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NASA Snow Mapper Reaps Big Benefits for California

By Guest PostDecember 15, 2013Environmentbay area, big benefits, brad doorn, california, climate sciences, glaciology, hetch hetchy reservoir, hydroelectric generation, hydropower, inflow into reservoir, mcgurk hydrologic, modeling forecast, nasa data, nasa snow mapper, oshaughnessy dam, runoff, runoff forecasts, san francisco, sierra nevada, snow water equivalent, spatial distribution, tom painter, tuolumne river basin, twin otter aircraft

Unprecedented snowpack maps from NASA’s prototype Airborne Snow Observatory mission helped water managers for 2.6 million residents of the San Francisco Bay Area achieve near-perfect water operations this summer, despite the driest year in California’s recorded history.

The high-resolution NASA snow maps of the Tuolumne River Basin in the Sierra Nevada helped optimize reservoir filling and hydroelectric generation at the Hetch Hetchy reservoir and its O’Shaughnessy Dam. This resulted in a full reservoir at the end of the snowmelt season, no water spillage, and generation of more than $3.9 million in hydropower. The NASA data helped optimize operations during the last two critical weeks of runoff. (more…)

UA Physician: Diet and Lifestyle Key to Preventing Diabetes

By Guest PostNovember 18, 2011Healthamericans, big benefits, breast cancer and aids, carbohydrate intake, craig stump, diabetes, dietary and physical activity, endocrine specialist, high caloric foods, highly processed carbohydrates, ice cream, obesity, pre diabetic, simple behavior changes, stamina, type 2 diabetes, university of arizona college of medicine tucson, weight loss, white bread, white noodles, white potatoes, white rice

*Dr. Craig Stump, interim director of the Diabetes Research Program at the UA College of Medicine–Tucson, suggests simple behavior changes that can add up to big benefits.*

Diabetes kills more people each year than breast cancer and AIDS combined, and 79 million Americans are at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Diabetes Association. (more…)

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NASA Snow Mapper Reaps Big Benefits for California

UA Physician: Diet and Lifestyle Key to Preventing Diabetes