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The Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map (DFIRM) Database depicts flood risk information and supporting data used to develop the risk data. The primary risk classifications used are the 1-percent-annual-chance flood event, the 0.2-percent-annual- chance flood event, and areas of minimal flood risk. The DFIRM Database is derived from Flood Insurance Studies (FISs), previously published Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), flood hazard analyses performed in support of the FISs and FIRMs, and new mapping data, where available. The FISs and FIRMs are published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).The file is georeferenced to earth's surface using the State Plane projection and coordinate system. The specifications for the horizontal control of DFIRM data files are consistent with those required for mapping at a scale of 1:12,000.

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Despite the rapid commercialization of additive manufacturing technology such as selective laser melting, SLM, there are gaps in process modeling and material property prediction that contribute to slow and costly process qualification and product certification. To address these gaps, CFDRC and our partner Dr. Kevin Chou, University of Alabama, will develop multiple computationally efficient, high-fidelity simulation tools for the SLM process. During Phase I the team will apply adaptive meshing to enable efficient thermomechanical simulations for centimeter size test coupon builds, leverage existing multiphase flow models to analyze particle size effects on material variations, apply phase field models to predict microstructure evolution, and evaluate model predictions against experimental characterization. During Phase II, the modeling tools will be extended to improve computational efficiency and scalability to aerospace component dimensions by further leveraging parallel computing and other acceleration techniques. The fidelity of the models will be enhanced to better predict distortion, residual stress, microstructure and defects from process conditions; and additional process data will be used to validate the resulting codes. The resulting toolset will be capable of efficiently predicting these dimensional and microstructural properties of SLM components from process conditions, while addressing important design and build features such as overhanging sections and build supports. The high-fidelity, physics based nature of the codes will allow straightforward application to new materials, and to guiding development of and verifying analytical physics models for process control.

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The San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1982 for the protection and management of endangered desert fishes which are indigenous to the Rio Yaqui drainage. The 2,309acre refuge is located on the United StatesMexico border 16 miles east of Douglas, Arizona. Collectively, copper smelter emissions in southern Arizona and northern Sonora have a created a regional atmospheric condition where mean annual precipitation pH is 4.7 to 5.0. Background chemistries are largely unavailable and influence of both nonferrous smelter emissions and current agricultural practices and pesticide use remain unexplored. During May and June 1987 water chemistry was determined onsite at each of 13 locations within the refuge including Leslie Creek and sediment and selected tissue samples were collected for trace metals and pesticide analysis. Overall, refuge waters were virtually absent of dissolved trace metals and spring chemistries were relatively consistent due to their presumable origin from a common aquifer. Alkalinity exceeded the EPA recommended minimum of 20 mg1 for freshwater aquatic life by a factor of 10 to 18 and appears to be the mitigating factor which allows acidic deposition to adversely manifest itself in the aquatic ecosystem. Biota are probably the best integrative indicator of water shed quality, and its ability to neutralize acid. Trace metal residues in tissue matrices were mixed in their occurrence, especially for frogs. However, no evidence of acidstress in resident organisms on the refuge was observed. Native fish populations exhibited no symptoms of lack of recruitment, incidence of morphological abnormalities, or subnormal growth. Likewise, bullfrogs flourish throughout the refuge and exhibited little in regard to trace metal body burdens. Periodic biological and chemical monitoring is the recommended course of action to evaluate refuge condition and trend relative to environmental quality.

