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ESRD QIP data by facility: % of hemodialysis patient-months with spKt/V >= 1.2; % of peritoneal patient-months with Kt/V >= 1.7 Kt/V (dialytic + residual) during the four-month study period; % of pediatric in-center hemodialysis patient-months with spKt/V >= 1.2

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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.

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Elevated salt and selenium levels in groundwater and in saline seeps within the Lake Basin of northern Stillwater County, Montana have impacted water quality on Hailstone National Wildlife Refuge NWR, and have the potential to impact water quality at Halfbreed NWR. Additionally, the contribution of salts and selenium from saline seeps creates an unacceptable risk to aquatic birds using Hailstone NWR. This study was conducted to evaluate the background hydrogeologic conditions, selenium source and geochemistry, as well as the distribution of selenium and other constituents of concern, and their impacts to waterfowl and shorebirds using Hailstone and Halfbreed NWRs in southcentral Montana. This report emphasizes the Hailstone NWR because all waterbodies at Halfbreed NWR were dry for the duration of this investigation. Upper Cretaceous marine shale, along with alluvium and colluvium derived from these shales, provide the source of selenium and sulfate salts to Hailstone Reservoir. Prior to cropfallow farming practices, native prairie grasses consumed most of the precipitation. Cropfallow farming altered the hydrologic balance and precipitation unused by plants moved below the root zone and accumulated. Groundwater recharge accumulated in the alluvium, colluvium and weathered shale above low permeability shales causing the water table to rise and a groundwaterflow system to develop. Selenium, sulfate salts, and other harmful constituents were dissolved and moved downgradient with the groundwater through alluvium, colluvium and weathered shale. A groundwater transition zone developed as the water table rose. Subtle rises in the topography of the impermeable shale beds and thinning alluvium forced groundwater towards the land surface. Saline seeps develop along these transition zones. Selenium and sulfate salts are evapoconcentrated in these seeps as the groundwater reaches the surface and evaporates. In Hailstone Basin, runoff from snowmelt and rain storms dissolves these salts as it moves downslope towards Hailstone Reservoir carrying selenium concentrations as high as 3,200 gL and sulfate ions as high as 60,000 mgL. Groundwater below the transition zone has very high sulfate concentrations but relatively low selenium concentrations. Slow moving groundwater containing relatively low selenium concentrations and high sulfate concentrations also discharge into Hailstone Reservoir, although runoff appears to be the primary source of lake water, and is the source of most of the constituents of concern. Saline seep induced changes to water quality on Hailstone NWR were found to negatively impact waterfowl and shorebirds using the reservoir. Several mortality events related to high salt concentrations were noted during this investigation. In addition, a hazard assessment completed for selenium revealed that Hailstone Reservoir has the potential to cause complete reproductive failure in sensitive waterfowl and shorebirds. The Service is currently unable to manage water levels within Hailstone Reservoir in order to avoid future mortality events.

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This table contains the total number of acres, by state, contained in new leases issued by the BLM during each fiscal year

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Description: This system is used to measure thin fils properties (thickness and refractive index) Scientific Opportunities / Applications: Thin film characterization Measures thickness, optical constants on single or multi-layer stacks

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The NOAA Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) produces national standardized land cover and change products for the coastal regions of the U.S. C-CAP products inventory coastal intertidal areas, wetlands, and adjacent uplands with the goal of monitoring changes in these habitats, on a one-to-five year repeat cycle. The timeframe for this metadata is reported as 2010-Era, but the actual dates of the Landsat imagery used to create the land cover may have been acquired a few years before or after each era. These maps are developed utilizing Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery, and can be used to track changes in the landscape through time. This trend information gives important feedback to managers on the success or failure of management policies and programs and aid in developing a scientific understanding of the Earth system and its response to natural and human-induced changes. This understanding allows for the prediction of impacts due to these changes and the assessment of their cumulative effects, helping coastal resource managers make more informed regional decisions. NOAA C-CAP is a contributing member to the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics consortium and C-CAP products are included as the coastal expression of land cover within the National Land Cover Database.

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The Marine Geological Samples Laboratory (MGSL) of the Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO), University of Rhode Island serves as the central repository for dredge rocks, deep-sea cores, grabs and land-based geological samples collected by the Marine Geology and Geophysics group at GSO/URI. The facility is located on the Narragansett Bay Campus of the University of Rhode Island in Narragansett, R.I. A large part of the funding for curatorial activities in the MGSL is obtained from the Ocean Science Division of the National Science Foundation. The MGSL maintains a large collection of marine geological samples that are available to qualified investigators through the University of Rhode Island's sample distribution policy. URI is a partner in the Index to Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples (IMLGS) database. As a partner repository, URI sends data and information related to the MGSL sample collection to NCEI for long-term archive, and for discoverability via the IMLGS.

