28 March 2020 Earth Science Sites of the Week

[Francek, Mark]

 

 

Hello everyone,

This week’s 28 March 2020 Earth Science Sites of the Week feature the following resources:

Editor’s Picks: 1) Eruptions, Earthquakes & Emissions Animation, ***2) Water Balance App, ***3) Interactive map of CONUS land cover, 4) ‘Ice Eggs’ Cover Finland Beach in Rare Weather Event, *****5) How some cities ‘flattened the curve’ during the 1918 flu pandemic

***6) Humvee Airdrop from C-17 Globemaster III

 

Geology & Geography

Name	Eruptions, Earthquakes & Emissions Animation
Site URL	https://volcano.si.axismaps.io/
Site Author	Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History – Global Volcanism Program
Suggested By	NESTA Twitter
Description	“The "Eruptions, Earthquakes, & Emissions" web application (or "E3") is a time-lapse animation of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes since 1960. It also shows volcanic gas emissions (sulfur dioxide, SO2) since 1978 — the first year satellites were available to provide global monitoring of SO2.”

 

Name	How a Tsunami Works
Site URL	https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIoewW-XsAARzsB.png
Site Author	PBS and NOAA
Suggested By	NESTA Twitter
Description	Infographic explaining what causes a tsunami.

 

Name	Tsunamis Generated by Megathrust Earthquakes
Site URL	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJIdMvL9KcA&feature=youtu.be
Site Author	IRIS Earthquake Science
Suggested By	NESTA Twitter
Description	“Earthquakes Subduction-zone mega-thrust earthquakes, the most powerful earthquakes in the world, can produce tsunamis through a variety of structures that are missed by simple models including: fault boundary rupture, deformation of overlying plate, splay faults, and landslides during earthquakes.”

 

Name	Layers of the Earth – What is the Moho?
Site URL	https://www.iris.edu/hq/inclass/animation/layers_of_the_earthwhat_is_the_moho
Site Author	IRIS
Suggested By	NESTA Twitter
Description	“This animation discusses the history of the discovery as well as the logic behind it.”

 

Weather

Name	Pseudo-color #GOESEast Loop of the Fog Burn Off
Site URL	https://twitter.com/UW_AOS/status/1186347229751193601
Site Author	UW-Madison CIMSS
Suggested By	NESTA Twitter
Description	Short clip displaying fog burn off on October 20th, 2019.

 

Name	September 2019 Tied as Hottest on Record for Planet
Site URL	https://www.noaa.gov/news/september-2019-tied-as-hottest-on-record-for-planet
Site Author	NOAA
Suggested By	NESTA Twitter
Description	“More notable climate events in this report. North America had its warmest September since continental records began in 1910 at 3.10 degrees F (1.72 degrees C). South America, Africa, Asia, the Gulf of Mexico and the Hawaiian region had a top-three warmest September on record.”

 

Space

Name	Closest Star Systems to the Sun and Their (Known) Planets
Site URL	https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGNilJ8UwAEKWrF.jpg
Site Author	PBS
Suggested By	NESTA Twitter
Description	Graph displaying distance between the sun and closest star systems.

 

Name	Here’s Why We Can’t Just Rocket Nuclear Waste into the Sun
Site URL	http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/07/heres-why-we-cant-just-rocket-garbage-into-the-sun?utm_source=dsctwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign= dsctwitter
Site Author	John Wenz
Suggested By	NESTA Twitter
Description	“In Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, the Man of Steel rounds up all the world's nukes and throws them into the sun. It's a nice idea — and indeed every few years someone suggests throwing all our garbage in there — but there's one problem: orbital mechanics.”

 

Water

Name	Water Balance App
Site URL	https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/waterbalance/
Site Author	Esri
Suggested By	Joseph Kerski
Description	“This app is based on data from NASA’s Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS-2.1), which uses weather observations like temperature, humidity, and rainfall to run the Noah land surface model. This model estimates how much of the rain becomes runoff, how much evaporates, and how much infiltrates into the soil. These output variables, calculated every three hours, are aggregated into monthly averages, giving us a record of the hydrologic cycle going all the way back to January 2000.”

 

Environmental

Name	Interactive map of CONUS land cover
Site URL	https://www.mrlc.gov/viewer/
Site Author	MRLC
Suggested By	NESTA Twitter
Description	Interactive map of CONUS land cover in the U.S.

 

General

Name	‘Ice Eggs’ Cover Finland Beach in Rare Weather Event
Site URL	https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50338447
Site Author	BBC News and Risto Mattila
Suggested By	NESTA Twitter
Description	“Thousands of egg-shaped balls of ice covered a beach in Finland, the result of a rare weather phenomenon.”

 

Name	How some cities ‘flattened the curve’ during the 1918 flu pandemic
Site URL	https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/how-cities-flattened-curve-1918-spanish-flu-pandemic-coronavirus/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=SpecialEdition_20200327&rid=566BE5B4C3C19B6E94062759EB85A80D
Site Author	National Geographic
Suggested By	Randy Schaetzl
Description	“Social distancing isn’t a new idea—it saved thousands of American lives during the last great pandemic. Here's how it worked.”

 

 

 

Name	Humvee Airdrop from C-17 Globemaster III
Site URL	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hZhaF1ZzQ4
Site Author	AiirSource Military
Suggested By	NESTA Twitter
Description	“Footage of C-17s from the 517th Airlift Squadron dropping equipment and Airborne Infantry from the 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment (Airborne) during this joint training conducted on 21 Sept. 2010. Video by Staff Sgt. Daniel Delgado | 920th Rescue Wing.”

 

Take care,
Mark
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