Re: [cayugabirds-l] FW: the volcano heard round the world

2022-01-17 Thread Hurf Sheldon 
Nerd question:
It would be interesting to know where and by how much the East/West
pressure waves cancelled each other
hurf

On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 9:39 AM John Luther Cisne 
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> How might the pressure wave from the Tonga eruption be experienced by
> birds, and how might it affect their behavior, including their dispersal?
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> The following email comes from Lou Derry, a professor in Earth and
> Atmospheric  Sciences.
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>  John Cisne, Professor Emeritus
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> Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
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>Cornell University, Ithaca, NY  14853
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> *From: * on behalf of "Louis
> A. Derry" 
> *Reply-To: *"Louis A. Derry" 
> *Date: *Monday, January 17, 2022 at 6:09 AM
> *To: *EAS listsev 
> *Subject: *the volcano heard round the world
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> just for a change of pace ...
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> You no doubt all saw the satellite imagery of the massive underwater
> eruption near Tonga (-175.382, -20.536) on Saturday Jan 14.  If you didn’t,
> by all means Google it, it’s pretty awesome!  One of the things you see is
> the shock wave propagating. There are nice images out there of the wave
> moving across the US as recorded by atmospheric pressure gauges.  We have
> an Air Quality Egg (they’re made in Ithaca) at the apartment in Paris
> (2.3184, 48.8498) and sure enough, we see two pressure pulses.  The first
> is the wave coming from the east, a total distance of about 16849 km.  The
> second is the wave coming the other way around the world, 23181 km.  The
> gauge shows an increase in P followed by a drop as the wave passes. They
> arrived 15 hrs 22 mins and 20:57 (approximately) after the eruption.  That
> works out to a mean speed of 1101±5 km/yr, or Mach 0.91 (91% of the nominal
> speed of sound in air at 0˚C), which seems about right.  Pretty amazing to
> see an inexpensive weather gauge pick up a volcanic explosion literally
> halfway around the world.  The net magnitude of the first pulse measured
> here was about 158 Pa, or  0.047 inches of mercury.  Not a lot but not too
> hard for a decent barometer to measure.  Better instruments will probably
> see the wave go around the world more than once.
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> Lou
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[cayugabirds-l] Carbon offsets discussion followup

2021-12-12 Thread Hurf Sheldon 
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From: Gay Nicholson 
Date: Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 3:56 PM


David, I am sorry to hear about the problems with your heat pump water
heater that our Climate Fund grant supported.  We've contacted the owner of
Halco Energy and asked that he check in with you.

All - I'm not sure what the original discussion was about, but if you were
talking about taking responsibility for your carbon emissions related to
your birding activities, I hope you will consider a direct action of
offsetting your travel emissions with your local carbon offset fund - Finger
Lakes Climate Fund  - where you will see
your offset dollars put to work helping lower-income households pay for
energy efficiency and renewable energy systems that will reduce their
emissions and offset yours. Check out this short video of someone who works
at the Lab of O

who chose to offset her travel emissions with us.

We'd love to feature the support of the local birding community in one of
our Carbon Race Teams
 where you could
band together and see yourselves making a difference as a group of climate
aware bird protectors. Please get in touch if you have any questions about
this and we can walk you through it.

best wishes,
Gay
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] A great read for birders to consider by Bryan Pfeiffer

2021-12-09 Thread Hurf Sheldon 
This is a very good option for carbon offsetting:
https://www.fingerlakesclimatefund.org/
cheers,
hurf

On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 11:24 AM Regi Teasley  wrote:

> Totally agree.  I have always thought that birders are a “sleeping giant”
> that can make a *big* difference.
> Regi
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> *“If we surrendered to the earth’s intelligence, we could rise up rooted,
> like trees.” Rainer Maria Rilke*
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> On Dec 9, 2021, at 8:50 AM, Donna Lee Scott  wrote:
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>  I like this idea, Bob.
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> Re SPCA, they do more than any other group to neuter/spay feral cats, &
> also cats of low-income people, with their free feral program & their
> low-cost program for pets of those with limited means. I sometimes trap
> ferals here & take them to SPCA.
> All animals adopted from SPCA go home neutered.
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> And to repeat what I have recently posted at various online places:
> The Finger Lakes Land Trust really needs donations NOW for the purchase of
> the Bell Station land from NYSEG.
> for more info see www.fllt.org/savebellstation
> This explains the way this deal works.
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>  NYS didn’t buy BS from NYSEG; nys just convinced NYSEG & Public Service
> Commission to let FLLT buy Bell Station for later transfer to NYS DEC as a
> Wildlife Mgt. Area, ensuring public access to this wonderful
> lakeshore-woods.
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> Non-profit FLLT does a masterful job at saving land from development in
> various ways & they always emphasize that what they do creates, improves &
> saves habitat for birds & wildlife!
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> Donna Scott
> Lansing
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Dec 9, 2021, at 8:31 AM, Stephanie P. Herrick  wrote:
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> I like this idea Bob,  for two reasons:
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> 1. It benefits two worthy and appropriate local groups
> 2. The very act of making a mindful contribution encourages us to reflect
> on why we are doing it
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> Thanks for suggesting!   Looking forward to others thoughts!
>
> - S
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> *From:* bounce-126137445-82496...@list.cornell.edu <
> bounce-126137445-82496...@list.cornell.edu> on behalf of bob mcguire <
> bmcgu...@clarityconnect.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 9, 2021 8:20:11 AM
> *To:* Dave Nutter 
> *Cc:* linda orkin ; John Gregoire <
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> *Subject:* Re: [cayugabirds-l] A great read for birders to consider by
> Bryan Pfeiffer
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> Me too (a movement here?).
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> And I have one small idea on how to deal with it. Bird clubs organize
> field trips, and participation is free. What if each participant was
> encouraged (not required, just encouraged) to donate - say - $10 to either
> the Land Trust or the SPCA? The Land Trust because they are a major player
> in habitat conservation, and the SPCA because they (and I’d have to check
> this out) play a role in reducing the number of feral/outdoor cats. Local
> organizations, local impact.
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> Could something like this fly?
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> Bob McGuire
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> On Dec 8, 2021, at 4:11 PM, Dave Nutter  wrote:
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> Better said than I could have, though such concerns have been brewing for
> me a long time. So, how do we deal with it? As individuals, as
> organizations, as unorganized groups? Thoughts welcome.
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> - - Dave Nutter
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> On Dec 8, 2021, at 11:02 AM, Linda Orkin  wrote:
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> Thanks John.
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> Yes I had also read that, with great interest. Lots to think about. I
> embrace these thoughts fully.
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> Linda Orkin
> Ithaca, NY
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> On Dec 8, 2021, at 10:21 AM, John Gregoire 
> wrote:
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> Birdwatching’s Carbon Problem | Bryan Pfeiffer
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