Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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A background contaminant study was conducted on bat guano and insects in Virginia caves to determine the possibility of exposure of endangered species of bats in Virginia to organochlorine pesticides, organophosphate pesticides, and metals. The three endangered species of bats in Virginia are the gray bat Mvotis arisescens, the Virginia bigeared bat Plecotus townsendii and the Indiana bat Mvotis sodalis. Historic guano samples from a cave in Scott County, Virginia Clinchport quadrangle, cave SP tend to be higher in organochlorine compounds than recent samples from that cave, possibly indicating a source of exposure of these compounds to the bats has been eliminated. The study also provides data which can be used for future comparison in contaminant assessments in Virginia bats.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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OCM plans to contract for AIS data per the following description. The United States Automatic Identification System Database contains vessel traffic data for planning purposes within the U.S. coastal waters. The database is composed of 216 self-contained File Geodatabases (FGDB). Each FGDB represents one month of data for a single UTM zone. The UTM zones represented cover the entire United States and include 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20. Each FGDB consists of one feature class, four tables, and two relationship classes. The Broadcast point feature class contains the position reports, which have been pre-filtered to a one-minute time step. The Voyage table contains elements of the static data reports that are updated for each ship voyage. The Vessel table contains elements of the static data reports that are specific to a particular vessel. The BaseStations table lists the base stations collecting data for a particular month/UTM zone. The AttributeUnits table contains a list of units for each of the attribute fields in the Broadcast, Voyage, and Vessel tables. The BroadcastHasVessel relationship class relates the broadcast points to the vessel table records. The BroadcastHasVoyage relationship class relates the broadcast points to the voyage table records. The Broadcast feature class and the Voyage, Vessel, and BaseStation tables each contain the UTM zone, year, and month in the file name.
Physical and chemical data collected using bottle and BTs casts in the TOGA Area of Atlantic Ocean from NOAA Ship RESEARCHER and other platforms from 25 June 1974 to 16 August 1974 (NODC Accession 7700649)
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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The data was collected from June 25, 1974 to August 16, 1974 using METEOR and other platforms as part of GARP (Global Atmospheric Research Program) Atlantic Tropical Experiment (GATE). Water Depth and other data were collected using bottle; bathythermograph-BT; bathythermograph-MBT; Meteorological sensors, secchi disk and bathythermograph-XBT.
Published By Federal Laboratory Consortium
Issued over 9 years ago
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The 400 Area at Hanford is home primarily to the Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF), a DOE-owned, formerly operating, 400-megawatt (thermal) liquid-metal (sodium)-cooled nuclear research and test reactor located within the FFTF Property Protected Area (PPA), along with numerous support buildings and structures. The original purpose of the facility, although not a breeder reactor, was to develop and test advanced fuels and materials for the Liquid Fast-Breeder Reactor Program; other missions were subsequently pursued. Construction of FFTF was completed in 1978, and initial criticality was achieved in early 1980, with full power initiated in late 1980. Following an additional year of acceptance testing, FFTF operated successfully from 1982 to 1992 as a research facility providing the nuclear industry with advances in nuclear fuels, materials, and components; nuclear power plant operations and maintenance protocols; and reactor safety designs. During this time, FFTF also produced a wide variety of medical and industrial isotopes, made hydrogen-3 (tritium) for the U.S. fusion research program, and conducted cooperative international research work. In late 1993, DOE decided not to continue operating FFTF due to a lack of economically viable missions at that time and issued a shutdown (e.g., deactivation) order for the facility. Since that time, and, after various delays temporarily stopping the deactivation work, FFTF completed deactivation activities and was placed in a long-term, low-cost surveillance and maintenance condition in 2009. The DOE Final Tank Closure and Waste Management Environmental Impact Statement for the Hanford Site, Richland, Washington (TC&WM EIS, DOE/EIS-0391, December 2012) included evaluations of proposed actions and alternatives for the final decommissioning end state for FFTF and its support buildings/facilities/structures located within the FFTF Property Protected Area, management of waste generated by the decommissioning process, and disposition of Hanford's inventory of radioactively contaminated bulk sodium. On December 13, 2013 (78 FR 75913), DOE issued the first in a series of Records of Decision (RODs) pursuant to the Final TC&WM EIS. In this ROD, DOE decided to implement FFTF Decommissioning Alternative 2: Entombment. Under this alternative, the above-grade FFTF Reactor Containment Building and its adjacent support buildings/facilities/structures would be dismantled and removed to grade. Below-grade structures, the reactor vessel, piping, and other components, would remain in place along with demolition waste consolidated in below-grade spaces, and filled with grout to immobilize remaining radioactive and hazardous constituents. An engineered modified Resource and Conservation Recovery Act Subtitle C barrier would be constructed over the filled area, followed by post-closure care and institutional controls. The FFTF remote-handled special components would have radioactively contaminated sodium residuals removed by treatment at the Idaho National Laboratory, and returned to Hanford for disposal in an Integrated Disposal Facility. Also under Alternative 2, Hanford's bulk sodium inventory would be converted to caustic sodium hydroxide in a Sodium Reaction Facility at Hanford, and then stored for ultimate product reuse at Hanford's Waste Treatment Plant. Also at the 400 Area (outside the FFTF PPA) is a mammoth structure called the Fuels and Materials Examination Facility (FMEF). Although the FMEF was intended to be a support building for the FFTF and the future Liquid Fast-Breeder Reactor Program, the FMEF was never used in any kind of a nuclear capacity. When the nation abandoned the breeder reactor program, FMEF was also left without a mission, and remains unused and largely vacant today.
