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Sandy ocean beaches are a popular recreational destination, often surrounded by communities containing valuable real estate. Development is on the rise despite the fact that coastal infrastructure is subjected to flooding and erosion. As a result, there is an increased demand for accurate information regarding past and present shoreline changes. To meet these national needs, the Coastal and Marine Geology Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is compiling existing reliable historical shoreline data along open-ocean sandy shores of the conterminous United States and parts of Alaska and Hawaii under the National Assessment of Shoreline Change project. Shoreline vectors derived from historic and modern sources represent the low water mark (beach toe). There is no widely accepted standard for analyzing shoreline change. Existing shoreline data measurements and rate calculation methods vary from study to study and prevent combining results into state-wide or regional assessments. The impetus behind the National Assessment project was to develop a standardized method of measuring changes in shoreline position that is consistent from coast to coast. The goal was to facilitate the process of periodically and systematically updating the results in an internally consistent manner.

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This report summarizes work conducted during the 1986 field season on brown bear Ursus arctos from the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Ground surveys were conducted to assess food presence and abundance in two areas where radio collared bears where relocated. Surveys were also conducted in two areas surveyed in previous field seasons in order to compare brown bear use on a seasonal basis. One salmon stream was surveyed to determine the extent of use by brown bears during the salmon runs. Two areas were surveyed to select potential trap sites. Aerial tracking and snaring efforts were successful and should be considered for future study efforts. A user survey on the Russian RiverResurrection RiverCooper Lake trail system indicated use in this area by recreationists was similar to use in 1985.

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HPMS compiles data on highway network extent, use, condition, and performance. The system consists of a geospatially-enabled database that is used to generate reports and provides tools for data analysis. Information from HPMS is used by many stakeholders across the US DOT, the Administration, Congress, and the transportation community.

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To ensure an accurate sampling frame for its Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey, the Bureau of Justice Statistics periodically sponsors a census of the nation's state and local law enforcement agencies. This census, kn

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The GVTL consists of two tire test machines and software necessary to process experimental results. The lab features a walk-in environmental chamber capable of controlling temperatures of minus 60° F to 185° F and humidity of 20 to 95 percent. Capabilities: GVTL performs tire durability, run-flat device and road wheel experiments and determines physical characteristics without modification or disassembly to a degree of unparalleled accuracy. The GVTL can accommodate tires from trucks, trailers and road wheels to support M&S efforts for both military and industrial applications. Benefits: •  Conducts comprehensive tests of tire characteristics under a wide range of duty-cycle and environmental conditions, providing the most accurate simulation of real-world usage available in North America. •  Captures the resulting data for later use in computer M&S studies. •  To match GVTL's testing capabilities, a manufacturer would need to drive from Texas in August to Alaska in January, and back. Even then, the data captured would not be as comprehensive.

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This Land/Water Mask is a 100-meter resolution image of the conterminous United States, with separate values for oceans and for land areas of the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Bahamas, and Cuba.

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This dataset is the digital compilation of geologic and resource maps provided mostly by State geologic surveys and depicts the projected area of occurrence of the Upper Freeport coal bed. The Upper Freeport coal bed is in Ohio, West Virginia, western Pennsylvania, and western Maryland. The coal bed may extend into eastern Kentucky, but correlations are highly uncertain and do not warrant extrapolation south of the areas shown on this map at this time. This dataset represents the extent of the Upper Freeport coal bed used in the Apalachian coal region assessment. The file has been generalized from detailed geologic coverages found elsewhere in Professional Paper 1625-C.

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Onemetersquare 1 meter x 1 meter benthic substrate at Johnston Atoll, site 10P 16 45.807N, 169 30.705W, between 20 and 21 meters along a permanent transect.

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This report displays the renewal homeless assistance projects being awarded by HUD under the 2011 Continuum of Care (CoC) competitive grants process. Approximately $1.47 billion ($1,473,690,179) is being awarded for renewal competitive programs. The competitive programs provide funding for transitional and permanent housing and supportive services. These reports are organized by state and then by continuum, or community. Within each listed continuum are the organizations that will be assisted with HUD's awards for competitive programs.

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Web-based strategic management tool that utilizes assumptions based on strategic direction, ratings of diplomatic importance and development need, funding data, and a variety of additional data-driven workload drivers to predict the Agency's future staffing requirements; previously approved by M/CIO.

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This work uses white muscle tissues collected from sixgill and sevengill sharks to characterize the diet of each species. Tissues from prey species have also been prepared in order to initialize the models. We used mixing models to determine the probabilities of each prey species being in the diet of these top predators. These data will be used to predict which prey groups are impacted by these species, and then used in conjunction with patterns of daily, seasonal, and annual movement patterns to examine the variation in predatory impact across space and time among the various prey groups. Isotopes

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National Prisoner Statistics (NPS) on inmates under the jurisdiction of both federal and state correctional authorities.

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This data set contains the outlines for active federal oil and gas leases in the Alaska OCS Region through sale 193. They represent a close approximation, but might not be the exact coordinates for those leases. For the official coordinates please refer to the OPD or SOBD for the lease. ALSO NOTE: older leases were done on a NAD 27 grid, and their lease coordinates will not change as long as the lease remains active. Although the NAD 27 leases have been projected to NAD 83 for inclusion in this file, when plotted on the current NAD 83 leasing grid, they will not appear to "line up", because the NAD 83 grids represents a complete re-grid and not a re-projection of the old NAD 27 grid. All current leasing, starting with Sale 144 in September 1996 has been done on the NAD 83 grid.

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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).

