Published By Department of Transportation
Issued about 9 years ago
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The Omnibus Surveys are a convenient way to get very quick input on transportation issues; to see who uses what, how they use it, and how users view it, and what they think about it; and to gauge public satisfaction with the transportation system and government programs.The series of surveys include: A monthly household survey of 1,000 households each month, which collects data on core questions about general travel experiences, satisfaction with the system, and some demographic data. Targeted surveys to address special transportation issues, as the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) operating administrations need them
Lake trout early life stage mortality: Interactions of the nutrient thiamine and dioxin-like PCBs and their mixtures found in Green Bay
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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The purpose of these studies was to determine the potential for interactions between thiamine deficiency and polychlorinated biphenyl PCBinduced toxicity on the development of lake trout embryos and fry. The potential interaction between thiamine deficiency and PCBinduced toxicity is important to the Green BayFox River NRDA because, if it is true, lake trout in Lake Michigan may be more susceptible than hatcheryreared stocks. As a result, the injury to lake trout populations from the PCBs and other dioxinlike compounds released into the Fox River and subsequently into Green Bay, may have been greater than expected from laboratory studies. The experiments reported here were an extension of the studies conducted in 19961997. Technical difficulties during the course of those studies made interpretation of the results for the injury determination impossible. So, the studies in the current report were again designed to test the hypothesis of an interaction between low thiamine content and elevated PCB content in lake trout fry mortality. Eggs from lake trout containing high or low thiamine were injected with graded doses of a dioxinlike PCBs PCB 126, 2,3,7,8tetrachlorodibenzopdioxin TCDD, or a PCBcontaining extract of walleye from the Fox River. Thiamine and the contaminant concentrations were measured for the treatments. The survival and development of the lake trout were monitored through swimup. The symptoms of PCBinduced toxicity in the sac fry hemorrhage, yolksac edema, and craniofacial anomalies were monitored between hatch and swimup stages of the lake trout. Dose related increases in fry mortality were observed with PCB 126 3,3,4,4,5pentachlorobiphenyl and the median toxicity values obtained in our studies 20 and 27 ngg egg confirm the one study from the literature. The complex mixture of organic chemicals extracted from the Fox River walleye caused dioxinlike toxicity in early life stages of lake trout. The greatest dose tested 157 pg TEQsg caused deformities in all of the fry and nearly complete mortality. The next lower dose of the walleye extract 15 pg TEQsg caused increases in deformities and mortality in some groups, but the increases were not statistically significant. This dose appears to be just below the threshold for dioxinlike toxicity for lake trout fry survival, which is again consistent with the literature. The result of the injection studies with the walleye extract are also consistent with an additive model of toxicity, and support the continued use of the TEFTEQ approach for assessment of dioxinlike effects in developing lake trout. These studies confirmed that the lake trout is one of the most sensitive species toward the adverse effects of dioxinlike chemicals, including PCBs. However, these studies failed to support our original hypothesis that low thiamine status in lake trout eggs would further enhance the sensitivity of this species toward dioxinlike toxicity. The data did not support the contention that low thiamine content in lake trout embryos and fry might exacerbate the effects of PCBs or dioxins on fry survival. Various technical factors compromised the studies and a rigorous test of the hypothesis was not possible.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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This dataset has verified (quality-controlled), daily, high low water level (tide) data from NOAA NOS Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS). This is a delayed dataset, not a near-real-time dataset. WARNING: * Queries for data MUST include stationID=, datum=, time>=, and timet completely reliable. If your request returns no data when you think it should: * Make sure the station you specified supports the datum you specified. * Try revising the request (e.g., a different datum or a different time range). * The list of stations offering this data (or the list of datums) may be incorrect. * Sometimes a station or the entire data service is unavailable. Wait a while and try again.
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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The Advanced Solid-State Array Spectroradiometer (ASAS) data collection contains data collected by the ASAS sensor flown aboard NASA aircraft. A fundamental use of ASAS data is to characterize and understand the directional variability in solar energy scattered by various land surface cover types (e.g.,crops, forests, prairie grass, snow, or bare soil). The sensor's Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function determines the variation in the reflectance of a surface as a function of both the view zenith angle and solar illumination angle. The ASAS sensor is a hyperspectral, multiangle, airborne remote sensing instrument maintained and operated by the Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The ASAS instrument is mounted on the underside of either NASA C-130 or NASA P-3 aircraft and is capable of off-nadir pointing from approximately 70 degrees forward to 55 degrees aft along the direction of flight. The aircraft is flown at an altitude of 5000 - 6000 meters (approximately 16,000 - 20,000 ft.). Data in the ASAS collection primarily cover areas over the continental United States, but some ASAS data are also available over areas in Canada and western Africa. The ASAS data were collected between 1988 and 1994.
