Pesticide Impact Assessment in Tule Lake and Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuges, 1998 - 2000 Growing Season
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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Tule Lake and the adjacent Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuges TLNWR and LKNWR serve as key springfall staging and overwintering areas for Pacific Flyway migratory waterfowl, with as many as 89 million goose and duck use days recorded in the refuges annually. More than 45 different pesticides were allowed for use on the lease lands of these refuges, including some potentially toxic organophosphate insecticides disulfoton and chlorpyrifos, pyrethroids permethrin and cyfluthrin and fungicides chlorothalonil. The following pesticide monitoring study, conducted during the 1998, 1999, and 2000 agricultural seasons was designed to evaluate the acute risks of pesticides used on the refuge, with special emphasis on monitoring at sites where the above pesticides were used. The objectives of this study were 1 to survey both refuges for dead or impaired wildlife, with an emphasis on mortality events innear agricultural areas, 2 to determine whether pesticide exposure is implicated in any death or impairment discovered, and 3 to investigate the source of any pesticide exposure detected.
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Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
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Lake Andes was included in the 1998 South Dakota 303d list as an impairmentrelated Total Maximum Daily Load waterbody. In 1922 Congress passed a bill that established a high water elevation of 1437.25 feet msl, by use of an artificial outlet constructed in 1934, which effectively lowered the water level by 13 feet. The physical and chemical properties of the lake and its tributaries are collected and compared to the maximumminimum allowed values associated with a waterbody with the following beneficial uses: Warmwater marginal fish life propagation, immersion recreation, limited contact recreation, and wildlife propagation, recreation, and stock watering. Lastly, conclusions are presented along with recommendations on management techniques that could limit the amount of nonpoint source pollutants that reach the lake. The primary goal of these management practices is to 1 maintain a dissolved oxygen concentration greater than or equal to 4 mgL in at least a portion of the lake, and 2 to have a total phosphorus concentration of .25 mgL, which is reported to be obtainable by reducing the total phosphorus loads reaching the lake by 36.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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NOAA's Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA) is a web-based Geographic Information System (GIS) tool that assists both emergency responders and environmental resource managers in dealing with incidents that may adversely impact the environment. ERMA Pacific Northwest integrates and synthesizes various real-time and static datasets into a single interactive map, thus provides fast visualization of the situation and improves communication and coordination among responders and environmental stakeholders.
Published By Department of Veterans Affairs
Issued over 9 years ago
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Web site for the Center for Women Veterans. Web site includes resources and events for women Veterans.
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Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Voice Recognition: Time for a Space Application Project
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Turbulence Models: Data from Other Experiments: CFD Validation of Synthetic Jets and Turbulent Separation Control
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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CFD Validation of Synthetic Jets and Turbulent Separation Control. This web page provides data from experiments that may be useful for the validation of turbulence models. This resource is expected to grow gradually over time. All data herein arepublicly available.
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Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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<p>The ability to predict the occurrence and magnitude of solar particle events (coronal mass ejections and solar flares) has been elusive so exposure of astronauts and flight electronics to this radiation is a serious concern for NASA.&nbsp;&nbsp;This&nbsp;work&nbsp;focuses on exposure of operational flight electronics to solar particle events, which can jeopardize human safety.&nbsp; The NOAA Space Weather Scale uses the terminology &ldquo;Solar Radiation Storms&rdquo; to describe solar particle events and categorizes the level of event severity on a scale from S1 (Minor) to S5 (Extreme).&nbsp; The size of these events spans orders of magnitude and therefore the resulting exposure to energetic particle radiation can cause a wide range of effects depending on the severity of the event.&nbsp; For an S1 level event the effect on satellite operations according to the NOAA scale would be &ldquo;none&rdquo; while for an S5 level event &ldquo;satellites may be rendered useless, memory impacts can cause loss of control, may cause serious noise in image data, star-trackers may be unable to locate sources; permanent damage to solar panels possible&rdquo;.</p><p>The end result of this IRAD will be a <strong>quantitative</strong> &ldquo;nowcasting&rdquo; tool for solar storms with classification of the severity of the storm according to the NOAA Space Weather Scale for ease of interpretation by mission operations.&nbsp; &nbsp;This would be used by mission operations as input for making decisions on whether systems and instrumentation should be shut down during an event.&nbsp; These decisions would be driven by the particular features and susceptibilities of each spacecraft and its payload.</p><p>FY13 will be dedicated to development and verification of the quantitative aspects of the model techniques.&nbsp;&nbsp;Short term predictions of solar storms will be verified based on space data taken by the GOES Space Environment Monitor (SEM) and the CRaTER instrument on the LRO spacecraft.&nbsp; The latter is in an approximately 50 km circular lunar orbit.</p>
Published By US Agency for International Development
Issued over 9 years ago
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A new secure web-based system that tracks the approval process of the DS-2019 applications and participant information. The Office of Education uses VCS to track the foreign national's entry to, and departure from, the US, their attendance at training/exchange visitor programs, and to obtain the State Department's DS-2019 form in order to apply for a visa for travel to the United States. VCS facilitates data interchange between TraiNet and Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS). VCS performs three functions: First, it implements a process to verify data from TraiNet. Second, it translates TraiNet data to the format required by SEVIS and manages its transmission. Lastly, it provides approval management of requests for applications as they move through the workflow process. VCS holds data regarding foreign nationals who receive instruction funded by USAID, whose training will take place in the United States, and to request a J-1 visa for travel to the United States.
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