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This spatial data set was created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to represent the extent of arid land irrigation in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States (Hydro Region 17; Major River Basin 7 (MRB7)) during 2001.

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The Ouachita River and adjacent Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge NWR, located in northcentral Louisiana, are subject to several types and sources of contamination. During 1993, raccoons, water birds, and fishes were collected for mercury analyses. Muscle, liver, and hair or feathers were analyzed from the raccoons and birds. Fishes were analyzed as wholebody samples, except in the case of nine largemouth bass from which both filet and carcass samples were analyzed. The analytical results indicate the presence of mercury at levels warranting concern in all biota analyzed. Mercury bioaccumulation in water birds was the most significant; the maximum level observed was 109.6 ugg in the liver of a great blue heron. A great blue heron egg was also analyzed for mercury. Mercury contamination is discussed in terms of the published literature on known hazards to reproduction in piscivorous water birds. Mercury data from the raccoon samples are presented by Facemire et al. In Press.

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In 2012, CMS collected data from 473 Medicare managed care contracts for health care delivered in 2011. CMS considers the reporting unit for a health plan as the equivalent to a contract. CMS signs a contract with health plans to provide health care for a given geographic service area.

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This EA for opening waterfowl hunting on salt ponds recently acquired by the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge proposes three alternatives. Under the preferred alternative, a selected number of ponds would be open to waterfowl hunting. Hunting would be allowed for three days each week following regulations, season and bag limits set by the California Department of Fish and Game under the Federal framework for hunting in the Pacific Flyway. A small, temporary decline in refuge waterfowl is expected under this alternative, but there would be no measurable effect on Pacific Flyway waterfowl populations. The proposed Hunt Plan Amendment would have no effect on the threatened and endangered species found on the refuge except the California Brown Pelican which was classified as may affect, but not likely to adversely affect.

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U.S. refinery imports of all grades of crude oil, i.e., heavy sour, heavy sweet, light sour, light sweet, and medium crude oil. Data organized by port of entry PADD, i.e., East Coast, Midwest, Gulf Coast, Rocky Mountain, West Coast, and Territories. Data in monthly or annual time series. Users of the EIA API are required to obtain an API Key via this registration form: http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/register.cfm

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SSA will use data received from the IRS to determine whether or not a beneficiary's income will result in a higher premium being paid for their Medicare Part B coverage. The data received from the IRS includes tax filing status, Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI), any Life Changing Events, amended tax returns, and IRS corrections to a tax return.

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In 1962, Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge demonstrated that significant numbers of woodcock could be caught and banded during the summer months using mist nets, spotlights, and ground traps. The success of this experimental phase led to the initiation of an intensive trapping and banding program in the summer of 1963 which continued through the summers of 1964 and 1965. An extensive program of woodcock banding was initiated at Moosehorn Refuge in eastern Maine in 1963. Three methods of capture were used: mist netting, spotlighting, and ground trapping. The program was continued through 1964 and 1965 with several improvements in techniques. A total of 2,040 woodcock were captured in the three seasons including repeats and returns. In normal years mist netting showed the best return in birds captured per unit of effort. Spotlighting has equally great potential provided weather conditions are favorable. The advantages of the latter are 1 low investment in materials, 2 mobilityseveral fields can be worked in a single night, and 3 no preparation at the site is necessary. Trapping was the least productive of the three methods, but; it provided information not available from netting and lighting. Mist netting and lighting success was seriously reduced by drouth conditions in 1965. Trapping success was influenced by weather to a lesser degree than were mist netting and lighting. A substantial number of ruffed grouse and other birds and mammals were captured.

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WDCA Chernobyl Data consists of digital data set DSI-9681, archived at the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). World Data Center for Meteorology (WDC-A), located in Asheville, North Carolina, is a meteorological data center in a worldwide network of data centers for the various sciences established to promote international exchange of scientific data. This particular dataset consists of meteorological data from the April 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine. Upper air observations may include: winds, dew points, and temperatures. Surface observations may include: temperatures, winds, humidity, pressure, water vapor, solar radiation, salinity, currents, sea ice, swells, and waves. Drifting buoy observations may include: sea surface temperature, salinity, currents, swells, and waves. Satellite sounding observations may include: thickness, precipitable water, or mean temperature for up to two vertical layers.

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We build a tool that accelerates Research and Development (R&D) aimed at introducing Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System (NAS). In the proposed effort, FACET will form the basis of a collaborative R&D platform, an environment where users can share open source software modules (software and data sets developed to reside outside the FACET Application Programmers Interface (API)) between users at the same or different universities, so that each user can benefit from the open source software and data contributions of others. Thus, when a student who has never used FACET before enters into a collaborative study of UAS integration in the NAS, he/she is able to download open source software and data to get going on rich R&D experiment without having to start from scratch. A student can download weather data sets, Special Use Airspace (SUA) data, air traffic demand data, UAS models (e.g., Base of Aircraft Data (BADA)) and flight plans, metrics, or anything that is posted on the open source library, to get a "running start" with R&D. When completing innovative modules outside the API, the student can post software to the open source repository for others to benefit. This collaborative environment will also allow for FACET-based research to be performed in a distributed manner – where simulations at one university may be run with models and parameters provided by other users at different universities, and the results posted back to the common repository for all users to share. This open-source collaborative platform is demonstrated on R&D problems aimed at introducing

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Fanno Creek is a tributary to the Tualatin River and flows though parts of the southwest Portland metropolitan area. The stream is heavily influenced by urban runoff and shows characteristic flashy streamflow and poor water quality commonly associated with urban streams. This data set represents the stream centerline of the current active channel as derived from light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data and aerial photographic imagery.

