Robin Lacassin @RobinLacassin@qoto.org

Peer review, a huge waste of time, and therefore money ?

Figure 👇🏼 and excerpts taken from Aczel et al. 2021 https://doi.org/10.1186/s41073-021-00118-2

“…the total time reviewers globally worked on peer reviews was over 100 million hours in 2020, equivalent to over 15 thousand years. The estimated monetary value of the time US-based reviewers spent on reviews was over 1.5 billion USD in 2020 […] The numbers highlight the enormous amount of work and time that researchers provide to the publication system.”

(authors add: By design, our results are very likely to be under-estimates as they reflect only a portion of the total number of journals worldwide.)

#peerreview #openscience #publishANDnotperish

QT Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO #USGS) about #MaunaLoa #volcano:

“Mauna Loa is no longer erupting. Lava supply to the fissure 3 vent on the Northeast Rift Zone ceased on December 10 and sulfur dioxide emissions have decreased to near pre-eruption background levels. Volcanic tremor and earthquakes associated with the eruption are greatly diminished […]

Spots of incandescence may remain near the vent, along channels, and at the flow front for days or weeks as the lava flows cool. However, eruptive activity is not expected to return based on past eruptive behavior.”

Their photo 👇🏼 shows channel below the volcanic vent drained of lava

https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mauna-loa/volcano-updates

Huge cranes in #Paris. At work on #NotreDame restoration site.

Today at @wearetektonika #DOAJ we accepted our two first papers for publication 🎉 !

Proud to have been executive editor for the first one and thanks to Jack Williams who managed the review process as associate editor.

(reminder: we are open for submission since the end of May)

Conférences publiques organisées pas l'Observatoire Volcanologique et Sismologique de #Martinique (OVSM) de l'Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP):

- Un observatoire sous-marin connecté pour déchiffrer l’activité sismique des Saintes.

- Deux ans après le passage en vigilance volcanique jaune, un point sur l’activité du #volcan la Montagne Pelée.

#volcano #Antilles #Caribbean #hazards

Our paper on the #tectonics of this very remote area 👇🏼 in the #Atacama #desert is finally accepted for publication in EGU Solid Earth (will be Habel et al. 2022).

I'll say more when the article is online 😉

#geologist at work, #landscape of the #Andes #mountains

On 4 December, at 15:19 UTC, a strong #pyroclastic flow along the Sciara del Fuoco on #Stromboli #volcano reached the sea and generated a moderate #tsunami, hopefully not causing damage (according to INGV). Tide gauge in Ginestra recorded it with a delay of only a few minutes, and crest to crest amplitude of ~60cm.

Stromboli is an Italian very active volcano from the Aeolian islands in the Tyrrhenian sea (Mediterranean). Its activity, and more particularly hazards due to the pyroclastic flows, are monitored by INGV.

INGV reported about the tsunami: https://ingvterremoti.com/2022/12/05/stromboli-4-dicembre-2022-tsunami-si-o-tsunami-no/
And about the volcanic event itself: https://ingvvulcani.com/2022/12/05/cosa-e-successo-a-stromboli-il-4-dicembre-2022/

I like this view taken from Mauna Kea summit. Mauna Loa is in the background with the eruptive volcanic plume. From the plume ash and gazes spread horizontally in the high atmosphere.

#MaunaLoa #volcano #eruption

My former PhD student Gino De Gelder has published a beautiful paper on the famed #Huon peninsula, in New Guinea, where Chappell and Shackleton have defined one of the first #Quaternary #eustatic curves ~40 years ago.

Worth reading if you are interested in marine terraces, #geomorphology, sea level variations, #eustasy, #landscape modelling, tectonic uplift, Quaternary #climatechange…

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00583-7

On bad Friday we have refurbished our two iphones for 150€ (2 batteries, 1 screen), thus avoiding wastage. Remember not to renew electronic devices before 5-7 years of use. #sufficiency

Amazing #USGS aerial view of the eruption on the northern flank of #MaunaLoa #volcano in #Hawaii. The main erupting fissure shows its high lava fountains in bright yellow. From there anastomosing rivers of fresh lava flow downslope and to the north. Crest and summit of Mauna Kea in the back.

From an USGS video: https://www.usgs.gov/media/videos/november-30-2022-fissure-3-mauna-loas-northeast-rift-zone-continues

Le #CNRS demande désormais à ses chercheurs et chercheuses d’appliquer la stratégie de non-cession des droits d’auteur lors du dépôt de leurs articles auprès d’éditeurs.

https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/il-ny-pas-de-raison-que-les-scientifiques-fassent-une-cession-exclusive-gratuite-de-leurs

#openscience #copyright

Because of the #MaunaLoa eruption and lava flows, the #CO2 measurement equipment that maintains the famous #Keeling Curve lost power on Nov. 28 and is not currently recording data.

https://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/2022/11/29/historic-keeling-curve-observation-interrupted-by-volcanic-eruption/

Citing their post: "The Keeling Curve is considered the icon of scientific evidence that human activities are altering the planet’s #climate. It has provided incontrovertible evidence that the amount of [atmospheric] gas carbon dioxide has risen far above any levels experienced on Earth for at least three million years […] Researchers at #Scripps Institution of Oceanography, which established the Keeling Curve record at the site in 1958, are exploring options regarding the relocation of measurement equipment."

#climatechange #climatecrisis #greenhouse #keelingcurve

Lava flows cutting Mauna Loa observatory road (photo USGS)

https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/lava-flow-cutting-mauna-loa-observatory-road

Updated #USGS map of #MaunaLoa eruption and lava flows. Lava flows already cut the road to NOAA observatory.

https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/november-29-2022-mauna-loa-eruption-map

"La baguette de pain française inscrite au patrimoine immatériel de l’humanité par l’Unesco !" 🥖 😋

https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2022/11/30/la-baguette-de-pain-francaise-inscrite-au-patrimoine-immateriel-de-l-humanite-par-l-unesco_6152331_3246.html

Another excellent view of the #MaunaLoa upper northeastern rift zone with the active erupting fissure in the foreground. The summit caldera is in the back.

Reminder, USGS public domain aerial images are here: https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/news/photo-and-video-chronology-hawaiian-volcano-observatory-november-28-2022

Beautiful aerial views of the #MaunaLoa eruption by the #USGS Hawaiian #Volcano Observatory are here: https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/news/photo-and-video-chronology-hawaiian-volcano-observatory-november-28-2022. These USGS images are public domain.

On this image 👇🏼 , the erupting fissure with lava fountains is visible to the upper left. From the fissure reddish lava flows downslope.

It's dawn on the Mauna Loa #volcano summit. The USGS webcam captured daylight rising over the caldera filled by the new lava lake. Amazing view.

Updated news on the unrest: https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mauna-loa/volcano-updates

Webcam on the rim of Mauna Loa summit caldera shows the lava lake that started filling up few hours ago. Last #eruption at Mauna Loa was in 1984.

#USGS Mauna Loa #volcano webcams: https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mauna-loa/webcams

Updated news on the unrest: https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mauna-loa/volcano-updates

More info on Mauna Loa (USGS webdoc with many maps): https://geonarrative.usgs.gov/maunaloa/