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Jason-3 is the fourth mission in U.S.-European series of satellite missions that measure the height of the ocean surface. Scheduled to launch in 2015, the mission will extend the time series of ocean surface topography measurements begun by the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite mission in 1992 and continuing through the currently operating Jason-1 (launched in 2001) and OSTM/Jason-2 (launched in 2008) missions. These measurements provide scientists with critical information about circulation patterns in the ocean and about both global and regional changes in sea level and the climate implications of a warming world. TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 were cooperative missions between NASA and the French space agency, CNES. Additional partners in the Jason-2 mission included NOAA and Eumetsat. Jason-3 continues the international cooperation, with NOAA and Eumetsat leading the efforts, along with partners NASA and CNES. The primary instrument on Jason-3 is a radar altimeter. The altimeter measures sea-level variations over the global ocean with very high accuracy (as 1.3 inches or 3.3 centimeters, with a goal of achieving 1 inch or 2.5 centimeters). These auxiliary data files are used to generate Level-2 products. They include both static tabular data files and dynamic files which change/grow over time. Auxiliary files are produced outside of OSTM, but are used in product development. Filetypes in the Auxiliary data family (J3-AUX) which are produced by the European Center for Medium range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) are restricted by ECMWF to the Jason-3 project team. Additional documentation for Jason-3 data is archived at the NODC at: https://archive.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/AMS/prod/accession/details/118276. The documentation includes metadata in International Standards Organization (ISO) format.

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Number of deaths among Maryland residents for which diseases of the heart was the underlying cause of death. Diseases of the heart include deaths coded to the following International Classification of Diseases codes: ICD-3 (1920-1929) -- 87-90 ICD-4 (1930-1938) -- 56, 90-95 ICD-5 (1939-1948) -- 90-95 ICD-6 (1949-1957) -- 400-443 ICD-7 (1958-1967) -- 400-443 ICD-8 (1968-1978) -- 390-398, 402, 404, 410-429 ICD-9 (1979-1998) -- 390-398, 402, 404-429 ICD-10 (1999-present) -- I00-I09, I11, I13, I20-I51.

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During a collaborative project in 1992, a Canadian Geological Survey cruise obtained about 850 line-km of high-quality boomer and sleeve-gun reflection profiles across Hueneme, Mugu and Dume submarine fans, Santa Monica Basin, off southern California. The goals of this work were to better understand the processes that lead to the formation of sandy submarine fans and the role of sea-level changes in controlling fan development. This report includes a trackline map of the area surveyed, as well as images of the sleeve-gun profiles and the opportunity to download both images and digital data files (SEG-Y) of all the profiles. For more information on the seismic surveys see http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/p/p192sc/html/p-1-92-sc.meta.html These data are also available via GeoMapApp (http://www.geomapapp.org/) and Virtual Ocean (http://www.virtualocean.org/) earth science exploration and visualization applications.

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The Navigation Center has produced a consolidated Marine Safety Information data download page where the public may access data files.

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The Wash Flats impoundments comprise an area of approximately 1,200 acres. Prior to 1963, the Wash Flats was subject to periodic washover during extremely high tides and severe storms. The existing dike and road have been constructed since the 1962 storm which flattened the dunes and washed over into the bay. This plan outlines how the refuge will manage the varied habitats and species found on the Wash Flats areas of Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge.

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Summary reports of the volume of meat graded for quality by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service.

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The Joint Biometric Data Exchange Hosting Environment (JBDEHE) is a system that has been developed to serve as a hosting environment for the Joint Automated Booking System (JABS) Program Management Office (PMO) systems. The hosting environment consists of

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The AMSR-E/Aqua Level-3 daily ocean product includes Sea Surface Temperature, near-surface wind speed, columnar water vapor, and columnar cloud liquid water over ocean on 0.25 x 0.25 degree ascending and descending grids, averaged from Level-2B products.

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The goal of this SBIR is to adapt an initial prototype ultra-miniature high-performance brushless-DC-motor controller, code named 'Puck', for use by NASA across a wide range of motor drives. The Puck was recently developed by Barrett for terrestrial mobile-manipulation uses where efficiency, low mass, and robustness are critical factors. While quite small (<50 grams), the controller can pump from milliamps to several amps continuous. Several features of this controller make it a candidate for NASA's wide range of needs for servomotor control in the demanding environments of extra-terrestrial and interplanetary exploration. One of the key enabling design strategies that led to the Puck is elimination of transmission lines through total integration of power conditioning, rotor-position optics, and commutation into a single tiny module. The module is small and energy efficient enough to make casting within high-heat-conduction plastic feasible. Pure conduction cooling, a distinct advantage for NASA applications, is unusual for motor amplifiers which are generally cooled by natural convection or forced air. The hermetically-sealed packaging also excludes lunar or Martian dust from affecting robustness. The primary strategy for this technology to avail for NASA will be to minimize the effects of radiation while enabling self-diagnosis, self-repair, and ultimately easy change-out.

