0+ earthquakes in North America
New study confirms Gulf Stream current has slowed down by 4% over past 4 decades in the Florida Straits
- https://www.ecowatch.com/gulf-stream-weakening-science.html
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL105170
Possible conduit for water flow being released out of a subducting slab
Kaolinite may provide mineral exploration technique to locate gold and critical minerals
Tidal-induced seismicity increased locally prior to the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake
- https://eos.org/editor-highlights/earthquakes-have-preparatory-stage-years-before-rupture
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL104375
Removing human bias from debate over the demise of the dinosaurs – meteor vs volcanism
Understanding the origins of Super-bolts of lightning
- https://phys.org/news/2023-09-superbolts-scientists-figure-earth-strongest.html
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JD038254
New technique for potentially converting mine waste into healthy soil
Water content differences in the lithosphere and upper Mantle may explain observed seismic wave attenuation
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/09/230927003101.htm
- Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2221770120
Examining convective clouds along coastlines
Waukesha Biota provides glimpse of 437 myo lagoon
Groundwater flow model of Treasure Valley in SW Idaho from 1986 to 2015
- https://www.usgs.gov/publications/groundwater-flow-model-treasure-valley-southwestern-idaho-1986-2015
- SIR 2023-5096: pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2023/5096/sir20235096.pdf
Documenting the dinosaur Coliseum in Denali National Park – largest known single dinosaur track in Alaska
- https://new.nsf.gov/news/scientists-explore-dinosaur-coliseum-denali
- Paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2023.2221267
Update: Disappearance of geologist Daniel Robinson in 2021 in Buckeye, Arizona
Refined map of Zealandia
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Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 2 October 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
The epitome of irony: Wuhan lab now warning the world of another outbreak
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/wuhan-institute-of-virology-issues-dire-warning/ar-AA1hn4Jv
Fauci & Government health agencies (CDC, WH, NIH, HHS) knew vaxxing caused adverse reactions (some deadly) - concerted efforts to downplay effects through talking points in series of “crisis communications”
- https://dailyclout.io/46-pages-foiaed-from-cdc-leaders-2021-reveal-fauci-collins-white-house-nih-hhs/
- https://dailyclout.io/2021-emails-show-cdc-leadership-discussions-about-myocarditis/
More deaths from Nippah virus in India – zoonotic disease can be transmitted human-human – 45 day incubation – up to 75% case mortality rate – high-priority disease – asymptomatic can transmit infection – no cure
Is Hiroshima still radioactive? The experts say no worse than any other city
Introduction to theory & practice of digital ethnography
Perspective: Rewriting history – a sinister turn
Contractor selected for massive $3.5B+ motor fuel facility north of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to produce “ultra-clean, high-grade diesel, naphtha and, ultimately, jet fuel” – construction timeline 2024 to 2029
Kenya in talks with consortium to build $288B High Grand Falls dam & reservoir with 5.6B cubic meter capacity & hydroelectric plant – part of LAPSSET Corridor projects on River Tana – endeavouring to build 1,000 mega dams
- https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/kenya-gbm-led-consortium-in-talks-to-construct-2-9-billion-dam-1.1974997
- https://www.constructionkenya.com/933/high-grand-falls-dam-kenya/
- Mega-dam projects in Kenya: https://www.constructionkenya.com/8360/dam-projects-kenya/
Records show E-cycles are faster, heavier & more deadly – call to put an end to them in New York City
US Army COE to begin nuclear waste dump remediation in Parks Township in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania
- https://triblive.com/local/valley-news-dispatch/cleanup-of-parks-township-nuclear-waste-dump-to-begin-in-2025-last-7-years/
- SLDA: https://www.lrp.usace.army.mil/Missions/Planning-Programs-Project-Management/Key-Projects/Shallow-Land-Disposal-Area/
California revising subsidy program for EVs
Tree of Life is losing entire limbs as anthropogenic-driven (habitat destruction & slaughter) causing genera to go extinct at rates up to 35 times higher than estimated – estimated that 73 genera have gone extinct since the 1500s
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-tree-of-life-is-losing-entire-limbs-jeopardizing-evolution/ar-AA1hf1na
- Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2306987120
Zoo Poo might help fight bacterial superbugs for people with diabetes– bacteriophages in poop of endangered species at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park in England
- https://gizmodo.com/viruses-in-poop-could-fight-bacterial-superbugs-1850871571
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/poo-endangered-species-zoo-diabetic-ulcers-b2414483.html
Covid drug may be driving evolution of new variants with distinctive mutations – 900 variants identified
Like the Pandemic, the “climate crisis” was manufactured – “there is no significant man-made global warming”
EV road trip by Energy Secretary was aimed to “boost the charade of the effectiveness of green energy” – “taxpayer-funded publicity stunt” that failed
Proposed H2Hubs for Appalachian Region - $8B startup money - would do little to curb GHG emissions or create jobs while increasing electricity prices for consumers
Grim milestone reached of deaths of NYFD workers who died from 9-11 World Trade Center-related illnesses
NY to now require disclosure of flood risks with home sales – Call for congressional action in 2020 – funding & authorization for NFIP ends 30 September 2023
- https://apnews.com/article/new-york-flood-disclosure-law-68ea68bf0eccde125f622f35f96c9351
- https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2020/10/01/repeatedly-flooded-properties-will-continue-to-cost-taxpayers-billions-of-dollars
- https://thehill.com/business/4181481-congress-faces-ticking-clock-on-flood-insurance-as-hurricane-season-picks-up/
Really dumb selfie-taking tour on causes death of wild pony in Wales by crowding it to fall off a cliff
- https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/selfie-taking-tourists-cause-newborn-073000843.html
- https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-66785699
- Countryside Code: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-countryside-code/the-countryside-code-advice-for-countryside-visitors
Now targeting and attacking the aluminum industry for CO2 emissions – “The Aluminum Paradox”
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27092023/aluminum-industry-has-enormous-carbon-footprint/
- EIP Report: https://environmentalintegrity.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Aluminum-Paradox-report-EMBARGOED-for-09.27.23.pdf
Charging Tesla EV by pulling up and plugging into a stove outlet & a 120-volt plug adapter – real or a gimmick? One wonders since they refer to a “gas stove”
Visualizing the historical map that changed cartography
Book Review: “Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of our Planet” - How nature adapts to the hazards created by human roads & traffic
Lithium-ion battery fires a growing public safety concern
Polar bears survived the last deglaciation in Siberian and Canadian refugia
Dogs who repeatedly bite people reflect poor levels of attention & training by incompetent owners
Trying to decide what Pyramid Lake “should be” – especially after humans have altered the Truckee River over the past century – “Nature can be very unkind when you start messing with it…kick you in the teeth.”
