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Evacuations in Boulder County as Sunshine Wildland Fire grows to 16 acres – Boulder Daily Camera
A wildfire that started as a structure fire in Sunshine Canyon before being spread by strong winds has forced evacuations in the Boulder County foothills that will remain in place overnight.
The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office posted on Twitter at 1:54 p.m. Monday that they were responding to a structure fire in the 2900 block of Sunshine Canyon Drive. That fire then spread to grassland and was quickly fueled by winds out of the west at 20 to 25 mph.
The evacuation area includes Pine Brook Hill after an update to the area at 7:20 p.m. Monday. The map of the evacuation area can be found at bouldercounty.maps.arcgis.com.
Initial evacuation orders earlier Monday included the area west of Foothills Community Park. Boulder County spokeswoman Jennifer Churchill said it is estimated there were 937 residents under mandatory evacuation at one point, and the area included 389 structures, 346 of which were homes.
County officials did not anticipate lifting any further evacuation orders Monday night.
UPDATE: #SunshineWildlandFire now at 20% containment. They do hope winds will die down overnight, but don’t expect #Boulder County mandatory evacuation orders to be lifted tonight. Evacuation area has been updated, however: https://t.co/yglMoqxtxP pic.twitter.com/lwrNmN1yFW
— Mitchell Byars (@mitchellbyars) December 20, 2022
By 5 p.m., the fire had grown to 16 acres and was being referred to as the Sunshine Wildland Fire. Initial estimates at 3 p.m. had the fire at about 18 acres, but updated mapping reduced that number.
By 7:20 p.m., crews had reached 25% containment on the fire and hoped that calmer winds overnight would help firefighting efforts.
Churchill said she did not have any information on if any structures other than the one in the initial call were damaged.
A separate set of crews were dealing with the original structure fire, but according to scanner traffic that fire had been contained to only one home and was under control.
Boulder open space rangers during the day were attempting to locate hikers in the area, and anyone recreating in the Mount Sanitas area was asked to evacuate the area. Anne U. White trail and Bald Mountain open space are also closed.
An evacuation area has been opened at the East Boulder Community Center, 5660 Sioux Drive, and will be open as a shelter overnight.
Evacuees can take large animals to the Boulder County Fairgrounds at 9595 Nelson Road in Longmont and smaller animals to the Humane Society of Boulder Valley at 2323 55th St. in Boulder.
There are no mandatory evacuation orders in the city of Boulder. Areas west of Ninth Street between Linden and University avenues were under an evacuation warning, but those residents were given the all clear just before 5 p.m.
Boulder Fire-Rescue tweeted that “limited fire spread and improving weather conditions” led to the decision to lift the evacuation warning, but asked residents to continue to monitor the situation.
Westbound traffic is closed at both Sunshine Canyon and Linden drives west of Boulder.
CU scientists shine a light on what comes up when you flush | CU Boulder Today
Banner image: A powerful green laser helps visualize the aerosol plumes from a toilet when it’s being flushed. (Credit: Patrick Campbell / CU Boulder)
Thanks to new CU Boulder research, scientists see the impact of flushing the toilet in a whole new light—and now, the world can as well.
Using bright green lasers and camera equipment, a team of CU Boulder engineers ran an experiment to reveal how tiny water droplets, invisible to the naked eye, are rapidly ejected into the air when a lid-less, public restroom toilet is flushed. Now published in Scientific Reports, it is the first study to directly visualize the resulting aerosol plume and measure the speed and spread of particles within it.
These aerosolized particles are known to transport pathogens and could pose an exposure risk to public bathroom patrons. However, this vivid visualization of potential exposure to disease also provides a methodology to help reduce it.
“If it’s something you can’t see, it’s easy to pretend it doesn’t exist. But once you see these videos, you’re never going to think about a toilet flush the same way again,” said John Crimaldi, lead author on the study and professor of civil, environmental, and architectural engineering. “By making dramatic visual images of this process, our study can play an important role in public health messaging.”
