Bulletin Boards 27Jan2020

Do you know of a colleague and/or student who would be interested in receiving these Bulletin Boards? Please forward to them. A quick email to [email protected] with the word “subscribe” in the subject line and the email address will be added to the listing. Geoscience Bulletin Board – 27 January 2020 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford Alpine Meadows ski resort avalanche at Lake Tahoe

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/know-deadly-avalanche-alpine-meadows-051618640.html • https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/nation-now/2020/01/17/lake-tahoe-avalanche-alpine-

meadows-ski-resort-placer-county/4509101002/ Perspective: No reason to panic just because glaciers in Iceland are melting – that’s what glaciers do

• https://spectator.us/cold-truth-iceland-melting-glaciers-panic-about/ Geological Survey of Israel says mega-sinkholes forming as Dead Sea wanes present opportunity

• https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-dead-sea-sinkholes-look-like-ecological-catastrophe-they-re-an-opportunity-1.8412446

Pyrrhotite in quarry in Willington, Connecticut, cause of foundation failures

• https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/politics/working-group-recommends-quality-control-plan-for-quarries/2211944/

Hunting for groundwater

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewwight/2020/01/19/this-colombian-scientist-hunts-the-worlds-most-valuable-resource-water/#6677f17f6872

How will “the world end” – the next mega-disaster could happen at any moment (and kill us all)

• https://nypost.com/2020/01/18/the-next-mega-disasters-that-could-happen-at-any-moment-and-kill-us-all/

Avalanches in Annapurna region in Nepal – searches for missing called off as more avalanches occur

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/nepal-rescuers-call-off-search-113814854.html New model might predict earthquakes – friction decreases as rock slippage increases

• https://www.wraltechwire.com/2020/01/21/duke-u-engineers-new-model-could-help-predict-earthquakes-video/

• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-14252-5 Skeletal remains suggests these victims of eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/victims-of-ancient-vesuvius-eruption-were-baked-not-vaporized-according-to-new-research/ar-BBZfuyl

• https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/extreme-heat-from-vesuvius-eruption-turned-one-victims-brain-to-glass/

Using supercomputers to scour fossil record for “hidden extinctions”

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00117-1 Motes of dust inside Murchison meteorite older than the Sun help reveal celestial past

• https://eos.org/articles/dust-older-than-the-sun-sheds-light-on-galactic-history Freshwater systems important in biogeochemical cycles – geomorphology & temperature sensitivity

• https://eos.org/articles/the-shape-of-watersheds Investigating the rate of microbial activity and release of methane from seafloor

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/investigating-rates-of-microbial-methane-munching-in-the-ocean

Assessing changes in the magnetic field of Earth over time

• https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299891&org=GEO&from=news • Paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/01/14/1916553117

USGS estimate of conventional O&G in Central North Slope of Alaska

• https://www.usgs.gov/news/usgs-releases-estimate-conventional-oil-and-gas-alaska-central-north-slope?qt-news_science_products=1#qt-news_science_products

Yarrabubba impact structure in Western Australia is approximately 2.23 byo

• http://www.sci-news.com/space/yarrabubba-crater-08040.html Tracking the evolution of extinct straight-tusked elephants

• http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/palaeoloxodon-evolution-08045.html Improved understanding of the origin & behavior of slow earthquakes

• https://phys.org/news/2020-01-evidence-behavior-earthquakes.html

Atmosphere of Earth approximately 2.7 byo was up to 70% carbon dioxide • https://phys.org/news/2020-01-ancient-earth-atmosphere-percent-carbon.html • Paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/4/eaay4644

Human activity has increasing global-scale impact on shape & size of river deltas

• https://phys.org/news/2020-01-global-river-deltas-increasingly-humans.html Nerd views of earthquakes

• https://nerdist.com/article/interactive-3d-map-insight-to-earthquakes/ Photo-essay of the Gates of Hell in desert in Turkmenistan – Darvaza gas crater

• https://www.insider.com/photos-of-gates-of-hell-fire-crater-turkmenistan Does “Google Maps” adjust when tectonic plates move?

