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Miami-Dade County and IBM Establish Public-Private Partnership on Smarter Cities Initiative

By Guest PostMarch 4, 2013Technologybig data analytics, carlos a gimenez, future economy, government transparency, ibm, ibm smarter cities, ibm system, intelligent operations center, intelligent policing, ioc, mayor, mayor gimenez, mdpd, miami dade county, michael j dixon, public private partnership, pureflex system, smarter cities initiative, time sensitive information, transportation efficiency, water management, z mainframe, zlinux

Collaboration helps government harness Big Data to serve residents more efficiently and save taxpayer dollars

ARMONK, New York – 04 Mar 2013: Miami-Dade County and IBM today announced a transformational Smarter Cities initiative to improve services for residents and help agencies share information among the35 municipalities within the county.

A model for the rest of the nation, the County is using Big Data analytics — managing large datasets from multiple sources — and cloud computing to help leaders make better decisions. (more…)

NASA Satellites Find Freshwater Losses in Middle East

By Guest PostFebruary 14, 2013Scienceamount of water, austin, basin, data, dead sea, drought, euphrates river, geosciences, german aerospace center, german research center, goddard, grace data, greenbelt, ground based data, hydrologic observations, hydrological modeling, international laws, iran, Iraq, irvine, jay famiglietti, lost freshwater reserves, matt rodell, middle east region, nasa satellites, pumping of groundwater, satellite data, space flight center, stakeholders, syria, tigris, turkey, underground reservoirs, united states, university of california, university of texas, water management

PASADENA, Calif. – A new study using data from a pair of gravity-measuring NASA satellites finds that large parts of the arid Middle East region lost freshwater reserves rapidly during the past decade.

Scientists at the University of California, Irvine; NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.; and the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., found during a seven-year period beginning in 2003 that parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran along the Tigris and Euphrates river basins lost 117 million acre feet (144 cubic kilometers) of total stored freshwater. That is almost the amount of water in the Dead Sea. The researchers attribute about 60 percent of the loss to pumping of groundwater from underground reservoirs. (more…)

Mather Lecture

By Guest PostMay 14, 2012Environmentatmosphere, atmospheric moisture, biodiversity, charles j vörösmarty, China, climate change, computer model, cort willmott, deforestation, Europe, geospatial data, global water crisis, hydrology, India, industrializing place, john r mather, mather lecture, nancy targett, natural water systems, nitrogen pollution, noaa, river, sandra mather, stress, thermal regime, united states, university of delaware, water cycle, water management

Renowned expert Charles J. Vörösmarty addresses global water crisis

The world’s streams, rivers and lakes are under increasing stress because of human water management – and mismanagement – that threaten aquatic biodiversity and the water supply, Charles J. Vörösmarty said recently during the second annual John R. Mather Visiting Scholars Lecture.

Vörösmarty, professor of civil engineering with the City College of New York, presented “Global Water Crisis: The Slippery Slope” on May 3 at the University of Delaware’s Roselle Center for the Arts.

“The contemporary water system is really defined increasingly by the actions of humans,” he said. (more…)

Desert Dust Reduces Colorado River Flow

By Guest PostSeptember 21, 20102 commentsEnvironmentalan hamlet, brad udall, cires, climate change, colorado river basin, cooperative institute for research in environmental sci, desert dust, hydrology model, jayne belnap, land management, lower dust, rocky mountains, snow dusted, snowmelt, university of california, university of colorado, university of washington, water management

Dark-colored dust that settles on snow in the Upper Colorado River Basin makes the snow melt early and robs the Colorado River of about 5 percent of its water each year, says a new study co-authored by researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder-based Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES.

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Miami-Dade County and IBM Establish Public-Private Partnership on Smarter Cities Initiative

NASA Satellites Find Freshwater Losses in Middle East

Mather Lecture

Desert Dust Reduces Colorado River Flow