"Page 2" - Scientific Topics of Interest

Iodine in Desert Dust Destroys Ozone (News Release, CIRES - University of Colorado Boulder ; December 22, 2021) https://cires.colorado.edu/news/iodine-desert-dust-destroys-ozone Dust Storm Over Bolivia , Jeff SCHMALTZ/NASA; Link

December full moon 2021: 'Full Cold Moon' meets string of 3 planets Saturday      (Jesse EMSPAK, Space.com ; December 16, 2021) https://www.space.com/42673-december-full-moon.html Alba Lunare - Punta Mola Plemmirio , Dario GIANNOBILE ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link

The Eastern Sierra Mountain Range , John TURNER; CC BY-SA 2.0 , Link The head-spinning geology of the Sierra Nevada and it's many micro-mountain ranges (Julie BROWN, SFGate ; December 6, 2021) https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/Sierra-Nevada-Lake-Tahoe-Carson-Range-16670116.php California Mountain Ranges , USGS ; Link Geologic Map of California , USGS ; Link

Partial Lunar Eclipse ,   grchb ; CC BY-SA 2.0 , Link Longest Partial Lunar Eclipse Taking Place Next Week will be Visible in All 50 States (Precious SMITH, NatureWorld News ; November 11, 2021) https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/48183/20211111/longest-partial-lunar-eclipse-taking-place-next-week-will-be-visible-in-all-50-u-s-states.htm Full moon calendar 2021:  When to see the next full moon (Kimberly HICKOK, Space.com ; November 2, 2021) https://www.space.com/16830-full-moon-calendar.html Website : What's Up: November 2021 ( NASA ) https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/2655/whats-up-november-2021/ Lunar Eclipse Vectors by Vecteezy

Wild 2:  If You Were There , NASA ; Link Vast patches of glassy rock in Chilean desert likely created by ancient exploding comet (News Release, Brown University ; November 2, 2021) https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-11-02/comet Featured Research Article: Widespread glasses generated by cometary fireballs during the late Pleistocene in the Atacama Desert, Chile (SCHULTZ et al. , 2021) https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-pdf/doi/10.1130/G49426.1/5456021/g49426.pdf Supplementary Materials (SCHULTZ et al. , 2021) https://ndownloader.figstatic.com/files/31088650 Cuenca de la Pampa del Tamarugal , Juan VILLALOBOS ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link

St. Joseph River in Benton Harbor ,  Humbles Art ;   CC BY-SA 4.0 ,  Link Michigan City on edge as lead water crisis persists (Michael PHILLIS, Associated Press ; November 3, 2021) https://apnews.com/article/business-lifestyle-environment-and-nature-michigan-poverty-12586348a94d5d57de7de6e15df23421 EPA Orders Benton Harbor, Michigan to Protect Residents from Lead Contaminated Drinking Water (Margie KELLY, NRDC ; November 2, 2021) https://www.nrdc.org/media/2021/211102-0 EPA directs City of Benton Harbor Michigan to Take Immediate Actions to Improve the Safety Aland Reliability of it's Drinking Water (Press Release, USEPA ; November 2, 2021) https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-directs-city-benton-harbor-michigan-take-immediate-actions-improve-safety-and In Benton Harbor, Residents' Complaints of Lead-Tainted Water Carry Echoes (Kelly House, Circle of Blue ; October 20, 2021) https://www.circleofblue.org/2021/world/in-benton-harbor-residents-complaints-of-le...

