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It appears that the toxins are slowly spreading to Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983431\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1983431 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-59-521_custom-7acc15af608abbdc21effcd064aed6e71dfa61e7-s1200-c85-800x460.jpg\" alt=\"Sea lions and a dolphin are seen lying on the sea shore.\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-59-521_custom-7acc15af608abbdc21effcd064aed6e71dfa61e7-s1200-c85-800x460.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-59-521_custom-7acc15af608abbdc21effcd064aed6e71dfa61e7-s1200-c85-1020x586.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-59-521_custom-7acc15af608abbdc21effcd064aed6e71dfa61e7-s1200-c85-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-59-521_custom-7acc15af608abbdc21effcd064aed6e71dfa61e7-s1200-c85-768x441.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-59-521_custom-7acc15af608abbdc21effcd064aed6e71dfa61e7-s1200-c85.jpg 1046w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute has been able to rescue over 100 sea mammals that were suffering from the algae outbreak. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Samuel Dover, who leads Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute, has witnessed six algal blooms during his career and described the current one as the worst yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bloom is so much larger,” he told NPR. “This time, it’s in the center of the channel, where a lot of animals are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is an algal bloom?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Algae are usually benign plants, commonly seen in the form of pond scum or kelp. But under certain conditions, they can grow out of control and generate deadly toxins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When that happens, it is known as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.noaa.gov/what-is-harmful-algal-bloom\">bloom\u003c/a>. It tends to be a problem for U.S. states near the country’s coast and the Great Lakes. Over the years, algal blooms have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/03/641606668/as-climate-warms-algae-blooms-in-drinking-water-supplies\">contaminated\u003c/a> tap water, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/09/739874122/toxic-algae-bloom-closes-25-beaches-on-mississippis-coast-fed-by-fresh-floodwate\">forced\u003c/a> beaches to close, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/06/1161339697/what-to-know-red-tide-florida-beaches-algae\">discolored\u003c/a> coastal waters and led to the demise of countless animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although algal blooms are considered a natural phenomenon, climate change and human activities do play a role in their frequency and intensity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the algae outbreak is believed to have resulted from wind pushing water full of nutrients toward algae, making them grow. That process is not typically related to climate change, but it does not rule it out as a factor either, according to scientists at NOAA Fisheries’ West Coast branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are algae doing to the sea lions in California?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The bloom in California is producing domoic acid, which generally doesn’t affect humans but is poisonous to animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a sea creature suffers from domoic acid poisoning, it affects the animal’s brain and causes seizures, erratic behavior, bulging eyes and foaming at the mouth. Beachgoers have been warned to stay at least 50 feet away from sick animals in case they turn aggressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983432\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1983432 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-34-04-1-_wide-0298a4fa48be217fb9eef8d674e930a04c358c9a-s1200-c85-800x450.jpg\" alt='The words \"Please keep back. Marine mammal rescue has been called\" is written on the sand, with a seal lying on the beach in the distance.' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-34-04-1-_wide-0298a4fa48be217fb9eef8d674e930a04c358c9a-s1200-c85-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-34-04-1-_wide-0298a4fa48be217fb9eef8d674e930a04c358c9a-s1200-c85-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-34-04-1-_wide-0298a4fa48be217fb9eef8d674e930a04c358c9a-s1200-c85-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-34-04-1-_wide-0298a4fa48be217fb9eef8d674e930a04c358c9a-s1200-c85-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-34-04-1-_wide-0298a4fa48be217fb9eef8d674e930a04c358c9a-s1200-c85.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beachgoers have been asked to stay at least 50 feet away from animals poisoned by toxic algae because of the risk that the sea creatures may turn aggressive. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There is no antidote or specific remedy for domoic acid poisoning. Veterinarians have been giving some animals antiseizure medicine and keeping them hydrated in hopes that the toxins will flush out of their bodies. The problem is that the longer the toxins are in an animal’s system, the more difficult it becomes to treat the poisoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adult pregnant sea lions have been the most severely affected by the outbreak, according to Dover, of Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When will it get better?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Southern California was struck by an algal bloom last year, it lasted about six weeks, Dover said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, the current outbreak, in its eighth week, appears to be improving, and fewer sick animals are appearing on shores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983433\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1983433 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/copy-of-430b7d55-5d0f-462b-a575-4679173d3bfd_wide-ee901cd15f80791a43dfdfef4a884dc7fcddf545-s1200-c85-800x450.jpg\" alt='A sea lion droops on some rocks behind yellow tape that says \"Fire Line Do Not Cross.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/copy-of-430b7d55-5d0f-462b-a575-4679173d3bfd_wide-ee901cd15f80791a43dfdfef4a884dc7fcddf545-s1200-c85-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/copy-of-430b7d55-5d0f-462b-a575-4679173d3bfd_wide-ee901cd15f80791a43dfdfef4a884dc7fcddf545-s1200-c85-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/copy-of-430b7d55-5d0f-462b-a575-4679173d3bfd_wide-ee901cd15f80791a43dfdfef4a884dc7fcddf545-s1200-c85-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/copy-of-430b7d55-5d0f-462b-a575-4679173d3bfd_wide-ee901cd15f80791a43dfdfef4a884dc7fcddf545-s1200-c85-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/copy-of-430b7d55-5d0f-462b-a575-4679173d3bfd_wide-ee901cd15f80791a43dfdfef4a884dc7fcddf545-s1200-c85.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There is no antidote or specific remedy for poisoning from domoic acid, the toxin that the algal bloom in California is producing. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To compare, Dover said lately his volunteer group has been receiving about 40 to 50 reports of sick animals per day. A month ago, they were receiving 40 to 50 reports per hour, though many reports tend to be duplicates of the same animal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that is a good sign, not much can be done to speed up the process. Harmful algal blooms are nearly impossible to clean, especially at the scale that has emerged near California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Sea+lions+are+sick+and+dying+along+Southern+California%27s+coast.+Here%27s+what+to+know&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A deadly toxin has been poisoning sea lions and dolphins, causing seizures, erratic behavior, bulging eyes and foaming at the mouth. It has been especially worse for pregnant mammals.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704845960,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":703},"headData":{"title":"Sea Lions Are Sick and Dying Along Southern California's Coast. Here's What to Know | KQED","description":"A deadly toxin has been poisoning sea lions and dolphins, causing seizures, erratic behavior, bulging eyes and foaming at the mouth. It has been especially worse for pregnant mammals.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"NPR","sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/1108419098/juliana-kim\">Juliana Kim\u003c/a>","nprImageAgency":"Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute (CIMWI)","nprStoryId":"1186747010","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1186747010&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/11/1186747010/sea-lions-sick-dying-southern-california-coast-algal-bloom-algae?ft=nprml&f=1186747010","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 11 Jul 2023 05:00:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 11 Jul 2023 05:00:23 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 11 Jul 2023 05:00:23 -0400","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/science/1983424/sea-lions-are-sick-and-dying-along-southern-californias-coast-heres-what-to-know","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It looked like something out of an apocalyptic movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past few weeks, droves of sick and dying sea animals have been washing up along the coast of Southern California, including beaches in Santa Barbara and Ventura.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The devastation has been caused by an outbreak of toxic algae on a scale never before seen in the region, according to NOAA Fisheries’ West Coast branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of last week, local officials had estimated that over 100 dolphins and over 500 sea lions had been killed by the algal bloom. It appears that the toxins are slowly spreading to Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983431\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1983431 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-59-521_custom-7acc15af608abbdc21effcd064aed6e71dfa61e7-s1200-c85-800x460.jpg\" alt=\"Sea lions and a dolphin are seen lying on the sea shore.\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-59-521_custom-7acc15af608abbdc21effcd064aed6e71dfa61e7-s1200-c85-800x460.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-59-521_custom-7acc15af608abbdc21effcd064aed6e71dfa61e7-s1200-c85-1020x586.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-59-521_custom-7acc15af608abbdc21effcd064aed6e71dfa61e7-s1200-c85-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-59-521_custom-7acc15af608abbdc21effcd064aed6e71dfa61e7-s1200-c85-768x441.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-59-521_custom-7acc15af608abbdc21effcd064aed6e71dfa61e7-s1200-c85.jpg 1046w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute has been able to rescue over 100 sea mammals that were suffering from the algae outbreak. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Samuel Dover, who leads Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute, has witnessed six algal blooms during his career and described the current one as the worst yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bloom is so much larger,” he told NPR. “This time, it’s in the center of the channel, where a lot of animals are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is an algal bloom?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Algae are usually benign plants, commonly seen in the form of pond scum or kelp. But under certain conditions, they can grow out of control and generate deadly toxins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When that happens, it is known as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.noaa.gov/what-is-harmful-algal-bloom\">bloom\u003c/a>. It tends to be a problem for U.S. states near the country’s coast and the Great Lakes. Over the years, algal blooms have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/03/641606668/as-climate-warms-algae-blooms-in-drinking-water-supplies\">contaminated\u003c/a> tap water, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/09/739874122/toxic-algae-bloom-closes-25-beaches-on-mississippis-coast-fed-by-fresh-floodwate\">forced\u003c/a> beaches to close, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/06/1161339697/what-to-know-red-tide-florida-beaches-algae\">discolored\u003c/a> coastal waters and led to the demise of countless animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although algal blooms are considered a natural phenomenon, climate change and human activities do play a role in their frequency and intensity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the algae outbreak is believed to have resulted from wind pushing water full of nutrients toward algae, making them grow. That process is not typically related to climate change, but it does not rule it out as a factor either, according to scientists at NOAA Fisheries’ West Coast branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are algae doing to the sea lions in California?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The bloom in California is producing domoic acid, which generally doesn’t affect humans but is poisonous to animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a sea creature suffers from domoic acid poisoning, it affects the animal’s brain and causes seizures, erratic behavior, bulging eyes and foaming at the mouth. Beachgoers have been warned to stay at least 50 feet away from sick animals in case they turn aggressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983432\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1983432 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-34-04-1-_wide-0298a4fa48be217fb9eef8d674e930a04c358c9a-s1200-c85-800x450.jpg\" alt='The words \"Please keep back. Marine mammal rescue has been called\" is written on the sand, with a seal lying on the beach in the distance.' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-34-04-1-_wide-0298a4fa48be217fb9eef8d674e930a04c358c9a-s1200-c85-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-34-04-1-_wide-0298a4fa48be217fb9eef8d674e930a04c358c9a-s1200-c85-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-34-04-1-_wide-0298a4fa48be217fb9eef8d674e930a04c358c9a-s1200-c85-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-34-04-1-_wide-0298a4fa48be217fb9eef8d674e930a04c358c9a-s1200-c85-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/photo-2023-06-16-10-34-04-1-_wide-0298a4fa48be217fb9eef8d674e930a04c358c9a-s1200-c85.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beachgoers have been asked to stay at least 50 feet away from animals poisoned by toxic algae because of the risk that the sea creatures may turn aggressive. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There is no antidote or specific remedy for domoic acid poisoning. Veterinarians have been giving some animals antiseizure medicine and keeping them hydrated in hopes that the toxins will flush out of their bodies. The problem is that the longer the toxins are in an animal’s system, the more difficult it becomes to treat the poisoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adult pregnant sea lions have been the most severely affected by the outbreak, according to Dover, of Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When will it get better?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Southern California was struck by an algal bloom last year, it lasted about six weeks, Dover said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, the current outbreak, in its eighth week, appears to be improving, and fewer sick animals are appearing on shores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1983433\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1983433 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/copy-of-430b7d55-5d0f-462b-a575-4679173d3bfd_wide-ee901cd15f80791a43dfdfef4a884dc7fcddf545-s1200-c85-800x450.jpg\" alt='A sea lion droops on some rocks behind yellow tape that says \"Fire Line Do Not Cross.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/copy-of-430b7d55-5d0f-462b-a575-4679173d3bfd_wide-ee901cd15f80791a43dfdfef4a884dc7fcddf545-s1200-c85-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/copy-of-430b7d55-5d0f-462b-a575-4679173d3bfd_wide-ee901cd15f80791a43dfdfef4a884dc7fcddf545-s1200-c85-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/copy-of-430b7d55-5d0f-462b-a575-4679173d3bfd_wide-ee901cd15f80791a43dfdfef4a884dc7fcddf545-s1200-c85-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/copy-of-430b7d55-5d0f-462b-a575-4679173d3bfd_wide-ee901cd15f80791a43dfdfef4a884dc7fcddf545-s1200-c85-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/copy-of-430b7d55-5d0f-462b-a575-4679173d3bfd_wide-ee901cd15f80791a43dfdfef4a884dc7fcddf545-s1200-c85.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There is no antidote or specific remedy for poisoning from domoic acid, the toxin that the algal bloom in California is producing. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To compare, Dover said lately his volunteer group has been receiving about 40 to 50 reports of sick animals per day. A month ago, they were receiving 40 to 50 reports per hour, though many reports tend to be duplicates of the same animal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that is a good sign, not much can be done to speed up the process. Harmful algal blooms are nearly impossible to clean, especially at the scale that has emerged near California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Sea+lions+are+sick+and+dying+along+Southern+California%27s+coast.+Here%27s+what+to+know&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1983424/sea-lions-are-sick-and-dying-along-southern-californias-coast-heres-what-to-know","authors":["byline_science_1983424"],"categories":["science_31","science_40","science_4450"],"tags":["science_323","science_1413","science_941","science_5182"],"featImg":"science_1983426","label":"source_science_1983424"},"science_1951430":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1951430","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1951430","score":null,"sort":[1575935243000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"climate-change-contributing-to-weather-catastrophes-right-now","title":"Climate Change Contributing to Weather Catastrophes 'Right Now'","publishDate":1575935243,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Climate Change Contributing to Weather Catastrophes ‘Right Now’ | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Devastating wildfires in California. A sweltering drought in the American Southwest. Punishing heat waves in Europe and Asia. Record-low sea ice in the Bering Sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote citation=\"Stephanie Herring, NOAA\"]‘Climate change is impacting the weather we are experiencing today. It is not something we are talking about in the future. It is here now, and it is having real implications right now.’[/pullquote]Scientists detected the fingerprints of human-caused warming on each of these extreme weather events from 2018, according to the \u003cem>Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society\u003c/em>‘s latest \u003ca href=\"https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/publications/bulletin-of-the-american-meteorological-society-bams/explaining-extreme-events-from-a-climate-perspective/\">report\u003c/a>, called “Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report’s editor, NOAA climate scientist Stephanie Herring, says researchers have found mounting evidence linking climate change to specific heat waves, droughts and other extreme weather events. She presented the findings at the American Geophysical Union’s annual conference in San Francisco Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Climate change is impacting the weather we are experiencing today,” Herring said. “It is not something we are talking about in the future. It is here now, and it is having real implications right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Rosenfeld, the Bulletin’s editor-in-chief, says the science of determining the impact of climate on weather events, presented in research called attribution studies, has become increasingly powerful and reveals the stark reality of humanity’s contribution to extreme weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are living in a new climate,” he said. “We have made a new atmosphere and are playing out a new experiment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1951453\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1951453 size-complete_open_graph\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/AGU_003-1200x843.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/AGU_003-1200x843.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/AGU_003-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/AGU_003-800x562.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/AGU_003-768x539.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/AGU_003-1020x716.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/AGU_003.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Herring, a climate scientist with NOAA, presenting at the American Geophysical Union’s fall 2019 conference. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the last eight years, 73% of the 168 peer-reviewed studies the journal published on the influence of climate change on weather-related catastrophes found that climate played some role in those events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2016, researchers have identified some phenomena, like the rapidly warming waters in the Bering Sea, that would not have occurred without global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone expected that we would get to this point someday,” Herring said. “We didn’t think it would happen so quickly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 21 peer-reviewed studies on the extreme events of 2018, only one did not implicate global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herring cautioned that scientists still need to study each extreme weather event closely to determine the exact role of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People cannot assume, for example, that every major wildfire in California is a result of global warming. The impacts of any \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1950703/climate-change-is-driving-californias-wildfires-the-kincade-fire-not-so-much\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">particular wildfire\u003c/a> are driven by an array of factors, including urban sprawl, wind and lack of precipitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An increasing number of studies could be detecting the impact of climate change, in part, because the scientific models have become more refined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Herring is clear that warming is definitely impacting weather in new ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s now been 15 years since the publication of what is considered the first research on the role of climate change in extreme weather, and during that time the evidence that human-caused climate change is impacting weather events has only been increasing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The science of attributing the role of climate change in extreme weather continues to improve, resulting in strong evidence that a warming planet is impacting heat waves, floods and other disasters. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704848044,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":532},"headData":{"title":"Climate Change Contributing to Weather Catastrophes 'Right Now' | KQED","description":"The science of attributing the role of climate change in extreme weather continues to improve, resulting in strong evidence that a warming planet is impacting heat waves, floods and other disasters. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Climate Change","sticky":false,"path":"/science/1951430/climate-change-contributing-to-weather-catastrophes-right-now","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Devastating wildfires in California. A sweltering drought in the American Southwest. Punishing heat waves in Europe and Asia. Record-low sea ice in the Bering Sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Climate change is impacting the weather we are experiencing today. It is not something we are talking about in the future. It is here now, and it is having real implications right now.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"citation":"Stephanie Herring, NOAA","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Scientists detected the fingerprints of human-caused warming on each of these extreme weather events from 2018, according to the \u003cem>Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society\u003c/em>‘s latest \u003ca href=\"https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/publications/bulletin-of-the-american-meteorological-society-bams/explaining-extreme-events-from-a-climate-perspective/\">report\u003c/a>, called “Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report’s editor, NOAA climate scientist Stephanie Herring, says researchers have found mounting evidence linking climate change to specific heat waves, droughts and other extreme weather events. She presented the findings at the American Geophysical Union’s annual conference in San Francisco Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Climate change is impacting the weather we are experiencing today,” Herring said. “It is not something we are talking about in the future. It is here now, and it is having real implications right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Rosenfeld, the Bulletin’s editor-in-chief, says the science of determining the impact of climate on weather events, presented in research called attribution studies, has become increasingly powerful and reveals the stark reality of humanity’s contribution to extreme weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are living in a new climate,” he said. “We have made a new atmosphere and are playing out a new experiment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1951453\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1951453 size-complete_open_graph\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/AGU_003-1200x843.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/AGU_003-1200x843.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/AGU_003-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/AGU_003-800x562.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/AGU_003-768x539.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/AGU_003-1020x716.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/AGU_003.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Herring, a climate scientist with NOAA, presenting at the American Geophysical Union’s fall 2019 conference. