"Page 2" - Scientific Topics of Interest

Elektra Fire, South of Sacramento (July 2022) ; State of California/ CAL  FIRE ; Link CAL FIRE releases updated Fire Hazard Severity Zone Map for public comment, will host 57 Public Hearings throughout CA ( CAL FIRE/YubaNet.com; December 14, 2022) https://yubanet.com/california/cal-fire-releases-updated-fire-hazard-severity-zone-map-for-public-comment-will-host-57-public-hearings-throughout-ca/ Website : Fire Hazard Severity Zone Maps ( CAL FIRE - Office of the State Fire Marshal ) https://osfm.fire.ca.gov/fire-hazard-severity-zones-maps-2022/

Hamilton Harbour , Mykola SWARNYK ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Indigenous water walkers and Haudenosaunee Development Institute ask Hamilton to listen amid sewage spill    (Bobby HRISTOVA, CBC News ; December 14, 2022) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/indigenous-reaction-sewage-spill-1.6661799 Hamilton estimates 337 million litres of sewage spilled into Harbourfront since 1996   (Bobby HRISTOVA, CBC News ; November 28, 2022) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hamilton-sewage-leak-hamilton-harbour-burlington-street-1.6666445 City of Hamilton discovers 26-year leak of sewage into Hamilton Harbour   (Bobby HRISTOVA, CBC News ; November 22, 2022) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hamilton-sewage-leak-hamilton-harbour-1.6660676 Websites : Haudenosaunee Development Institute ( Haudenosaunee Confederacy ) https://www.haudenosauneeconfederacy.com/departments/haudenosaunee-development-institute/ Burlington Street Sewage Spill & Response ( City ...

Hawaii Island Topographic Map , Sémhur/Kmusser ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Hawaii's chill volcano Mauna Loa and its feisty neighbor Kīlauea have quite a bit in common (Dave LEVITAN and Anna DEEN, The Grid ; December 1, 2022) https://www.grid.news/story/science/2022/12/01/hawaiis-chill-volcano-mauna-loa-and-its-feisty-neighbor-kilauea-have-quite-a-bit-in-common/ Where Mauna Loa's lava is coming from - and why Hawaii's volcanoes are different from most (Gabe LASKE, The Conversation ; November 30, 2022) https://theconversation.com/where-mauna-loas-lava-is-coming-from-and-why-hawaiis-volcanoes-are-different-from-most-195633 2 new lava flows cascade down Mauna Loa as Hawaii sees neighboring volcanoes erupting (Amir VERA, Holly YAN and Elizabeth WOLFE, CNN ; November 29, 2022) https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/us/hawaii-mauna-loa-kilauea-eruption-tuesday/index.html Selected Research Article : Elastic interaction between Mauna Loa and Kīlauea evidenced by independent compon...

Sun Rise from the Sea (Point Pedro, Sri Lanka) , KSKarthikSiva ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Where on Earth does the sun rise first? (Donavyn COFFEY, LiveScience ; December 5, 2022) https://www.livescience.com/first-sunrise-earth#:~:text=Specifically%2C%20Kiribati's%20easternmost%20uninhabited%20island,Earth%20to%20welcome%20the%20sun.

New minerals discovered in massive meteorite may reveal clues to asteroid formation (Adrianna MACPHERSON, University of Alberta ; November 28, 2022) https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2022/11/new-minerals-discovered-in-massive-meteorite-may-reveal-clues-to-asteroid-formation.html Vincent PERLERIN and Mike HANKEY/American Meteor Society ; link

What time is the Blood Moon total lunar eclipse on Nov. 8? (Tariq MALIK, Space.com ; November 6, 2022) https://www.space.com/blood-moon-lunar-eclipse-november-2022-what-time Beaver Blood Moon lunar eclipse 2022:. Everything you need to know (Jamie CARTER, Space.com ; October 31, 2022) https://www.space.com/blood-moon-lunar-eclipse-november-2022-guide#section-where-to-watch-the-lunar-eclipse-online Lunar Eclipse - Blood Moon , Daniela ; CC BY-SA 2.0 , Link

European Honey Bee ( Apis mellifera ) Extracts Nectar, John SEVERN ; Link Insects affecting electric fields in atmosphere, researchers find (Press Release, University of Bristol; 24 October 2022) https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2022/october/insects-affect-electric-fields.html Featured Research Article: Observed electric charge of insect swarms and their contribution to atmospheric electricity (HUNTING et al. , 2022) https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(22)01513-9#%20