Satellite Map , USGS ; Link The Fault In Our Stars  (Joshua SOKOL, Science ; 7 October 2021) https://www.science.org/content/article/satellite-swarms-are-threatening-night-sky-creating-new-zone-environmental-conflict Also... NASA Works To Give Satellite Swarms a Hive Mind (Karl B. HILLE, NASA ; September 1, 2021) https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-works-to-give-satellite-swarms-a-hive-mind NASA Mission To Test Technology for Satellite Swarms  [Byron SPICE, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) ; January 21, 2021] https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2021/january/nasa-satellite-swarms.html Websites: Low Earth Orbit Visualization Map ( LeoLabs ) https://platform.leolabs.space/visualization Satellite Map ( ESRI ) https://maps.esri.com/rc/sat/index.html

Tropical Depression Nicholas , SSEC/CIMSS, University of Wisconsin-Madison ; Link Flash flooding in parts of Alabama kills at least four, prompts dozens of rescues  (Aakriti BHALLA, Peter SZEKELY and Rich MCKAY, Reuters ; October 7, 2021) https://www.reuters.com/world/us/rescues-underway-after-flash-flooding-parts-alabama-2021-10-07/ Flooding Concerns on the Rise in Southeast as Tropical Rainfall Intensifies (Rain JORDAN, Nature World News ; October 6, 2021) https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/47726/20211006/flooding-concerns-southeast-tropical-rainfall-starts-getting-more-frequent.htm Flood Infographic: NOAA/National Weather Service ; Link Video: Turn Around and Don't Drown Public Service Announcement [ National Weather Service (NWS); March 11, 2015] Websites: USGS Flood Information https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/usgs-flood-information?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects Preparing for a Flood  ( cdc.gov ) https://www.cdc...

Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) https://cleanet.org/index.html Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) Webinar Series https://cleanet.org/clean/community/webinars/webinars.html Selected Research Articles: Moving Toward Collective Impact in Climate Change Literacy:  The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN)   [LEDLEY et al. , 2014] https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1143138.pdf Undergraduate Climate Education:  Motivations, Strategies, Successes and Support   (KIRK et al., 2014) https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1164153.pdf Also... Climate Program Office ( NOAA ) https://cpo.noaa.gov/Meet-the-Divisions/Communication-Education-and-Engagement/Education AGI Earth Science Week (October 10 - 16, 2021)  "Water Today and for the Future" https://www.earthsciweek.org/about-esw

Ancient sea ice core sheds modern light on climate change (News Release, University of Birmingham ; September 9, 2021) https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2021/09/ancient-sea-ice-core-sheds-light-on-modern-climate-change.aspx Featured Research Article: Sensitivity of Holocene East Antarctic productivity to subdecadal variability set by sea ice (JOHNSON et al. , 2021) https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00722/83378/88352.pdf Also... Mid-Holocene Antarctic sea ice increase driven by marine ice sheet retreat (ASHLEY et al. , 2021) https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/17/1/2021/ Multi-decadal trends in Antarctica sea-ice extent driven by ENSO-SAM over the last 2,000 years (CROSTA et al. , 2021) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i3DiEwHEoWbWh2bWLqOYh91Kewj8oNjY/view Adélie Land (Terre-Adélie) in Antarctica ,  TUBS ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Antarctica, territorial claims including Brazil,   A loose necktie ;  CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link

Diagram of Mars Perseverance Rover Instruments , NASA ; Link Success! Mars Rover finally collects its first Rock core  (Alexandra WITZE, Nature ; September 7, 2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02394-w NASA's Perseverance Rover Successfully Cores Its First Rock (Press Release, NASA/JPL-Caltech ; September 2, 2021) https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-perseverance-rover-successfully-cores-its-first-rock

( Sacramento Bee ; September 1, 2021) https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article253893778.html Monument Fire Evacuation on August 1, 2021 ; Link Also... Raw Video:  Caldor Fire-Flames Inch Near South Lake Tahoe (California Wildfire Cal Fire,  Caledonian Record ; August 30, 2021) https://www.caledonianrecord.com/news/national/raw-ca-caldor-fire-flames-inch-near-south-lake-tahoe/video_fcb62edc-3ef2-50b4-a54e-4bb9b33ed164.html Websites: Active Fires of Interest ( Cal Fire ) https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/ Fires ( AirNow ) https://www.airnow.gov/fires/ AirNow Interactive Air Quality Map  ( EPA/ESRI ) https://gispub.epa.gov/airnow/