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the last eight years, 73% of the 168 peer-reviewed studies the journal published on the influence of climate change on weather-related catastrophes found that climate played some role in those events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2016, researchers have identified some phenomena, like the rapidly warming waters in the Bering Sea, that would not have occurred without global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone expected that we would get to this point someday,” Herring said. “We didn’t think it would happen so quickly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 21 peer-reviewed studies on the extreme events of 2018, only one did not implicate global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herring cautioned that scientists still need to study each extreme weather event closely to determine the exact role of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People cannot assume, for example, that every major wildfire in California is a result of global warming. The impacts of any \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1950703/climate-change-is-driving-californias-wildfires-the-kincade-fire-not-so-much\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">particular wildfire\u003c/a> are driven by an array of factors, including urban sprawl, wind and lack of precipitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An increasing number of studies could be detecting the impact of climate change, in part, because the scientific models have become more refined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Herring is clear that warming is definitely impacting weather in new ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s now been 15 years since the publication of what is considered the first research on the role of climate change in extreme weather, and during that time the evidence that human-caused climate change is impacting weather events has only been increasing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1951430/climate-change-contributing-to-weather-catastrophes-right-now","authors":["11608"],"categories":["science_33","science_35","science_40","science_3730"],"tags":["science_194","science_3840","science_3370","science_2184","science_5182","science_2878","science_113"],"featImg":"science_1942463","label":"source_science_1951430"},"science_1950623":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1950623","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1950623","score":null,"sort":[1572897960000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"video-smoke-from-kincade-fire-disperses-over-california","title":"Video: Smoke From Kincade Fire Disperses Over California","publishDate":1572897960,"format":"video","headTitle":"Video: Smoke From Kincade Fire Disperses Over California | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>High winds that kicked up during three separate periods within a week propelled the spread of the Kincade Fire in Sonoma County. The wind gusted, the fire raged and the smoke billowed over the Pacific Ocean. Then the wind died down, the fire smoldered and the smoke settled across Northern California. Rinse and repeat. Meteorologists say it’s incredibly rare to have three high-wind events within such a short period of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the while, residents of Northern California found themselves, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1934639/video-watch-smoke-from-camp-fire-disperse-over-u-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">once again\u003c/a>, reaching for smoke-filtering masks and searching the web for clues as to when and where the smoke would arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One place that information is available is at the website of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which uses a supercomputer to predict smoke dispersal over the U.S. It’s called the \u003ca href=\"https://rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rapid Refresh-Smoke model\u003c/a>, and it’s run out of NOAA’s Global Systems Division in Boulder, Colorado. Forecasts pull weather data gleaned from radar, airplanes and other sources to predict dispersal patterns over 36 hours. New forecasts are issued every six hours. While still designated as experimental, the model is slated to go operational in 2020, and it’s currently used by the National Weather Service to share information about air quality and visibility, the Global Systems Division says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To create the video above, vertically integrated smoke model fields from NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory were downloaded for the start of the Kincade Fire on Oct. 23 to Nov. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Watch how smoke from the fire spread across Northern California. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704848175,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":258},"headData":{"title":"Video: Smoke From Kincade Fire Disperses Over California | KQED","description":"Watch how smoke from the fire spread across Northern California. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"videoEmbed":"https://youtu.be/EohkJGmutXk","source":"Wildfire","sticky":false,"path":"/science/1950623/video-smoke-from-kincade-fire-disperses-over-california","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>High winds that kicked up during three separate periods within a week propelled the spread of the Kincade Fire in Sonoma County. The wind gusted, the fire raged and the smoke billowed over the Pacific Ocean. Then the wind died down, the fire smoldered and the smoke settled across Northern California. Rinse and repeat. Meteorologists say it’s incredibly rare to have three high-wind events within such a short period of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the while, residents of Northern California found themselves, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1934639/video-watch-smoke-from-camp-fire-disperse-over-u-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">once again\u003c/a>, reaching for smoke-filtering masks and searching the web for clues as to when and where the smoke would arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One place that information is available is at the website of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which uses a supercomputer to predict smoke dispersal over the U.S. It’s called the \u003ca href=\"https://rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rapid Refresh-Smoke model\u003c/a>, and it’s run out of NOAA’s Global Systems Division in Boulder, Colorado. Forecasts pull weather data gleaned from radar, airplanes and other sources to predict dispersal patterns over 36 hours. New forecasts are issued every six hours. While still designated as experimental, the model is slated to go operational in 2020, and it’s currently used by the National Weather Service to share information about air quality and visibility, the Global Systems Division says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To create the video above, vertically integrated smoke model fields from NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory were downloaded for the start of the Kincade Fire on Oct. 23 to Nov. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1950623/video-smoke-from-kincade-fire-disperses-over-california","authors":["11501","11608"],"categories":["science_35","science_40","science_3730"],"tags":["science_524","science_3840","science_5182","science_3463","science_3674"],"featImg":"science_1950628","label":"source_science_1950623"},"science_1946541":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1946541","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1946541","score":null,"sort":[1565888867000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"noaa-scientists-confirm-july-was-the-hottest-month-ever-recorded","title":"NOAA Scientists Confirm: July Was the Hottest Month Ever Recorded","publishDate":1565888867,"format":"standard","headTitle":"NOAA Scientists Confirm: July Was the Hottest Month Ever Recorded | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>July was the hottest month measured on Earth since records began in 1880, the latest in a long line of peaks that scientists say backs up predictions for man-made climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday that July was 0.95 degrees Celsius (1.71 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the 20th century average for the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because July is generally the warmest month on the calendar, meteorologists say this means it also set a new all-time monthly record for the past 140 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month’s temperatures narrowly topped the previous July record, set in 2016, by 0.03 C (0.05 F).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results had been expected after several European countries including France, Belgium and Germany reported that July smashed previous national temperature records. The Swedish hamlet of Markusvinsa recorded a sizzling 34.8 C (94.6 F), the highest temperature measured north of the Arctic Circle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to NOAA’s records, 9 of the 10 hottest Julys on record have occurred since 2005 and last month was the 43rd consecutive July above the 20th century average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Record temperatures have gone hand-in-hand with other climate extremes. Warming oceans have led to an early melt of sea ice in the Bering Strait between Russia and Alaska, said Rick Thoman, a climate specialist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>June of this year had already set a sizzling record for that month over the past 140 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The year to date is also 0.95 C (1.71 F) above the long-term average, but still slightly behind 2016, NOAA said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"July was the hottest month measured on Earth since records began in 1880.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704848398,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":269},"headData":{"title":"NOAA Scientists Confirm: July Was the Hottest Month Ever Recorded | KQED","description":"July was the hottest month measured on Earth since records began in 1880.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Associated Press","sticky":false,"nprByline":"Associated Press","path":"/science/1946541/noaa-scientists-confirm-july-was-the-hottest-month-ever-recorded","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>July was the hottest month measured on Earth since records began in 1880, the latest in a long line of peaks that scientists say backs up predictions for man-made climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday that July was 0.95 degrees Celsius (1.71 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the 20th century average for the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because July is generally the warmest month on the calendar, meteorologists say this means it also set a new all-time monthly record for the past 140 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month’s temperatures narrowly topped the previous July record, set in 2016, by 0.03 C (0.05 F).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results had been expected after several European countries including France, Belgium and Germany reported that July smashed previous national temperature records. The Swedish hamlet of Markusvinsa recorded a sizzling 34.8 C (94.6 F), the highest temperature measured north of the Arctic Circle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to NOAA’s records, 9 of the 10 hottest Julys on record have occurred since 2005 and last month was the 43rd consecutive July above the 20th century average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Record temperatures have gone hand-in-hand with other climate extremes. Warming oceans have led to an early melt of sea ice in the Bering Strait between Russia and Alaska, said Rick Thoman, a climate specialist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>June of this year had already set a sizzling record for that month over the past 140 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The year to date is also 0.95 C (1.71 F) above the long-term average, but still slightly behind 2016, NOAA said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1946541/noaa-scientists-confirm-july-was-the-hottest-month-ever-recorded","authors":["byline_science_1946541"],"categories":["science_31","science_35","science_39","science_40"],"tags":["science_194","science_2184","science_3838","science_5182"],"featImg":"science_1946543","label":"source_science_1946541"},"science_1944020":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1944020","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1944020","score":null,"sort":[1561725000000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"noaa-is-livestreaming-a-deep-sea-expedition-and-its-pretty-amazing","title":"NOAA is Livestreaming a Deep Sea Expedition and It's Pretty Amazing","publishDate":1561725000,"format":"aside","headTitle":"NOAA is Livestreaming a Deep Sea Expedition and It’s Pretty Amazing | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMsQ6u7Bo3g]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Underwater Creatures.' link1='https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/image-gallery/welcome.html,View a cache of deep sea still images from NOAA']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are probing the darkest depths of the ocean, thousands of feet below the surface, where natural light can’t penetrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the best part for us — they’re live streaming video each day from 5:30 am to 1:00 pm PT until July 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are trying to go to places in the ocean that nobody’s ever ever been, and study and explore them for the very first time,” said Alan Leonardi, director of NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The live images are streamed from Deep Discoverer, a remotely operated, underwater roving vehicle outfitted with LED lights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T5g40-PRvM]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rover is connected to the \u003ca href=\"https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/about.html\">Okeanos Explorer\u003c/a>, the only federal ship dedicated to exploring ocean depths for the “purpose of the discovery and the advancement of knowledge,” according to NOAA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The expedition, which is taking place \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/ne-hires-800x618.