Published By Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Issued about 9 years ago
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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; classificatons 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 UTM 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.
Published By US Agency for International Development
Issued about 9 years ago
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Security Investigation & Personnel Security Clearance - COTS personnel security application in a USAID virtualized environement that can support USAID's business requirements and processes. The goal of SEC is to replace the CRIS application with a new COTS system to improve quality of service, reduce processing time, automate manual tasks, and be capable of supporting future mandatory requirements and mandates as defined by ODNI. SEC requires a system that will communicate with the office of Human Resource (HR) and other offices in the Agency that require the same information.
Published By Army Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, Department of Defense
Issued about 9 years ago
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The Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise (JALBTCX) has performed a coastal survey along Lake Michigan in the summer of 2008. The data types collected include bathymetry and topographic lidar point data, true color imagery and hyperspectral imagery. The collection effort follows the coastline and extends 500m inland and 1000m offshore or to laser extinction, whichever comes first. Topographic lidar is collected with 200% coverage, yielding a nominal 1m x 1m post-spacing. Where water conditions permit, the bathymetry lidar data will have a nominal post spacing of 4m x 4m. The true color imagery will have a pixel size approximately 35cm and the hyperspectral imagery will be provided in 1m pixels containing 36 bands between 375 - 1050 nm with 19 nm bandwidth. The final data will be tied to horizontal positions, provided in decimal degrees of latitude and longitude, and are referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83). Vertical positions are referenced to the NAD83 ellipsoid and provided in meters. The National Geodetic Survey's (NGS) GEOID03 model is used to transform the vertical positions from ellipsoid to orthometric heights referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88). Once converted to orthometric heights, the data are then converted to the International Great Lakes Datum of 1985 (IGLD85) using the VDatum program from NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).
2015 NOAA Ortho-rectified Color Mosaic of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California: Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping Product
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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This data set contains ortho-rectified mosaic tiles, created as a product from the NOAA Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping (IOCM) initiative. The source imagery was acquired from 20150418 - 20150418 with an Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS). The original images were acquired at a higher resolution to support the final ortho-rectified mosaic.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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This data set captures the tag release and recovery information for sablefish from the early 1970s until present. It also contains tag release and recovery data for several other species (shortspine thornyheads, Greeland turbot, Pacific sleeper sharks, spiny dogfish, and lingcod) which have been tagged by NMFS in AK since the late 1990s.
Published By Department of Energy
Issued about 9 years ago
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This API provides international data on electricity consumption, imports, exports, capacity, distribution losses, generation, and net imports. Data organized by country. Users of the EIA API are required to obtain an API Key via this registration form: http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/register.cfm
Published By Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Issued about 9 years ago
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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). In addition to the preceding, required text, the Abstract should also describe the projection and coordinate system as well as a general statement about horizontal accuracy.
Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Issued about 9 years ago
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Below are the data files and impact file for the FY 2012 Final Rule. The tables for the FY 2012 final rule are located on a separate list.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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This dataset has Wind data from NOAA NOS Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS). WARNING: These preliminary data have not been subjected to the National Ocean Services (NOS) Quality Control procedures, and do not necessarily meet the criteria and standards of official NOS data. They are released for limited public use with appropriate caution. WARNING: * Queries for data MUST include stationID= and time>=. * Queries USUALLY include timet completely reliable. If your request returns no data when you think it should: * Try revising the request (e.g., a different time range). * The list of stations offering this data may be incorrect. * Sometimes a station or the entire data service is unavailable. Wait a while and try again.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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Declining health of coral reef ecosystems led scientists to search for factors that support reef resilience: the ability of reefs to resist and recover from environmental disturbance. Scientists recently identified 11 measurable factors that affect the resilience of coral reefs (McClanahan et al., 2012). Reef resilience factors include characteristics of the coral assemblage, populations of fish that live on the reef, land use practices, and water temperature variability. These factors were used by NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) to conduct a quantitative assessment of the resilience potential of reefs across the main Hawaiian Islands (MHI). Locations of Rapid Ecological Assessment (REA) surveys conducted by NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) from 2010 to 2013 were used to designate study units called "georegions". Watersheds upstream of georegions were then grouped to delineate the area that could affect adjacent reefs through pollution, runoff, and sedimentation. REA surveys provided data to evaluate biological/ecological resilience factors, and external data sources were used to inform physical and environmental factors not directly measured by CRED. Five of the resilience factors can be directly influenced by local management. Data for each factor was compiled, normalized, and averaged to produce a composite resilience score for each georegion. In all, twenty-nine study areas were analyzed across the MHI. Lowest composite resilience scores were earned by reefs near densely populated areas on O`ahu, while highest scores were earned near relatively sparsely populated areas of other islands. The reef resilience framework data package described herein comprises the original data sources used in this analysis, the intermediary and final data resulting from the analysis, the process documentation, and the 2-page PIFSC Special Publication published in 2014 (SP-15-001).
