Water-quality data at amphibian research sites in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, 2005-2007
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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Data on the chemical composition of water were collected at least once from 47 amphibian research sites in Maryland, Washington, D.C. and Virginia, from 2005 through 2007. One hundred twentyfive water samples were collected from vernal pools and streams and analyzed as part of longterm monitoring projects of the U.S. Geological Survey Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative in the Northeast Region.
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)
Rotary MR Damper for Launch/Landing Load Isolation and Resistive Crew Exercise for Exploration Spaceflight Missions Project
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued about 9 years ago
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<p>Resistive crew exercise equipment for Orion and other exploration spacecraft will be severely impacted by space constraints in both storage and use. Development of a compact, high variable torque rotary damper will facilitate the design of exercise equipment.&nbsp; Rotary motion is the most direct when applied to human joints, such as knees, elbows, hips and ankles. On a prior ICA funded project, linear magneto-rheologic dampers were used on an exercise device. Converting joint rotary motion into linear motion on the damper required additional mechanisms with weight penalties. Once this compact rotary MR damper is developed, it may be integrated with the Orion Crew Seat to be used as a resistive exercise device as well as a launch/landing load damper.&nbsp;&nbsp; This also allows the seat to have dual use as a seat for launch/landing and as an exercise device.</p>
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued about 9 years ago
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A prototype Next Generation MK III Lightweight HUT/Hatch Assembly will be fabricated and delivered during Phase II. Maximum weight reduction for the Hard Upper Torso - Hatch assembly will be acheived via the innovative material selection and cross sectional redesign investigation Air-Lock conducted during Phase I. The intent is to fabricate a lightweight HUT/Hatch Assembly best suited for space & planetary (or lunar) exploration. This Next Generation MK III Lightweight HUT/Hatch Assembly will be a rear entry assembly and have full "plug and play" capability with previous MK III suits.
Published By Department of Transportation
Issued about 9 years ago
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The ports (NTAD 2015) are politically defined by port limits or Corps projects, excluding non-Corps projects not authorized for publication. The determination for the published Principal Ports is based upon the total tonnage for the port for the particular year; therefore the top 150 list can vary from year to year.
Published By Department of Transportation
Issued about 9 years ago
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Specific Federal Highway Administration Policy and Guidance Statements relating to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Published By Department of Transportation
Issued about 9 years ago
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The Airline Origin and Destination Survey (DB1B) is a 10% sample of airline tickets from reporting carriers collected by the Office of Airline Information of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Data includes origin, destination and other itinerary details of passengers transported. This database is used to determine air traffic patterns, air carrier market shares and passenger flows.
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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This annual narrative report for Leopold Wetland Management District summarizes refuge activities during fiscal year 1999. The report begins with an introduction to the refuge and a summary of the years highlights and climatic conditions. Information about monitoring and studies including orchids and grassland birds is provided next. Habitat restoration and management projects are also covered; activities include wetland and upland restoration, water level management, moist soil management, prescribed burning, and invasive plant control. Fish and wildlife management is discussed next with emphasis on bird banding and predator control. Coordination activities, such as agency partnerships and private land activities are outlined. The resource protection section provides information about law enforcement and land acquisition. Information about public education and recreation is given including visitor services and outreach programs. Finally, refuge planning and administration are discussed.
Published By Department of Justice
Issued about 9 years ago
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The USTP oversees approximately 1,100 private trustees who administer chapter 7 asset and no-asset cases. Chapter 7 trustees are responsible for the collection and liquidation of non-exempt assets, and the distribution of funds to creditors in accordance with the Bankruptcy Code's distribution scheme. When a chapter 7 case with assets is closed, the trustee files a final report that accounts for the disposition of assets, as well as the distribution of funds to creditors and to administrative expenses. The data from final reports filed in 2013 are summarized in this table of key variables. Please review the codebook for variable information.
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 Department of Defense
Issued about 9 years ago
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FVAP post election survey of department of state voting assistance officers.
USGS Small-scale Dataset - Global Map: 1:1,000,000-Scale Political Areas of the United States 201403 Shapefile
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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This map layer includes Global Map data showing the counties and equivalent entities of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. States and the national extent may be derived from the information included in the map layer. The data are a modified version of the National Atlas of the United States 1:1,000,000-Scale County Boundaries of the United States; that data set was created by extracting county polygon features from the CENSUS 2006 TIGER/Line files produced by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Izembek National Wildlife Refuge Complex Land Protection Plan: Options for the protection of fish and wildlife habitats
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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The LPP identifies which privately owned lands within the refuge boundaries contain valuable fish and wildlife habitats. These lands are ranked as high, medium or low priority depending on their relative value to fish and wildlife.
Published By Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Issued about 9 years ago
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The Floodplain Mapping/Redelineation study deliverables depict and quantify the flood risks for the study area. 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 Floodplain Mapping/Redelineation flood risk boundaries are derived from the engineering information 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).
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 US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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Table 1 in a Refuge System stations Inventory and Monitoring Plan IMP lists and describes the characteristics of surveys formal inventory or monitoring activities selected to be conducted over a 15year span. This document describes 10 techniques that should be used to develop and present the IMP Table 1.
