Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

On August 16, 2017, I had the unique opportunity of participating in person at the  "Land Subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley"   - a  Water Education Foundation (WEF) Event - on the CSU Fresno Campus in Fresno, CA. To those who might be interested in the various presentations made by Researchers from the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) , the  National Aeronautics and Space Administration Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL) , the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) , and the Central California Irrigation District,  a copy of the Briefing Agenda and five (5) Power Point presentations may be accessed via the following Water Education Foundation hyperlink: Land Subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley Briefing (August 16, 2017) http://www.watereducation.org/foundation-event/land-subsidence-san-joaquin-valley Also... Melting snowpack and sinking land threaten Valley communities with flooding (Marc BENJAMIN, The Fresno Bee ; April 1, 2017) htt...

Preparing for the August 2017 Total Solar Eclipse : On Aug. 21, 2017, the moon will pass in front of the sun and cast a shadow upon all of North America, coast-to-coast, for the first time since 1918. The Great American Eclipse is 2 Weeks Away.  Are you Ready? (Calla COFIELD, Space.com ; August 7, 2017) https://www.space.com/37726-solar-eclipse-2017-2-weeks-away.html Map: Total Solar Eclispe on August 21, 2017  (NASA) https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/eclipse_full_map.pdf Website: NASA - Total Solar Eclipse  https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2017Aug21Tgoogle.html

Hong Kong cleans up greasy beaches after palm oil spill | AFP.com [ Agence France Presse (AFP) ; August 7, 2017] Also... Multiple beaches polluted by spilled palm oil from sunken ship ( Ejinsight.com ; August 7, 2017) http://www.ejinsight.com/20170807-multiple-beaches-polluted-by-spilled-palm-oil-from-sunken-ship/ Map of the Pearl River Estuary ( Xiaoyan Chen Huiwang Gao Xiaohong Yao Zhenhua Chen Hongda Fang Shufeng Ye ; FigShare; 23.07.2013) Soko Islands viewed from Tian Tan Buddha on Lantau  (Millevache, Wikimedia Commons; October 24, 2013) By Millevache - Own work . Cropped version of File:Island from Tian Tan Buddha.JPG by User:Mimihitam , CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link

How Much Drinking Water Has California Lost to Oil Industry Waste?  No One Knows (Lauren SOMMER, KQED Science ; August 3, 2017) https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2017/08/03/how-much-drinking-water-has-california-lost-to-oil-industry-waste-no-one-knows/