Cuarto Menguante, 16 de Marzo de 2020 ϟ () waning half-moon in Sagittarius & Capricorn, according to the biodynamic calendar is going to be a good day for developing root crops, seedlings and fruit crops.

Today is wood and bamboo cutting day. It is a fruit harvesting day. Great day for minor repair work painting, varnishing, and even washing clothes and cleaning things up.

Nail care, detox, surgery, beauty masks, and hair cutting are all better done today.

 

Following the Super full Moon on the 9th, and just no passing Friday the 13th we find ourselves in a Coronavirus Defense Situation, World Wide Bio-Pandemic Emergency…

This day for me and my team will be about cleaning up some wood, staying moving at the farms and out of public areas. The morning and evening will be for cleaning up some spaces and praying for loved ones to do the same and to be well.

“Detox,” maybe another key focus word on this day.

Today, Menguante, 16 de Marzo de 2020  >  The next Cuarto Menguante: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 

Nutritional Diversity *crew focus stuff for the week

• Salt
• Mango
• Ambrosia

 

Lunar Study

 

Ω A paradigm shift has recently occurred in our knowledge and understanding of water in the lunar interior.

Ultimately, future analytical work using a multi-proxy approach and targeting a range of lunar samples, minerals, and other analog materials will lead to new discoveries and a better understanding of the abundance, distribution, and sources of water in the Moon.

Lunar science is presently going through a renaissance period as evidenced by a surge in lunar exploration by several space agencies as well as renewed interest in the laboratory-based analysis of lunar samples for their volatile inventories using the latest advancements in analytical instrumentation and techniques.

These efforts have already resulted in several new discoveries about the Moon, one of which has been an unambiguous detection and quantification of water in lunar samples. [1]

 

Ω Passive Acoustic Monitoring the Diel, Lunar, Seasonal and Tidal Patterns in the Biosonar Activity of the Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphins (Sousa Chinensis) in the Pearl River Estuary, China.

Growing demand for sustainable energy has led to an increase in the construction of offshore wind farms. Guishan windmill farm will be constructed in the Pearl River Estuary, China, which sustains the world’s largest known population of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa Chinensis). Dolphin conservation is an urgent issue in this region. By using passive acoustic monitoring, a baseline distribution of data on this species in the Pearl River Estuary during the pre-construction period had been collected.

The baseline information will be useful for driving further effective action on the conservation of this species and in facilitating later assessments of the effects of the offshore wind farm on the dolphins by comparing the baseline to post-construction and post-mitigation efforts.

 

 

The passive acoustic monitoring device (above) was deployed below a signal tower. The purple dash line shows the area of the planned windmill farm, the blue line area indicates the national Chinese white dolphin nature reserve. The inset map in the lower right corner shows the signal tower.

Marine mammals, especially cetaceans, have evolved sophisticated sound production mechanisms and rely primarily on their acoustic sensing biosonar for communication, navigation, and foraging [A, B]. Beside emitting whistles with a mean fundamental frequency of 6.4 kHz, and minimum and maximum fundamental frequency averaged at 5.1 kHz and 7.7 kHz, respectively [C], humpback dolphins also produce pulsed sound with a mean peak-peak source level of 199 ± 3 dB re 1μPa at 1m, and mean centroid and peak frequency of 106 ± 11 kHz and 114 ± 12 kHz, respectively [D].

The biosonar activities (both of the detection of echolocation click and feeding buzzes) at night were significantly higher than that during the day, indicating that humpback dolphins mainly feed at night in this region.

The lunar patterns were evident for the dolphin biosonar behavior at night time, and the diel, lunar and seasonal patterns for the echolocation encounter duration were also significantly varied. All these diel, lunar, seasonal, and tidal patterns in the humpback dolphin biosonar behaviors in Pearl River Estuary may be due to the spatial-temporal variability of their prey and visibility in the water. [2]

 

Another video anyone with 17 years today should see:

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