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Doran Beach in winter: An insider's guide 
Doran Beach in winter: An insider's guide 
By Regional Parks staff
Just about everyone loves going to the beach in the summer, but here in Sonoma County, the coast attracts a devoted following in winter, too. The long, wide beach at Doran Regional Park in Bodega Bay is one of the Sonoma Coast's best destinations on a winter day.

Why? Warm-weather crowds have disappeared, and foggy days are few. Although it can be chilly and crisp, the air is also clear and invigorating. Doran Beach in winter has a luminous, ever-changing beauty all its own. Puffy gray clouds might give way to showers, which might then give way to clear skies and a stunning sunset of red and gold. Or perhaps it will rain or be sunny all day long.

Many birds visit Doran during seasonal migrations, overwintering here along the beach and in the marshes. You might also see jack rabbits, brush rabbits, mule deer, gray fox, or even bobcats. And at low tide, you can see invertebrates like anemones, sea stars, and mussels.
Winter wildlife, winter sports
Some people visit Doran Beach in winter specifically to birdwatch. Others come to ride their horse or walk along the beach. A stroll from the rock jetty at the west end of the beach to the rocks at Pinnacle Gulch on the east end is a good 2 miles one way. Some come to surf winter's larger waves, catch fish and crabs, fly kites, study tide pools or play with their dogs (dogs on leash are welcome in the campground and on the beach). Others come to kiteboard, kayak or windsurf on the Bodega Harbor side of the park.

The boat launch and rock jetty on the park’s western end lures sport fishers, especially when Dungeness crab season opens in the fall, and Doran's campsites attract overnight visitors in tents, RVs and trailers. (Regional Parks members get one free night of camping.) The jetty can also be an exciting place to explore small sea life during low tide.
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Derecho Darkens Houston
The storm unleashed tornadoes and destructive winds that reached 100 miles (60 kilometers) per hour. It shattered windows, tore roofs off homes, and toppled trees and power lines. Nearly one million homes and businesses in the Greater Houston area lost power, according to news reports.
Power outages were widespread enough to be noticeable in nighttime satellite images. The left map above is a composite showing normal night light conditions in April 2024; the right map shows the same area early on May 18, after the derecho. Many outages occurred within the Beltway, especially in neighborhoods in the northern part of Houston and the surrounding suburbs.
The maps are based on data from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) sensor on the NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP satellite. VIIRS measures nighttime light emissions and reflections via its day-night band. This sensing capability makes it possible to distinguish the intensity of lights and to observe how they change.
The maps come from the Black Marble HD product, provided by Ranjay Shrestha of the NASA Black Marble science team. The base map was built from data collected by Landsat 9. Dark gray areas with hash marks are where cloud cover prevented VIIRS from collecting night lights data. The data were processed by the Black Marble team to account for changes in the landscape, the atmosphere, and the Moon phase, and to filter out stray light from sources that are not electric lights.
The return of electricity to many areas that lost it was apparent in data collected on May 19 and 20. Roughly 50,000 customers in Harris County, Texas, were still waiting for power to be restored on May 22, 2024, according to data compiled by PowerOutage.US from publicly accessible sources.
“The ability of satellite-derived nighttime lights products, such as the Black Marble, to capture widespread outages in a distributed energy system is crucial for immediate response, resource allocation, and damage assessment,” said Shrestha.

