From 57a27c2105daa3bf9f26ace450fb29cb134cef01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Corson-Dosch <hcorson-dosch@usgs.gov> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 14:38:22 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] wildfire aerosols text edits --- src/assets/content/ChartGrid.js | 2 +- src/assets/css/main.css | 2 +- src/assets/text/text.js | 56 ++++++++++++++++----------------- 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/assets/content/ChartGrid.js b/src/assets/content/ChartGrid.js index 6ac6eb3..1bfca56 100644 --- a/src/assets/content/ChartGrid.js +++ b/src/assets/content/ChartGrid.js @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ export default { description: 'Land use change is threatening inland fisheries.' }, { - title: 'Explore the Juneau Ice Field', + title: 'Explore the Juneau Icefield', project: 'Fire in Ice', vizKey: 'GlacierScan', vizRoute: 'glacier-scan', diff --git a/src/assets/css/main.css b/src/assets/css/main.css index bee38a7..06b54a9 100644 --- a/src/assets/css/main.css +++ b/src/assets/css/main.css @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ a { color: #fff; text-align: center; border-radius: 6px; - padding: 5px; + padding: 0.9rem 0.65rem; position: absolute; z-index: 1; margin-left: -170px; diff --git a/src/assets/text/text.js b/src/assets/text/text.js index 49eb854..a838901 100644 --- a/src/assets/text/text.js +++ b/src/assets/text/text.js @@ -74,42 +74,42 @@ export default { }, visualizations: { GlacierScan: { - paragraph1: "The Juneau Icefield is just north of Juneau, Alaska and extends into Canada. In 2016 and 2017, researchers collected ice cores across the icefield to determine if the ice traps records of wildfires.", - paragraph1Mobile: "The Juneau Icefield is just north of Juneau, Alaska. In 2016 and 2017, researchers collected ice cores across the icefield to determine if the ice traps records of wildfires.", + paragraph1: "The Juneau Icefield is just north of Juneau, Alaska and extends into Canada. In 2016 and 2017, researchers collected snow cores across the icefield to determine if the ice traps records of wildfires.", + paragraph1Mobile: "The Juneau Icefield is just north of Juneau, Alaska. In 2016 and 2017, researchers collected snow cores across the icefield to determine if the ice traps records of wildfires.", promptDesktop: "Hover over the map to explore the topography and learn about coring a glacier.", promptMobile: "Tap the map to explore the topography and learn about coring a glacier.", heading: "How are ice cores collected?", - paragraph2: "The ideal location for drilling an ice core is the highest, flattest section of a glacier, as this region minimizes any influence from the glacier flow. Snow builds up layer by layer on a glacier surface and eventually compresses into ice. High, flat drilling locations increase the possibility that ice layers remain horizontal and decreases the possibility of melt layers.", - paragraph3: "Once researchers have arrived at the drilling location, the first thing that they do is to create some sort of shelter for comfort and incase the weather becomes bad. For short (~10 m) ice cores that can be drilled in a day, this shelter is often a snow pit with a bench, as well as a tarp to block blowing wind. Once the pit is dug, scientists can start drilling.", - paragraph4: "The ice core drill has bits called “core dogs†on the bottom that cut into the ice. The drill is a metal cylinder with threads on the outside that help grip the snow and ice. Researchers attach a handle to the top and turn the drill until the have collected a meter of ice. This meter of ice is then passed to the people in the snow pit who are processing the core. This processing entails documenting the ice stratigraphy, measuring the core, and determining its mass.", - paragraph5: "On the Juneau Icefield, cores were not kept in a frozen state, and instead were homogenized and placed into clean labeled bottles. The drilling and processing continue simultaneously, with team members measuring one core section while the next section is being drilled. The ice core drill returns to the initial hole and retrieves the next meter of ice. As the drill goes deeper and deeper into the ice, metal rods are connected to the top of the drill to extend the drill length until eventually reaching ~10 m depth. Pulling up 10 m of metal extension rods, the drill, and the ice core section can be heavy, but allows for a continuous climate record.", - photo010: "Clear, sunny days on the Juneau Icefield are appreciated, and people spend every possible moment outside to enjoy the spectacular scenery.", - photo010Mobile: "Clear, sunny days on the Juneau Icefield are appreciated, and people spend every possible moment outside to enjoy the spectacular scenery.", + paragraph2: "The ideal location for drilling a snow core to identify biomarkers from wildfire events is the highest, flattest section of a glacier, as this region minimizes any influence from the glacier flow. Snow builds up layer by layer on a glacier surface and eventually compresses into ice. High, flat drilling locations increase the possibility that packed layers remain horizontal.", + paragraph3: "Once researchers have arrived at the drilling location, the first thing that they do is create some sort of shelter for comfort in case the weather becomes bad. For short (~10 m) snow cores that can be drilled in a day, this shelter is often a snow pit with a bench and a tarp to block wind. Once the pit is dug, scientists can start drilling.", + paragraph4: "Snow core drills either have a cutting head (like a Felix corer) or cutting teeth (like a Kovacs corer). The teeth cut the packed snow. Parts called ‘core dogs’ grab the core so that you can retrieve it from the bottom of the drilled hole. The drill itself is a metal cylinder and has threads on the outside that help excavate the cut core, allowing the drill to keep cutting deeper. Researchers attach a handle to the top and turn the drill until they have collected a meter of packed snow. This meter of snow is then passed to the people in the snow pit who are processing the core. This processing entails documenting the snow stratigraphy, measuring the core, and weighing the section to determine its mass.", + paragraph5: "The drilling and processing continue simultaneously, with team members measuring one core section while the next section is being drilled. The snow core drill returns to the initial hole and retrieves the next meter of packed snow. As the drill goes deeper and deeper into the glacier, metal extension rods are connected to the top of the drill to extend the drill length until eventually reaching ~10 meters below the surface.", + photo010: "The Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP) established a series of camps across the icefield that allow students and faculty the opportunity to live and work on the icefield throughout the summer program. Clear, sunny days on the Juneau Icefield are rare and much appreciated, and researchers spend every possible moment outside enjoying the spectacular scenery.", + photo010Mobile: "Clear, sunny days on the Juneau Icefield are rare and much appreciated, and researchers spend every possible moment outside enjoying the scenery.", photo010Alt: "", - photo018: "Drilling and processing ice cores involves teamwork. While a new core section is being drilled, team members measure physical properties like ice stratigraphy and the mass of the previous core section. Processing the core in a snow pit allows shelter from the wind, and creates a stable bench for examining the cores.", - photo018Mobile: "While a new core section is being drilled, team members measure physical properties like ice stratigraphy and the mass of the previous section.", + photo018: "Drilling and processing snow cores involves teamwork. While a new core section is being drilled, team members measure physical properties (e.g., volume, mass) and stratigraphy (i.e., the ice layering) of the previous core section. Processing the core in a snow pit allows shelter from the wind and creates a stable bench for examining the cores.", + photo018Mobile: "While a new core section is being drilled, team members measure physical properties (e.g., volume, mass) and stratigraphy (i.e., the ice layering) of the previous core section.", photo018Alt: "", - photo051: "Drilling an ice core on the Lemon Creek glacier to help determine past melt events affecting the glacier mass balance. The ice core drill can obtain one meter of ice at a time, where poles help extend the drill as it goes deeper into the ice. Team members record the depth and stratigraphy of ice core sections.", - photo051Mobile: "The ice core drill can obtain one meter of ice at a time, where poles help extend the drill as it goes deeper into the ice.", + photo051: "Scientist sample seasonal snow and firn (snow older than one year) on Lemon Creek Glacier, measuring density, noting any layers of interest, and collecting samples for chemical analysis. The coring device can obtain one meter of snow and firn at a time, and by adding extensions to the drill, it is possible to carefully sample many meters deep without having to dig an enormous hole. Team members take careful notes to ensure records are complete.", + photo051Mobile: "The coring device can obtain one meter of snow and firn at a time, and by adding extensions to the drill, it is possible to carefully sample many meters deep without having to dig an enormous hole.", photo051Alt: "", - photo085: "Sunsets on the Juneau Icefield are spectacular, with the combination of jagged peaks and