Issue 3
Antarctica
Thwaites Glacier: The size of Florida. Holds enough water to increase global sea level three feet if it all melted. 10 feet if the ice behind, which it holds in place slides into the sea.
- It’s 40 degrees F in the water below Thwaites glacier!!!
- Recent PBS clip on it: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/scientists-measure-how-quickly-crucial-antarctica-glacier-is-melting
- https://theconversation.com/ice-world-antarcticas-riskiest-glacier-is-under-assault-from-below-and-losing-its-grip-178828
World
Jeff LInn’s Conspiracy of Cartographers gallery of maps. A very interesting site:
- https://conspiracyofcartographers.com/ Sea level rise on vintage gas station maps. A parody of our petrofuture. But with the news of the Thwaites glacier sub-sea temperatures it is maybe more chilling (or warming> than parody:
- https://conspiracyofcartographers.com/petrofuture-gallery/
PNW
A new chronology for tsunami deposits prior to the 1700 CE Cascadia earthquake from Vancouver Island, Canada:
GeoTech
Whitebox Tools:
- This is a toolset new to me, been around awhile though, that is open source and looks to have some very useful geoanalytical features. https://www.whiteboxgeo.com/
GeoInfo
Mapscaping podcast:
- Found out about Whitebox Tools on the Mapscaping podcast. Which is an excellent geo podcast. Check it out. https://mapscaping.com/