• http://nautil.us/issue/81/maps/what-happens-to-google-maps-when-tectonic-plates-move The ocean twilight zone – crucial carbon pump

• https://www.whoi.edu/news-insights/content/the-ocean-twilight-zones-crucial-carbon-pump/ • https://www.whoi.edu/press-room/news-release/report-reveals-unseen-human-benefits-from-

ocean-twilight-zone/ • Twilight Zone Project: https://twilightzone.whoi.edu/ • WHOI Report download: https://twilightzone.whoi.edu/ecosystems-services-report/

Ice caves in winter

• https://www.marthastewart.com/7570489/ice-caves-in-united-states Rarest weather phenomena

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/the-rarest-types-of-weather-on-earth/ss-BBZ9BV4

Record rainstorms in southeast Brazil result in flooding & landslides & tailings dam failure

• https://phys.org/news/2020-01-southeastern-brazil-rainstorms.html “Blue Acceleration” is recent colossal rise in human impacts & pressure on the ocean

• https://phys.org/news/2020-01-blue-colossal-human-pressure-ocean.html Platform for standardizing paleoclimatology data – need to ensure that such a platform does not allow socio-political biasing of data since we already have the IPCC

• https://phys.org/news/2020-01-platform-standardize-paleoclimatology.html • Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019PA003632 • Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ggge.20067

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Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 27 January 2020 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford Wuhan Coronavirus continues to spread – less virulent (3% mortality) than MERS (34%) or SARS (15%)

• https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/deadly-coronavirus-spreading-china-exactly-162055067.html • https://nypost.com/2020/01/21/death-toll-rises-from-mystery-coronavirus-in-china/ • https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-coronavirus-spreading-in-china-is-new-but-efforts-

to-stop-it-began-nearly-20-years-ago/ar-BBZe5YU • https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00153-x • https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/wuhan-outbreak-triples-as-new-coronavirus-found-

to-spread-human-to-human/ • https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/first-us-case-of-new-coronavirus-reported/ • https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/01/24/798661901/wuhan-coronavirus-101-

what-we-do-and-dont-know-about-a-newly-identified-disease • https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/01/22/798277557/how-does-wuhan-

coronavirus-compare-to-mers-sars-and-the-common-cold California considering designating acetaminophen (Tylenol, Excedrin, etc.) as carcinogen

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/news/california-could-list-common-pain-141828054.html Tourists who damaged Machu Pichu deported & banned from Bolivia for 15 years

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/machu-picchu-damage-tourists-deported-banned-for-15-years/ar-BBZ2PV0

Norovirus outbreak confirmed amidst Yosemite Valley visitors

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/170-yosemite-valley-visitors-fall-ill-—-norovirus-confirmed-in-2-cases-so-far/ar-BBZ2oAy

“Flood Lab” launched to provide models of previous floods & future risks

• https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-floods-realestate/u-s-flood-risk-model-to-be-publicly-available-in-boon-for-homebuyers-idUSKBN1ZD1G0

• Website: https://firststreet.org/flood-lab/ 36 images of pollution in the US before EPA regulations

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/35-vintage-photos-reveal-what-los-angeles-looked-like-before-the-us-regulated-pollution/ss-BBYIcrc

Views of the largest oil fields in the World

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/largest-oil-fields-in-the-world/ss-BBZ1XCH Increasing concern over new corona virus in China as Lunar New Year approaches

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/experts-warn-over-scale-china-virus-us-airports-044201396.html

Airline cabin waste – a global problem

• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/plane-waste-cabin-plastic-food_n_5e1c5868c5b650c621e1cc89

Cleaning up mile-long homeless camp in Sonoma County, California – health & safety concerns

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/officials-want-clear-mile-long-120846612.html Banning foie gras has economic impact on poor rural Sullivan County, New York

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/luxury-dish-banned-rural-county-170509549.html Federal policy helps to quell illegal US-Mexico border crossings improving national security

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/illegal-crossings-plunge-us-extends-172436556.html Perspective: Institutionalized corruption & incompetence hinder emergency response in Puerto Rico

• https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/latino/jorge-bonilla/2020/01/19/liberal-media-forced-concede-trump-was-right-about-puerto

• https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/01/puerto-rico-emergency-manager-fired-outrage-warehouse-unused-aid.html

$21M to fund creation of Indigenous protected area in Jumbo Valley, British Columbia – not a ski resort

• https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/contentious-jumbo-valley-to-become-indigenous-protected-area-with-21m-fund-1.5431665

• https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2020/01/18/once-proposed-for-a-ski-resort-bcs-jumbo-glacier-to-become-indigenous-protected-area.html

Your blood type (A, AB, or O) could influence your susceptibility to the norovirus

• https://theconversation.com/your-blood-type-may-influence-your-vulnerability-to-norovirus-the-winter-vomiting-virus-129125

US Circuit Court of Appeals throws out climate lawsuit filed by children – no standing to sue