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These data are qualitatively derived interpretive polygon shapefiles and selected source raster data defining surficial geology, sediment type and distribution, and physiographic zones of the sea floor from Nahant to Northern Cape Cod Bay. Much of the geophysical data used to create the interpretive layers were collected under a cooperative agreement among the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Coastal and Marine Geology Program, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Initiated in 2003, the primary objective of this program is to develop regional geologic framework information for the management of coastal and marine resources. Accurate data and maps of seafloor geology are important first steps toward protecting fish habitat, delineating marine resources, and assessing environmental changes because of natural or human effects. The project is focused on the inshore waters of coastal Massachusetts. Data collected during the mapping cooperative involving the USGS have been released in a series of USGS Open-File Reports (http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/coastal_mass/html/current_map.html). The interpretations released in this study are for an area extending from the southern tip of Nahant to Northern Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts. A combination of geophysical and sample data including high resolution bathymetry and lidar, acoustic-backscatter intensity, seismic-reflection profiles, bottom photographs, and sediment samples are used to create the data interpretations. Most of the nearshore geophysical and sample data (including the bottom photographs) were collected during several cruises between 2000 and 2008. More information about the cruises and the data collected can be found at the Geologic Mapping of the Seafloor Offshore of Massachusetts Web page: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/coastal_mass/.

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<p>The first major objective of the ‘Bulk Metallic Glasses (BMGs) for Space Applications’ project is to raise the technology readiness level dry lubricated, cryogenic BMG gearboxes (currently TRL 3) to TRL 6  where they will be viable for infusion into a technology demonstration mission or flight project.</p><p>A second major objective is to develop an industrial supply chain for BMG and BMG composite alloys in a variety of form-factors (e.g. powder (shot) and sheet) for infusion into NASA, military, commercial, and multi-use applications.</p><p>A third major objective is to demonstrate use of these new alloys and form-factors in the fabrication of components for NASA applications for further infusion of BMGs and BMG composites into NASA missions. While initial prototyping will likely be done internally at NASA, this third objective includes technology transfer to industry to develop manufacturing sources for all NASA centers, other governmental bodies, and commercial industry.</p><p>Specific objectives include: 1. Develop a gearbox using amorphous metal alloys that can operate at extreme environmental ranges (-130°C to +125°C) without heaters and demonstrate properties and performance equivalent to the current state-of-the-art.</p><p>2. Develop the capability for fabrication of amorphous metal sheet and powder with the appropriate external partner or partners to enable a wide range of amorphous metal products including, but not limited to, MMOD shielding and gearbox components.</p><p>3. Develop additional BMG and BMG composite alloys, identify infusion paths for these (and existing) amorphous metals, and select at least two demonstration applications (e.g. high-quality, precision optics) for powder (shot) and sheet of the appropriate alloy.</p><p>4. Compare the properties of laboratory and commercially produced BMGs and BMG composites as a precursor to the development of standards and specifications for these new alloys.</p>

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The Virtual Library provides access to web based climate variability and climate change information and tools relevant to the Pacific Islands including case studies, guidebooks, and methodologies for assessing vulnerabilities. Decision makers and managers developing adaptation plans or incorporating the implications of climate into planning and decision making for water resources, conservation, land use planning, hazard management and other activities will find the resources of value. The Forum fosters communication among regional decision makers and agencies and organizations producing climate change information and resources to allow collaboration on the science and solutions to adapt to climate change. The site was originally developed for coastal decision makers in Samoa and American Samoa; however decision makers throughout the Pacific Islands region will find this site of value.