Published By Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Issued over 9 years ago
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Terrain data, as defined in FEMA Guidelines and Specifications, Appendix N: Data Capture Standards, describes the digital topographic data that was used to create the elevation data representing the terrain environment of a watershed and/or floodplain. Terrain data requirements allow for flexibility in the types of information provided as sources used to produce final terrain deliverables. Once this type of data is provided, FEMA will be able to account for the origins of the flood study elevation data. (Source: FEMA Guidelines and Specifications, Appendix N, Section N.1.2).
Published By Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Issued over 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 Department of Justice
Issued over 9 years ago
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This data collection includes tabulations of annual adult admissions to federal and state correctional institutions by race. Data are provided for the years 1926 to 1986 and include tabulations for prisons in each of the 50 states and the District of Colu
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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IceBridge Radar L3 Tomographic Ice Thickness
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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Polygons: 152 Vertices: 224
Anadromous fish inventory: Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, and associated area of ecological concern
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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Bibliography, species lists, histories of fisheries, habitat, key spawning and rearing areas, runs escapements, harvest data, effort, and mylar overlays.
Published By Department of Justice
Issued over 9 years ago
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This OJJDP supported data analysis tool provides access to arrest estimates based on sample-level arrest data reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The estimates are developed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD). Easy
Middle Wilcox Aquifer: Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Tennessee 2006-2008
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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Digital hydrogeologic surface of the Middle Wolcox Aquifer in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Tennessee. The hydrogeologic unit dataset contains 414 rows and 394 columns representing 1-mile grid spacing. In general, limitations of data interpolation included areas of sparse geophysical log control points, log datums not clearly defined for some logs, unknown exact extent of each hydrogeologic unit in subcrop, interpolation limitations, and values averaged over 1-mile grid spacing.
Published By Department of Transportation
Issued over 9 years ago
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Delphi FND Application Object Library contains the following data elements, but are not limited to temporary data tables for the logged in session, information about application module pool operations and is mainly intended for performance diagnostics, attachments, audit information, and information about on-line help documents.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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Gridded bathymetry and IKONOS estimated depths of the shelf and slope environments of Midway Island, Hawaii, USA. Bottom coverage was achieved in depths between 0 and 200 meters. The netCDF grid includes multibeam bathymetry from the Simrad EM300, Simrad EM3002d, and Reson 8101 multibeam sonars collected as of October 2006 by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Division in depths between 20 and 5000 meters. The netCDF grid also includes estimated depths derived from high resolution IKONOS satellite imagery by the NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/CCMA Remote Sensing Team in shallow water between 0 and 16 meters.
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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A number of ground nesting bird species inhabit Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, including least and common terns, piping plovers, and black ducks. Predation is always an important concern for the management of ground nesting birds. Management becomes more important when predator populations become excessively large, when a high level of predation is observed, or when predation is observed on threatened and endangered species. The objectives of this Animal Control Plan are to: contribute to the widest diversity of habitats, maintain population levels of wildlife species that are compatible with Refuge objectives, contribute to the attainment of national wildlife objectives, maintain healthy populations of ground nesting bird species, ensure that conflicts between endangeredthreatened species and other wildlife management or public use programs are resolved in favor of the endangeredthreatened species, minimize wildlife damage to facilities, and minimize the occurrence of high population densities of wildlife species which have the potential to transmit contagious diseases.