Virgin-Muddy River Watershed , Shannon ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link The Geologic Secrets of Lake Mead : Record of past volcanic eruptions — and potential hazards to health — revealed by low water levels at dwindling local tap source. ( News Center, University of Nevada - Las Vegas ; September 27, 2022) Las Vegas Lake Mead , Pierre MARKUSE ; CC BY-SA 2.0 , Link

Neptune through the Years, NASA/ESA/CSA/STScl ; Link New Webb image captures clearest views of Neptune's rings in decades [ European Space Agency (ESA) ; 21 September 2022] https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/New_Webb_image_captures_clearest_view_of_Neptune_s_rings_in_decades

Exoplanet WASP 39b, NASA; Link Webb telescope spots CO2 on exoplanet for first time:  what it means for finding alien life  (Shannon HALL,  Nature ; August 29, 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02350-2?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=1c9921bf2e-briefing-dy-20220830&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-1c9921bf2e-42022891 WASP-39b Atmosphere Composition, NASA et al. ; Link Featured Pre-Print Article: Identification of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere   (AHRER  et al. , 2022) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.11692 Also... The complete transmission spectrum of exoplanet WASP-39b with a precise water constraint   (WAKEFORD et al. , 2017) https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aa9e4e/pdf WASP 39b:  A highly inflated Hot Saturn-mass planet orbiting a late G-type star (FAEDI et al. , 2011) https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2011/07/aa16671-11/aa16671-11.html

Megalodon , User: Physter ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link The extinct shark Otodus megalodon was a transoceanic super-predator:  Inferences from 3D modeling (COOPER et al. , 2022)  https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm9424 Body dimensions of extinct giant shark Otodus megalodon :  A 2D reconstruction (COOPER et al. , 2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71387-y Megalodon Size Chart , Oliver E. DEMUTH , CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Also... Website: Miocene Fossil Collection ( Buena Vista Museum of Natural History & Science ) https://www.buenavistamuseum.org/miocenecollection  

Rare Paraíba Tourmaline , Robert M. LAVINSKY ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Geochemistry of silicate and oxide inclusions in sublithospheric diamonds (WALTER et al. , 2022) https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/rimg/article-pdf/88/1/393/5645135/rmg.2022.88.07.pdf Special Issue:  "Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Gems"  [VOUDOURIS et al ., Guest Editors.  Minerals,  Volume 9 (2019)] https://www.mdpi.com/journal/minerals/special_issues/Gems Geochemical and geological controls on the genesis of gem quality "Paraíba Tourmaline" in granitic pegmatites from northeastern Brazil (BEURLEN et al. , 2011) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hartmut-Beurlen/publication/233416371_Geochemical_and_geological_controls_on_the_genesis_of_gem-quality_Paraiba_Tourmaline_in_granitic_pegmatites_from_northeastern_Brazil/links/0fcfd50a68db7a97f2000000/Geochemical-and-geological-controls-on-the-genesis-of-gem-quality-Paraiba-Tourmaline-in-granitic-pegmatites-from-northeastern-Brazil.pdf...

Hunga Tonga Hunga-Ha'api Volcanic Island , GARVIN et al., 2017 ; Link Record-breaking Tonga Volcano generated the fastest atmospheric waves ever seen (Nicoletta LANESE, LiveScience ; June 30, 2022) https://www.livescience.com/tonga-volcanic-eruption-fast-waves Ash Plume from Hunga Tonga Hunga-Ha'api Volcano , NASA ; Link More... Hunga Tonga undersea volcanic eruption likely to make ozone hole larger in coming years (Tererza PULTAROVA, Space.com ; January 24, 2023) https://www.space.com/hunga-tonga-will-make-ozone-hole-larger?fbclid=IwAR2-1VlE-smtsvYE3J91edaBwc-9_c0HXmGW2vGnFNGn64DSSSKlGBPpthk Eruption sequence of the 2022 of the Hunga-Tonga Ha'api explosion from back-projection of teleseismic P waves (TORUMI and YOSHIZAWA, 2023) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X22006021?via%3Dihub The Early Microbial Colonizers of the Short-Lived Volcanic Island in the Kingdom of Tonga (DRAGONE et al. , 2023) https://journals.asm.org/doi...