• https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/us-appeals-court-tosses-children-s-climate-lawsuit

• Legal opinion: https://www.eenews.net/assets/2020/01/17/document_gw_05.pdf Native American women are disappearing in Montana – toll of violence in Big Sky country

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/rural-montana-had-already-lost-too-many-native-women-then-selena-disappeared/ar-BBZ8CjZ

Bighorn sheep return to Paiute land in Nevada near Pyramid Lake

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/wildlife-officials-released-a-group-of-bighorn-sheep-to-land-they-havent-touched-in-100-years/ar-BBZ9qSR

Indoor air pollution can make you & family sick – how to cope

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/the-air-in-your-home-is-making-your-family-sick-heres-what-to-do-about-it/ar-BBZ4k40

National Weather Service alert: cold enough in Florida for iguanas to fall from trees – they are not dead

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/falling-iguana-alert-issued-in-florida-due-to-cold-temperatures-dont-assume-that-theyre-dead/ar-BBZbIyv

$400M project to raise Folsom Dam in California – 4% increase in capacity = 43,000 acre feet of water

• https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article239329138.html Pumps being installed to reduce water pressure on Oktibbeha County Lake Dam – dam is failing

• https://www.starkvilledailynews.com/county-acquires-pumps-to-drain-oktibbeha-county-lake/article_f9ee4a18-3a02-11ea-987b-23a88850c7d7.html

“Smash & grab” film crew becomes victim of smash & grab – stole camera equipment from vehicle

• https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/inside-edition-looks-for-crime-gets-more-than-it-wanted.php

Omni Calculator Project – Need at least one more world for “a typical American diet”

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/western-diet-climate-change-destroying-planet-183103326.html

FEMA policy now requires projects rebuilt with federal disaster aid to follow new construction guidelines

• https://www.eenews.net/stories/1062101305 Flood damage from repeated flood events has cumulative effect on structural integrity of earthen levees

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200121133325.htm $600M in FEMA-funded road & underground pipe project in Nor Orleans to repair H Katrina damage

• https://www.nola.com/news/article_cad9b6e2-3c8f-11ea-a403-477a4eca306c.html

CRS In Focus Report: Regulating Drinking Water Contaminants: EPA PFAS Actions • https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11219

You are what you eat – 15 reasons to stop drinking diet soda – addictive, toxic to gut microbes, damages teeth & bone density…

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/15-reasons-you-should-never-drink-diet-soda/ss-BBOcCjM

PFAS “Forever chemicals” found in drinking water for major cities across the country

• https://www.ewg.org/research/national-pfas-testing/ Monitoring the atmosphere for rogue pollution

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00110-8 New models forecast air quality consequent to wildfires – depends on what burned

• https://eos.org/features/what-is-left-in-the-air-after-a-wildfire-depends-on-exactly-what-burned Remote landslide in French Bar Canyon impacts Fraser River salmon

• https://eos.org/articles/remote-landslide-puts-fraser-river-salmon-on-shaky-ground Finalizing new rules on WOTUS

• https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/23/politics/trump-epa-repeals-obama-water-regulation/index.html

• https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/the-endless-dance-defining-waters-of-81739/ • https://www.enr.com/articles/48550-new-epa-corps-rule-narrows-federal-clean-water-

jurisdiction • https://www.eenews.net/stories/1062159101

More hazardous cargo being shipped on Ohio River watershed – high waters increase risks

• https://www.ehn.org/ohio-river-shipping-hazards-2644881128.html Growing marijuana in California is creating water crisis

• https://www.ehn.org/cannabis-grows-water-california-2641589643.html Dogs rescued from Puerto Rico are now available for adoption

• https://www.nj.com/news/j66j-2020/01/53f008249d5816/meet-dogs-from-earthquakeravaged-puerto-rico-theyre-ready-for-new-homes.html

Identifying barriers to using prescribed burns in California may reduce wildfires

• https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/why-isnt-california-using-more-prescribed-burns-to-reduce-fire-risk/

Call for overhaul of regulations for pesticides & risk assessment system

• https://phys.org/news/2020-01-experts-overhaul-pesticide.html *****************************************

Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 27 January 2020 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford Offshore wind farms built to tackle “climate change” should be banned to protect sea birds

• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/15/wind-farms-built-tackle-climate-change-could-final-nail-coffin/

Louisiana coastal authority will put $2B restoration & levee projects out to bid for 2020 – 28 projects

• https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_260f5dea-37eb-11ea-bd8f-f31fa3abebef.html