Temperatures soared in Texas in the days following the derecho, with highs rising above 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius) in Houston. To protect residents without air conditioning from dangerous levels of heat, city authorities set up cooling and charging centers throughout the city.
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The budget provides $65.8 million from the General Fund on a one-time basis for deferred maintenance projects at DGS facilities. This includes $42.2 million for the replacement elevators at the Ronald Reagan, Elihu Harris, and Earl Warren buildings. (It does not include $14.2 million that was proposed in January for the Hiram Johnson building.) It also includes $23.6 million for fire alarm projects at various DGS facilities.
Continued Funding for Installation of Electric Vehicle Charging Equipment. The budget provides $23.3 million from special funds for the installation of electric vehicle charging equipment at state facilities to be used by state employees and the state vehicle fleet. (In January, the installation of these charging stations was proposed to be funded by a combination of General Fund and special fund sources.)
Does Not Include Funding for Office Renovation Projects. The budget delays consideration of $721.7 million in lease revenue bonds that were proposed in January for the design-build phase of the renovations of the Bateson, Jesse Unruh, and Natural Resources buildings to a future budget. This delay will allow DGS time to reevaluate departments’ office space needs in light of COVID-19. (These renovation projects are part of a larger plan for sequencing the construction and renovation of a number of state office building projects in Sacramento.)
Department of Business Oversight (DBO)
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Statutory Changes to Expand Authority and Rename Department. As part of his January budget proposal, the Governor proposed legislation to change the name of DBO and broaden the department’s authority in various ways, such as by allowing it to regulate certain financial products and services that are not currently regulated. In addition, as part of the May Revision, the Governor proposed provisional language to provide the department with $10.2 million in special fund resources to implement the proposal upon enactment of the legislation. This was to ensure funding would be available to the department if the legislation was enacted after the start of the fiscal year.
NASA’s Compact Infrared Cameras Enable New Science - NASA
This applications would complement NASA’s PACE — Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem — mission, Wu said, which revealed its first light images earlier this month. Both measure the polarization of light wave’s orientation in relation to the direction of travel from different parts of the infrared spectrum.
“The PACE polarimeters monitor visible and shortwave-infrared light,” he explained. “The mission will focus on aerosol and ocean color sciences from daytime observations. At mid- and long-infrared wavelengths, the new Infrared polarimeter would capture cloud and surface properties from both day and night observations.”
In another effort, Hewagama is working Jhabvala and Jennings to incorporate linear variable filters which provide even greater detail within the infrared spectrum. The filters reveal atmospheric molecules’ rotation and vibration as well as Earth’s surface composition.
That technology could also benefit missions to rocky planets, comets, and asteroids, planetary scientist Carrie Anderson said. She said they could identify ice and volatile compounds emitted in enormous plumes from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. 
“They are essentially geysers of ice,” she said, “which of course are cold, but emit light within the new infrared sensor’s detection limits. Looking at the plumes against the backdrop of the Sun would allow us to identify their composition and vertical distribution very clearly.”
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Light Curves - Introduction
Date

Brightness(Magnitude)

Date

Brightness(Magnitude)

April 21 9.2 June 20 8.7

April 27 9.3 June 26 8.3

May 3 9.7 July 2 8.6

May 9 9.9 July 8 9.1

May 15 9.6 July 14 9.1

May 21 9.8 July 20 9.2

May 27 9.9 July 26 9.5

June 2 9.7 Aug 1 9.9

June 8 9.1 Aug 7 9.7

June 14 8.8 Aug 13 9.7

then we might make a light curve, and it would look like this:

A simple light curve made from the data in the table above
	

The plot shows the brightness of a certain astronomical object viewed
through a telescope every 6 days over the course of a few months. This
gives us a light curve of the object we have measured. But light curves
can be generated for any measure of brightness which is measured over
time. So, if we measured the number of
X-rays being emitted
by a star during every second for an hour, we could generate a light
curve from our observations.
What can we learn from light curves?

The record of changes in brightness that a light curve provides can help
astronomers understand processes at work within the object they are
studying and identify specific categories (or classes) of stellar
events. We know generally what light curves look like for a set of
objects, so when we plot a new light curve, we can compare it to those
standard light curves to possibly identify the type of object we're
observing.

If the light curve we measured looked like the graph below, we
would identify the object as an eclipsing
binary star.
The light curve also shows us that it takes 10 days for one of
the stars in the binary to
orbit completely around the other.
Astronomers would say that the binary system has an orbital period of 10 days.

Light curve of an eclipsing binary system
	

If, instead, the light curve we measured looked like the one below, we
NASA’s Compact Infrared Cameras Enable New Science - NASA
Jhabvala and NASA’s Advanced Land Imaging Thermal IR Sensor (ALTIRS) team are developing a six-band version for this year’s LiDAR, Hyperspectral, & Thermal Imager (G-LiHT) airborne project. This first-of-its-kind camera will measure surface heat and enable pollution monitoring and fire observations at high frame rates, he said.
NASA Goddard Earth scientist Doug Morton leads an ESTO project developing a Compact Fire Imager for wildfire detection and prediction.
“We’re not going to see fewer fires, so we’re trying to understand how fires release energy over their life cycle,” Morton said. “This will help us better understand the new nature of fires in an increasingly flammable world.”
CFI will monitor both the hottest fires which release more greenhouse gases and cooler, smoldering coals and ashes which produce more carbon monoxide and airborne particles like smoke and ash.
“Those are key ingredients when it comes to safety and understanding the greenhouse gases released by burning,” Morton said.
After they test the fire imager on airborne campaigns, Morton’s team envisions outfitting a fleet of 10 small satellites to provide global information about fires with more images per day.
Combined with next generation computer models, he said, “this information can help the forest service and other firefighting agencies prevent fires, improve safety for firefighters on the front lines, and protect the life and property of those living in the path of fires.”
Probing Clouds on Earth and Beyond
Outfitted with polarization filters, the sensor could measure how ice particles in Earth’s upper atmosphere clouds scatter and polarize light, NASA Goddard Earth scientist Dong Wu said.
This applications would complement NASA’s PACE — Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem — mission, Wu said, which revealed its first light images earlier this month. Both measure the polarization of light wave’s orientation in relation to the direction of travel from different parts of the infrared spectrum.
“The PACE polarimeters monitor visible and shortwave-infrared light,” he explained. “The mission will focus on aerosol and ocean color sciences from daytime observations.
Light Curves - Introduction
If the light curve we measured looked like the graph below, we
would identify the object as an eclipsing
binary star.
The light curve also shows us that it takes 10 days for one of
the stars in the binary to
orbit completely around the other.
Astronomers would say that the binary system has an orbital period of 10 days.

