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Police have suspended the search for Brian Murphy of Plymouth, Mich., who was 67 when he hiked into a blizzard on Mauna Kea in December 2007.
Marksmen from helicopters are shooting sheep on Mauna Kea to protect the endangered palila Bird. The sheep eat mamane trees which is the source of seeds for the birds.
A report says palila birds, a members of the honeycreeper family that live on Mauna Kea , have decreased from 4,400 in 2003 to about 1,200 in 2010.
The Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea has found a planet that has liquid water.
Nature Conservancy and Parker Ranch report they have found a Clermontia peleana singuliflora plant on a ohia tree on Mauna Kea. The plant had thought to be extinct was last seen on the Big Island in 1909.
An article on the history of volcanology notes that Titus Coan, a Christian missionary in Hilo between 1835 and his death in 1882, who theorized how lava could travel so far from its vent. Coan was one of the first to document lava flows as he climbed up Mauna Loa and noted openings (now called skylights) through which they could see a molten lava stream below, flowing at a rate of 20 miles per hour. Coan said “As these lower branches [of the flow] were pushing slowly along upon level ground, and as the feeding flood had ceased to come down upon the surface from the … vent, but flowed in a subterranean duct or ducts …” and he called them “pyroduct” His observations were later challenged but are now accepted although pyroduct hasn’t quite caught on.
Authorities report that a brush fire that has caused rerouting of traffic on Saddle Road on Mauna is 60 percent contained. Traffic is being detoured through an old section of Saddle Road and Mauna Kea State Recreation Area remains closed until further notice. The fire has included dramatic video footage of tornadic like fire. Authorities said they have arrested a man for arson in the fire.
Other articles have suggested the fire might be radioactive because of uranium coated shells at the army site.
A study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters by scientists from Oregon State University, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, University of British Columbia and U.S. Geological Survey and supported by the National Science Foundation investigates the ancient glaciers on Mauna Kea and the impact of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or AMOC, in the North Atlantic Ocean. The study says that at the time it was both colder and there was huge increase of precipitation on Mauna Kea — triple that of the present — and there were more frequent cyclonic storm events hitting the Hawaiian Islands from the north. Mauna Kea had a glacial ice cap of about 70 square kilometers until 14,500 years ago.
The Anchorage Daily News has an amusing tale of determining the U.S. largest island — Kodiak Island or the Island Of Hawaii. The debate was spurred by Sarah Palin’s calling Kodiak the biggest. The News concluded that Hawaii is the biggest is in terms of square miles but Kodiak is bigger in terms of coastline. The article notes that Kodiak is often lumped together with various smaller islands associated with it. We wandered into the discussion because of a key word celebrating cartographer Bradford Washburn who has stunning photos of the mountain.