Researchers have known for over 60 years that when a toilet is flushed, solids and liquids go down as designed, but tiny, invisible particles are also released into the air. Previous studies have used scientific instruments to detect the presence of these airborne particles above flushed toilets and shown that larger ones can land on surrounding surfaces, but until now, no one understood what these plumes looked like or how the particles got there.
Understanding the trajectories and velocities of these particles—which can transport pathogens such as E. coli, C. difficile, noroviruses and adenoviruses—is important for mitigating exposure risk through disinfection and ventilation strategies, or improved toilet and flush design. While the virus that causes COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) is present in human waste, there is not currently conclusive evidence that it spreads efficiently through toilet aerosols.
“People have known that toilets emit aerosols, but they haven’t been able to see them,” said Crimaldi. “We show that this thing is a much more energetic and rapidly spreading plume than even the people who knew about this understood.”
The study found that these airborne particles shoot out quickly, at speeds of 6.6 feet (2 meters) per second, reaching 4.9 feet (1.5 meters) above the toilet within 8 seconds. While the largest droplets tend to settle onto surfaces within seconds, the smaller particles (aerosols less than 5 microns, or one-millionth of a meter) can remain suspended in the air for minutes or longer.
It’s not only their own waste that bathroom patrons have to worry about. Many other studies have shown that pathogens can persist in the bowl for dozens of flushes, increasing potential exposure risk.
“The goal of the toilet is to effectively remove waste from the bowl, but it’s also doing the opposite, which is spraying a lot of contents upwards,” said Crimaldi. “Our lab has created a methodology that provides a foundation for improving and mitigating this problem.”
Top: Aaron True, Postdoctoral Researcher (left) and John Crimaldi pose for a photo with the equipment. Bottom: A powerful green laser helps visualize the aerosol plumes from a toilet when it’s being flushed. (Credit: Patrick Campbell / CU Boulder)
Not a waste of time
Crimaldi runs the Ecological Fluid Dynamics Lab at CU Boulder, which specializes in using laser-based instrumentation, dyes and giant fluid tanks to study everything from how odors reach our nostrils to how chemicals move in turbulent bodies of water. The idea to use the lab’s technology to track what happens in the air after a toilet is flushed was one of convenience, curiosity and circumstance.
During a free week last June, fellow professors Karl Linden and Mark Hernandez of the Environmental Engineering Program, and several graduate students from Crimaldi’s lab joined him to set up and run the experiment. Aaron True, second author on the study and research associate in Crimaldi’s lab, was instrumental in running and recording the laser-based measurements for the study.
They used two lasers: One shone continuously on and above the toilet, while the other sent out fast pulses of light over the same area. The constant laser revealed where in space the airborne particles were, while the pulsing laser could measure their speed and direction. Meanwhile, two cameras took high resolution images.
The toilet itself was the same kind commonly seen in North American public restrooms: a lid-less unit accompanied by a cylindrical flushing mechanism—whether manual or automatic—that sticks up from the back near the wall, known as a flushometer style valve. The brand-new, clean toilet was filled only with tap water.
They knew that this spur-of-the-moment experiment might be a waste of time, but instead, the research made a big splash.
“We had expected these aerosol particles would just sort of float up, but they came out like a rocket,” said Crimaldi.
The energetic, airborne water particles headed mostly upwards and backwards towards the rear wall, but their movement was unpredictable. The plume also rose to the lab’s ceiling, and with nowhere else to go, moved outward from the wall and spread forward, into the room.
The experimental setup did not include any solid waste or toilet paper in the bowl, and there were no stalls or people moving around. These real-life variables could all exacerbate the problem, said Crimaldi.
They also measured the airborne particles with an optical particle counter, a device that sucks a sample of air in through a small tube and shines a light on it, allowing it to count and measure the particles. Smaller particles not only float in the air for longer, but can escape nose hairs and reach deeper into one’s lungs—making them more hazardous to human health—so knowing how many particles and what size they are was also important.