“AI will transform science – now researchers must tame it” – isn’t that closing the barn door after the horse runs away? Or in this case, letting the computer do the ‘thinking’ which reminds me of “garbage in, garbage out”
More than 3,000 cases of West Nile virus diagnosed in the US – all states except Hawaii – outbreaks typically confined to small geographic area
Frog underpass for Portland Highway could replace “frog taxi”
More than 25% of world population lacks access to safe drinking water – too worried about CO2
Lightning strike caused massive explosion and fire in EV car factory near Tashkent International Airport in Uzbekistan – nearby buildings damaged by the blast – more than 150 casualties
130+ taxidermy animals in Delbridge Museum in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, are tinged with arsenic – museum closed to public – what to do now? What are the true risks?
15 happiest places to live? Are DEI, brew pubs and second-hand art installations more important than crime rates, quality of K-12 education, diminishing water supply, increasing traffic congestion, poorly-controlled urban growth, high cost of housing, etc.?
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/reno-named-happiest-place-to-live-in-america/ar-AA1heJoM
- Outside Ranking: https://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/destinations/north-america/happiest-places-to-live-us/
13th Edition of Keys to Soil Taxonomy
- https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/resources/guides-and-instructions/keys-to-soil-taxonomy
- Keys: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/2022-09/Keys-to-Soil-Taxonomy.pdf
Deadly risks at Yellowstone National Park that tourist sometimes forget – not just the animals
Acetaminophen (aka: Paracetamol or Tylenol) again in the news with warning that it could lead to liver damage – one of the leading causes of acute liver failure in the US – in numerous OTC products
Pet owners need to be responsible – it’s not your pet, it is you
Proposed Upper Mississippi River Levee Safety Act would make it easier to raise levees – is that a good thing?
Jackson, Wyoming, bought a fleet of 8 EV buses – all now out of commission - $millions of federal subsidy dollars completely wasted in federal program including $945,178 to Wyoming – Solyndra all over again
Comparing hydrogen & atomic bombs – H-bombs are “cleaner” than A-bombs – megatons not kilotons of explosive power
Semi-truck crash leaked anhydrous ammonia on highway in Effingham County, Illinois – vapors may be deadly
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Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board - 2 October 2023 - compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Repairing existing culvert & other infrastructure underneath the Coastal Trail on north side of Half Moon Bay
Maine environmental regulators seek to further limit coastal development to protect fragile sand dunes – new maps being generated
- https://www.mainepublic.org/news/2023-09-21/environmental-regulators-want-to-further-limit-coastal-development-to-protect-fragile-sand-dunes
- Maps: https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mgs/pubs/mapuse/series/descrip-dunes.htm
Japan objecting to survey buoy installed near Senkaku Islands by China – inconsistent with international law
- https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/defense-security/20230918-137246/
- https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2023/09/172d2979bcf8-japan-protests-after-china-sets-up-buoy-in-eez-near-senkakus.html
Congressional oversight committee discussed proposed 770,000 square mile Pacific Islands marine sanctuary
Russian Pacific Fleet holds military exercises off coast of Siberia near Alaska
US Army COE to barge in 36M gallons of fresh water daily to New Orleans & will raise underwater levee by 25 feet
Coastal homes in Florida may lose value as higher insurance premiums reflect hurricane disasters
Predicting it will take years for Sanibel Island to recover from Hurricane Ian that hit on 28 September 2022
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28092023/sanibel-recovery-from-hurricane-ian-years-in-the-making/
Miami-Dade County once again considering county canal system as alternative mode of transportation
West Coast of US lacks adequate port & supply chains needed to deploy floating wind farms
Marine and Coastal Wildlife Code – advice for visitors to the UK
Cost of “Ike Dike” coastal barrier project in Texas escalated another 68% - US Army COE now says $57 billion
Will co-plan grids curb offshore wind costs along the East Coast?
- https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-states-urged-co-plan-grids-curb-offshore-wind-costs-2023-09-28/
- Strategy: https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2023-03/advancing-offshore-wind-energy-full-report.pdf
$681M Port of Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvement Project (CIP) advances to final $157.3M phase
Second round of release of wastewater from Fukushima to start
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