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">off the coast of Florida\u003c/a> east of Cape Canaveral, is one leg of NOAA’s \u003ca href=\"https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex1903/welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windows to the Deep 2019 \u003c/a>mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists are exploring the conditions about a half-mile underwater, looking for new species of coral, sponges, sea cucumbers, jellyfish and other sea creatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s completely pitch black,” Leonardi said. “There’s no light that penetrates this level of the ocean. So, of course, these species that move around there have eyes that are adapted to look in the dark.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5z6-EjR3Fw]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The information could be relevant for Californians, too. The rover is exploring areas where researchers have documented methane seeping from the ocean floor, which Leonardi said is a common occurrence off the West Coast of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we look at these deep environments, we know that there’s a lot of biological activity usually around these seeps,” Leonardi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the video is live-streamed, dozens of scientists from across the country are virtually participating in the expedition, communicating with NOAA’s team and each other through interactive chats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Scientists are probing the deep ocean with an underwater robot, and thanks to live streaming video we can watch, too.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704848552,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":398},"headData":{"title":"NOAA is Livestreaming a Deep Sea Expedition and It's Pretty Amazing | KQED","description":"Scientists are probing the deep ocean with an underwater robot, and thanks to live streaming video we can watch, too.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Oceans","sticky":false,"path":"/science/1944020/noaa-is-livestreaming-a-deep-sea-expedition-and-its-pretty-amazing","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/fMsQ6u7Bo3g'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/fMsQ6u7Bo3g'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Underwater Creatures. ","link1":"https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/image-gallery/welcome.html,View a cache of deep sea still images from NOAA"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are probing the darkest depths of the ocean, thousands of feet below the surface, where natural light can’t penetrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the best part for us — they’re live streaming video each day from 5:30 am to 1:00 pm PT until July 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are trying to go to places in the ocean that nobody’s ever ever been, and study and explore them for the very first time,” said Alan Leonardi, director of NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The live images are streamed from Deep Discoverer, a remotely operated, underwater roving vehicle outfitted with LED lights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/9T5g40-PRvM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/9T5g40-PRvM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rover is connected to the \u003ca href=\"https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/about.html\">Okeanos Explorer\u003c/a>, the only federal ship dedicated to exploring ocean depths for the “purpose of the discovery and the advancement of knowledge,” according to NOAA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The expedition, which is taking place \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/ne-hires-800x618.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">off the coast of Florida\u003c/a> east of Cape Canaveral, is one leg of NOAA’s \u003ca href=\"https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex1903/welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windows to the Deep 2019 \u003c/a>mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists are exploring the conditions about a half-mile underwater, looking for new species of coral, sponges, sea cucumbers, jellyfish and other sea creatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s completely pitch black,” Leonardi said. “There’s no light that penetrates this level of the ocean. So, of course, these species that move around there have eyes that are adapted to look in the dark.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/e5z6-EjR3Fw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/e5z6-EjR3Fw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The information could be relevant for Californians, too. The rover is exploring areas where researchers have documented methane seeping from the ocean floor, which Leonardi said is a common occurrence off the West Coast of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we look at these deep environments, we know that there’s a lot of biological activity usually around these seeps,” Leonardi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the video is live-streamed, dozens of scientists from across the country are virtually participating in the expedition, communicating with NOAA’s team and each other through interactive chats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1944020/noaa-is-livestreaming-a-deep-sea-expedition-and-its-pretty-amazing","authors":["11608"],"categories":["science_2874","science_40","science_2873"],"tags":["science_3840","science_5182","science_324","science_3830"],"featImg":"science_1944087","label":"source_science_1944020"},"science_1943544":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1943544","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1943544","score":null,"sort":[1561201203000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-happens-to-the-bodies-of-dead-whales","title":"What Happens to the Bodies of Dead Whales?","publishDate":1561201203,"format":"image","headTitle":"What Happens to the Bodies of Dead Whales? | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>It has not been a good spring for whales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/whales-sharks/article/dead-whale-point-reyes-ocean-beach-bay-area-13882831.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">13 dead gray whales\u003c/a> have washed ashore in the Bay Area over the past few months, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/noaa-investigating-dozens-gray-whale-deaths-along-west-coast-180972333/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at least 70\u003c/a> have made their way onto land all along the Pacific coast. It’s likely that the real number of dead whales is much higher, as current estimates indicate that just about \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6165091-NOAA-TM-AFSC-207.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1 out of every 10\u003c/a> dead whales wash up on the shore (the remaining sink to the bottom of the seafloor).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]Some of the whales have been killed when they were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11736169/whats-being-done-to-reduce-the-record-number-of-whales-hit-by-large-ships-near-californias-ports\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hit by boats\u003c/a>, and many have shown signs of severe malnutrition. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has convened a special study group \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11751555/feds-plan-to-investigate-spike-in-gray-whale-deaths-on-west-coast-as-unusual-mortality-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to investigate\u003c/a> if this grouping of deaths is part of a natural cycle or caused by an emerging threat, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein has \u003ca href=\"https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?id=AB88F8D1-FF18-46EF-81E0-88BFD0C00A4B\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">linked\u003c/a> the strandings to human-caused climate change.[aside postID=news_11735068,news_11736169,news_11735659 label='What Is Going On With the Whales?']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reports of dead whales understandably prompt sadness and mourning among marine biologists and the public. But with bodies of these creatures stretching 40 to 50 feet and weighing in at about the size of two large school buses, whale beachings also pose practical concerns. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Belle Lin asked \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Curious\u003c/a>, “What has happened to the dead bodies of the whales washing up on Bay Area shorelines?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Your Beach, Your Whale\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Once upon a time, a whale washed upon the shore would remain there. As its body decomposed it would provide a wealth of nutrition both to land scavengers — including condors and grizzly bears — and to scavengers from the sea, such as crabs. The bodies of some modern whales are allowed to decompose naturally on the beach in this way, feeding the onshore and nearshore ecosystems. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most dead whales find a different final resting place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When possible, the whale is towed by boat to a remote beach on Angel Island, generally under the direction of biologists from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinemammalcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marine Mammal Center\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.calacademy.org/scientists/projects/marine-mammal-stranding-network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Academy of Sciences\u003c/a>. There, veterinarians conduct a necropsy (an autopsy on an animal) to attempt to determine the cause of death by looking for cuts or evidence of bruises. They may also take samples from the carcass to look for toxins or pollutants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this beach, west of Point Blunt, the whale can naturally return to nature. The area is inaccessible to the public and off limits to boats that don’t have the right permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If towing to Angel Island is impractical, the necropsy may be done where the whale is found. The responsibility for the body’s disposal lies with whoever has jurisdiction over the beach where it was found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words: your beach, your dead whale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1943657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/RS37847_GettyImages-1149134329-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A Pacifica city worker uses a measuring tape to measure the length of a dead gray whale as it sits on the beach near Pacifica State Beach on May 14, 2019, in Pacifica.. A tenth gray whale since March has washed up dead on shore in the San Francisco Bay Area. The municipality that owns the beach where a dead whale washes up is responsible for dealing with the body.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1943657\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/RS37847_GettyImages-1149134329-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/RS37847_GettyImages-1149134329-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/RS37847_GettyImages-1149134329-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/RS37847_GettyImages-1149134329-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/RS37847_GettyImages-1149134329-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/RS37847_GettyImages-1149134329-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Pacifica city worker uses a measuring tape to measure the length of a dead gray whale as it sits on the beach near Pacifica State Beach on May 14, 2019, in Pacifica.. A tenth gray whale since March has washed up dead on shore in the San Francisco Bay Area. The municipality that owns the beach where a dead whale washes up is responsible for dealing with the body. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the municipality does not want the whale to stay — the smell alone is generally enough to keep people off the beach — they must decide, in conjunction with NOAA, the most practical means of getting rid of it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases that means burying it beneath the sand. In some cases it means towing the whale out to sea, where it will sink to the bottom of the ocean. However sometimes the body floats at the surface, full of decomposing gasses, for weeks. (These whales sometimes pop once the gasses build up to a critical level.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Army Corps of Engineers, Coast Guard or a private boat contractor may do the towing, depending on where the animal is found and which agencies have resources available at that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a whale is towed out to sea from San Francisco Bay, it may need to be brought out past the Farallon Islands to prevent ocean currents from sweeping it back on shore. NOAA provides the permits and technical advice on how to do this, as all whales found off the Pacific Coast are protected by federal laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1943548\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1943548 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/patrick-osedax-vertebrae-brittlestars-t1048-cc-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/patrick-osedax-vertebrae-brittlestars-t1048-cc-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/patrick-osedax-vertebrae-brittlestars-t1048-cc-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/patrick-osedax-vertebrae-brittlestars-t1048-cc-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/patrick-osedax-vertebrae-brittlestars-t1048-cc-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/patrick-osedax-vertebrae-brittlestars-t1048-cc-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/patrick-osedax-vertebrae-brittlestars-t1048-cc-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/patrick-osedax-vertebrae-brittlestars-t1048-cc.