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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This Evaluation of Ecosystem Restoration and Management Options covers the hydrogeomorphic analysis HGM for Grand Prairie Region of Arkansas. This three step process outlines the historical landscape, contemporary changes from presettlement conditions, restoration and management options and monitoring and evaluation needs for the Grand Prairie Region. Topics include geomorphology, soils, topographyelevation, climate, vegetation and hydrology.
Published By Department of Justice
Issued about 9 years ago
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Transactions recorded in IMEX include those that involve US companies or brokers, and those transactions conducted on US territory for transshipment through the US or its territories.
Published By Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Issued about 9 years ago
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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 1:12000.
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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Impervious surfaces such as paved roads, parking lots, and building roofs can affect the natural streamflow patterns and ecosystems of nearby streams. This data set summarizes the percent of impervious surface for hydrologic units in Massachusetts using a newly available statewide 1-m binary raster dataset of impervious surface for 2005. A hydrologic unit consists of all or part of a drainage basin, or an area of coastal drainage. Hydrologic units subdivide large drainage basins into discrete, non-overlapping areas. This is one of three data layers in this data series publication.
Published By US Census Bureau, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. The Census Bureau includes landmarks in the MTDB for locating special features and to help enumerators during field operations. Some of the more common landmark types include area landmarks such as airports, cemeteries, parks, mountain peaks/summits, schools, and churches and other religious institutions. The Census Bureau has added landmark features to MTDB on an as-needed basis and made no attempt to ensure that all instances of a particular feature were included. The presence or absence of a landmark such as a hospital or prison does not mean that the living quarters associated with that landmark were geocoded to that census tabulation block or excluded from the census enumeration.
Nowtina National Wildlife Refuge: Final Comprehensive Conservation Plan, Wild River Plan, Wilderness Review, and Environmental Impact Statement
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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This document describes four alternatives for managing Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge and identifies the possible consequences of implementing the alternatives. Each alternative provides broad policy guidance for managing the refuge. Each alternative also identifies lands proposed for wilderness designation. The proposed boundary for the Nowitna Wild River corridor and the management practices to be permitted in the wild river corridor are also included in this document. An overview of the Refuge is provided along with information about the planning process. Public involvement; potential problems affecting fish, wildlife, and habitats; and a description of the affected environment are provided.
Published By Social Security Administration
Issued about 9 years ago
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Collects information from Field office managers and subject matter experts with regards to policy questions and resolutions.
Published By Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Issued about 9 years ago
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Hydrology data include spatial datasets and data tables necessary for documenting the hydrologic procedures for estimating flood discharges for a flood insurance study, which includes the hydrologic data expected by FEMA for new riverline studies. (Source: FEMA Guidelines and Specifications, Appendix N)
Published By Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Issued about 9 years ago
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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). In addition to the preceding, required text, the Abstract should also describe the projection and coordinate system as well as a general statement about horizontal accuracy.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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These grid files were used to produce gravity and basin depth maps of the Basin and Range Province, western United States. The maps show gravity values and modeled basin depths in this area. The data were compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado. This data base was received in June, 1995. For further information see the readme.txt file in this directory(data\grids\basinrng), and the "Gravity and Basin-Depth Maps of the Basin and Range Province, Western United States", by R.W. Saltus and R.C. Jachens, Map GP-1012.
Published By White House, Executive Office of the President
Issued about 9 years ago
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Text press releases from the White House