Latest IPCC Report Points to Urgent Need to Cut Emissions (Julie CHAO, Berkeley Lab ; August 9, 2021) https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2021/08/09/latest-ipcc-report-points-to-urgent-need-to-cut-emissions/ Featured Publications: AR6 Climate Change 2021:  The Physical Science Basis [ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/ IPCC Working Group I  (WGI) Interactive Atlas - Sixth Assessment Report https://interactive-atlas.ipcc.ch/ The IPCC and the Sixth Assessment Cycle (April 2020) https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2020/05/2020-AC6_en.pdf Also... Data Snapshot - July 2021 ( NOAA ); Link Assessing the Global Climate in June 2021  [ National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) -NOAA ] https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-202106 Additional Resources:  Global Climate Report - June 2021 ( NCEI-NOAA ) https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/202106 Video: Counting Carbon [ European Space Agency (ESA) ; July 24, ...

Saltwater Intrusion , Sweetian ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link New Method to Detect Impact of Sea Level Rise                                                                                        (Kelly BROWN, University of Adelaide ; July 29, 2021) https://www.adelaide.edu.au/newsroom/news/list/2021/07/29/new-method-to-detect-impact-of-sea-level-rise Featured Research Article: A simple and rapid ICP-MS/MS determination of sulfur isotope ratios ( 34 S/ 32 S) in complex natural waters:  A new for tracing seawater intrusion in coastal systems (LEYDEN et al. , 2021) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039914021006299?dgcid=coauthor

EPA: 11,000 facilities illegally discharged pollutants into nearby waters in 2018 (Zack BUDRYK, The Hill ; July 13, 2021) https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/562776-epa-11000-facilities-illegally-discharged-pollutants-into-nearby Clean Water Act: EPA Needs to better Assess and Disclose Quality of Compliance and Enforcement Data  [ US Government Accountability Office (GAO) ; July 12, 2021] https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-290 Featured GAO Publication : U. S. Government Accountability Office Report  ( GAO-21-290; July 2021) https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-21-290.pdf Website : National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NDPES) [USEPA] https://www.epa.gov/npdes Discharge Pipe , USDA ; Link

Beach at Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands National Park ; Dr. U ; Link   Heal the Bay Releases Annual Beach Report Card & River Report Card (Press Release, Heal the Bay ; 6/29/2021) Website: Heal the Beach Water Quality Tool https://beachreportcard.org/

Addressing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism In 21st Century STEMM Organizations:  A Summit                                                                                      [ National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) ; June 29 -30, 2921] https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/06-29-2021/addressing-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-anti-racism-in-21st-century-stemm-organizations-a-summit About: https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/addressing-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-anti-racism-in-21st-century-stemm-organizations-a-summit Image:   Quinn DOMBROSKI, CC BY-SA 2.0 , Link

Cyclone study improves climate projections   (Press Release, University of Tokyo ; June 24, 2021) Featured Research Article: Cyclonic and anticyclonic contributions to atmospheric energetics   (OKAJIMA et al. , 2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-92548-7 Cyclone and Anticlone Diagram - Low and High Pressure Weather Systems ,  Benjamin J. BURGER ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link

New ‘Swiss Army knife’ cleans up water pollution (Lila REYNOLDS, Northwestern University; June 1, 2021) Featured Research Article: Phosphate Elimination and Recovery Lightweight (PEARL) membrane:  A sustainable environmental remediation approach (RIBET et al., 2021) https://www.pnas.org/content/118/23/e2102583118.full

Want to see the Super Flower Blood Moon eclipse?  Here's what to expect. (Chelsea GOHD, Space.com ; May 25, 2021) https://www.space.com/super-flower-blood-moon-eclipse-2021-what-to-expect The Next Full Moon is a Super Flower Blood Moon and an Eclipse (Gordon JOHNSTON, NASA ; May 24, 2021) https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/1864/the-next-full-moon-is-the-super-flower-blood-moon-and-an-eclipse/ Blood Moon Graphic , Sanu N ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link