While these results may be disconcerting, the study provides experts in plumbing and public health with a consistent way to test improved plumbing design and disinfection and ventilation strategies, in order to reduce exposure risk to pathogens in public restrooms.
“None of those improvements can be done effectively without knowing how the aerosol plume develops and how it’s moving,” said Crimaldi. “Being able to see this invisible plume is a game-changer.”
Additional authors on this publication include: Aaron True, Karl Linden, Mark Hernandez, Lars Larson and Anna Pauls of the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering.
Abortion bans to increase maternal mortality even more, study shows | CU Boulder Today
New data shows that banning abortion would lead to more maternal deaths than previously thought, a critical finding less than a week after the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to overturn Roe v. Wade.
According to new CU Boulder research based on newly available data from 2020, such a ban would increase maternal mortality by 24%, a 14% increase from the previous data from 2017.
In this study, researchers focused only on how maternal mortality is impacted by abortion simply because data shows staying pregnant carries a higher risk of death than having an abortion. The Centers for Disease Control reported 0.41 deaths per 100,000 legal abortions between 2013-18 and that the maternal mortality rate was 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2020.
Other factors, like how society will facilitate access to abortion for those living in states where it’s illegal or how criminalization will impact health care seeking, were not factored in.
“The prior estimates relied on abortion rates, births and maternal mortality rates as of five years ago. Since then, abortions have increased, births have decreased and maternal mortality rates have worsened,” said Amanda Stevenson, an assistant professor of sociology at CU Boulder and lead author of the paper.
Stevenson and coauthors Leslie Root and Jane Menken––all researchers in the Institute of Behavioral Science––estimate that in the first year following a nationwide abortion ban, the number of maternal deaths would increase from a baseline of 861 to 969 (a 13% increase). In subsequent years, maternal deaths would increase 210 over baseline, a 24% increase.
For Black people, the numbers are even more alarming: The expected increase in maternal deaths if abortion were to be banned in every state jumped 18% to 39%.
“There is a robust network of Black-led research demonstrating how we can better support Black pregnant people who are at 2-3 times greater risk of dying because they’re pregnant compared to other groups,” Stevenson said.
When looking specifically at the 26 states that have already banned or plan to ban abortion following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, researchers found a lot of variation. In states with already high maternal mortality and moderate to high abortion rates––like Florida and Georgia––researchers estimate maternal deaths to increase by 29%.
In contrast, states like Nebraska, Missouri and West Virginia which have already made it difficult to get an abortion are expected to see little to no change just due to the increased risks of staying pregnant.
Researchers estimate that if no abortions were permitted in these 26 states in 2020 there would have been 64 more mortality-related deaths. The new findings have not yet been peer reviewed.
To combat this alarming trend, the researchers say helping people in states where abortion is illegal obtain legal access to reproductive care, investing in the maternal health crisis and addressing the shocking inequalities that generate astronomically high levels of maternal mortality are all ways to better support pregnant people in the U.S.
“Our estimates highlight how we can prevent the post-Dobbs bans on abortion from increasing the already tragically high numbers of deaths due to pregnancy in the U.S.,” Stevenson said. “Pregnancy shouldn’t kill people––in fact in other rich countries it very rarely does.”
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Observes Asteroid Bennu’s Boulder “Body Armor”
Asteroid Bennu’s remarkable terrain. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Asteroid Bennu’s boulder-covered surface gives it protection against small meteoroid impacts, according to observations of craters by
Bennu is a “rubble-pile” asteroid, meaning that it formed from the debris of a much larger asteroid that was destroyed by an ancient impact. Fragments from the collision coalesced under their own weak gravity to form Bennu.
The team used unprecedented, high-resolution global data sets to examine craters on Bennu: images from the OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite and surface-height data (topography) derived from the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter, a laser-ranging (lidar) instrument on the spacecraft.