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FEMA Framework Basemap datasets comprise six of the seven FGDC themes of geospatial data that are used by most GIS applications (Note: the seventh framework theme, orthographic imagery, is packaged in a separate NFIP Metadata Profile): cadastral, geodetic control, governmental unit, transportation, general structures, hydrography (water areas & lines. These data include an encoding of the geographic extent of the features and a minimal number of attributes needed to identify and describe the features. (Source: Circular A16, p. 13)

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This data set provides information about the appeals and claims received by the Office of Medicare and Hearings by procedure for Fiscal Year 2006 - 2012.

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Current Wildfire Locations and Perimeters

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NPEFS 2011-12 is a study that is part of the Common Core of Data's National Public Education Financial Survey program; program data is available since 1987 at . CCD-NPEFS 2011-12 [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/stfis.asp] is a cross-sectional survey that gathers data on the financing of education. NPEFS data are used in calculating states� Title I grants. The study was conducted using responding agencies' existing administrative records. The universe of state education agencies was sampled. The study's response rate has not been calculated as of May 2013. Key statistics produced from CCD-NPEFS 2011-12 will collect data on attendance, revenue, and expenditure data from which NCES determines a State�s 'average per-pupil expenditure' (SPPE) for elementary and secondary education.

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<p>Our goal is to drastically improve the frequency precision while retaining the fast tuning speed of widely tunable lasers</p>

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The PowerCube is a 1U CubeSat module that provides integrated propulsion, power, and precision pointing to enable the low-cost CubeSat platform to be used to conduct high-performance missions. The PowerCube concept integrates three innovative component technologies to provide these capabilities: First, a Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) water-electrolysis fuel cell supplies gH2/gO2 to a simple pressure-fed thruster to provide 300 Ns of impulse per 100 mL of water. This approach enables the CubeSat to launch with 'inert' propellant to comply with P-POD limitations on stored energy and then process the water on-orbit into high-Isp fuel. Second, a deployable solar array that stows along the long sides of the CubeSat and deploys in a 'windmill' configuration provides up to 96 W peak. Third, a 3DOF 'carpal-wrist' gimbal, in conjunction with magnetic torque coils, enables sun-tracking of the solar panel, vectoring of the thruster, and precision pointing of payloads. The combination of ample power and water electrolysis will provide up to 6 m/s of delta-V per 90 minute orbit for a 3U CubeSat. Compared to other CubeSat propulsion technologies, the PowerCube thruster will enable more rapid orbital maneuvering and significantly lower contamination issues. Our Phase I effort developed a detailed baseline design for the PowerCube, and built and tested a proof-of-concept prototype of the water-electrolysis thruster. The Phase II effort will mature the electrolysis thruster component to the engineering model level, develop and simulate methods for attitude control and precise pointing of both panels and payloads using the gimbal and torque coils, and develop a detailed design for the entire PowerCube module to enable flight validation in follow-on Phase III efforts.

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The MODIS/Terra Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity (LST/E) products provide per-pixel temperature and emissivity values in a sequence of swath-based to grid-based global products. Information on each individual MODIS Platform/Product are available at: https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/lpdaac/products/modis_products_table

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Background: Chemical toxicity testing is being transformed by advances in biology and computer modeling, concerns over animal use and the thousands of environmental chemicals lacking toxicity data. EPA's ToxCast program aims to address these concerns by screening and prioritizing chemicals for potential human toxicity using in vitro assays and in silico approaches. Objectives: This project aims to evaluate the use of in vitro assays for understanding the types of molecular and pathway perturbations caused by environmental chemicals and to build initial prioritization models of in vivo toxicity. Methods: We tested 309 mostly pesticide active chemicals in 467 assays across 9 technologies, including high-throughput cell-free assays and cell-based assays in multiple human primary cells and cell lines, plus rat primary hepatocytes. Both individual and composite scores for effects on genes and pathways were analyzed. Results: Chemicals display a broad spectrum of activity at the molecular and pathway levels. Many expected interactions are seen, including endocrine and xenobiotic metabolism enzyme activity. Chemicals range in promiscuity across pathways, from no activity to affecting dozens of pathways. We find a statistically significant inverse association between the number of pathways perturbed by a chemical at low in vitro concentrations and the lowest in vivo dose at which a chemical causes toxicity. We also find associations between a small set in vitro assays and rodent liver lesion formation. Conclusions: This approach promises to provide meaningful data on the thousands of untested environmental chemicals, and to guide targeted testing of environmental contaminants.

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This is a proposal to construct a multiagency facility to house the High Desert Interagency Partnership. The facility would be on federally owned land in Hines, Oregon where the present offices of the Burns and Snow Mountain Ranger districts are located. All agency offices and warehouse space would be at this location except for Fish and Wildlife Service. They would have only a branch office at this site, and would continue to maintain their headquarters office at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. A Board of Directors has been formed to oversee the development of this project. The members are the local managers of the agencies involved as well as two people from the Forest Service Regional Office. A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed by the respective State and Regional agency heads.

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The average operating altitude for TRMM was changed from 350 to 403 km during the period of August 7-24, 2001. This orbit boost maneuver extended the mission life significantly. All post-boost data products had been released by the TRMM Science Project, as of early December 2001. All TRMM data products (post-boost and pre-boost) are available via the TRMM data search-and-order system at http://mirador.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/mirador/presentNavigation.pl?tree=project&project=TRMM . The time period before August 7, 2001 is referred to as pre-boost, and the time period after August 24, 2001 is referred to as post-boost. [Summary provided by the GES-DISC DAAC]