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eCART is an Oracle database with an Oracle APEX user interface built upon it that allows users to enter manual 1097s, draft consolidated 1097s, manual match records, and run reports. Future work includes summarizing imported Data (Phoenix, USDO, 6653, andand Suspense); uploading Treasury data; automated means to post SOD to Phoenix.

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The LAT team monitors flux values for a number of bright sources and transient sources that have shown flares during the mission. (See up-to-date weekly reports on flaring sources at the Fermi-LAT Flare Advocate Blog.) As sources cross the monitoring flux threshold of 1x10-6 cm-2s-1, they are added to the monitored source list. (The initial flux threshold was 2x10-6 cm-2s-1, but this value was lowered in June 2009.) In addition to the light curves below, the flux values in several bands are available via Browse. This list will continue to grow as the mission progresses.

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Sales and conversion data for securities issued in TreasuryDirect

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A listing of current Regional Counsels and Regional Counsel Offices

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PS-AHAB (Puget Sound Alexandrium Harmful Algal Blooms) is a component of the NOAA ECOHAB program, focused on modeling favorable habitat areas for Alexandrium catenella in Puget Sound and evaluating the effects of climate change. The dinoflagellate Alexandrium catenella produces a suite of potent neurotoxins, collectively known as paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs), which accumulate in shellfish and cause severe illness or death if contaminated shellfish are consumed by humans. Alexandrium catenella form dormant cysts that overwinter on the seafloor and provide the inoculum for toxic blooms the following summer when conditions become favorable again for growth of the motile cell. A 2005 survey of A. catenella cyst distribution in Puget Sound, Washington, identified seedbeds with high cyst abundances that correspond to areas where shellfish frequently attain high levels of toxin. However, even at these sites, interannual variability in the magnitude of toxic events is high. In order to provide advanced warning of A. catenella blooms, managers need to know how much seed is available to initiate blooms, where this seed is located, when/where this seed could germinate and grow, and how these factors could be altered by future climate change. Climate change impacts were assessed using present day and future maps of favorable habitat areas in Puget Sound, based on knowledge of growth rates for different temperature and salinity conditions. Present day maps will be based on hindcasts of oceanographic conditions in Puget Sound during a typical year, and future habitat maps will be created using downscaled climate change scenarios for the Pacific Northwest.

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HIRAD is a hurricane imaging, single-pol passive C-band radiometer with both cross-track and along-track resolution that measures strong ocean surface winds through heavy rain from an aircraft or space-based platform. Its swath width is approximately 60 degrees in either direction. V0 data is available measuring brightness temperatures at 5 GHz. Rain Rate and Wind speed files for EARL have been added to the collection. HIRAD data was collected for storms EARL and KARL during the GRIP experiment during September 2010. The GRIP Hurricane Imaging Radiometer data set is a preliminary data set. If you plan to use this data in a publication and/or a presentation, please contact GHRC User Services Office (ghrcdaac@itsc.uah.edu).