This image shows asteroid Bennu’s boulder-covered surface. It was taken by the PolyCam camera on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on April 11, 2019, from a distance of 2.8 miles (4.5 km). The field of view is 211 ft (64.4 m), and the large boulder in the upper right corner of the image is 50 ft (15.4 m) tall. When the image was taken, the spacecraft was over the southern hemisphere, pointing PolyCam far north and to the west. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
“Measuring craters and their population on Bennu was exceptionally exciting,” said David Trang of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Honolulu, a co-author of the paper. “At Bennu, we discovered something unique to small and rocky bodies, which expanded our knowledge of impacts.”
Planetary scientists can estimate the age of surfaces by measuring the abundance and sizes of craters. Impact craters accumulate over time, so a surface with many craters is older than a surface with few craters. Also, the size of the crater depends on the size of the impactor, with larger impactors generally making larger craters. Because small meteoroids are far more abundant than large meteoroids, celestial objects like asteroids usually have many more small craters than large ones.
Bennu’s larger craters follow this pattern, with the number of craters decreasing as their size increases. However, for craters smaller than about 6.6 to 9.8 feet (around 2 – 3 meters) in diameter, the trend is backward, with the number of craters decreasing as their size decreases. This indicates something unusual is happening on Bennu’s surface.
The researchers think that Bennu’s profusion of boulders acts as a shield, preventing many small meteoroids from forming craters. Instead, these impacts are more likely to break apart the boulders or chip and fracture them. Also, some impactors that do make it through the boulders make smaller craters than they would if Bennu’s surface was covered in smaller, more uniform particles, like beach sand.
This activity causes the surface of Bennu to change differently than objects with fine-grained or solid surfaces. “The displacement or disruption of an individual or small group of boulders by a small impact is probably one of the most fast-acting processes on a rubble-pile asteroid’s surface. On Bennu, this contributes to making the surface appear to be many times younger than the interior,” said Bierhaus.
Reference: “Crater population on asteroid (101955) Bennu indicates impact armouring and a young surface” by E. B. Bierhaus, D. Trang, R. T. Daly, C. A. Bennett, O. S. Barnouin, K. J. Walsh, R.-L. Ballouz, W. F. Bottke, K. N. Burke, M. E. Perry, E. R. Jawin, T. J. McCoy, H. C. Connolly Jr., M. G. Daly, J. P. Dworkin, D. N. DellaGiustina, P. L. Gay, J. I. Brodbeck, J. Nolau, J. Padilla, S. Stewart, S. Schwartz, P. Michel, M. Pajola and D. S. Lauretta, 7 April 2022, Nature Geoscience.
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-022-00914-5
More about the mission and team:
The research was supported by NASA under the New Frontiers Program and the OSIRIS-REx Participating Scientist Program, the Canadian space agency, the French space agency, the Italian space agency, the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, and the Academies of Excellence of the Initiative D’ Excellence Joint, Excellent and Dynamic Initiative of Université Côte d’Azur.
Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona, Tucson, is the OSIRIS-REx principal investigator. The University of Arizona also leads the OSIRIS-REx science team and the mission’s science observation planning and data processing, and built the OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, provides overall mission management, systems engineering, and safety and mission assurance for OSIRIS-REx. Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, built the spacecraft and provides flight operations. The OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter was provided by the Canadian Space Agency. Goddard and KinetX Aerospace are responsible for navigating the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. OSIRIS-REx is the third mission in NASA’s New Frontiers Program, managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Perseverance Mars rover photographs snake rock and boulder
NASA’s Perseverance rover has rolled up to some odd and intriguing Martian terrain.
On Sunday (June 12), the car-sized Perseverance snapped a photo that could be mistaken for a still from an “Indiana Jones” movie. At the left of the tableau, a boulder perches precariously atop a slab of gray rock. And at right-center, a formation that looks very much like an open-mouthed snake head juts from a layered reddish butte.
If this were an “Indiana Jones” movie, that butte would house the lair of an evil snake-worshipping cult that Indy would have to take on, shuddering all the while. (Indy hates snakes, presumably regardless of which planet they happen to inhabit.)