glowing snow.", - photo085Mobile: "Sunsets on the Juneau Icefield are spectacular, with the combination of jagged peaks and glowing snow.", + photo085: "Sunsets on the Juneau Icefield are spectacular, with the combination of jagged peaks and low light gleaming on the snow.", + photo085Mobile: "Sunsets on the Juneau Icefield are spectacular, with the combination of jagged peaks and low light gleaming on the snow.", photo085Alt: "", - photo138: "Traversing between camps involves a combination of skiing across glaciers and hiking over slopes. By the time that teams are ready to traverse to a new camp, they are well-practiced in safety skills such as crevasse rescue and rope management.", - photo138Mobile: "Moving between camps involves skiing across glaciers and hiking over slopes. Teams practice safety skills like rope management and crevasse rescue.", + photo138: "Travel between sites on the icefield involves a combination of skiing across glaciers and hiking over slopes. In order to be able to traverse to a new camp, the teams must be well-practiced in safety skills such as crevasse rescue and rope management.", + photo138Mobile: "Travel between sites on the icefield involves a combination of skiing across glaciers and hiking over slopes. Teams use safety skills like crevasse rescue and rope management.", photo138Alt: "", - photo140: "Natalie Kehrwald takes a break from drilling ice cores on the Taku Glacier, one of the deepest temperate alpine glaciers in the world.", - photo140Mobile: "Natalie Kehrwald takes a break from drilling ice cores on the Taku Glacier, one of the deepest temperate alpine glaciers in the world.", + photo140: "Natalie Kehrwald takes a break from drilling snow cores on the Taku Glacier, one of the deepest temperate mountain glaciers in the world.", + photo140Mobile: "Natalie Kehrwald takes a break from drilling snow cores on the Taku Glacier, one of the deepest temperate mountain glaciers in the world.", photo140Alt: "", - photo156: "After multiple days without snowfall, a ski track forms from people passing through on their way to collect scientific data and explore the landscape.", - photo156Mobile: "After multiple days without snowfall, a ski track develops from people on their way to collect scientific data and explore the landscape.", + photo156: "Sunny summer days create a sun-cupped surface texture on the snow surface. The passage of scientists on skis and snowmobiles is visible here, showing a trail from camp to the coring site.", + photo156Mobile: "Sunny summer days create a sun-cupped surface texture on the snow surface. The passage of scientists on skis and snowmobiles is visible here.", photo156Alt: "", photo183Alt: "", - photo203: "Glaciers scour the landscape, creating U-shaped valleys between surrounding peaks. At their terminus, glacier melt creates lakes and rivers. The relatively low elevation and coastal location of the Juneau Icefield means that glacier melt mixes with seawater to create vibrant saltwater wetlands.", - photo203Mobile: "Glaciers scour the landscape, creating U-shaped valleys between surrounding peaks. At their terminus, glacier melt creates lakes and rivers.", + photo203: "Glaciers scour the landscape, creating U-shaped valleys between surrounding peaks. At their terminus (where they end), glacier melt creates lakes and rivers.", + photo203Mobile: "Glaciers scour the landscape, creating U-shaped valleys between surrounding peaks. Where they end, glacier melt creates lakes and rivers.", photo203Alt: "", - photo021: "The Gilkey Trench viewed from Camp 18 shows a classic example of ogives, or alternating bands of light and dark ice that are caused by compression and glacier flow.", - photo021Mobile: "The Gilkey Trench shows ogives, or alternating bands of light and dark ice that are caused by compression and glacier flow.", + photo021: "The movement of glaciers pushes sediments both in front of and to the sides of the ice. The mounds of sediments are called moraines and remain even after the ice has melted. Moraines provide evidence of past glacier activity in locations that are now free of ice.", + photo021Mobile: "The movement of glaciers pushes sediments both in front of and to the sides of the ice. The mounds of sediments are called moraines.", photo021Alt: "" }, RegionalFires: { @@ -211,10 +211,10 @@ export default { paragraph1: 'Explore total recreational harvest for the five families of inland fish with the largest recreational harvests: <span class="scientificName">Cyprinidae</span> (minnows and carps), <span class="scientificName">Percidae</span> (perch), <span class="scientificName">Salmonidae</span> (salmon, trout, grayling, and whitefish), <span class="scientificName">Bagridae</span> (bagrid catfish), and <span class="scientificName">Centrarchidae</span> (sunfishes). Total recreational