Tectonic Plate Boundaries , USGS ; Link Researchers discover geologic process 'tearing apart' plates of the Earth's crust (Sean BETTAM, University of Toronto ; May 13, 2021) https://www.utoronto.ca/news/researchers-discover-geologic-process-tearing-apart-plates-earth-s-crust Video: Subduction Pulley - Animation ( EurekAlert/University of Toronto ) https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/264689.php Also... Extending   full - plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic to the Phanerozoic (MERDITH et al ., 2021) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825220305237?CMX_ID=&SIS_ID=&dgcid=STMJ_AUTH_SERV_PUBLISHED&utm_acid=81048317&utm_campaign=STMJ_AUTH_SERV_PUBLISHED&utm_in=DM115744&utm_medium=email&utm_source=AC_ A billion years in 40 seconds:  Video reveals our dynamic planet (News Release, EurekAlert ; 8 February 2021) https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/uos-aby020721.php

U. S. Drought Monitor ; Link Deepening Droughts Hold 'Ominous' Signs For Wildfire Threat In The West (Eric WESTERVELT, NPR ; May 6, 2021) https://www.npr.org/2021/05/06/993172298/deepening-drought-holds-ominous-signs-for-wildfire-threat-in-the-west Drought Returning to California (Niloufar SHAHBANDI, UCSD Guardian ; May 2, 2021) https://ucsdguardian.org/2021/05/02/drought-returning-to-california/ Dramatic photos of Lake Oroville depict California's worsening drought (Paul ROGERS, Mercury News; April 29, 2021) https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/29/dramatic-photos-of-lake-oroville-depict-californias-worsening-drought/ Also... NOAA Delivers New U. S. Climate Normals (New Release,  NCEI - NOAA ; May 4, 2021) https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/noaa-delivers-new-us-climate-normals Websites: Droughts in California ( Public Policy Institute of California ) https://www.ppic.org/publication/droughts-in-california/ Drought   ( California Department of Water Resources ) https://water.ca.g...

  'The continents are drying out':  New USask research shows troubling trends (Research Profile and Impact, University of Saskatchewan ; April 15, 2021) https://news.usask.ca/articles/research/2021/the-continents-are-drying-out-new-usask-research-shows-troubling-water-trends.php Groundwater wells worldwide run risk of running dry (New Release, EurekAlert; 22 April 2021) https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-04/aaft-gww041921.php Women digging the well, Vaikoovery ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link

Scientists develop eco-friendly pollen sponge to tackle water contaminants : Scientists led by NTU Singapore have created a reusable, biodegradable sponge that can readily soak up oil and other organic solvents from contaminated water sources, making it a promising alternative for tackling marine oil spills...  (Press Release, EurekAlert ; April 7, 2021) Also... Transformation of hard pollen into soft matter (FAN et al. , 2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15294-w Website: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore https://www.ntu.edu.sg/ Helianthus annuus L. pollen , Link

This startup has unlocked a novel way to capture carbon - by turning fouling gas into rocks (Ragnhildur SIGURDARDOTTIR, Akshat RATHI and Bloomberg, Forbes ; March 6, 2021) https://fortune.com/2021/03/06/carbon-capture-storage-rocks-net-zero-carbfix-startup-iceland/ Scientists in Iceland are turning carbon dioxide into rocks (Rosamond HUTT, World Economic Forum ; 21 May 2019) https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/05/scientists-in-iceland-are-turning-carbon-dioxide-into-rock/ Gas rocks!  Mineralizing carbon dioxide into rocks (Felicity ASTON, Engineering & Technology News ; April 19, 2018) https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2018/04/gas-rocks-mineralising-carbon-dioxide-into-rock/ The world's first "negative emissions" plant has begun operations (Akshat RATHI, Quartz ; October 12, 2017) https://qz.com/1100221/the-worlds-first-negative-emissions-plant-has-opened-in-iceland-turning-carbon-dioxide-into-stone/ Selected Research Articles : Subducting Carbon (PLANK a...