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The Perseverance team is doubtless excited about this Mars landscape, and for far less fanciful reasons. The layered butte looks like it’s part of the ancient river delta that once existed inside the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater, where the six-wheeled robot and its tiny companion, the Ingenuity helicopter, landed in February 2021.
Perseverance has two main mission tasks: look for signs of past Mars life, if it ever existed, and collect and cache dozens of samples for future return to Earth. Jezero’s ancient delta is the best place for the rover to do such work, Perseverance team members have said; indeed, the delta’s existence is the main reason the rover was sent to Jezero.
Ingenuity has been helping Perseverance explore the crater’s floor, scouting out routes and trying to find interesting science targets for the rover. The helicopter has been doing such reconnaissance work since acing its primary mission, an initial 30-day, five-flight campaign designed to show that powered flight is possible on Mars despite the planet’s thin atmosphere.
Winter is approaching in the Jezero region, and the falling temperatures are making life difficult for the little chopper, which has flown 29 times to date. But the Ingenuity team planned for such hardship and is optimistic that the rotorcraft can keep flying for a while longer yet.
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Huntsville, Alabama takes the top spot for best place to live in America, beating Boulder, Colorado
Alabama’s largest city, Huntsville, has been named the best place to live in American, taking the prize from Boulder, Colorado for the first time in two years.
Huntsville’s high quality of life, affordability and cheap property appealed to Americans looking to put down roots amid the current ski-high housing costs, according to U.S. News & World Report’s ranking system.
Every year U.S. News ranks 150 of the country’s metropolitan area, relying five indexes: job market, housing affordability, quality of life, desirability and net migration, which measures the trend of people moving to or away from a metro area.
The former agricultural town blasted off in the 1960s after NASA locating the Marshall Space Flight center, which developed the Saturn V rocket that propelled the Apollo astronauts to the moon, in the Southern city.
1. Huntsville scored high in housing and job market on the U.S. News & World Report list of best cities to live
Add to that the Redstone Arsenal, the U.S. Army’s chemical weapons plant, the FBI’s operational support headquarters and the Army’s Aviation and Missile Command, which all give the area a steady economic base.
There’s also a growing biotech industry. Salaries from these jobs tend to be higher than the national average.
Huntsville scored high in housing and job market, no wonder with all those stable government jobs, but faltered in desirability.
‘Multiple years of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic uncertainty have changed many people’s priorities when they consider a major move,’ U.S. News real estate editor Devon Thorsby said. ‘Work-from-home options have become more permanent, and there’s an even greater focus on an individual’s ability to enjoy where they live, rather than where a job will necessarily take them.’
Housing affordability is top of mind for many U.S. residents. The rising cost of homes in the United States, inflation from the snarls in the supply chain and the work-from-home trend that came out of the pandemic.
People living in small, cramped apartments in expensive coastal cities like
All these factors made finding a bargain more important than picking a home in the prime location.
The expensive urban areas lost out to Southern and Western city because people were looking for a cheaper lifestyle and better quality of life, Thorsby said.
‘Much of the shakeup we see at the top of this year’s ranking is a result of changing preferences,’ Thorsby said. ‘People moving across the country today are putting more emphasis on affordability and quality of life than on the job market, which in many ways takes a back seat as remote work options have become more standard.’
The price of homes jumped 19.7 percent in February alone, S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index.
2. Colorado Springs. This city ranked second best for its desirability for its outdoor lifestyle and youthful demographics
3. Green Bay, Wisconsin is more than just the Packer. It’s got two universities and a thriving arts scene
4. Boulder, Colorado slipped in the ranking due to the high cost of living and housing prices
5. San Jose, the heart of Silicone Valley, attracts people with its high-salaried jobs
The average cost of a house in Huntsville is $192,667 compared to the national average of $365,646.