( United Nations ; May 22, 2022) 'Build a shared future for all life', urges UN chief on Biodiversity Day

Super Flower Blood Moon over Bayou Bienvenue in New Orleans (2021) , Michael DEMOCKER ; Link The Super Flower Blood Moon Lunar eclipse of 2022 occurs tonight!  Here's what to expect (Elizabeth HOWELL, Space.com ; May 15, 2022) https://www.space.com/super-flower-blood-moon-eclipse-tonight The Super Flower Blood Moon eclipse will leave these lunar spacecraft in the dark (Stephanie WALDEK, Space.com ; May 15, 2022) https://www.space.com/super-flower-blood-moon-eclipse-lunar-spacecraft-2022

Bleached Coral, Acoropora sp . , Vardhan PATANKAR ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Corals and sea anemones turn sunscreen into toxins -  understanding could help save coral reefs (Djordje VUCKOVIC and Bill MITCH, The Conversation ; May 5, 2022) https://theconversation.com/corals-and-sea-anemones-turn-sunscreen-into-toxins-understanding-how-could-help-save-coral-reefs-182311 Also... Toxic effects of UV filters from sunscreens on coral reefs revisited:  regulatory aspects for "reef safe" products (MILLER et al. , 2021) https://enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12302-021-00515-w Investigating the exposure and impact of chemical UV filters on coral reef ecosystems:. Review and research gap prioritization (WATKINS and SALLACH, 2021) https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/ieam.4411 Adding insult to injury: Effects of chronic oxybenzone exposure and elevated temperature on two reef-building corals (WIJGERDE et al. , 2020) https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...

Aerosol Optical Depth (March 2000 - March 2022), NASA Earth Observatory Taking Stock  [ Commission for Environmental Cooperation   (CEC) ] http://takingstock.cec.org/content/landing/en/ Taking Stock Interactive Infographic http://www.cec.org/files/tsinteractive/index-en.html Websites: 2022 Air Quality Awareness Week   ( U. S. Air Quality Index ) https://www.airnow.gov/aqaw/ Aerosol Optical Depth Global Map ( NASA Earth Observatory ) https://www.airnow.gov/aqaw/

Lightning over the River - Panoramio ,  Ron SHAWLEY ; Link Observation of five types of leaders contained in a negative triggered lightning (WANG et al. , 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10366-x A review of volcanic electrification of the atmosphere and volcanic lightning (CIMARELLI and GENAREAU, 2022) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037702732100278X Side Discharges From the Active Negative Leaders in a Positive Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Flash (YUAN et al. , 2021) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shanfeng-Yuan/publication/354215815_Side_Discharges_From_the_Active_Negative_Leaders_in_a_Positive_Cloud-To-Ground_Lightning_Flash/links/613ab95eee29a068c715350f/Side-Discharges-From-the-Active-Negative-Leaders-in-a-Positive-Cloud-To-Ground-Lightning-Flash.pdf Gigantic jet discharges evolve stepwise through the middle of the atmosphere (VAN DER VELDE et al. , 2019) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12261-y Lightni...

Great Conjunction Simulation 2020 , NASA ; Link The planets are prepping for an epic alignment.  Here's how to see it shape up. (Stephanie PAPPAS, LiveScience ; April 11, 2022) https://www.livescience.com/planetary-alignment-2022 What's Up:  Sky Watching Tips from NASA https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/skywatching/whats-up/ Website: What's Up:  April 2022 (Resources) ( Solar System Exploration - NASA ; March 31, 2022) https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/2720/whats-up-april-2022/

Bertie MILES, NASA Conger ice shelf has collapsed: what you need to know according to experts (Hilmar GUNDMUNSSON , Adrian JENKINS, and Bertie MILES, The Conversation ; March 28, 2022) https://theconversation.com/conger-ice-shelf-has-collapsed-what-you-need-to-know-according-to-experts-180077 Satellite data shows entire Conger Ice Shelf has collapsed in Antarctica  (Donna LU, The Guardian UK ; March 24, 2022) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/25/satellite-data-shows-entire-conger-ice-shelf-has-collapsed-in-antarctica Iceberg C-38 has Calved as the Conger Ice Shelf Broke Free in the Wilkes Land Region (Press Release, US National Ice Center ; March 17, 2022)  https://usicecenter.gov/PressRelease/IcebergC38 Websites : Ice Shelf Collapse in East Antarctica ( Earth Observatory - NASA ) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/149640/ice-shelf-collapse-in-east-antarctica Quick Facts on Ice Shelves ( National Snow and Ice Data Center ) https://nsidc.org/cryosp...