Hybrid Approach for Modeling Chemical Kinetics and Turbulence Effects on Combustion-Instability Project
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued about 9 years ago
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Combustion instabilities pose a significant technical risk in the development of liquid and solid rocket motors. Much of the effort in modeling combustion instabilities has focused either on systems-level tools, or use of detailed computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to simulate all the involved processes. The important effects of finite-rate chemical kinetics and turbulence-chemistry interactions have been neglected in combustion instability modeling. In this SBIR project, CFD Research Corporation (CFDRC) will team up with Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories (GTL) to develop a hybrid approach by combining CFD capabilities with a systems-level instability modeling approach, the latter based on the Universal Combustion Device Stability (UCDS) process. These capabilities will be used to quantify the effects of finite-rate chemistry and turbulence-chemistry interactions on combustion instabilities. In Phase I, feasibility of the proposed approach will be demonstrated by combining 2-D Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes and Large Eddy Simulation computations with the UCDS framework. In Phase II, the instability analysis will be enhanced by coupling: (1) 3-D CFD analysis; and (2) Improved UCDS process with more accurate treatment of boundary conditions and the flame. The proposed approach will enable an accurate combustion instability analysis of rocket motors, gas turbine combustors, and ramjet and scramjet engines.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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This product includes 10 km, remapped, GOES-West images in visible and ir bands (shortwave ir, water vapor, and longwave ir) and loops in Flash and Java. The IR images are available in the following enhancements: AVN, Dvorak, JSL, RGB, Funktop, and Rainbow. This product is generated every 30 minutes. Also inlcuded in this dataset is Polar imagery. The DMSP SSM/IS and AMSU Micorwave imagery are available in 85 GHz radiance, precipitable water, and rain rate. In addition to these variables, DMSP imagery includes surface winds. The Polar imagery is produced every 3 hours.
WATER TEMPERATURE, SALINITY, and others collected from SeaGlider 573 in South Atlantic Ocean from 2012-09-25 to 2013-02-15 (NCEI Accession 0131501)
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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The CSIR-SOCCO Southern Ocean Seasonal Cycle Experiment (SOSCEx) was planned around five cruises to the SAZ between the austral winter of 2012 and the late summer of 2013. Two autonomous SeaGliders (SG573 and SG574) were deployed south of Gough Island in the South-East Atlantic Ocean at 42.4S, 9.9W and 43.0S, 11.0W, respectively. Their deployment occurred in the central SAZ region of the Southern Ocean. The gliders were deployed on 20 September 2012 and 25 September 2012, respectively and both were retrieved on 15 February 2013 resulting in continuous sampling for 148 and 143 days (or 5.5 months) per glider. Refer to Swart et al., 2014, JMS for further details. ------ data from SG574 -> acc. # 0131762 ------
Published By Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Issued about 9 years ago
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The Floodplain Mapping deliverables depict and quantify the flood risks for the study area. 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 Floodplain Mapping flood risk boundaries are derived from the engineering information 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).
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 1:12,000. Projection is in HARN State Plane NAD 83 International Feet.
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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There are critical needs for a nationwide compilation of reliable shoreline data. To meet these needs, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has produced a comprehensive database of digital vector shorelines by compiling shoreline positions from pre-existing historical shoreline databases and by generating historical and modern shoreline data. Shorelines are compiled by state and generally correspond to one of four time periods: 1800s, 1920s-1930s, 1970s, and 1998-2002. Each shoreline may represent a compilation of data from one or more sources for one or more dates provided by one or more agencies. Details regarding source are provided in the 'Data Quality Information' section of this metadata report. Shoreline vectors derived from historic sources (first three time periods) represent the high water line at the time of the survey, whereas modern shorelines (final time period) represent the mean high water line.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued about 9 years ago
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EpiSys Science, Inc. and University of Arizona propose to develop, implement, and demonstrate Multi-Function Cognitive Radio Architecture (MF-CRA) for Space Communications, a novel software-defined radio (SDR) architecture that achieves communications configuration autonomy (CCA) with the ability to sense, detect, classify, and adapt to both time-varying communication environment and mission objectives. The innovations of the proposed MF-CRA system consists of: (i) meta-cognitive radio engines that learn which Cognitive Engine (CE) is more appropriate to provide the adaptation needed for the application scenario; and (ii) robust, computationally efficient RF sensing, signal detection, and classification algorithms compliant with the Space Telecommunications Radio System (STRS) architecture and specification. CE is an intelligent agent who observes the radio environment and chooses the best communication settings that best meet the application's goals. We propose a novel concept and design of meta-Cognitive Engine (meta-CE) which has several learning and optimization algorithms in its disposal and is learning which one is more appropriate for the application goals and the radio environment scenarios at the time of operation. To this end, we propose to develop and demonstrate the meta-CE concepts tailored for STRS applications where a meta-CE autonomously manages and controls its STRS radio waveforms and their communication parameters configurations. Our meta-CE features a dynamic RF mapping module, which will sense and record the RF signal levels as a function of the coordinates of the transceivers, the earth's atmospheric conditions, space weather, and trajectory of the transceivers so that it can anticipate the signal changes and seamlessly switch among the available links, waveforms, and parameter configuration settings. Enabling technologies for MF-CRA have been demonstrated through prototype testbed utilizing USRP radios and successful over-the-are tests.
Status and distribution of marsh and sedge meadow birds at Horicon, Necedah, and Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuges
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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This study conducted a baseline inventory of nongame bird communities and habitat components at wetland types within three wildlife refuges in Wisconsin; Horicon, Necedah, and Trempealeau. Baseline data are essential to monitor nongame bird population changes in wetland complexes that occur within areas such as federal refuges. The primary objectives of this study were to: 1 estimate relative abundance of all bird species detected and determine density indices for common bird species, 2 calculate species richness and density indices for avian communities, and 3 recommend a longterm monitoring strategy for surveying and managing avian communities in wetland habitat types within each refuge. This study provides a baseline for assessing changes to marsh and sedge meadow bird populations. A secondary objective was to describe the dominant habitat characteristics at sites surveyed in each refuge for eventual birdhabitat association studies.
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 1:12,000.