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On December 7, 1988, at 11:41 A.M. local time a magnitude 6.9 earthquake shook northwestern Armenia and was followed four minutes later by a magnitude 5.8 aftershock. Swarms of aftershocks, some as large as magnitude 5.0, continued for months in the area around Spitak. The earthquakes hit an area 80 km in diameter including the towns of Leninakan, Stepanavan, Kirovakan, and Spitak (Republic of Armenia). The region is part of a broad seismic zone stretching from Turkey to the Arabian Sea near India. Here, the Arabian land mass is slowly colliding with the Eurasian plate and thrusting up the Caucasus Mountains in the north. The earthquake occurred along a fairly small thrust fault running northwest-southeast, apparently right under Spitak. During the earthquake, the Spitak section to the northeast of the fault rode up over the southwest side. Geologists have located a 1.6 meter-high, 8-km long scarp just southeast of Spitak where fault movement broke the surface. The earthquake epicenter was located in the Lesser Caucasus highlands, 80 km south of the main range of the Caucasus Mountains. Historically, this area has experienced damaging earthquakes. In 1899 and 1940, damaging earthquakes occurred within 100 km of the 1988 epicenter. These events had magnitudes of 5.3 and 6.0 respectively. In 1920, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake that killed forty people occurred north of Spitak. In 1926, an earthquake of about magnitude 5.6 occurred 20 km southwest of Leninakan and reportedly caused more than 300 deaths and extensive damage. Despite its moderate size, the deaths and damage that the December 1988 earthquake caused made it the largest earthquake disaster since the 1976 magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Tangshan, China, that killed more than 240,000 people. The Town of Spitak (population 25,000) was nearly leveled and more than half of the structures in the City of Leninakan (population 250,000) were damaged or destroyed. Damage also occurred in Stepanavan and Kirovakan and other smaller cities. Direct economic losses were put at $14.2 billion (U.S.) at the United Nations official exchange rate. Twenty-five thousand were killed and 15,000 were injured by the earthquake. In addition 517,000 people became homeless. However, 15,000 people were rescued. Most of these rescues were made within the first few hours following the disaster. Many factors contributed to the magnitude of the disaster, including freezing temperatures, time of day, soil conditions, and inadequate building construction. A large number of medical facilities were destroyed, killing eighty percent of the medical professionals. In this earthquake, both design deficiencies and flawed construction practices were blamed for the large number of building collapses and resulting deaths. Many of the modern multi-storied buildings did not survive. Soil conditions also contributed to building failures. The high death rate may in part be attributed to the way the buildings fell apart. When concrete floor panels about three feet wide collapsed into compact rubble piles, little open space was left where trapped people might survive. The proportion of survivors trapped in the rubble of multi-storied buildings was approximately 3.5 times higher for the ground floor than for higher floors. The collapse of a large number of apartments-which had many occupants on upper floors-added to the number of fatalities. While the earthquake exposed the flaws in the construction, it also exposed the good in people. International teams cooperated in rescue efforts and people around the world contributed financial aid. With undaunted determination, Armenians began to rebuild their cities and their lives.

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High resolution vegetation polygons mapped by the National Park Service. This is a map of vegetation associations with 49- and 33-class maps (see table tVegMapInfo for 33 class attributes).

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Combined New England City and Town Areas (CNECTA) are defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and consist of two or more adjacent New England City and Town Areas (NECTA) that have significant employment interchanges. The NECTAs that combine to create a CNECTA retain separate identities within the larger combined statistical area. Because CNECTAs represent groupings of NECTAs, they should not be ranked or compared with individual NECTAs. The CNECTA boundaries are those defined by OMB based on the 2010 Census and published in 2013.

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In the future, exploration missions will benefit greatly from advanced metrology capabilities, particularly structural health monitoring systems that provide real time in situ diagnostics and evaluation of structural integrity. Safety- and mission-critical components and systems will be instrumented with embedded sensors to provide a real-time indication of health, helping to ensure that America's space exploration remains safe and cost efficient. One of the most promising technologies for accomplishing this is fiber-optic sensors. Due to their light-weight and multiplexing potential, fiber-optic sensors are highly desirable for employment in this fashion. However, most COTS devices are bench sized units and are too large and heavy to be overly attractive for space applications. To address this shortcoming, Luna Innovations proposes to develop a compact, light-weight, low-power consumption, multi-parameter distributed sensor system based on the OFDR technique. The interrogator will incorporate optical ASIC technology, highly integrated tunable VCSEL technology, and state-of-the-art integrated processing technology to dramatically reduce the size, weight, and cost and to dramatically increase the performance and robustness relative to COTS OFDR interrogator units. This interrogator will interface with fiber-optic strain, temperature, and shape sensor arrays, enabling simultaneous interrogation of a multitude of sensors, dramatically reducing the per sensor cost of instrumentation.