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This data set represents geologic structure contours for the top of the Minnekahta Limestone, Black Hills, South Dakota.

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This annual narrative report details the conditions and management of San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge in 1988. The report begins with highlights from the year, climatic conditions, and land acquisition. The following section is about planning and includes information about the refuge master plan, management plan, public participation, environmental compliance, and researchinvestigation. Administration is covered next including personnel, youth programs, man power, volunteer programs, funding, safety, and technical assistance. The sixth section of the report discusses habitat management. Habitats include wetlands, forests, croplands, and grasslands. Wildlife is described in the following section with special detail given to threatenedendangered species, waterfowl, marsh birds, shorebirds, raptors, other migratory birds, game mammals, marine mammals, and fish. Public use of the refuge is discussed next. Topics include education, foot trails, interpretive programs, hunting, fishing, trapping, wildlife oriented recreation, camping, picnicking, law enforcement, and concessions. Finally, refuge equipment and facilities are described.

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This report provides county-level estimates of the number of Veterans who received VA Disability Compensation or Pension benefits during FY 2013. It includes the Veterans' total disability rating, age group, and gender.

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NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Water Body Data Shapefiles & Raster Files (Suggested Usage: Science Research)

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City locations for all places in the TIGER files; this file was extracted from dbf files posted on the internet by the Bureau of the Census. This is basically a gazeteer of place names used in the 1990 census, with population and locations included. City, places, population, 1990

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This report discusses results of a reconnaissance trip conducted at Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge. The following is outlined; land condition, presence of waterfowl, and availability of water.

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This is an ESRI shapefile of National Park Service tract data. Tracts are numbered and created by the regional cartographic staff at the Land Resources Program Centers and are associated to the Lands Status Maps. This theme should be used to display properties that NPS owns and properties that NPS may have some type of interest, e.g.- scenic easements. * On May 9, 2006, fields for were added to account for property ownership according to Arizona Bureau of Land Mgmt. GIS records. * On July 19, 2006 an Identity process was performed to break sections out of private lands. The source data for this process was PLSS data from LSIS. Once sections were broken out, a hardcopy map representing private ownership was used to identify 'who owns what' regarding private lands in the PEFO region.

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This data set contains ortho-rectified mosaic tiles, created as a product from the NOAA Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping (IOCM) initiative. The source imagery was acquired from 20140411 - 20140412 with an Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS). The original images were acquired at a higher resolution to support the final ortho-rectified mosaic.

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Located northeast of Houston in Liberty County, Texas, the Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge Refuge was established in January 1994, and soon thereafter Champion Lake was acquired as part of the Refuge. This 700 acre lake receives water from the Trinity River. The river drains the moderately industrialized Dallas Fort Worth, Texas metroplex, and flows southward for 250 miles 402 km through several small urban areas and ranch land. Prior contaminant investigations of sites upstream of the refuge indicated several organochlorine compounds and heavy metals which may pose a hazard to fish eating birds and human consumption of aquatic resources from Champion Lake Irwin 1988, Ulery and Brown 1994, and Moring 1997. On request of the Refuge Manager, in June, 2002, personnel from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Service Ecological Services Field Office in Clear Lake, TX initiated an investigation to determine levels of contaminants in sediments and fish inhabiting Champion Lake on the Refuge and to assess risks to people that eat fish from Champion Lake. To accomplish this, tissue samples, consisting of fillet and whole body samples from largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides, channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus, blue catfish Ictalurus furcatus and white crappie Pomoxis annularis, edible portions of blue crab Callinectes sapidus, and sediment samples were collected from Champion Lake and analyzed for 29 organochlorine compounds and 19 heavy metals. Additionally, sediment samples were also analyzed for 44 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons PAHs. PCB, mercury, and dieldrin fish tissue concentrations showed exceedences of screening values. Exceedences of the recreational fisher PCB screening value 0.02 ppm were found in four out of five of the bass fillet samples, three out of five of the catfish fillet samples, and two out of five of the crappie fillet samples. All the remaining samples exceed the subsistence fisher PCB screening value 0.00245 ppm. Exceedences of the recreational fisher mercury screening value 0.4 ppm were found in one of the five crab samples and one of the five catfish fillet samples. All remaining samples exceed the subsistence fisher mercury screening value 0.049 ppm. The process detailed in USEPAs Guidance for Assessing Chemical Contamination Data for Use in Fish Advisories was followed in determining fish consumption recommendations. Results indicate that fish and crab from Champion Lake contain elevated levels of mercury and PCBs. The Service recommends taking a conservative approach based on these preliminary findings and posting a fish consumption guideline for blue crab, bass, catfish and crappie. Utilizing EPAs default assumptions it is recommended that individuals should restrict their consumption of crab to one eight ounce meal per month, largemouth bass to three eight ounce meals per month, and catfish and crappie to two eight ounce meals per mouth. These data are based on preliminary sampling. To more thoroughly assess risk, a creel survey should be conducted to examine species consumed and frequency of consumption. Further studies should be conducted involving the collection of fish, crawfish, avian eggs, and water samples to determine the extent and availability of mercury and PCBs to fish and other wildlife resources at the Refuge.

