Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

Blue Carbon Infograph , Emily LANDIS -The Nature Conservancy ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Variability of blue carbon storage in arid evaporitic environment of two coastal Sabhkas or mudflats (AL DISI et al. , 2023) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-39762-7#citeas Progress of blue carbon research: 12 years of global trends based on content analysis of peer-reviewed and 'gray literature' documents (QUEVEDO et al. , 2023) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0964569123000200 An Australian blue carbon method to estimate climate change mitigation benefits of coastal wetland restoration (LOVELOCK et al. , 2022) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/rec.13739 The future of Blue Carbon Science (MACREADIE et al. , 2019) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11693-w Website : The Blue Carbon Initiative https://www.thebluecarboninitiative.org/

Public Meeting - To Comment on Chevron Refinery's 2021 Wharf Oil Spill Report (Civic Alert,  City of Richmond CA ; July 11, 2023) https://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2323 View of Pt. Richmond and Chevron Refinery - Richmond, CA in 2016 , Audiohifi ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link

( Karst Flattened , Sunila Sen GUPTA - Goupil Illustration ;  CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link ) Hellenic karst waters:  geogenic and anthropogenic processes affecting their geochemistry and quality (LI VIGNI et al. , 2023) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-38349-6 Water quality and hydrogeochemical characteristics of some karst water sources in Apuseni Mountains, Romania (HOAGHIA et al. , 2021) https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/13/6/857/pdf SNO KARST:  A French Network of Observatories for the Multidisciplinary Study of Critical Zone Processes in Karst Watersheds and Aquifers (JOURDE et al. , 2018) https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2136/vzj2018.04.0094 Also... Comparison of Uranium Isotopes and Classical Geochemical Tracers in Karst Aquifer of Ljubljanica River catchment (Slovenia) [ROVAN et al. , 2020] https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/12/7/2064

Hells Bells-B , RITTER et al., 2019 ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Selected Research Articles : Mid- to late Holocene sea-level rise recorded in Hells Bells 234U/238U ratio and geochemical composition (SCHORNDORF et al. , 2023) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-36777-y Microbially promoted calcite precipitation in the pelagic redoxcline:  Elucidating the formation of the turbid layer (LEBERECHT et al. , 2022) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/gbi.12492 Subaqueous Speleothems (Hells Bells) formed by interplay of pelagic redoxcline biogeochemistry and specific hydraulic conditions in the El Zapote sinkhole, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico (RITTER et al. , 2019) https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/16/2285/2019/ Also... Say Hello to Hells Bells the World's Largest Collection of Living Stalactites (Suzy DUNDAS, Scuba Diving ; July 27, 2022) https://www.scubadiving.com/say-hello-to-hells-bells-worlds-largest-collection-living-stalactites

Topographic Map of Northern Central America , CIA ; Link Heavy metals in the sediments of urban sinkholes in Cancun, Quintana Roo (ORTEGA-CAMACHO et al. , 2023) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-34218-4 Impacts of geochemical and environmental factors on seasonal variation of heavy metals in a coastal lagoon Yucatán, Mexico (ARCEGA-CABRERA et al. , 2015) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Arcega-Cabrera-Flor/publication/268039560_Impacts_of_Geochemical_and_Environmental_Factors_on_Seasonal_Variation_of_Heavy_Metals_in_a_Coastal_Lagoon_Yucatan_Mexico/links/54abf7fc0cf2ce2df6692be4/Impacts-of-Geochemical-and-Environmental-Factors-on-Seasonal-Variation-of-Heavy-Metals-in-a-Coastal-Lagoon-Yucatan-Mexico.pdf Aquatic ecosystems of the Yucatán peninsula (Mexico), Belize and Guatemala (PÉREZ et al. , 2011) https://www.academia.edu/download/31614852/Perez_et_al._2011_Hydrobiologia.pdf Map of Central America , Luveha ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link

State proposes $67 million to clean toxic parkways near former Exide battery plant (Tony BRISCOE, Los Angeles Times ; May 12, 2023) https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-05-12/california-offers-funding-to-clean-lead-from-toxic-parkways?utm_id=97353&sfmc_id=447603 Former Exide Facility at 2700 S. Indiana Ave, Vernon, CA ( US EPA ) Website: Former Exide Battery Recycling Facility, Vernon, CA ( US EPA ) https://www.epa.gov/ca/former-exide-battery-recycling-facility-vernon-california   N. B.:   More on this subject may also be perused in my following former blog post linked below : Lead Contamination and On-going Exide Battery Recycling Facility Clean Up - Vernon, CA

Northern China - Envisat , European Space Agency (ESA) ; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO , Link Driving factors of accumulation of cadmium, lead, copper and zinc in agricultural soil and products of the North China Plain (LIU et al. , 2023) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-34688-6 Heavy metals in agricultural soil in China:   A systematic review and meta-analysis (WEN et al. , 2022) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772985022000382 Effects of amendments on the bioavailability, transformation and accumulation of heavy metals by pakchoi cabbage in a multi-element contaminated soil (LI et al. , 2021) https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2021/ra/d0ra09358k China Geography , Alan MAK ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link