Colorado Springs, Green Bay, Boulder, San Jose, Raleigh and Durham, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Portland, Maine, Sarasota and San Francisco rounded out the U.S. News for top 10 best places to live.
Pikes Peak and the Air Force Academy are two major draws for the second best city in America, Colorado Springs.
This Rocky Mountain town scored a perfect 10, compared to Huntsville’s 4.6, in desirability. Credit its outdoor activities for that. Mountain biking, hiking and climb abound in this youthful city, where the median age is 35. Colorado Springs is full of jocks. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Centers are located there.
The cost of living here is higher than the national average. The price of a home can run about $555,072.
‘We’ve become pretty accustomed to ranking among the best places to live in the nation — now in our fifth year of ranking in the top six of 150 cities ranked and highest in desirability for four straight years,’ Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers told The Gazette. ‘These consistently high rankings are testament to the resilience and staying power of our city.’
Huntsville, which ranked third last year, knocked out Boulder in the number one spot.
Like Colorado Springs, there’s plenty to do in Boulder, but not just outside. In addition to the hiking, climbing and biking it offers, the mountain town is abundant in yoga studios, wellness and mediation centers and, of course, marijuana dispensaries.
The publication also offers a precautionary list of the most dangerous places to live in the U.S.
Avoid settling down in Memphis, Tennessee if you value your life, according to U.S. News.
The ‘Home of the Blues,’ a city of 1.3 million people, is the most dangerous place to live in America because it routinely has one of the top homicide rates in the country.
Anyone who’s seen ‘Breaking Bad’ can tell you that Albuquerque, New Mexico is a place to tread lightly.
The publication rank the Southwest City has the second most dangerous place to live.
Boulder crews contain grass fire in south Boulder – Boulder Daily Camera
Boulder fire crews were able to quickly respond to a fire south of the NCAR Fire burn area and contain it.
Officials said the fire was estimated at about 0.6 acres.
Radio traffic indicated the fire, which was being called the North Shanahan Ridge Fire, had “high spread potential” as it burned through grass at around 4 p.m.
But by 5 p.m, Boulder Fire-Rescue tweeted that the main fire had been extinguished, and crews were working on securing the perimeter of the fire and putting out hot spots.
Boulder Fire-Rescue spokeswoman Marya Washburn confirmed the fire was a new start near the north fork of the Shanahan Trailhead south of the NCAR Fire burn area.
There are no evacuation orders for homes at this time, but officials are closing and evacuating all trails in the area.
Boulder County is currently under a red flag warning due to high winds presenting dangerous fire conditions.
Officials have not yet commented on the possible cause of the fire.
This story will be updated.
Colorado wildfire: Evacuation orders for 8,000 homes are lifted after parts of the Boulder area torched
“With the exception of NCAR Road, all roads in the area are now open. Officials anticipate that NCAR Road will remain closed for several days,” the agency said Sunday evening.
“While it is now safe to return home, people in the area of the fire should remain vigilant. Fire officials do not anticipate fully extinguishing the fire for several days. It is possible that the (city may) issue new evacuation orders if conditions deteriorate. Continue to follow this Boulder Office of Emergency Management page for updates.”
The cause of the wildfire remains under investigation.
The inferno broke out Saturday afternoon and burned out of control Saturday evening — prompting evacuation orders for thousands of residents, officials said.
“Evacuation areas include 19,000 people and 8,000 homes,” the Boulder Office of Emergency Management tweeted Saturday evening.
By Monday morning, the blaze had charred about 189 acres and was about 35% contained, the office of emergency management said.
No injuries had been reported, and no structures had been damaged, the agency said late Sunday.
Officials said a combination of cooler temperatures and stellar firefighting efforts helped keep the wildfire from scorching properties and injuring residents.
Mike Smith of the Boulder Incident Management Team said he was “very happy” with the battle against the blaze.
“We had over 200 firefighters from over 30 agencies,” Smith told reporters Sunday. “That, combined with all of the fuel mitigation treatments that we’ve done in this area, is one of the reasons that we had such great success.”