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Provides information on router utilization for capacity planning.

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In this STTR program, Structured Materials Industries (SMI) and partners propose to develop an electrically contacted zinc magnesium oxide (ZnMgO) nanowire array for highly efficient UV focal plane arrays. The properties of ZnMgO make it a very promising material for optoelectronic devices. In particular, the wide bandgap (3.37 eV) and large exciton binding energy (60 meV), and the ability to fabricate stable, uniform ZnMgO nanowires make the material attractive as a sensor material.

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ABSTRACT: This data set consists of 1 degree x 1 degree gridded monthly burned area, fuel loads, combustion completeness, and fire emissions of carbon (C), carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), methane (CH4), non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC), molecular hydrogen (H2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), nitrous oxide (N2O), particulate matter (PM2.5), total particulate matter (TPM), total carbon (TC), organic carbon (OC), and black carbon (BC) for the time period January 1997 through December 2005. Emission estimates for the 2001-2005 period are also available with an 8-day time step. The data set was compiled using satellite data and the Carnegie-Ames-Stanford Approach (CASA) biogeochemical model. Burned area from 2001-2004 was derived from active fire and 500-m burned area data from MODIS (Giglio et al., 2006). ATSR (Along Track Scanning Radiometer) and VIRS (Visible and Infrared Scanner) satellite data were used to extend the burned area time series back to 1997 (Arino et al., 1999; Giglio et al., 2003; Van der Werf et al., 2004). Fuel loads and net flux from terrestrial ecosystems were estimated as the balance between net primary production, heterotrophic respiration, and biomass burning, using time varying inputs of precipitation, temperature, solar radiation, and satellite-derived fractional absorbed photosynthetically active radiation. Tropical and boreal peatland emissions were also considered, using a global wetland cover map (Matthews and Fung, 1987) to modify surface and belowground fuel availability. The data set also includes monthly estimates of the C4 fraction of carbon emissions that can be used to construct the 13C isotope ratio (Randerson et al., 2005).The data files are in space delimited ASCII format. For each subject (e.g., burned area, fuel loads, combustion completeness, or individual fire emission species), all monthly files for the 9-year period are combined in one zipped file. Similarly, the emission estimates with an 8-day time step for the 2001-2005 period are combined in one zipped file by subject.Additional information about the methodology, data format, and parameters measured is found in the companion file: ftp://daac.ornl.gov/data/global_vegetation/fire_emission_v2/comp/global_fire_emissions_v2_1_readme.pdf. Version 2.1 Note: This data set is intended for use for large-scale modeling studies. It supersedes and replaces the Global Fire Emissions Database, Version 2 (GFEDv2) which was archived by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center in 2006.

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Multidisciplinary design and optimization (MDO) tools developed to perform multi-disciplinary analysis based on low fidelity computation methods have been used in aircraft conceptual design for decades. These tools have been proven very effective for simple problems and mostly have been developed as a single codes. However, as analyses have become more complex and the need to consider more design factors crucial, such codes have grown so large as to be inconceivable and difficult to maintain. Nowadays, the design optimization process of a modern airplane must account for all failure modes and behavior constraints. In addition, it should cover manufacturing constraints and limitations on available resources, such as power, weight, and cost, simultaneously. This has to be done in an integrated way, so that the effects of any change in the design on all constraints and behavior measures are accurately modeled, and all interactions and trade-offs among design variables and disciplines are allowed to affect the design. ZONA Technology (ZONA) and its team member (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), hereinafter referred to as "the ZONA team", propose in Phase I to develop a multi-fidelity, multi-strategy and multi-disciplinary design optimization environment, called the M3 Design Optimization Environment (M3 DOE) that consists of a three-layer optimization strategy, a multi-fidelity aerodynamic discipline, and a finite element analysis including outer mold line morphing and topology re-meshing capability. The M3 DOE allows the designer to select an appropriate optimization strategy and an aerodynamic method with an appropriate fidelity to obtain an optimum design with desired accuracy within the allowable time constraint.