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Worms in the genus Osedax growing on the vertebrae of a dead whale in Monterey Canyon. \u003ccite>(© 2006 MBARI)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Lose a Whale, Find a Worm\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Whale carcasses have also been used for research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than a decade in Monterey Bay, scientists intentionally sank the bodies of whales at varying depths to study the organisms that fed upon them on the ocean floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It started in 2002 when Robert Vrijenhoek and Shana Goffredi, of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute discovered a whale \u003ca href=\"https://www.mbari.org/whale-falls-islands-of-abundance-and-diversity-in-the-deep-sea/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decomposing on the seafloor\u003c/a> while exploring the underwater Monterey Canyon with a remotely operated vehicle. What caught their attention though were the bones covered in what looked like “red shag carpeting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They, along with Craig Smith from the University of Hawaii who has studied dead whales for decades, began a series of experiments over several years. They towed whale carcasses to varying depths, sank them and tracked the communities of organisms that grew on them. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “red shag carpeting” turned out to be a new genus of worms — slimy and eyeless — that specialize on eating bones. This kicked off 15 years of research and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mbari.org/new-osedax-species/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discovery\u003c/a> of more than a dozen new species of worms (genus \u003cem>Osedax\u003c/em>) in Monterey Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Explosive Methods\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/xBgThvB_IDQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all whales have had such a peaceful return to nature. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1970, the Oregon Highway Division (now the Oregon Department of Transportation) had a dead sperm whale on its hands along the state’s southern coast. It had been dead for some time, and the stink was becoming unbearable. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their solution: explode it with a half-ton of dynamite. The hope was that this would break the animal into small pieces, blasting it toward the ocean and encouraging scavengers, such as seagulls, to take it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Needless to say, it didn’t go well,” Ed Schoaps, the public affairs coordinator for Oregon’s Department of Transportation told the fact-checking website \u003ca href=\"https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/thar-she-blows/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Snopes in 2000\u003c/a>. “The blast pulverized only part of the whale, sending pieces soaring — not toward the ocean, as planned, but toward people watching from the dunes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A large piece of blubber soared a quarter-mile through the air and smashed a Buick. Onlookers, including a local TV news reporter, were showered by small pieces of foul-smelling flesh. Fortunately no one was hurt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, however, only part of the whale was blown up. The rest still had to be disposed of, and was buried by crews. There have been no further reports of municipalities attempting to dispose of whale carcasses by dynamite.[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Dead whales used to remain on beaches until they decomposed naturally, but that's not how things work anymore.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704848579,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1169},"headData":{"title":"What Happens to the Bodies of Dead Whales? | KQED","description":"Dead whales used to remain on beaches until they decomposed naturally, but that's not how things work anymore.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Bay Curious","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/new-bay-curious/2019/06/JuneLighting.mp3","sticky":false,"path":"/science/1943544/what-happens-to-the-bodies-of-dead-whales","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It has not been a good spring for whales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/whales-sharks/article/dead-whale-point-reyes-ocean-beach-bay-area-13882831.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">13 dead gray whales\u003c/a> have washed ashore in the Bay Area over the past few months, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/noaa-investigating-dozens-gray-whale-deaths-along-west-coast-180972333/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at least 70\u003c/a> have made their way onto land all along the Pacific coast. It’s likely that the real number of dead whales is much higher, as current estimates indicate that just about \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6165091-NOAA-TM-AFSC-207.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1 out of every 10\u003c/a> dead whales wash up on the shore (the remaining sink to the bottom of the seafloor).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Some of the whales have been killed when they were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11736169/whats-being-done-to-reduce-the-record-number-of-whales-hit-by-large-ships-near-californias-ports\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hit by boats\u003c/a>, and many have shown signs of severe malnutrition. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has convened a special study group \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11751555/feds-plan-to-investigate-spike-in-gray-whale-deaths-on-west-coast-as-unusual-mortality-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to investigate\u003c/a> if this grouping of deaths is part of a natural cycle or caused by an emerging threat, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein has \u003ca href=\"https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?id=AB88F8D1-FF18-46EF-81E0-88BFD0C00A4B\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">linked\u003c/a> the strandings to human-caused climate change.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11735068,news_11736169,news_11735659","label":"What Is Going On With the Whales? "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reports of dead whales understandably prompt sadness and mourning among marine biologists and the public. But with bodies of these creatures stretching 40 to 50 feet and weighing in at about the size of two large school buses, whale beachings also pose practical concerns. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Belle Lin asked \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Curious\u003c/a>, “What has happened to the dead bodies of the whales washing up on Bay Area shorelines?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Your Beach, Your Whale\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Once upon a time, a whale washed upon the shore would remain there. As its body decomposed it would provide a wealth of nutrition both to land scavengers — including condors and grizzly bears — and to scavengers from the sea, such as crabs. The bodies of some modern whales are allowed to decompose naturally on the beach in this way, feeding the onshore and nearshore ecosystems. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most dead whales find a different final resting place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When possible, the whale is towed by boat to a remote beach on Angel Island, generally under the direction of biologists from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinemammalcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marine Mammal Center\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.calacademy.org/scientists/projects/marine-mammal-stranding-network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Academy of Sciences\u003c/a>. There, veterinarians conduct a necropsy (an autopsy on an animal) to attempt to determine the cause of death by looking for cuts or evidence of bruises. They may also take samples from the carcass to look for toxins or pollutants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this beach, west of Point Blunt, the whale can naturally return to nature. The area is inaccessible to the public and off limits to boats that don’t have the right permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If towing to Angel Island is impractical, the necropsy may be done where the whale is found. The responsibility for the body’s disposal lies with whoever has jurisdiction over the beach where it was found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words: your beach, your dead whale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1943657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/RS37847_GettyImages-1149134329-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A Pacifica city worker uses a measuring tape to measure the length of a dead gray whale as it sits on the beach near Pacifica State Beach on May 14, 2019, in Pacifica.. A tenth gray whale since March has washed up dead on shore in the San Francisco Bay Area. The municipality that owns the beach where a dead whale washes up is responsible for dealing with the body.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1943657\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/RS37847_GettyImages-1149134329-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/RS37847_GettyImages-1149134329-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/RS37847_GettyImages-1149134329-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/RS37847_GettyImages-1149134329-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/RS37847_GettyImages-1149134329-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/RS37847_GettyImages-1149134329-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Pacifica city worker uses a measuring tape to measure the length of a dead gray whale as it sits on the beach near Pacifica State Beach on May 14, 2019, in Pacifica.. A tenth gray whale since March has washed up dead on shore in the San Francisco Bay Area. The municipality that owns the beach where a dead whale washes up is responsible for dealing with the body. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the municipality does not want the whale to stay — the smell alone is generally enough to keep people off the beach — they must decide, in conjunction with NOAA, the most practical means of getting rid of it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases that means burying it beneath the sand. In some cases it means towing the whale out to sea, where it will sink to the bottom of the ocean. However sometimes the body floats at the surface, full of decomposing gasses, for weeks. (These whales sometimes pop once the gasses build up to a critical level.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Army Corps of Engineers, Coast Guard or a private boat contractor may do the towing, depending on where the animal is found and which agencies have resources available at that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a whale is towed out to sea from San Francisco Bay, it may need to be brought out past the Farallon Islands to prevent ocean currents from sweeping it back on shore. NOAA provides the permits and technical advice on how to do this, as all whales found off the Pacific Coast are protected by federal laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1943548\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1943548 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/patrick-osedax-vertebrae-brittlestars-t1048-cc-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/patrick-osedax-vertebrae-brittlestars-t1048-cc-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/patrick-osedax-vertebrae-brittlestars-t1048-cc-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/patrick-osedax-vertebrae-brittlestars-t1048-cc-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/patrick-osedax-vertebrae-brittlestars-t1048-cc-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/patrick-osedax-vertebrae-brittlestars-t1048-cc-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/patrick-osedax-vertebrae-brittlestars-t1048-cc-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/patrick-osedax-vertebrae-brittlestars-t1048-cc.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Worms in the genus Osedax growing on the vertebrae of a dead whale in Monterey Canyon. \u003ccite>(© 2006 MBARI)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Lose a Whale, Find a Worm\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Whale carcasses have also been used for research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than a decade in Monterey Bay, scientists intentionally sank the bodies of whales at varying depths to study the organisms that fed upon them on the ocean floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It started in 2002 when Robert Vrijenhoek and Shana Goffredi, of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute discovered a whale \u003ca href=\"https://www.mbari.org/whale-falls-islands-of-abundance-and-diversity-in-the-deep-sea/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decomposing on the seafloor\u003c/a> while exploring the underwater Monterey Canyon with a remotely operated vehicle. What caught their attention though were the bones covered in what looked like “red shag carpeting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They, along with Craig Smith from the University of Hawaii who has studied dead whales for decades, began a series of experiments over several years. They towed whale carcasses to varying depths, sank them and tracked the communities of organisms that grew on them. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “red shag carpeting” turned out to be a new genus of worms — slimy and eyeless — that specialize on eating bones. This kicked off 15 years of research and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mbari.org/new-osedax-species/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discovery\u003c/a> of more than a dozen new species of worms (genus \u003cem>Osedax\u003c/em>) in Monterey Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Explosive Methods\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/xBgThvB_IDQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/xBgThvB_IDQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Not all whales have had such a peaceful return to nature. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1970, the Oregon Highway Division (now the Oregon Department of Transportation) had a dead sperm whale on its hands along the state’s southern coast. It had been dead for some time, and the stink was becoming unbearable. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their solution: explode it with a half-ton of dynamite. The hope was that this would break the animal into small pieces, blasting it toward the ocean and encouraging scavengers, such as seagulls, to take it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Needless to say, it didn’t go well,” Ed Schoaps, the public affairs coordinator for Oregon’s Department of Transportation told the fact-checking website \u003ca href=\"https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/thar-she-blows/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Snopes in 2000\u003c/a>. “The blast pulverized only part of the whale, sending pieces soaring — not toward the ocean, as planned, but toward people watching from the dunes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A large piece of blubber soared a quarter-mile through the air and smashed a Buick. Onlookers, including a local TV news reporter, were showered by small pieces of foul-smelling flesh. Fortunately no one was hurt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, however, only part of the whale was blown up. The rest still had to be disposed of, and was buried by crews. There have been no further reports of municipalities attempting to dispose of whale carcasses by dynamite.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1943544/what-happens-to-the-bodies-of-dead-whales","authors":["11088"],"categories":["science_2874","science_40","science_2873"],"tags":["science_3832","science_813","science_5182","science_324","science_3830"],"featImg":"science_1943654","label":"source_science_1943544"},"science_1936435":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1936435","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1936435","score":null,"sort":[1547000207000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"new-satellite-can-provide-immediate-wildfire-warning-but-first-the-govt-shutdown-has-to-end","title":"Satellite Can Immediately Warn of Wildfire. But Not Until the Shutdown Ends","publishDate":1547000207,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Satellite Can Immediately Warn of Wildfire. But Not Until the Shutdown Ends | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>There are fresh eyes in the western sky, but they’re sporting a virtual blindfold with the federal government shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week NOAA was to officially throw the switch on the GOES-17 satellite, also known as GOES West. (GOES is an acronym for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite.) It’s been up and \u003ca href=\"https://www.goes.noaa.gov/goes-w.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">feeding back pictures\u003c/a> in test mode since March, but NOAA has delayed making it fully operational as federal scientists and engineers wait out the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bird carries an imaging device that has triple the color range and four times the resolution of previous satellites scanning the western U.S. landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though it’s designed primarily as a weather satellite, it can also spot wildfires virtually as they’re starting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1936516\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 879px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOESwest_LockheedMartin.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1936516\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOESwest_LockheedMartin.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: GOES-17 in orbit\" width=\"879\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOESwest_LockheedMartin.jpg 879w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOESwest_LockheedMartin-160x88.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOESwest_LockheedMartin-800x441.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOESwest_LockheedMartin-768x424.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOESwest_LockheedMartin-672x372.jpg 672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOESwest_LockheedMartin-240x132.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOESwest_LockheedMartin-375x207.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOESwest_LockheedMartin-520x287.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 879px) 100vw, 879px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The GOES West satellite is “geostationary,” meaning it rotates in sync with the Earth. \u003ccite>(Lockheed-Martin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a “game-changer,” according to Paul Wloszek, a program director at Harris Corp., which built the on-board Advanced Baseline Imager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it does all of this from geostationary orbit, which is 22,000 miles away,” Wloszek said. A geostationary satellite rotates in sync with the Earth, rather than making periodic “passes” over the planet. Essentially, it stays parked in the same spot, focused on the same area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing all of this adds up to is the potential for much faster response when wildfires break out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even 10 to 15 minutes before the first 911 call comes in,” says Wloszek, “first responders know that there’s a hotspot or a fire starting to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it’s not just theory; they’ve already seen it happen at a fire in Colorado, with images from its sister satellite, GOES East. Launched in 2017, it was the first to have the advanced imager. It captured distant images from the Camp Fire in Butte County, even from its position over the eastern half of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1936557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 478px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOES17_FergusonFire.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1936557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOES17_FergusonFire.gif\" alt=\"GIF: smoke plumes from space\" width=\"478\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Test images from GOES West capture smoke plumes from California’s Ferguson Fire in July, 2018. \u003ccite>(NOAA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>GOES West doesn’t try to pinpoint hotspots visually, but with the shortwave infrared part of its imager, which can pick up heat signatures with more precision, day or night. Forecasters can also call up new views every 30 seconds, which also has advantages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like you’re watching a movie from space of how it’s all evolving,” says Wloszek, “which really allows unprecedented situational awareness for first responders on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s important about all that,” he said, “is not only can it detect it earlier, but because they can do 30-second updates, they can actually track the progression of the fire in real time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bird can even “take the temperature” of a growing fire, to determine where it’s burning the most intensely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With it’s better image quality, GOES West will also offer advantages to weather forecasters; it can, for example, distinguish between clouds and smoke. The satellite is \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GOES_satellites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">part of a “constellation”\u003c/a> of orbiting eyes, which is set to get a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/goes-t-satellite-%E2%80%9Cbrains%E2%80%9D-and-%E2%80%9Cbody%E2%80%9D-come-together\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new addition\u003c/a>, GOES-T, in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A new generation of sharp-eyed satellites will help more than weather forecasters; they could be a breakthrough tool in managing wildfires.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704927214,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":552},"headData":{"title":"Satellite Can Immediately Warn of Wildfire. But Not Until the Shutdown Ends | KQED","description":"A new generation of sharp-eyed satellites will help more than weather forecasters; they could be a breakthrough tool in managing wildfires.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Engineering","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2019/01/MillerFireSatellite.mp3","sticky":false,"WpOldSlug":"new-satellite-can-provide-immediate-wildwire-warning-but-first-the-govt-shutdown-has-to-end","audioTrackLength":67,"path":"/science/1936435/new-satellite-can-provide-immediate-wildfire-warning-but-first-the-govt-shutdown-has-to-end","parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There are fresh eyes in the western sky, but they’re sporting a virtual blindfold with the federal government shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week NOAA was to officially throw the switch on the GOES-17 satellite, also known as GOES West. (GOES is an acronym for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite.) It’s been up and \u003ca href=\"https://www.goes.noaa.gov/goes-w.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">feeding back pictures\u003c/a> in test mode since March, but NOAA has delayed making it fully operational as federal scientists and engineers wait out the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bird carries an imaging device that has triple the color range and four times the resolution of previous satellites scanning the western U.S. landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though it’s designed primarily as a weather satellite, it can also spot wildfires virtually as they’re starting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1936516\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 879px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOESwest_LockheedMartin.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1936516\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOESwest_LockheedMartin.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: GOES-17 in orbit\" width=\"879\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOESwest_LockheedMartin.jpg 879w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOESwest_LockheedMartin-160x88.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOESwest_LockheedMartin-800x441.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOESwest_LockheedMartin-768x424.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOESwest_LockheedMartin-672x372.jpg 672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOESwest_LockheedMartin-240x132.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOESwest_LockheedMartin-375x207.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOESwest_LockheedMartin-520x287.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 879px) 100vw, 879px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The GOES West satellite is “geostationary,” meaning it rotates in sync with the Earth. \u003ccite>(Lockheed-Martin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a “game-changer,” according to Paul Wloszek, a program director at Harris Corp., which built the on-board Advanced Baseline Imager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it does all of this from geostationary orbit, which is 22,000 miles away,” Wloszek said. A geostationary satellite rotates in sync with the Earth, rather than making periodic “passes” over the planet. Essentially, it stays parked in the same spot, focused on the same area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing all of this adds up to is the potential for much faster response when wildfires break out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even 10 to 15 minutes before the first 911 call comes in,” says Wloszek, “first responders know that there’s a hotspot or a fire starting to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it’s not just theory; they’ve already seen it happen at a fire in Colorado, with images from its sister satellite, GOES East. Launched in 2017, it was the first to have the advanced imager. It captured distant images from the Camp Fire in Butte County, even from its position over the eastern half of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1936557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 478px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOES17_FergusonFire.