Light curve of an eclipsing binary system
	

If, instead, the light curve we measured looked like the one below, we
would know that this object was the death of a star by a massive
explosion called a supernova!

Light curve of a supernova
	

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After supplying key flight hardware, Goddard's current role is operating the U.S. Suzaku Guest Observer Facility (GOF). The GOF is located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and is part of the Office of General Investigator Programs (OGIP) in the Astrophysics Science Division (ASD).
The primary responsibility of the U.S. Suzaku GOF is to enable U.S. astronomers to make the best use of the Suzaku mission. To fulfill this responsibility, the Suzaku GOF staff performs such activities as supporting the U.S. side of the Suzaku proposal selection process, distributing usable data to U.S. Guest Observers, helping Guest Observers to analyze their data, and creating the mission archive.
In addition to the tasks listed above, the U.S. Suzaku GOF activities include the development of software, the compilation and production of documentation for that software, and the provision of expert help. All of the U.S. Suzaku GOF's activities involve close collaboration with the Japanese Suzaku team.
Suzaku has produced an abundance of results from a wide variety of cosmic X-ray sources. Prominent recent examples:

A comprehensive analysis of all supernova remnants (SNRs) observed by Suzaku shows the ionization state of iron in SNRs arising from thermonuclear (Type Ia) supernovae are systematically lower than that in SNRs from core-collapse explosions. This difference arises from the fact that core-collapse remnants expand into a denser local medium, significantly altered by pre-supernova mass loss, and provides the cleanest way of distinguishing the two types of remnant.
Suzaku observations show that gas flowing out at a quarter the speed of light from the central supermassive back hole in the Ultraluminous Infared Galaxy IRAS F11119+3257 is physically connected to a molecular outflow at a large distance from the nucleus. The total mass removal rate of ~800 solar masses is sufficient to stifle star formation near the center of the galaxy.
Bill Text - SB-375 Transportation planning: travel demand models: sustainable communities strategy: environmental review.
The objective and policy statements shall be consistent with the funding estimates of the financial element. The policy element of transportation planning agencies with populations that exceed 200,000 persons may quantify a set of indicators including, but not limited to, all of the following:(A) Measures of mobility and traffic congestion, including, but not limited to, daily vehicle
	 hours of delay per capita and vehicle miles traveled per capita.(B) Measures of road and bridge maintenance and rehabilitation needs, including, but not limited to, roadway pavement and bridge conditions.(C) Measures of means of travel, including, but not limited to, percentage share of all trips (work and nonwork) made by all of the following:(i) Single occupant vehicle.(ii) Multiple occupant vehicle or carpool.(iii) Public transit including commuter rail and intercity rail.(iv) Walking.(v) Bicycling.(D) Measures of safety and security, including, but not limited to, total injuries and fatalities assigned to each of the modes set forth in subparagraph (C).(E) Measures of equity and accessibility, including, but not limited to, percentage of the population served by frequent and reliable public transit, with a breakdown by income bracket, and percentage of all jobs accessible by frequent and reliable public transit service, with a breakdown by income bracket.(F) The requirements of this section may be met utilizing existing sources of information. No additional traffic counts, household surveys, or other sources of data shall be required.(2) A sustainable communities strategy prepared by each metropolitan planning organization as follows: (A) No later than September 30, 2010, the State Air Resources Board shall provide each affected region with greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for the automobile and light truck sector for 2020 and 2035, respectively.(i) No later than January 31, 2009, the state board shall appoint a Regional Targets Advisory Committee to recommend factors to be considered and methodologies to be used for setting greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for the affected regions.