Progress report 1991: predator control to enhance the production of greater Sandhill Cranes on Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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The nesting population of greater sandhill cranes on Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon had declined from 236 pairs in 1971 to 181 pairs in 1986 when predator control began. The population has continued to decline to 168 pairs in 1989. Some of the decline is attributed to lost habitat on Mud, Malheur and Harney Lakes due to record high lake levels 14 pairs. Losses on Mud, Malheur, and Harney lakes had already taken place by 1986, but could not be verified until a comprehensive pair count was completed in 1988. The remainder of the decline is attributed to the low recruitment of young into the population during the years 1971 through 1985. In 1991, a total of 214 crane pairs were counted on the refuge. This represents a significant increase compared to the 177 pairs counted in 1990. This is an increase of 37 pairs over 1990 numbers. These new recruits are a result of our efforts towards reducing predator impacts on crane production. In 1991, 219 coyotes were removed by the following methods: aerial gunning 36 percent, calling and shooting 20 percent, trapping and snares 37 percent, and denninq 7 percent. An estimated 33 ravens were removed using 33 dozen eggs injected with DRC1339 and an additional 15 ravens were shot. Three raccoons were taken by trapping plus five by shooting, for a total of eight. Sandhill cranes experienced a poor production year in 1991. Overall sandhill crane hatching success was only 50 percent. This is considerably below our control program goal of 75, and is the lowest nesting success recorded for the Malheur crane flock during the predator control program. Predators took 25 percent of the monitored nests this year raven one percent, raccoon zero, coyote five percent, and unidentified predators 18 percent. Flooding and infertile or rotten eggs accounted for losses of 12 and 13 percent of nests, respectively. Although predation accounted for loss of 25 of the nests, it is likely that many of the nests which were recorded as predated were flooded andor abandoned and then predated because of the cool wet weather in May. This poor weather caused flooding of several nests in the Blitzen Valley, and apparently killed embryos in some eggs, as several pairs were sitting on eggs containing dead embryos. Crane colts were counted from the air on 4 September in the DoubleO and Blitzen Valley using ADCs Husky aircraft. This aerial data was supplemented with ground counts in the Blitzen Valley. Using a combination of ground and aerial count data, a total of 15 colts produced was tallied on the refuge in 1991. Only one colt was recorded in the DoubleO, one from Malheur Lake, and the remainder from the Blitzen Valley. The sandhill crane objectives of the 1991 effort were to have a nesting success of 75, fledging success of 25, and recruitment of 15. The actual outcome was 50 percent nesting success and seven percent fledging success, yielding a recruitment rate of 3.4 percent. Poor weather appeared to be the main cause of low productivity this year, although a study of crane colt survival showed predators to be a problem still.
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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The purpose of this report is to create a baseline inventory of all nonmotorized trails on Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge. Trails in this inventory are eligible for funding under the Federal Lands Transportation Program MAP21. The report describes all the attributes e.g., location, surface type, condition, distance of trails in the FWS asset inventory.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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Temperature profiles from mechanical bathythermograph casts by the USS FURSE in the Arabian Sea, August 11 - 17, 1962 (NODC Accession 6200477)
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued about 9 years ago
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Cryogenic fluid handling applications require a reliable actuation technology that can handle very low temperatures. A novel EM hammer drive technology is proposed for use in cryo-propellant fuel storage and regulation valves/devices.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued about 9 years ago
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MODIS (or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) is a key instrument aboard the Terra (EOS AM) and Aqua (EOS PM) satellites. Terra's orbit around the Earth is timed so that it passes from north to south across the equator in the morning, while Aqua passes south to north over the equator in the afternoon. Terra MODIS and Aqua MODIS are viewing the entire Earth's surface every 1 to 2 days, acquiring data in 36 spectral bands, or groups of wavelengths (see MODIS Technical Specifications). These data will improve our understanding of global dynamics and processes occurring on the land, in the oceans, and in the lower atmosphere. MODIS is playing a vital role in the development of validated, global, interactive Earth system models able to predict global change accurately enough to assist policy makers in making sound decisions concerning the protection of our environment.
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 Federal Laboratory Consortium
Issued about 9 years ago
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This facility conducts completely instrumented terminal ballistic experimental tests with dynamically launched RPGs. The rounds are either launched free-flight or through ARL's own Precision Delivery System (PDS). PDS is a unique launching system enabling the RPG to strike extremely close to the target aim-point.
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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Onemetersquare 1 meter x 1 meter benthic substrate at Lisianski Island, site P6 26.063 N, 173.959W, between 9 and 10 meters along a permanent transect.
Real-time profile data assembled by Canada Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) for the Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program (GTSPP) and submitted on 2015-01-19 (NODC Accession 0125403)
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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The Integrated Science Data Management (ISDM) office processes oceanographic profiles reported for the world oceans in near real-time from the Global Telecommunications System (GTS) for the Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Program (GTSPP). These data also support the activities of the Ship-of-Opportunity Programme Implementation Panel (SOOPIP) and the WOCE Upper Ocean Thermal Program (WOCE UOT).
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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The purpose of this report is to create a baseline inventory of all nonmotorized trails on Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge. Trails in this inventory are eligible for funding under the Refuge Roads Program SAFETEALU. The report describes all the attributes e.g., location, surface type, condition, distance of trails in the FWS asset inventory.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued about 9 years ago
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CALIPSO Lidar Level 1B profile data
Published By Department of Homeland Security
Issued about 9 years ago
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Civilian Aviation Security System Database - Provides system security for many applications over many locations nationally and overseas. A legacy FAA security system.