“Rogue wave” strikes Oregon coast sweeping away 3 tourists - video

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/rogue-waves-093023940.html Northern vs. southern California – different perspectives about sea lions

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/sea-lions-are-cash-cows-in-the-bay-area-farther-south-fishermen-say-shoot-em/ar-BBZ2nSg

Perspective: Learn from Tunisia – curb coastal erosion – stop building along California beaches

• https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-19/southern-california-coastal-erosion-development

Coastal lawsuit settlement with Freeport-McMoran will go to parishes in February

• https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_7aa8977c-38bd-11ea-b2cf-634a6f97adfe.html

Studying natural dynamic changes as uninhabited islands respond to change in sea level

• https://news.miami.edu/stories/2020/01/researcher-studies-the-coastal-dynamics-of-uninhabited-islands.html

Increasing coastal population density complicates response to changes in sea level in Africa

• https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2020/01/16/confronting-the-challenges-of-climate-change-on-africas-coastal-areas/

• FA 2020: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ForesightAfrica2020_20200110.pdf

Restrictive regulations in Asilomar Dunes neighborhood in California Coastal Zone

• https://www.montereyherald.com/2020/01/16/pacific-grove-cements-coastal-plan-over-asilomar-objections/

Photo essay: Wadden Sea mudflats provide significant coastal protection

• https://www.dw.com/en/mudflats-the-worlds-great-coastal-protectors/a-50729481 Activists protest construction of 10,000 homes at Pi Glilot – key coastal junction in Israel

• https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-environment-activists-protest-construction-plan-at-key-coastal-junction-1.8405680

• https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-pi-glilot-to-make-way-for-12000-homes-1001281544 Paper: “Geological Heterogeneity of Coastal Unconsolidated Groundwater Systems Worldwide and Its Influence on Offshore Fresh Groundwater Occurrence”

• https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2019.00339/full San Antonio Bay Partnership conference stresses resiliency solutions

• https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/environment/creative-coastal-resiliency-solutions-stressed-at-environmental-conference/article_b99203a6-3d63-11ea-9812-37de94c33971.html

Urging Great Lakes Coastal resiliency study

• https://www.thedailynewsonline.com/bdn01/schumer-and-gillibrand-urge-great-lakes-coastal-resiliency-study-20200123

• https://www.nny360.com/news/stlawrencecounty/senators-demand-funds-for-great-lakes-coastal-defense-study/article_dd56f794-45b7-5861-ada0-eab5001003a6.html

Lawsuit over claim of ownership of marsh land and access to North Inlet

• https://coastalobserver.com/goldfinch-urging-state-to-oppose-baruch-claim-to-marsh/ Coastal birds fared well in 2019 with virtually no hurricanes in the Marco Island area

• https://www.coastalbreezenews.com/articles/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new-in-nature/ Researching oyster health in the Coastal Bend

• https://www.kristv.com/news/analysts-research-oyster-health-in-the-coastal-bend Encouraging “serious games” for coastal & marine conservation, management and adaptation

• https://meam.openchannels.org/news/skimmer-marine-ecosystems-and-management/serious-games-coastal-and-marine-conservation

• List of games: https://meam.openchannels.org/games

Coastal permit will allow construction of new waterfront development in San Pedro, California • https://www.dailybreeze.com/2020/01/20/coastal-permit-approval-expected-to-pave-way-for-

san-pedro-waterfront-construction/ Recognizing importance of 1970 Coastal Marshlands Protection Act in Georgia

• https://www.connectsavannah.com/savannah/decades-of-coastal-activism/Content?oid=13906839

Is using plastic bottles to create artificial islands on Louisiana coastline a good idea?

• https://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-short/mending-coastal-marshes/ Strong storm kills 11+ in Spain and causes wide-spread coastal damage

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/storm-gloria-kills-11-in-spain-causes-wide-coastal-damage/ar-BBZfWup

New course to help grad students understand effects of human activity on changing coastline

• https://news.uci.edu/2020/01/21/beach-dynamics/ Anaerobic activity contributes significantly to marine “dead zones”

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/anaerobic-activity-is-a-big-contributor-in-marine-dead-zones

Pierce Island $92M treatment plant on schedule for 1 April 2020 compliance

• https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20200122/portsmouths-new-92m-wastewater-treatment-plant-nears-completion

Geothermal energy research focused on Port of Rotterdam

• https://www.drybulkmagazine.com/ports-terminals/23012020/geothermal-energy-research-in-port-of-rotterdam-enters-next-phase/