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LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation is mapped using predictive landscape models based on extensive field-referenced data, satellite imagery and biophysical gradient layers using classification and regression trees. LANDFIRE uses vegetation products to create fuel and fire regimes data. Most vegetation products use NatureServe's Ecological Systems classification, meeting the requirement that map units be identifiable, scalable, and model-able. The NatureServe Explorer provides descriptions for each ecological system including species, distribution and classification information. Three main elements comprise LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation. Existing Vegetation Type (EVT) characterizes the types and complexes of plant communities on the landscape, Existing Vegetation Cover (EVC) is the vertically projected percent cover of the live canopy layer for a specific area for a specific life-form, and Existing Vegetation Height (EVH) is the average height of the dominant vegetation. Existing Vegetation Type, Cover, and Height agree by life-form for every pixel. Use existing vegetation layers together for a more complete representation of the vegetated landscape.

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Acute challenges are faced by the designers of fluid transport systems for spacecraft because of the persistently unfamiliar and unforgiving low-g environment. However, with modern design tools capillarity can used to passively perform critical life support functions, increasing reliability, while enabling new device functionality. Such systems are directly tied to critical life support systems: i.e., oxygen supply, air revitalization, thermal management systems, water reclamation, medical fluids, and others. In this work IRPI will apply the Phase I design process toward the development of a much needed contingency waste water collection and processing device for human spaceflight. The device provides passive liquid collection, containment, bubble separation, and droplet coalescence functions for contingency urine collection in a lightweight, low volume, low cost, and potentially disposable device that may be used for subsequent sampling, metering, storage, disposal, and/or re-use. Our approach will include "fractal wetting" and design that incorporates "smart" capillary fluidics. Though the work is focused on a single application, the design approach and capabilities have a broad impact on capillary-based fluids management aboard spacecraft and on earth.

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Updated May 2015. The Illinois Department of Public Health licenses facilities that meet the definition of a campground as defined in the Campground Licensing and Recreational Act in non-home rule units of government.

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GeoAcoustics GeoPulse 5430A 3.5-kHz data collected simultaneously with multibeam bathymetry and acoustic backscatter.

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The Sambar deer on St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge are very popular amongst hunters in the Apalachicola, FL area; however, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wishes to remove the nonnative animals from the island for fear that theyll outcompete the native whitetailed deer.

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Concentrations of selected essential and nonessential elements, including mercury, cadmium, lead, arsenic, selenium, copper, zinc, and vanadium were measured in liver, kidney, and muscle tissues from 36 adult male polar bears from the Southern Beaufort Sea and the ChukchiBering Seas in Alaska. Concentrations of Hg, Se, Cd, Pb, Se, and V generally decreased in the order of kidneylivermuscle. Mercury, Se, and Cd concentrations were significantly higher in liver tissues in polar bears from the Southern Beaufort Sea Hgx 30.91 ugg dw, Sex 14.39 ugg dw, Cdx 1.42 ugg dw than the ChukchiBering Seas. Mercury, Se, and Cd concentrations were significantly higher in kidney tissues in polar bears from the Southern Beaufort Sea Hgx 63.95 ugg dw, Sex 29.1 54 ugg dw than the ChukchiBering Seas Hgx 23.68 ugg dw, Sex 15.92 ugg dw. Based on regression analysis Hg to Se ratios in polar bear liver tissues were close to 1:1 for both Alaskan populations, which suggest that Se has a role in protecting polar bears from Hg toxicity. Mercury concentrations in liver tissues of polar bears in the Southern Beaufort Sea were about half of those found in the Amundsen Gulf, Canada in the eastern Beaufort Sea. Hepatic levels of copper, although very high x 103.05 ugg dw, were within ranges reported from other Arctic polar bear populations. Although low, vanadium concentrations in polar bear kidneys were significantly higher in the ChukchiBering Seas x 0.871 ugg dw than in the Southern Beaufort Sea x 0.245 ugg dw.

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The 1995 Survey of Adults on Probation (SAP) was the first national survey to gather information on the individual characteristics of adult probationers. The SAP was a two-part nationally representative survey consisting of a records check based on probat

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The 1-second Strait of Juan de Fuca Washington Elevation Grid provides bathymetric data in ASCII raster format of 1-second resolution in geographic coordinates. This grid is strictly for tsunami inundation modeling

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RMS is a DOT-wide system developed for the Office of the General Counsel (OGC) to track the status of rulemakings, document required concurrences, serve as a repository for documents under development, and generate management and compliance reports from the data within the system. The system allows senior leaders throughout DOT to identify not only the status of rulemakings, but areas where steps can be taken to streamline rulemaking operations at DOT.

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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.

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SWPA_alvbsn is a vector dataset of alluvial-fill basin statistics for the Southwest United States. Statistics for each basin include physical details such as area, landcover, elevation, slope and precipitation. Anthropogenic data for basin include landuse, population, and wateruse.