Real-Time XBT data assembled by US NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) for the Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program (GTSPP) and submitted 2013-01-07 - 2013-01-13 (NODC Accession 0101683)
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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These data represent data collected from the Shipboard Environmental (data) Acquisition System (SEAS), a program developed by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide accurate meteorological and oceanographic data in real time from ships at sea through the use of satellite data transmission techniques. The system transmits data through either the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) or the International Maritime Satellite Organization (INMARSAT C) satellites to NOAA for use in weather, climatological and ocean models. NOAA is actively participating in an international effort to increase the number of subsurface temperature observations in support of global oceanographic and climate studies. NOAA's Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) program, SEAS, currently supports about 80 Voluntary Observing Ships (VOS). SEAS XBT data are archived by the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) on a weekly basis.
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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This map depicts lands owned andor administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge.
Airline Passenger and Freight Traffic (T100): Domestic Segment Data - U.S. Air Carriers Traffic and Capacity April 2012
Published By Department of Transportation
Issued about 9 years ago
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The Air Carrier Statistics database, also known as the T-100 data bank, contains domestic and international airline market and segment data. certificated U.S. air carriers report monthly air carrier traffic information using Form T-100. Foreign carriers having at least one point of service in the United States or one of its territories report monthly air carrier traffic information using Form T-100(f). The data is collected by the Office of Airline Information, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Research and Innovative Technology Administration.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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The rainfall-runoff erosivity factor (R-Factor) quantifies the effects of raindrop impacts and reflects the amount and rate of runoff associated with the rain. The R-factor is one of the parameters used by the Revised Unified Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) to estimate annual rates of erosion. This product is a raster representation of R-Factor derived from isoerodent maps published in the Agriculture Handbook Number 703 (Renard et al.,1997). Lines connecting points of equal rainfall ersoivity are called isoerodents. The iserodents plotted on a map of the coterminous U.S. were digitized, then values between these lines were obtained by linear interpolation. The final R-Factor data are in raster GeoTiff format at 800 meter resolution in Albers Conic Equal Area, GRS80, NAD83.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued about 9 years ago
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MODIS (or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) is a key instrument aboard the Terra (EOS AM) and Aqua (EOS PM) satellites. Terra's orbit around the Earth is timed so that it passes from north to south across the equator in the morning, while Aqua passes south to north over the equator in the afternoon. Terra MODIS and Aqua MODIS are viewing the entire Earth's surface every 1 to 2 days, acquiring data in 36 spectral bands, or groups of wavelengths (see MODIS Technical Specifications). These data will improve our understanding of global dynamics and processes occurring on the land, in the oceans, and in the lower atmosphere. MODIS is playing a vital role in the development of validated, global, interactive Earth system models able to predict global change accurately enough to assist policy makers in making sound decisions concerning the protection of our environment.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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Physical profile data collected from CTD casts from the WECOMA in the Equatorial Pacific during cruise WE-10-01 to service the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) array from 2010-03-11 to 2010-03-27 (NODC Accession 0120364)
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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As part of the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) Program, the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) was responsible for the at-sea collection, quality control and processing, and delivery of these CTD data in netCDF files to the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). NDBC collected these CTD data during a cruise to service the TAO array of moorings.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has the statutory mandate to collect hydrographic data in support of nautical chart compilation for safe navigation and to provide background data for engineers, scientific, and other commercial and industrial activities. Hydrographic survey data primarily consist of water depths, but may also include features (e.g. rocks, wrecks), navigation aids, shoreline identification, and bottom type information. NOAA is responsible for archiving and distributing the source data as described in this metadata record.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has the statutory mandate to collect hydrographic data in support of nautical chart compilation for safe navigation and to provide background data for engineers, scientific, and other commercial and industrial activities. Hydrographic survey data primarily consist of water depths, but may also include features (e.g. rocks, wrecks), navigation aids, shoreline identification, and bottom type information. NOAA is responsible for archiving and distributing the source data as described in this metadata record.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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Summary of existing information pertinent to environmental contaminants and oil spills on breeding Atlantic Coast piping plovers
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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Information regarding environmental contaminants and oil spills on breeding Atlantic Coast piping plovers Charadrius melodus was solicited from state and federal biologists, and through database and literature searches. The results are summarized in this report.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued about 9 years ago
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This model product provides the Fortran 77 source code for the Lund-Potsdam-Jena (LPJ) Wetland Hydrology and Methane Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (LPJ-WHyMe v1.3.1), auxiliary C++ routines, ASCII and NetCDF input data, and NetCDF example output data. LPJ-WHyMe v1.3.1 simulates peatland hydrology, permafrost dynamics, peatland vegetation, and methane emissions.The model processes can be simulated on an area-averaged 0.5 or 1.0 degree grid cell basis at global, regional, or site scales and on a daily, monthly, or annual time step as appropriate. Input driver data are monthly mean air temperature, total precipitation, percentage of full sunshine, annual atmospheric CO2 concentration, and soil texture class. The simulation for each grid cell begins from "bare ground", requiring a "spin up" (under non-transient climate) of ca. 1,000 years to develop equilibrium vegetation, carbon, and soil structure. Model simulations compare favorably, with some exceptions, to field observations collected from peatland sites (e.g., Degero, Sweden; Lakkasuo, Finland; BOREAS Northern Study Area, Canada; and others) and non-peatland sites (e.g., Point Barrow, Alaska, and Spasskaya, Siberia). LPJ-WHyMe is a further development of LPJ-WHy, which dealt with the introduction of permafrost and peatlands into LPJ. Implementing peatlands in LPJ required the addition of two new plant functional types (PFTs) (flood tolerant C3 graminoids and Sphagnum mosses) to the already existing ten PFTs, the introduction of inundation stress for non-peatland PFTs, a slow-down in decomposition under inundation, and the addition of a root exudates pool. LPJ-WHyMe v1.3.1 adds a methane model subroutine. This model product has one compressed data file (*.zip) and seven companion files.