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1936557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/GOES17_FergusonFire.gif\" alt=\"GIF: smoke plumes from space\" width=\"478\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Test images from GOES West capture smoke plumes from California’s Ferguson Fire in July, 2018. \u003ccite>(NOAA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>GOES West doesn’t try to pinpoint hotspots visually, but with the shortwave infrared part of its imager, which can pick up heat signatures with more precision, day or night. Forecasters can also call up new views every 30 seconds, which also has advantages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like you’re watching a movie from space of how it’s all evolving,” says Wloszek, “which really allows unprecedented situational awareness for first responders on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s important about all that,” he said, “is not only can it detect it earlier, but because they can do 30-second updates, they can actually track the progression of the fire in real time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bird can even “take the temperature” of a growing fire, to determine where it’s burning the most intensely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With it’s better image quality, GOES West will also offer advantages to weather forecasters; it can, for example, distinguish between clouds and smoke. The satellite is \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GOES_satellites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">part of a “constellation”\u003c/a> of orbiting eyes, which is set to get a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/goes-t-satellite-%E2%80%9Cbrains%E2%80%9D-and-%E2%80%9Cbody%E2%80%9D-come-together\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new addition\u003c/a>, GOES-T, in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1936435/new-satellite-can-provide-immediate-wildfire-warning-but-first-the-govt-shutdown-has-to-end","authors":["221"],"categories":["science_89","science_40","science_3730"],"tags":["science_3840","science_3370","science_5182","science_3830","science_365","science_113"],"featImg":"science_1936515","label":"source_science_1936435"},"science_1925896":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1925896","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1925896","score":null,"sort":[1529361228000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"video-first-ever-views-of-manta-rays-swimming-with-young","title":"VIDEO: First-Ever Views of Manta Rays Swimming With Young","publishDate":1529361228,"format":"aside","headTitle":"VIDEO: First-Ever Views of Manta Rays Swimming With Young | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scripps Graduate Student Discovers World’s First Known Manta Ray Nursery\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/M3cKOV-mYVs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have stumbled on a manta ray nursery in protected waters off the coast of Texas — the first one in the world to be discovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The finding,\u003ca href=\"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-018-3364-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> published June 15\u003c/a> in the journal \u003cem>Marine Biology,\u003c/em> is the first of its kind to be described in a scientific study, according to a statement from Scripps, which is part of UC San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Known as the “gentle giants of the sea,” endangered manta rays are large, plankton-eating fish that have a wingspan of up to 23 feet. While adult rays are typically found in subtropical and tropical waters, baby mantas rarely swim out into open waters, making juveniles very difficult to access and study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[emailsignup newslettername='science' align='right']“The juvenile \u003ca href=\"http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/scripps_graduate_student_discovers_worlds_first_known_manta_ray_nursery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">life stage for oceanic mantas\u003c/a> has been a bit of a black box for us, since we’re so rarely able to observe them,” John Stewart, a graduate student at Scripps and lead author, \u003ca href=\"http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/scripps_graduate_student_discovers_worlds_first_known_manta_ray_nursery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a statement\u003c/a>. “Identifying this area as a nursery highlights its importance for conservation and management, but it also gives us the opportunity to focus on the juveniles and learn about them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart first spotted several young mantas while conducting research on the manta population at Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, a federally designated underwater area protected by the \u003ca href=\"https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Office of National Marine Sanctuaries\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and colleagues then combed through a quarter-century of photo and dive log information, looking to see how frequently young mantas were in the area. Since mantas have a unique “fingerprint” in the spots on their bellies, the team could identify how many juvenile individuals had been seen there. Eventually, they found that 95 percent of the mantas seen in Flower Garden Banks were juveniles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1925947\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 870px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Manta.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Manta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"870\" height=\"578\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1925947\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Manta.jpg 870w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Manta-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Manta-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Manta-768x510.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Manta-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Manta-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Manta-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juvenile manta ray with diver at Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. \u003ccite>(G.P. Schmahl/FGBNMS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This discovery is a major advancement in our understanding of the species,” Stewart said, “and the importance of different habitats throughout their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego researchers, aided by colleagues at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, suspect that the young mantas are gathering in the relatively shallow banks to recover body temperature after accessing cold, offshore waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”o8PpqDyyeZS8bQyOwFQFFUEgQv4Oa4Ss”]“We think they may be feeding on specific types of zooplankton there, then migrating up toward the surface, where we saw them,” Stewart \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/science/sd-me-manta-ray-20180618-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the San Diego Union-Tribune\u003c/a>. “They might be hanging around the banks because it could be a little safer than open water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart hopes the discovery will lead to better protections for manta rays in shallow waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so much we don’t know about mantas, and that’s exciting from a science perspective because it means there are so many questions still waiting to be answered,” Stewart said in a statement. “From a conservation perspective, it means that a lot of the questions that you get to answer will actually be meaningful and have an impact on management.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Scientists have discovered the world's first known nursery for manta rays, in protected waters off the coast of Texas.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704927792,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":528},"headData":{"title":"VIDEO: First-Ever Views of Manta Rays Swimming With Young | KQED","description":"Scientists have discovered the world's first known nursery for manta rays, in protected waters off the coast of Texas.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Animals","sticky":false,"path":"/science/1925896/video-first-ever-views-of-manta-rays-swimming-with-young","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scripps Graduate Student Discovers World’s First Known Manta Ray Nursery\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/M3cKOV-mYVs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have stumbled on a manta ray nursery in protected waters off the coast of Texas — the first one in the world to be discovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The finding,\u003ca href=\"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-018-3364-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> published June 15\u003c/a> in the journal \u003cem>Marine Biology,\u003c/em> is the first of its kind to be described in a scientific study, according to a statement from Scripps, which is part of UC San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Known as the “gentle giants of the sea,” endangered manta rays are large, plankton-eating fish that have a wingspan of up to 23 feet. While adult rays are typically found in subtropical and tropical waters, baby mantas rarely swim out into open waters, making juveniles very difficult to access and study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"emailsignup","attributes":{"named":{"newslettername":"science","align":"right","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The juvenile \u003ca href=\"http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/scripps_graduate_student_discovers_worlds_first_known_manta_ray_nursery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">life stage for oceanic mantas\u003c/a> has been a bit of a black box for us, since we’re so rarely able to observe them,” John Stewart, a graduate student at Scripps and lead author, \u003ca href=\"http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/scripps_graduate_student_discovers_worlds_first_known_manta_ray_nursery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a statement\u003c/a>. “Identifying this area as a nursery highlights its importance for conservation and management, but it also gives us the opportunity to focus on the juveniles and learn about them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart first spotted several young mantas while conducting research on the manta population at Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, a federally designated underwater area protected by the \u003ca href=\"https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Office of National Marine Sanctuaries\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and colleagues then combed through a quarter-century of photo and dive log information, looking to see how frequently young mantas were in the area. Since mantas have a unique “fingerprint” in the spots on their bellies, the team could identify how many juvenile individuals had been seen there. Eventually, they found that 95 percent of the mantas seen in Flower Garden Banks were juveniles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1925947\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 870px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Manta.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Manta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"870\" height=\"578\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1925947\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Manta.jpg 870w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Manta-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Manta-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Manta-768x510.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Manta-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Manta-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/Manta-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juvenile manta ray with diver at Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. \u003ccite>(G.P. Schmahl/FGBNMS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This discovery is a major advancement in our understanding of the species,” Stewart said, “and the importance of different habitats throughout their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego researchers, aided by colleagues at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, suspect that the young mantas are gathering in the relatively shallow banks to recover body temperature after accessing cold, offshore waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>“We think they may be feeding on specific types of zooplankton there, then migrating up toward the surface, where we saw them,” Stewart \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/science/sd-me-manta-ray-20180618-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the San Diego Union-Tribune\u003c/a>. “They might be hanging around the banks because it could be a little safer than open water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart hopes the discovery will lead to better protections for manta rays in shallow waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so much we don’t know about mantas, and that’s exciting from a science perspective because it means there are so many questions still waiting to be answered,” Stewart said in a statement. “From a conservation perspective, it means that a lot of the questions that you get to answer will actually be meaningful and have an impact on management.