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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The California Basin Characterization Model (CA-BCM 2014) dataset provides historical and projected climate and hydrologic surfaces for the region that encompasses the state of California and all the streams that flow into it (California hydrologic region ). The CA-BCM 2014 applies a monthly regional water-balance model to simulate hydrologic responses to climate at the spatial resolution of a 270-m grid. The model has been calibrated using a total of 159 relatively unimpaired watersheds for the California region. The historical data is based on 800m PRISM data spatially downscaled to 270 m using the gradient-inverse distance squared approach (GIDS), and the projected climate surfaces include five CMIP-3 (GFDL, PCM, MIROC3_2, CSIRO, GISS_AOM) and nine CMIP-5 (MIROC5, MIROC , GISS, MRI, MPI, CCSM4, IPSL, CNRM, FGOALS) General Circulation Models under a range of emission scenarios or representative concentration pathways (RCPs) for a total of 18 futures that have been statistically downscaled using BCSD to 800 m and further downscaled using GIDS to 270 m for model application. The BCM approach uses a regional water balance model based on this high resolution precipitation and temperature as well as elevation, geology, and soils to produce surfaces for the following variables: precipitation, air temperature, recharge, runoff, potential evapotranspiration (PET), actual evapotranspiration, and climatic water deficit, a parameter that is calculated as PET minus actual evapotranspiration. The following data are available in this archive: Raw, monthly model output for historical and future periods. Projected data is available for the following GCM and emission scenario or RCP combinations: GFDL-B1, GFDL-A2 PCM-B1, PCM-A2 MIROC3_2-A2 CSIRO-A1B GISS_AOM-A1B, MIROC5-RCP2.6, MIROC-RCP4.5, MIROC-RCP6.0, MIROC-RCP8.5 GISS-RCP2.6, MRI-RCP2.6, MPI- RCP4.5, CCSM4-RCP8.5, IPSL-RCP8.5, CNRM-RCP8.5, FGOALS-RCP8.5. Data variables: Actual evapotranspiration - water available between wilting point and field capacity, mm (aet); Climatic water deficit - Potential minus actual evapotranspiration, mm (cwd); Maximum monthly temperature, degrees C - (tmx); Minimum monthly temperature, degrees C - (tmn); Potential evapotranspiration - Water that could evaporate or transpire from plants if available, mm (pet); Recharge - Amount of water that penetrates below the root zone, mm (rch); Runoff - Amount of water that becomes stream flow, mm (run); Precipitation, mm - (ppt). Note that another archive, hosted by the California Climate Commons contains various climatological summaries of these data. That archive can be found at: http://climate.calcommons.org/
Published By National Park Service, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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These ESRI shape files are of National Park Service tract and boundary data that was created by the Land Resources Division. Tracts are numbered and created by the regional cartographic staff at the Land Resources Program Centers and are associated to the Land Status Maps. This data should be used to display properties that NPS owns and properties that NPS may have some type of interest such as scenic easements or right of ways.
Published By Department of Veterans Affairs
Issued over 9 years ago
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Report to the Appropriations Committee of the United States House of Representatives in Response to Conference Committee Report to PL 110-186. In an effort to provide a snapshot of the quality of care provided at VA health care facilities, this report includes information about waiting times, staffing level, infection rates, surgical volumes, quality measures, patient satisfaction, service availability and complexity, accreditation status, and patient safety. The data in this report have been drawn from multiple sources across VHA. This dataset defines the quality of care at a national level between rural vs urban populations.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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FNMOC 1-degree 500Mb fields from the NAVGEM model
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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This map shows specific water-quality items and hydrologic data site information which come from QWDATA (Water Quality) and GWSI (Ground Water Information System). Both QWDATA and GWSI are subsystems of NWIS (National Water Inventory System)of the USGS (United States Geologic Survey). This map is for Daggett County, Utah. The scope and purpose of NWIS is defined on the web site: http://water.usgs.gov/public/pubs/FS/FS-027-98/
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ARRIVAL is aápackage tracking and delivery management system utilizing COTS implementation.
