Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

Iceberg A-68A Migration Course, European Space Agency (ESA); CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO , Link Mega iceberg releases 152 billion tonnes of fresh water into ocean (Press Release, University of Leeds UK ; 20 January 2022) https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news-environment/news/article/4997/mega-iceberg-released-152-billion-tonnes-of-fresh-water-into-ocean Featured Research Article: Observing the disintegration of the A68A iceberg from space (BRAAKMAN-FOLGMANN et al ., 2022) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425721005757/pdfft?isDTMRedir=true&download=true Supplementary Video 1 (BRAAKMANN-FOLGMANN et al., 2022) https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0034425721005757-mmc1.mp4

Credit:   Markus REICHSTEIN, Max PLANCK Institute for Biogeochemistry ; CC Licenses ,  Link Earth inhales and exhales carbon in mesmerizing animation (Stephanie PAPPAS, LiveScience ; January 13, 2022) https://www.livescience.com/carbon-sinks-globe-animation Websites : Research Group: Model-Data Integration ( Department of Biogeochemical Integration - Max PLANCK Institute for Biogeochemistry) https://www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/bgi/index.php/Research/ModelDataFusion Markus REICHSTEIN, Director  ( Department of Biogeochemical Integration - Max PLANCK Institute for Biogeochemistry) https://www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/bgi/index.php/People/MarkusReichstein

(Kara MANKE, Berkeley News ; January 11, 2022) https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/01/11/study-safe-drinking-water-remains-out-of-reach-for-many-californians/ Featured Research Article: Inequities in Drinking Water Quality Among Domestic Well Communities and Community Water Systems, California, 2011-2019 (PACE et al. , 2021) https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306561 Old Fashion Faucet , Cicinature ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Website: Drinking Water Quality Tool  ( Community Water Center ) https://drinkingwatertool.communitywatercenter.org/ca-water/

Portrait of Global Aerosols (NASA) ; Link Selected Research Articles: Open questions of transition metals driving secondary thermal processes in atmospheric aerosols (AL-ABADLEH and NIZKORODOV, 2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-021-00616-w Aging of atmospheric aerosols and the role of iron in catalyzing brown carbon formation (AL-ABADLEH, 2021) https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2021/ea/d1ea00038a A Review on the Bulk and Surface Chemistry of Iron in Atmospherically-relevant Systems Containing Humic Like Substances (HULIS) [AL-ABADLEH, 2015] https://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=chem_faculty Also... Aerosol Mixing State:  Measurements, Modeling and Impacts (RIEMER et al. , 2019) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018RG000615 Website :  Aerosol Optical Thickness [ NASA Earth Observations (NEO) ] https://neo.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=MODAL2_M_AER_OD

Some L. A. County beaches closed after untreated sewage spill of 6 - 7 million gallons (Tony KURZWELL and Tracy BLOOM, KTLA Channel 5 News ; December 31, 2021) https://ktla.com/news/local-news/long-beach-closes-beaches-after-2-to-4-million-gallons-of-untreated-sewage-spills-into-dominguez-channel/ Also... LA County declares local emergency over Dominguez Channel odor near Carson (Ryan CARTER, Daily Breeze ; November 2, 2021) https://www.dailybreeze.com/2021/11/02/la-county-declares-local-emergency-over-dominguez-channel-odor-near-carson/amp/ Los Angeles Watershed ( City of Los Angeles Sanitation ) Websites: Dominguez Channel and Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbors WMA ( CA State Water Resources Control Board ) https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/losangeles/water_issues/programs/regional_program/Water_Quality_and_Watersheds/dominguez_channel/summary.shtml Virtual Tour of Dominguez Channel ( Public Works - Los Angeles County ) https://www.ladpw.org/wmd/watershed/dc/photos/chan...

State of Bihar, India by Maverick.Mohit ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link After Arsenic, Health Concerns over Uranium Contamination in Groundwater  (Mohd. Imran KHAN, NewsClick India ; 06 October 2021) https://www.newsclick.in/Bihar-After-Arsenic-Health-Concerns-Uranium-Contamination-Groundwater Featured Research Article :  Distribution and geochemical controls of arsenic and uranium in groundwater-derived drinking water in Bihar, India (RICHARDS et al., 2020) https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/7/2500/pdf Also... Uranium in drinking water:  A growing concern for India  (Central Ground Water Board, India Water Portal;  07 September 2021) https://www.indiawaterportal.org/articles/uranium-drinking-water-growing-concern-india Selected Research Articles: Arsenic contamination of groundwater: A global synopsis with focus on the Indian Peninsula (SHAJI et al. , 2021) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987120302115/pdfft?isDTMRedir=true&downlo...

Ordos Basin (YOU et al. , 2021) Triassic hydrothermal chimneys from the Ordos Basin of Northern China (YOU et al., 2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-02053-0 Also... Soft sediment deformation structures in cores from lacustrine slurry deposits of the Late Triassic Yangchang Fm. (central China) [YANG et al. , 2016] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Renchao-Yang/publication/311708424_Soft-sediment_deformation_structures_in_cores_from_lacustrine_slurry_deposits_of_the_Late_Triassic_Yanchang_Fm_central_China/links/5badeb75a6fdccd3cb78fcbf/Soft-sediment-deformation-structures-in-cores-from-lacustrine-slurry-deposits-of-the-Late-Triassic-Yanchang-Fm-central-China.pdf Major, trace and platinum group element geochemistry of Upper nonmarine hot shales in the Ordos Basin, Central China (QIU et al. , 2015) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xinwei-Qiu/publication/269727365_Major_trace_and_platinum-group_element_geochemistry_of_the_Upper_Triassic_nonmarine_hot_sh...