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Since 1998, geoscientists at the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) have identified and mapped over 31,000 water bottom (seafloor) acoustic amplitude anomalies in the deep water northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) using 3-D time-migrated seismic surveys. The purpose of this mapping program is to understand the distribution of natural hydrocarbon seeps and related benthic fauna (chemosynthetic and coral communities) in the GOM, and to characterize other seafloor features related to the geological framework of the seafloor. These areas show anomalously high or low acoustic amplitude response relative to typical background, with most areas having overlapping seismic coverage by two or more surveys. These results cover over 230,000 square kilometers of seismic data interpretation. See BOEM website for more detailed information, http://www.boem.gov/Oil-and-Gas-Energy-Program/Mapping-and-Data/Map-Gallery/Seismic-Water-Bottom-Anomalies-Map-Gallery.aspx

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The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) is a joint U.S.-Japan satellite mission to monitor tropical and subtropical precipitation and to estimate its associated latent heating. TRMM was successfully launched on November 27, at 4:27 PM (EST) from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. The rainfall measuring instruments on the TRMM satellite include the Precipitation Radar (PR), an electronically scanning radar operating at 13.8 GHz; TRMM Microwave Image (TMI), a nine-channel passive microwave radiometer; and Visible and Infrared Scanner (VIRS), a five-channel visible/infrared radiometer. The purpose of the 3B42 algorithm is to produce TRMM-adjusted merged-infrared (IR) precipitation and root-mean-square (RMS) precipitation-error estimates. The algorithm consists of two separate steps. The first step uses the TRMM VIRS and TMI orbit data (TRMM products 1B01 and 2A12) and the monthly TMI/TRMM Combined Instrument (TCI) calibration parameters (from TRMM product 3B31) to produce monthly IR calibration parameters. The second step uses these derived monthly IR calibration parameters to adjust the merged-IR precipitation data, which consists of GMS, GOES-E, GOES-W, Meteosat-7, Meteosat-5, and NOAA-12 data. The final gridded, adjusted merged-IR precipitation (mm/hr) and RMS precipitation-error estimates have a daily temporal resolution and a 0.25-degree by 0.25-degree spatial resolution. Spatial coverage extends from 50 degrees south to 50 degrees north latitude. The data are stored in the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), which includes both core and product specific metadata. The file size is about 0.25 MB (compressed).

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This database holds all of the statistics produced by the National Science Foundation's Survey of Industry Research and Development (SIRD) for 1953 to 2007, the last year SIRD was conducted. It has been replaced by the Business Research and Development and Innovation Survey (BRDIS), which expands NSF's coverage of business R&D and innovation activities. IRIS data prior to 1999 are based on Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) and pre-SIC codes. Beginning with the 1999 survey, estimates are based on the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS).

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The 2014 cartographic boundary shapefiles are simplified representations of selected geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). These boundary files are specifically designed for small-scale thematic mapping. When possible, generalization is performed with the intent to maintain the hierarchical relationships among geographies and to maintain the alignment of geographies within a file set for a given year. Geographic areas may not align with the same areas from another year. Some geographies are available as nation-based files while others are available only as state-based files. The primary legal divisions of most states are termed counties. In Louisiana, these divisions are known as parishes. In Alaska, which has no counties, the equivalent entities are the organized boroughs, city and boroughs, municipalities, and for the unorganized area, census areas. The latter are delineated cooperatively for statistical purposes by the State of Alaska and the Census Bureau. In four states (Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, and Virginia), there are one or more incorporated places that are independent of any county organization and thus constitute primary divisions of their states. These incorporated places are known as independent cities and are treated as equivalent entities for purposes of data presentation. The District of Columbia and Guam have no primary divisions, and each area is considered an equivalent entity for purposes of data presentation. The Census Bureau treats the following entities as equivalents of counties for purposes of data presentation: Municipios in Puerto Rico, Districts and Islands in American Samoa, Municipalities in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Islands in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The entire area of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas is covered by counties or equivalent entities.

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The Space Acquired Photography includes imagery from the Shuttle Large Format Camera, Skylab, and Gemini missions. The Space Acquired archive contains black-and-white, color, and color-infrared films.

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The 2011 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) dataset contains the most current TRI data available and reflects toxic chemical releases and pollution prevention activities that occurred at TRI facilities during the 2011 calendar year. You can use this dataset to find out what TRI-covered toxic chemicals are being produced and used at industrial facilities in your local area and how they are being managed. Please note that this dataset will change as the TRI Program continues to process TRI submissions. The TRI Program provides this dataset annually in late July to give the public an opportunity to see the most recent TRI information prior to the publication of the TRI National Analysis report in December. To view National Analysis reports from previous years, please consult TRI's archive of National Analysis data at http://www.epa.gov/tri/.

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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 Delaware (FIPS 0700) 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. Coastal study data as defined in FEMA Gudelines and Specifications, Appendix D: Guidance for Coastal Flooding Analyses and Mapping, submitted as a result of a coastal study. Appendix D notes that a variety of analytical methodologies may be used to establish Base (1-percent-annual-chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs) and floodplains throughout coastal areas of the United States. Appendix D itemizes references for the methodologies currently in use by FEMA for specific coastal flood hazards, provides general guidance for documentation of a coastal flood hazard analysis, specifies flood hazard analysis procedures for the Great Lakes coasts, and outlines intermediate data submissions for coastal flood hazard analyses with new storm surge modeling and revised stillwater flood level (SWFL). (Source: FEMA Guidelines and Specs, Appendix D Guidance for Coastal Flooding Analyses and Mapping, Section D.1)