Celebrate Pi Day : Advancing research. Creating connections.  [ American Mathematical Society (AMS) ] Pi Unrolled by John REID/Delanoche2386 , CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link What is Pi? (Ellen J. HOM and Brandon SPEKTOR , LiveScience ; October 19, 2018) https://www.livescience.com/amp/29197-what-is-pi.html Pi might look random, but it is full of hidden patterns (Steve HUMBLE, The Conversation ; March 14, 2016) https://theconversation.com/pi-might-look-random-but-its-full-of-hidden-patterns-55994 Pi Day: pi transformed into incredible art in pictures (Alex BELLOS, The Guardian UK ; March 14, 2014) https://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/gallery/2014/mar/14/pi-day-pi-transformed-into-incredible-art-in-pictures?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Pi Clock Vector Clipart , Link

Marie Maynard DALY , Digital Commons - Rockefeller University ; Link Marie M. Daly - From a Love of Science to a Legacy of Discoveries                                                (Wei LI, Howard University ; November 12, 2020) https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2020/marie-m-daly-from-a-love-of-science-to-a-legacy-of-discoveries-2/ Marie Maynard Daly                                                                                                                         ( Science History Institute ) https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/marie-maynard-daly Also......

Mount Etna Eruption 2021 (U. S. Naval Air Station - Sigonella, Italy) ; CC BY-SA 2.0 , Link Mt. Etna's latest eruptions awe even those who study volcanos                                               ( Associated Press ; February 23, 2021) https://apnews.com/article/video-mount-etna-volcano-eruption-italy-fdfd723edc960de35308d04d67de8596 Recent eruptions of Mount Etna   (Alan TAYLOR, The Atlantic ; February 22, 2021) https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2021/02/photos-recent-eruptions-mount-etna/618113/

NASA's Perseverance Rover's First 360 View of Mars (February 22, 2021)   Website: Mars 2020 Mission Perserverance Rover ( NASA Science ) https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

The Urban Water Cycle ; NSF, Link A review of the impact of environmental factors on the fate and transport of coronaviruses in aqueous environments (PAUL et al. , 2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41545-020-00096-w Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in water environments:  Current status, challenges and research opportunities (IHSANULLAH et al. , 2020) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7566827/ Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak:  some serious consequences with urban and rural water cycle (BHOWMICK et al. , 2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41545-020-0079-1 3D Coronavirus , Scientificanimations.com ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link

JPL-NASA , Link Map:  See the part of Highway 1 near Big Sur that fell into the ocean                                     (Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle ; January 29, 2021) https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/big-sur-closure/ How the atmospheric river storm affected California's water supply                                              (Paul ROGERS, The Mercury News ; January 29, 2021)  https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/29/how-the-atmospheric-river-storm-affected-californias-water-supply/ What are these atmospheric rivers that bring heavy rain and snow to California?                        (Paul DUGINSKI, Los Angeles Times ; January 28, 2021) https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-28/what...

An Animated Infographic of the Science of Batteries generously offered as a resource by  Michael G., Communications Manager from SaveOnEnergy.com via email. How Batteries Work - An Animated Guide to the Science of Batteries (Graphic Attribution: SaveOnEnergy.com )

Access to 10,000 miles of US national park trails has been restored (Andrea SMITH, The Lonely Planet ; January 21, 2021) https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/restored-trails-usa National Park Foundation and Nature Valley Help Restore Access to 10,000 Miles of National Park Trails (Press Release, NFP News ; January 6, 2021) https://www.nationalparks.org/about-foundation/newsroom/national-park-foundation-and-nature-valley-help-restore-access-10000-miles Yosemite Bridalveil Fall ; Pimlico27 ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link