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Digital surfaces and thicknesses of selected hydrogeologic units of the Floridan aquifer system were developed to define an updated hydrogeologic framework as part of the U.S. Geological Survey Groundwater Resources Program. This dataset contains contour lines generated from the glauconite marker horizon raster.

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The Phase I verified ADS-B-ER feasibility-based on compatibility with the ADS-B operational standards and design specs, bandwidth and the iPAD EFB capability for performing the trajectory computations for avoiding hazardous weather, terrain, traffic and restricted airspace. We then assured that the –ER software can interface these waypoints to large variety of existing GA analog and digital auto pilots (approximately 100,000 GA airplanes are equipped with autopilots). The Phase I work demonstrated feasibility by carefully evaluating candidate hardware options. The overall target is a decisive enabler for GA NextGen ops as well as for improved levels of GA safety.

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The objective of this investigation was to measure bottom loss in normal incident reflection of pluses of twelve keps sound and to study its geological significance. To this end a semi-automatic instrument system was developed which is capable of making continuous measurements of the peak pressure and the time integral of the square of the pressure of the sea-floor echo, from a vessel underway.

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A sampling of reports involving air carrier (FAR 121) flight crew fatigue.

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The NEFSC bottom trawl survey is a fisheries independent, multi-species survey that provides the primary scientific data for fisheries assessments in the U.S. mid-Atlantic and New England regions. Two bottom trawl surveys are conducted each year, one in the spring and one in the autumn. The survey is a standardized, stratified random design, with stratification based on bathymetry and multiple trawl sites within each stratum. Trawl sites are selected randomly, but the overall ship path is south to north. The survey covers the continental shelf and U.S. exclusive economic zone (EEZ) from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina into the Canadian EEZ. The primary gear is a bottom trawl, with CTD, multifrequency echosounder, and a host of other scientific sensor data collected ancillary to the bottom trawl catches. The bottom trawl survey was normally conducted on the AL IV, but due to mechanical issues, the DE II was used for 2003 spring.

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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). Coastal redelineation was completed for the coastline of Middletown within Newport County, Rhode Island. The 1 and .2 percent annual chance floodplain boundaries were delineated using 2' digital topographic contour data. Field verification was performed to validate primary frontal dune conclusions reached during the delineation. The redelineation of coastal floodplains is being incorporated into the countywide digital flood insurance rate maps.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.

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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.

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This table displays national frequencies and percentages for the RUG III categories from MDS Medicare assessment records. The RUG groups are classified using the Medicare RUG-III Grouper methodology. The frequencies are calculated from an extraction of the national MDS data repository over the selected time period.

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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.

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Indiana's Statewide LiDAR data is produced at 1.5-meter average post spacing for all 92 Indiana Counties covering more than 36,420 square miles. New LiDAR data was captured except where previously captured LiDAR data exists, or the participating County bought-up to a higher resolution of 1.0-meter average post spacing LiDAR data. Existing LiDAR data exists for: Porter, Steuben, Noble, De Kalb, Allen, Madison, Delaware, Hendricks, Marion, Hancock, Morgan, Johnson, Shelby, Monroe, and portions of Vermillion, Parke, Vigo, Clay, Sullivan, Knox, Gibson, and Posey. These existing LiDAR datasets were seamlessly integrated into this new statewide dataset. From this seamless LiDAR product a statewide 5-foot post spacing hydro-flattened DEM product was created and is also available. See the FGDC Metadata provided for more details. This statewide project is divided into three geographic areas captured over a 3-year period (2011-2013). Area 1: St. Joseph, Elkhart Area 2 (2012): LaGrange, Area 3 (2013): Lake, Porter, LaPorte

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This is a polygon GIS data layer showing the location and extent of various sidescan, multibeam and swath bathymetry surveys conducted by the USGS, Coastal and Marine Geology Program. Outlines of individual mosaic areas were combined to create one comprehensive layer that could be used to illustrate areas surveyed by USGS/CMGP seafloor mapping programs.

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This map shows the USGS (United States Geologic Survey), NWIS (National Water Inventory System) Hydrologic Data Sites for Wayne 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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he 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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This is a summary of hunting activities, game mammal surveys, and law enforcement on Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge between 1992 and 2009. For each year, a list of game animals found on the Refuge is provided along with information about population trends for the various animals. Bag limits and other regulations are also included. The number of hunters and the quality of the hunting is described for each season. Information about law enforcement issues that arose is also included.