Elemental Particle Interactions, ParticlesAndMath ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Quantum Boomerang (Sonia FERNANDEZ, The Current - UCSB ; February 28, 2022) https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2022/020561/quantum-boomerang#:~:text=Physicists%20at%20UC%20Santa%20Barbara,kicked%20out%20of%20their%20locations. Featured Research Article : Observation of the Quantum Boomerang Effect (SAJJAD et al. , 2022) https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevX.12.011035 Also... Quantum boomerang effect:. Beyond the standard Anderson model (JANAREK et al. , 2022) https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.11019 Quantum boomerang effect: Beyond the standard Anderson model   (TESSIERI et al. , 2021) https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.103.063316 Quantum boomerang effect for interacting particles (JANAREK et al. , 2020) https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03021955

Jurassic Coast , George HODAN ; Link Toxic waste revealed as eroding coastlines exposed old landfills (Anne TURNS, The Guardian UK; 17 March 2022) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/17/toxic-waste-revealed-as-eroding-coastlines-expose-old-landfills Selected Research Articles : Coastal Landfills and Rising Sea Levels: A Challenge for the 21st Century (STRINGFELLOW et al. , 2021) https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/document/82821 Potential contamination of coastal zones by eroding historic landfills (BRAND et al. , 2019) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X19304631 Potential pollution risks of historic landfills on low-lying coasts and estuaries (BRAND et al. , 2017) https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wat2.1264

Vancouver Island Relief Map , Qyd/USGS ; Link Record-Breaking Rogue Wave Recorded of the Coast of Vancouver Island   (MarineLabs, Newswire.ca ; February 8, 2022) https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/record-breaking-rogue-wave-recorded-off-the-coast-of-vancouver-island-830202783.html Featured Research Article: Generation mechanism and a prediction of an observed extreme rogue wave (GEMMRICH and CICON, 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05671-4 Also... On the frequency of rogue waves   (Craig BROKENSHA, Swellnet Analysis ; 15 September 2020) https://www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet-analysis/2020/09/1P5/the-frequency-rogue-waves Statistical Wave Height Distribution , NOAA- National Weather Service ( NWS) ; Link Website : The Comet Program  ( UCAR/NOAA-NWS Community Programs ) https://www.comet.ucar.edu/who_about_us.php#:~:text=The%20COMET%C2%AE%20Program%20was,during%20the%20NWS's%20modernization%20program.

New lightweight material is stronger than steel   Anne TRAFTON, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ; February 2, 2022] https://news.mit.edu/2022/polymer-lightweight-material-2d-0202 Featured Research Article: An Irreversible Synthetic Route to an Ultra-Strong Two Dimensional Polymer* (ZENG et al ., 2021) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.13925 *N. B .: Unlike the ZENG et al. , 2022 article published in  Nature , this earlier version is not peer-reviewed. 2D Polymer , Prof. Dr. A. D. SCHLÜTER ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link

Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Eruption , NASA/NESDIS/STAR ; Link Tonga Volcano eruption created puzzling ripples in Earth's atmosphere (David ADAM, Nature ; January 18, 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00127-1 Explainer: Scientists struggle to monitor Tonga volcano after massive eruption  (Kanupriya KAPOOR,  Reuters ; January 17, 2022) https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/scientists-struggle-monitor-tonga-volcano-after-massive-eruption-2022-01-17/ Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Erupts ( NASA Earth Observatory ; January 15, 2022) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/149347/hunga-tonga-hunga-haapai-erupts Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Erupts Again  ( NESDIS-NOAA ; January 14, 2022) https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/hunga-tonga-hunga-haapai-erupts-again

(Heidi LEDFORD, Nature ; January 11, 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00063-0?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=d8c68d8564-briefing-dy-20220112&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-d8c68d8564-42022891 Also... T cells recognize recent SARS-CoV-2 variants (Media Advisory, NIH ; March 30, 2021) https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/t-cells-recognize-recent-sars-cov-2-variants Selected Research Article: SARS-CoV-2-specific T Cell immunity in cases of COVID-19 and SARS, and uninfected controls (LE BERT et al. , 2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2550-z Healthy Human T Lymphocyte ("T Cell") , NIAID/NIH ; Link

Surface Waves of Water , Roger MCLASSUS ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Metallic water prepared for the first time under terrestrial conditions (Press Release, Czech Academy of Sciences ; 28 July 2021) https://www.avcr.cz/en/news-archive/Metallic-water-prepared-for-the-first-time-under-terrestrial-conditions/ Water transformed into shiny, golden metal (Davide CASTELVECCHI, Nature ; 28 July 2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02065-w Featured Research Article : Spectroscopic evidence for a gold colored metallic water solution (MASON et al. , 2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03646-5 (MASON et al. , 2021)