Dissolved inorganic carbon, pH, alkalinity, temperature, salinity and other variables collected from discrete sample and profile observations using CTD, bottle and other instruments from the DISCOVERER in the Gulf of Alaska and North Pacific Ocean from 19
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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NODC Accession 0115175 includes chemical, discrete sample, physical and profile data collected from DISCOVERER in the Gulf of Alaska and North Pacific Ocean from 1991-03-07 to 1991-04-07 and retrieved during cruise WOCE_P16N_CGC91. These data include ALKALINITY, CHLOROFLUOROCARBON-11 (CFC-11), CHLOROFLUOROCARBON-12 (CFC-12), DELTA CARBON-13, DELTA CARBON-14, DELTA HELIUM-3, DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON, DISSOLVED OXYGEN, HELIUM, HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE, NEON, NITRATE, NITRITE, PHOSPHATE, Potential temperature (theta), SALINITY, SILICATE, Tritium (Hydrogen isotope), WATER TEMPERATURE and pH. The instruments used to collect these data include CTD and bottle. These data were collected by Richard A. Feely and John L. Bullister of US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory as part of the WOCE_P16N_CGC91 data set. The World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) was a major component of the World Climate Research Program with the overall goal of better understanding the ocean's role in climate and climatic changes resulting from both natural and anthropogenic causes. The CO2 survey took advantage of the sampling opportunities provided by the WOCE Hydrographic Program (WHP) cruises during this period between 1990 and 1998. The final collection covers approximately 23,000 stations from 94 WOCE cruises.
Hawaiian Islands Wilderness study area : Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge : Wilderness study report
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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This document is an indepth report containing the results of a wilderness study done of the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge. It covers the objectives of the study, the status of the land studied, its history and physical characteristics, resources it provides, and development and management of the land.
Digital data sets that describe aquifer characteristics of the Vamoosa-Ada aquifer in east-central Oklahoma
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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This data set consists of digitized water-level elevation contours for the Vamoosa-Ada aquifer in east-central Oklahoma. The Vamoosa-Ada aquifer is an important source of water that underlies about 2,320-square miles of parts of Osage, Pawnee, Payne, Creek, Lincoln, Okfuskee, and Seminole Counties. Approximately 75 percent of the water withdrawn from the Vamoosa-Ada aquifer is for municipal use. Rural domestic use and water for stock animals account for most of the remaining water withdrawn. The Vamoosa-Ada aquifer is defined in a ground-water report as consisting principally of the rocks of the Late Pennsylvanian-age Vamoosa Formation and overlying Ada Group. The Vamoosa-Ada aquifer consists of a complex sequence of fine- to very fine-grained sandstone, siltstone, shale, and conglomerate interbedded with very thin limestones. The water-yielding capabilities of the aquifer are generally controlled by lateral and vertical distribution of the sandstone beds and their physical characteristics. The Vamoosa-Ada aquifer is unconfined where it outcrops in about an 1,700-square-mile area. The water-level elevation contours were digitized from a mylar map, at a scale of 1:250,000, used to publish a plate in a ground-water report about the Vamoosa-Ada aquifer. The water-level elevation contours in this data set extend west of the aquifer outcrop to areas where Vanoss Group rocks overlie the Ada Group. The data set also includes a water-level elevation contour for a terrace deposit east of the aquifer outcrop near the North Canadian River. Water-level elevations range from 800 to 1,000 feet above sea level for the Vamoosa-Ada aquifer.
Published By Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Issued over 9 years ago
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Digital orthographic imagery datasets contain georeferenced images of the Earth's surface, collected by a sensor in which object displacement has been removed for sensor distortions and orientation, and terrain relief. Digital orthoimages have the geometric characteristics of a map, and image qualities of a photograph. (Source: Circular A-16, p. 16) Digital color infrared (CIR) orthophotography of New Jersey in State Plane NAD83 Coordinates, U.S. Survey Feet. The digital orthophotography was produced at a scale of 1:2400 (1"=200') with a 1 foot pixel resolution. Digital orthophotography combines the image characteristics of a photograph with the geometric qualities of a map. Digital orthophotography is a process which converts aerial photography from an original photo negative to a digital product that has been positionally corrected for camera lens distortion, vertical displacement and variations in aircraft altitude and orientation. Aerial photography of the entire State of New Jersey was captured during February-April, 2002. The ortho-rectification process achieved a +/-4.0 ft. horizontal accuracy at a 95% confidence level, National Standard for Spatial Data Accuracy (NSSDA). This dataset consists of 5000' x 5000' files in MrSID format with a 15:1 compresssion ratio. The files were produced utilizing MrSID Geospatial Edition 1.4 and are approximately 5 MB in size.