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Do You Know of a Colleague And/Or Student Who Would Be Interested in Receiving These Bulletin Boards? Please Forward to Them. A 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 – 31 May 2021 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford Eruption of Mount Nyirangongo in African Rift – seismic monitoring at regional observatory in Goma had not been working for several months – limnic eruption of Lake Kivu • https://www.livescience.com/congo-volcano-mount-nyiragongo-erupts.html • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFNT7xkmyoY • https://www.news24.com/news24/Africa/News/around-20-000-homeless-40-missing-in- congo-volcano-aftermath-says-un-20210526 • https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/africa/nyiragongo-eruption-volcano-death-toll-rises-to- 32-goma-battered-by-aftershocks-watch/ • https://www.dw.com/en/did-anyone-monitor-seismic-activity-at-mount-nyiragongo/a- 57673038 • https://weather.com/news/news/2021-05-27-congo-goma-evacuates-mount-nyiragongo- eruption-fears • https://phys.org/news/2021-05-limnic-eruption-dr-congo-volcano.html Note to all “global warming alarmists” - warming effect of GHG “has been overestimated” – i.e., the modern climate models are wrong • https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/warming-effect-of-greenhouse-gases-has- been-overestimated/ar-AAKumKV • Paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/22/eabc1379 Investigating little known microbial community of the deep-sea floor • https://news.asu.edu/20210428-deep-under-ocean-microbes-are-active-and-poised-eat- whatever-comes-their-way • Paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/18/eabg0153 Human pollution from mining – not geology – is source of high levels of arsenic trioxide in Yellowknife • https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/arsenic-study-human-impact-1.6035340 Geological wonders in Pennsylvania • https://www.bayjournal.com/travel/unearth-pennsylvanias-geological- wonders/article_a610f106-ac6c-11eb-8bba-6787fb1020d8.html Egyptian fish fossils from the PETM • https://news.umich.edu/egyptian-fossil-surprise-fishes-thrived-in-tropics-in-ancient-warm- period-despite-high-ocean-temperatures/ Why do plunge pools below waterfalls periodically fill with sediment? • https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-05/gsoa-wcp051921.php Reconstructing history of Larsen c Ice Shelf in Antarctica • https://www.azocleantech.com/news.aspx?newsID=29429 The “Great Dying” at the end of the Paleozoic era • https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-05/gsoa-td051921.php Perspective: “Forays against the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant & Global Nuclear Energy” – Lubao Fault • https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/opinion-discovering-lubao-fault Trove of vertebrate fossils discovered in Mokelumne River watershed in calaveras county, california • https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/fossils-discovered-mokelumne-river- watershed/103-3bc09401-fa94-4899-9cb7-8883b58ccd3d In Memoriam: Frederick Bodholt (1940-2021) – petroleum geologist • https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/missoulian/name/frederick-bodholt- obituary?pid=198761312 Increasing holdings in the Idaho cobalt Belt • https://investingnews.com/company-news/first-cobalt-completes-a-second-cobalt-transaction- in-idaho/ Micro-climates mean species from the Ice Age persist in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin • https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ice-age-midwest-driftless-geology Western fires appear to be burning at higher elevations in the mountains • https://theconversation.com/western-fires-are-burning-higher-in-the-mountains-at- unprecedented-rates-in-a-clear-sign-of-climate-change-159699 Tracking Fagradalsfall magma in Iceland • https://eos.org/articles/chasing-magma-around-icelands-reykjanes-peninsula • https://us.cnn.com/videos/travel/2021/05/27/iceland-volcano-fagradalsfjall-erupting-lava-orig- kj.cnn Assessing existing weather models for predicting meteo-tsunamis • https://eos.org/articles/scientists-hope-atmospheric-modeling-can-predict-meteotsunamis Book Review: “crustal Magmatic System Evolution: Anatomy, Architecture & Physico-chemical Processes” • https://eos.org/editors-vox/a-360-degree-view-of-crustal-magmatic-systems Slab transported fluids play key role in deep-focus earthquakes between 300 and 700 km depth • https://phys.org/news/2021-05-deep-earth-mysterious-earthquakes.html • Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020AV000304 Volcanic gas plumes transport potential toxic metals to be deposited on the landscape • https://phys.org/news/2021-05-klauea-gas-plumes-reveal-hidden.html • Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00146-2 • Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00145-3 Highly toxic human-derived mercury is accumulating in the deepest trenches of the Pacific Ocean • https://phys.org/news/2021-05-scientists-alarm-unprecedented-mercury-accumulation.html • Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-90459-1 Tibet the “Roof of the World” has risen 300 to 600 meters over past 15 to 18 million years • https://phys.org/news/2021-05-geological-riddle-roof-world-higher.html Landslide mega-blocks on seafloor reveal half of Anak Krakatau island causing 2018 Sunda Strait tsunami • https://phys.org/news/2021-05-megablocks-seafloor-reveal-anak-krakatau.html • Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22610-5 Examining the 2020 trans-Atlantic dust storm • https://phys.org/news/2021-05-record-shattering-trans-atlantic-storm.html • Paper: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/aop/BAMS-D-21-0014.1/BAMS-D- 21-0014.1.xml?tab_body=pdf Aetiocetus weltoni - Oligocene whale had both teeth and baleen • http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/aetiocetus-weltoni-09690.html • Paper: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance- article/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab017/6278618 Eurasian horses diverged from North American Horses about 1 myo – impact of Bering Land Bridge • http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/bering-land-bridge-horses-09688.html M6.1 and M7.3 earthquakes in china • https://www.usgs.gov/news/magnitude-61-and-73-earthquakes-china Public lecture on where earthquakes hide in the desert • https://www.usgs.gov/news/media-advisory-where-earthquakes-hide-desert-live-online- public-lecture • Archived: https://www.usgs.gov/science-support/communications-and-publishing/public- lecture-series/multimedia USGS to conduct aerial mapping of colorado River • https://www.usgs.gov/news/aerial-mapping-colorado-river-over-memorial-day-weekend?qt- news_science_products=1#qt-news_science_products • https://www.usgs.gov/centers/sbsc/science/airborne-remote-sensing-grand-canyon?qt- science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects Sand is valuable and like all other natural resources is limited in supply • https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Scientists_consider_true_costs_of_sand_call_for_sustai nability_effort_999.html Great Sitkin Volcano erupts after several decades of quiescence • https://www.kucb.org/post/aleutian-volcano-sees-first-major-eruption-1974#stream/0 Mining legacy – arsenic in lake-bottom sediments near abandoned Montague gold mine in Halifax • https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/arsenic-legacy-in-lake-bottom-sediments-nova- scotia-mine-1.6041043 Resolving the contraction of dry olivine in wet subducted tectonic plates • https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-05/cfhp-dmo052621.php An explanation for earthquake lightning • https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-may-have-just-cracked-a-great- mystery-about-why-earthquake-lightning-happens/ar-AAKrs4c Newfoundland and Labrador may become global geo-tourism destination • https://www.canada.ca/en/atlantic-canada-opportunities/news/2021/05/newfoundland-and- labrador-edges-closer-to-becoming-global-geotourism-destination.html Revenge of the seabed burrowers – bioturbation in cambrian chapel Island Formation, canada • https://news.yale.edu/2021/05/27/revenge-seabed-burrowers Iceberg aggregates control calving on Jacobshavn Isbrae in Greenland • https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-05/uoca-ipb052421.php 1860-1861 slow slip mega-earthquake off Sumatra lasted 32 years • https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/an-earthquake-lasted-32-years-and-scientists-want- to-know-how/ar-AAKu9yK Now we have “derecho season” • https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/derecho-season-is-about-to-begin-why-you- should-be-aware-of-these-potentially-devastating-windstorms/ar-AAKvSxo ********************************************* Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 31 May 2021 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford Advanced Test Reactor at Idaho National Lab being refurbished at cost of $170M • https://www.yahoo.com/news/powerful-us-nuclear-test-reactor-204700216.html US Federal judge orders Dakota Access pipeline can remain open during new environmental review • https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-judge-orders-dakota-access-191154967.html Monster Wels catfish invading Europe – was illegally introduced into Spain – outcompeting native fish • https://www.yahoo.com/news/fishermen-beg-tackle-invasion-monstrous-160054216.html container homes – small, affordable, reuse of containers • https://www.yahoo.com/news/idaho-company-received-big-attention-110000862.html Navajo Nation is now largest in US with cherokee Nation now number 2 in population • https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/navajo-surpasses-cherokee-to-become-largest-native- american-tribe-enrollment-numbers-show/ar-AAKgL7K changing demographics – “the era of high fertility is ending” – Population exceeds carrying capacity • https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-the-coming-population-bust-will-transform-the-
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