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University of Arizona: Tracking COVID-19 Via Wastewater Analysis

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The University of Arizona says it caught a dorm's covid-19 outbreak before it started.  It's secret weapon:  Poop. (Jaclyn PEISER, Washington Post ; August 28, 2020) https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/28/arizona-coronavirus-wastewater-testing/ WEST monitors wastewater to keep  safe (News Release, University of Arizona ; August 24, 2020) https://west.arizona.edu/news/2020/08/west-monitors-wastewater-keep-campus-safe UArizona Tracking Coronavirus Through Wastewater Across US (Rosemary BRANDT, University of Arizona ; April 2, 2020) https://news.arizona.edu/story/uarizona-tracking-coronavirus-through-wastewater-across-us By Steven PAVLOV, CC0 , Link

Volcanic Pumice “Raft” from Seamount Volcano “F” in the Pacific Reaches Australia

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By Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2019, European Space Agency (ESA) Attribution, Link A Stupendously Huge Raft of Volcanic Rock has floated across the Ocean to Australia (Peter DOCKRILL, Science Alert ; August 20, 2020) https://www.sciencealert.com/a-gigantic-raft-of-volcanic-rock-drifted-across-the-ocean-all-the-way-to-australia Volcano F is the origin of the floating stones (News Release, EurekAlert! ; 9 December 2019) https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/hcfo-vfi120919.php Selected Research Articles: The largest deep ocean silicic volcanic eruption of the past century (CAREY et al. , 2018) https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/4/1/e1701121.full.pdf On the fate of pumice rafts formed during the 2012 Havre submarine eruption  (JUTZELER et al. , 2014) https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms4660/ Rapid Long-Distance Dispersal of Pumice rafting (BRYAN et al. , 2012) https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=...

Reconstruction of Global Paleoclimates from Ancient Sea Surface Temperatures

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A & S Researchers Lay the Groundwork to Reconstruct Global Climate through Earth's History (Dan BERNARDI, Syracuse University ; August 13, 2020) https://news.syr.edu/blog/2020/08/13/as-researchers-lay-the-groundwork-to-reconstruct-global-climate-through-earths-history/ Featured Research Article: A Dynamical Framework for Interpreting Ancient Sea Surface Temperatures (JUDD et al. , 2020) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020GL089044 Also of Interest... Stable isotopes in atmospheric water vapor and applications to the hydrologic cycle (GALEWSKY et al. , 2016) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015RG000512 By <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Glen_Fergus" title="User:Glen Fergus">Glen Fergus</a> - <span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>; data sources are cited <a href="#Data">below</a>, CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link