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1925896/video-first-ever-views-of-manta-rays-swimming-with-young","authors":["11428"],"categories":["science_2874","science_35","science_40","science_2873"],"tags":["science_205","science_248","science_5182","science_843","science_3543"],"featImg":"science_1925951","label":"source_science_1925896"},"science_1925359":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1925359","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1925359","score":null,"sort":[1528405213000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"report-finds-record-breaking-coastal-flooding-around-the-u-s","title":"Report Finds Record-Breaking Coastal Flooding Around the U.S.","publishDate":1528405213,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Report Finds Record-Breaking Coastal Flooding Around the U.S. | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.noaa.gov/news/coastal-communities-saw-record-number-of-high-tide-flooding-days-last-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High-tide flooding\u003c/a> driven by climate change is breaking records on all coasts of the United States, occurring at twice the rate from just 30 years ago, according to a new federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-content/sotc/national/2018/may/2017_State_of_US_High_Tide_Flooding.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report. [contextly_sidebar id=”lcEC3bZenOqJwJnQ5s5KmWNuUYubI0yv”]\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as sea levels rise, coastal flooding will continue to break records over the next few decades at an accelerated rate, according to the \u003ca style=\"color: #41a62a\" href=\"http://www.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The U.S. average high tide flood frequency is now 50 percent greater since 2000 and 100 percent greater than it was 30 years ago,” the NOAA report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several cities faced more than 20 days of coastal flooding over the last year even outside of big storms. The top five cities that saw the highest number of flood days and broke records are Boston; Atlantic City, New Jersey; Sandy Hook, New Jersey; Sabine Pass, Texas; and Galveston, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, Sa\u003cspan class=\"highlight selected\">n Die\u003c/span>go established itself as the state’s coastal flooding hotspot with a record‐breaking 13 days of coastal flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency measured rates of high-tide flooding at 98 locations along the U.S. coastline. More than a quarter of the locations tied or broke their previous records, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As relative sea level increases, it no longer takes a strong storm or a hurricane to cause coastal high tide flooding,” the report said. “High tide flooding causes frequent road closures, overwhelmed storm drains, and compromised infrastructure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As noted in recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1924579/like-it-or-not-the-water-is-coming-will-the-bay-area-defend-against-rising-seas-or-embrace-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports by KQED, \u003c/a>global warming could cause San Francisco Bay to rise 5 feet by 2100:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Now the state of California is warning nine Bay Area counties that climate change means the bay is rising faster. Extreme tides, whipped by storms, have become both more frequent and more extreme. California’s latest and best word on sea levels, a report issued last spring, \u003ca href=\"http://www.oceansciencetrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/OST-Sea-Level-Rising-Report-Final_Amended.pdf\">predicts\u003c/a> that San Francisco Bay could rise from five to 15 times faster this century than the last one.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Despite all this, the NOAA report finds that some cities are ill-prepared for what’s to come. In Boston for instance, a recent city-backed study criticized a plan to protect the city from rising sea levels. From \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06062018/coastal-flooding-data-sea-level-rise-climate-change-noaa-report-high-tide-risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside Climate News\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Another proposal envisions a harbor-wide barrier system that would close during major storms and cost billions of dollars. But last week, a city-backed study \u003ca href=\"http://www.wbur.org/news/2018/05/30/boston-harbor-barrier-flooding-umass-study\">recommended against building a barrier\u003c/a>, saying the money would be better spent on smaller-scale measures, such as flood walls or green infrastructure.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And in New York City, a major coastal barrier that was planned for lower Manhattan has run into significant obstacles. Also from \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06062018/coastal-flooding-data-sea-level-rise-climate-change-noaa-report-high-tide-risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside Climate News:\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>New York, which also tied its record of 15 days of tidal flooding, has launched various initiatives…But a signature coastal project that would erect berms and walls to protect lower Manhattan—known as “The Big U”—has \u003ca href=\"https://www.wnyc.org/story/five-years-later-sandy-project-grinding/\">faced delays and been scaled back\u003c/a> due to its high costs.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“Across the whole of the U.S. coastline, we are in dire need of action,” Ben Horton, a Rutgers University researcher,\u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/high-tide-flooding-in-the-u-s-is-twice-what-it-was-30-years-ago-noaa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> told CBS news.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/06/06/u-s-coastal-areas-flooded-more-than-ever-in-past-year-due-to-sea-level-rise-and-storms/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.027c47d21364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post\u003c/a> notes that nowhere in the NOAA report is the term “climate change” mentioned, something that has become a hallmark of the Trump administration:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Neither the announcement of the high-tide flooding record, the accompanying summary nor the technical report mention the words “climate change,” which scientists widely believe is the underlying cause of sea-level rise and the increasing tides.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a conference call this week, report co-author William Sweet of NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services, told reporters that a third of sea level rise is currently driven by thermal expansion of ocean water, and two-thirds is now caused by the melting of land-based ice around the world — both processes that are clearly symptoms of global warming.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Though you won't find the phrase \"climate change\" in it, a new federal report finds that coastal flooding across the U.S. has doubled in just 30 years.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704927836,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":701},"headData":{"title":"Report Finds Record-Breaking Coastal Flooding Around the U.S. | KQED","description":"Though you won't find the phrase "climate change" in it, a new federal report finds that coastal flooding across the U.S. has doubled in just 30 years.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Climate Change","sticky":false,"path":"/science/1925359/report-finds-record-breaking-coastal-flooding-around-the-u-s","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.noaa.gov/news/coastal-communities-saw-record-number-of-high-tide-flooding-days-last-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High-tide flooding\u003c/a> driven by climate change is breaking records on all coasts of the United States, occurring at twice the rate from just 30 years ago, according to a new federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-content/sotc/national/2018/may/2017_State_of_US_High_Tide_Flooding.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as sea levels rise, coastal flooding will continue to break records over the next few decades at an accelerated rate, according to the \u003ca style=\"color: #41a62a\" href=\"http://www.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The U.S. average high tide flood frequency is now 50 percent greater since 2000 and 100 percent greater than it was 30 years ago,” the NOAA report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several cities faced more than 20 days of coastal flooding over the last year even outside of big storms. The top five cities that saw the highest number of flood days and broke records are Boston; Atlantic City, New Jersey; Sandy Hook, New Jersey; Sabine Pass, Texas; and Galveston, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, Sa\u003cspan class=\"highlight selected\">n Die\u003c/span>go established itself as the state’s coastal flooding hotspot with a record‐breaking 13 days of coastal flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency measured rates of high-tide flooding at 98 locations along the U.S. coastline. More than a quarter of the locations tied or broke their previous records, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As relative sea level increases, it no longer takes a strong storm or a hurricane to cause coastal high tide flooding,” the report said. “High tide flooding causes frequent road closures, overwhelmed storm drains, and compromised infrastructure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As noted in recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1924579/like-it-or-not-the-water-is-coming-will-the-bay-area-defend-against-rising-seas-or-embrace-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports by KQED, \u003c/a>global warming could cause San Francisco Bay to rise 5 feet by 2100:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Now the state of California is warning nine Bay Area counties that climate change means the bay is rising faster. Extreme tides, whipped by storms, have become both more frequent and more extreme. California’s latest and best word on sea levels, a report issued last spring, \u003ca href=\"http://www.oceansciencetrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/OST-Sea-Level-Rising-Report-Final_Amended.pdf\">predicts\u003c/a> that San Francisco Bay could rise from five to 15 times faster this century than the last one.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Despite all this, the NOAA report finds that some cities are ill-prepared for what’s to come. In Boston for instance, a recent city-backed study criticized a plan to protect the city from rising sea levels. From \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06062018/coastal-flooding-data-sea-level-rise-climate-change-noaa-report-high-tide-risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside Climate News\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Another proposal envisions a harbor-wide barrier system that would close during major storms and cost billions of dollars. But last week, a city-backed study \u003ca href=\"http://www.wbur.org/news/2018/05/30/boston-harbor-barrier-flooding-umass-study\">recommended against building a barrier\u003c/a>, saying the money would be better spent on smaller-scale measures, such as flood walls or green infrastructure.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And in New York City, a major coastal barrier that was planned for lower Manhattan has run into significant obstacles. Also from \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06062018/coastal-flooding-data-sea-level-rise-climate-change-noaa-report-high-tide-risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside Climate News:\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>New York, which also tied its record of 15 days of tidal flooding, has launched various initiatives…But a signature coastal project that would erect berms and walls to protect lower Manhattan—known as “The Big U”—has \u003ca href=\"https://www.wnyc.org/story/five-years-later-sandy-project-grinding/\">faced delays and been scaled back\u003c/a> due to its high costs.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“Across the whole of the U.S. coastline, we are in dire need of action,” Ben Horton, a Rutgers University researcher,\u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/high-tide-flooding-in-the-u-s-is-twice-what-it-was-30-years-ago-noaa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> told CBS news.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/06/06/u-s-coastal-areas-flooded-more-than-ever-in-past-year-due-to-sea-level-rise-and-storms/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.027c47d21364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post\u003c/a> notes that nowhere in the NOAA report is the term “climate change” mentioned, something that has become a hallmark of the Trump administration:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Neither the announcement of the high-tide flooding record, the accompanying summary nor the technical report mention the words “climate change,” which scientists widely believe is the underlying cause of sea-level rise and the increasing tides.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a conference call this week, report co-author William Sweet of NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services, told reporters that a third of sea level rise is currently driven by thermal expansion of ocean water, and two-thirds is now caused by the melting of land-based ice around the world — both processes that are clearly symptoms of global warming.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1925359/report-finds-record-breaking-coastal-flooding-around-the-u-s","authors":["11428"],"categories":["science_31","science_89","science_35","science_40","science_2873"],"tags":["science_194","science_2114","science_5182","science_324","science_206"],"featImg":"science_1925388","label":"source_science_1925359"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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