harvest is broken out by family, by species, and by country. Hover over the chart to see the harvest totals, in kilograms' }, WildfireAerosols: { - paragraph1: "Each layer of the <a href='/visualizations/earth-in-flux/#/fire-in-ice/glacier-scan' target='_blank'>collected snow core</a> contains more than just packed snow. Particulates from the air, like dust, deposit on the surface of the glacier, along with tiny airborne particles called aerosols. As more snow falls, the deposited particulates and aerosols are preserved in the glacier.If the aerosols are dark in color, the glacier absorbs more heat and melts more quickly. These dark aerosols are mostly black carbon, or soot, that is generated when vehicles and industrial activities burn fossil fuels or when wildfires burn vegetation.", - paragraph2: "Can we tell if any of the dark aerosols in the snow core came from wildfires? While black carbon does not have a chemical signature, three sugars—mannosan, galactosan, and levoglucosan—are only produced when vegetation burns. While these sugars are not dark aerosols themselves, they travel in smoke plumes with the dark aerosols and are deposited alongside them. These sugars are present throughout the core, which tells us that some of the deposited material in the snow came from wildfires.", - paragraph3: "Scientists use the ratio of levoglucosan to the sum of mannosan and galactosan to distinguish between types of vegetation that burned. Alaska's forests are dominated by softwoods, and <a href='/visualizations/earth-in-flux/#/fire-in-ice/regional-fires' target='_blank'>regional fires</a> likely deposit aerosols on the Juneau Ice Field that are captured in the core.", - paragraph4: "However, there are also markers of hardwood combustion, which suggests that aerosols are transported to the ice field from much farther afield. One possible source is wildfires in hardwood forests in East Asia.", + paragraph1: "Each layer of the <a href='/visualizations/earth-in-flux/#/fire-in-ice/glacier-scan' target='_blank'>collected snow core</a> contains more than just packed snow. Particulates from the air, like dust, deposit on the surface of the glacier, along with tiny airborne particles called aerosols. Over time, the deposited particulates and aerosols are preserved in the glacier. If the aerosols are dark in color, the glacier absorbs more heat and melts more quickly. These dark aerosols include black carbon, or soot, that is generated when vehicles and industrial activities burn fossil fuels or when wildfires burn vegetation.", + paragraph2: "Can we tell if any of the dark aerosols in the snow core came from wildfires? While black carbon does not have a chemical signature, three sugars—mannnosan, galactosan, and levoglucosan—are only produced when vegetation burns. While these sugars are not dark aerosols themselves, they travel in smoke plumes with the dark aerosols and are deposited alongside them. These sugars are present throughout the core, which tells us that some of the deposited material in the snow came from wildfires.", + paragraph3: "Scientists use the ratio of levoglucosan to the sum of mannosan and galactosan to distinguish between types of vegetation that burned. Alaska's forests are dominated by <span class='tooltip-group'><span class='tooltip-span'>softwoods</span><span id='softwoods-tooltip' class='tooltiptext'>Conifers, like pine, spruce, and firs.</span></span>, and <a href='/visualizations/earth-in-flux/#/fire-in-ice/regional-fires' target='_blank'>regional fires</a> likely deposit aerosols on the Juneau Icefield that are captured in the core.", + paragraph4: "However, there are also markers of <span class='tooltip-group'><span class='tooltip-span'>hardwood</span><span id='hardwoods-tooltip' class='tooltiptext'>Broadleaved trees, like ash, oak, birch, beech, alder, and teak.</span></span> combustion, which suggests that wildfire aerosols are transported to the icefield from much farther afield. One possible source is wildfires from East Asia, where hardwood forests are more abundant.", heading: "What am I looking at?", explanation1: "As scientists <a href='/visualizations/earth-in-flux/#/fire-in-ice/glacier-scan' target='_blank'>collected the snow core</a>, they carefully stored each ten-centimeter section for transport off the Juneau Icefield. The retrieved samples were analyzed in a laboratory for particle counts, major ions, stable isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen, and the three sugars that are markers of biomass combustion—mannosan, galactosan, and levoglucosan.", explanation2: "In this visual representation of the core, the darker grey shows layers of the snow that had high amounts of particulate matter. The high-particulate layer present in both 2015 and 2016 likely represents the summer melt surface." -- GitLab