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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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FUNCTION: Characterizes the internal micro/nanostructures of metallic, magnetic, electronic, and other multifunctional and structural materials using a variety of electron microscopy techniques. INSTRUMENTATION: (1) JEOL 2010F transmission electron microscope (TEM): A 200 KeV field emission TEM for sub-nanometer-scale analysis of structure and composition. Capabilities include: atomic resolution TEM (ARTEM), electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), and scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) with atomicresolution Z-contrast imaging, energy filtered imaging, electron holography, and spectrum imaging. (2) Phillips CM30 TEM: A 300 KeV operating voltage TEM especially utilized for conventional TEM studies of advanced naval steels requiring a large range of tilts for microstructural and defect analyses including conventional bright field and dark field imaging, weak beam dark field analysis, selected area diffraction, EDS, and elemental X-ray mapping using an electron beam/image displacement attachment. (3) Leo scanning electron microscope (SEM) with electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) capability: SEM with a field emission gun (FEG) electron source. Capabilities include high-resolution SEM, EDS, and EBSD (TexSem Laboratory system) with automated orientation mapping and quantification.

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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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Principal Ports are politically defined by port limits or US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) projects, exclude non-USACE projects not authorized for publication. The determination for the published Principal Ports is based upon the total tonnage for the port for the particular year; therefore the top 150 list can vary from year to year. The Principal Port file contains USACE port codes, names, and commodity tonnage summaries (total tons, domestic, foreign, imports and exports).

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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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Single-beam bathymetry, gravity, and magnetic data along with transit satellite navigation data was collected as part of field activity UGEOLEG_3 (U-3-71-CB) in Eastern Greater Antilles, Caribbean from 07/17/1971 to 08/04/1971, http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/u/u371cb/html/u-3-71-cb.meta.html The geophysical source was a Knudsen 12 kHz 320B/R echosounder. These data are reformatted from space-delimited ASCII text files located in the Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP) InfoBank field activity catalog at http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/u/u371cb/html/u-3-71-cb.bath.html http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/u/u371cb/html/u-3-71-cb.grav.html and http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/u/u371cb/html/u-3-71-cb.mag.html into MGD77T format provided by the NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center(NGDC). The MGD77T format includes a header (documentation) file (.h77t) and a data file (.m77t). More information regarding this format can be found in the publication listed in the Cross_reference section of this metadata file.

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This is a species list of fish, mammals, amphibians, and reptiles that are either common to the Back Bay area or have ranges that extend into this region. This list is not necessarily complete, but provides representative species.

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"The Farm Service Agency (FSA) offers farm operating loans to farmers who are temporarily unable to obtain private, commercial credit at reasonable rates and terms. Operating loans are used to purchase items such as livestock and feed, machinery and equipment, fuel, farm chemicals, and insurance; pay family living expenses and general farm operating expenses; and make minor improvements or repairs to buildings and fencing. Both guaranteed loans and direct loans are available through this program. FSA guaranteed loans provide lenders (e.g., banks, Farm Credit System institutions, credit unions) with a guarantee of up to 95 percent of the loss of principal and interest on a loan. The maximum FSA guaranteed operating loan is $1,302,000 (adjusted annually based on inflation). Applicants unable to qualify for a guaranteed loan may be eligible for a direct loan from FSA. Direct loans are made and serviced by FSA officials, who also provide borrowers with supervision and credit counseling. The maximum amount for a direct farm operating loan is $300,000. FSA also provides Microloans, which are direct operating loans designed to meet the unique financial operating needs of many socially disadvantaged and beginning farmers, niche farm operations, the smallest of family farm operations, and those serving local and regional food markets, including urban farmers. The maximum loan amount for a Microloan is $35,000. The repayment terms vary according to the type of loan made, collateral securing the loan, and the applicant's ability to repay. Term operating loans are normally repaid within 7 years and annual operating loans are generally repaid within 12 months or when the commodities produced are sold."

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This map layer includes Global Map data showing waterbodies and wetlands of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The data are a modified version of the National Atlas of the United States 1:1,000,000-Scale Waterbodies and Wetlands of the United States; that data set was created primarily from the Medium-Resolution and High-Resolution National Hydrography Dataset NHDWaterbody feature classes, through feature selection and cartographic generalization based on reference to published small-scale ancillary data sets.

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This data set describes the water-table contours that were used to create a map of the generalized potentiometric surface of the Arikaree aquifer in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and Bennett County. The contours were based on water levels in wells completed in the Arikaree aquifer that were measured between 1929 and 2006.

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There are two types of life tables –cohort/generational and current/period life tables. Cohort life tables are constructed using the mortality experience of the cohort and may not be useful for the cohort itself because every member of the cohort has to die before such a table can be constructed. A current or period life table uses current mortality experience applied to a cohort of births to compute the life table. On the basis of age intervals, life tables are classified as complete or abridged. A complete life table uses exact single years and an abridged life table uses age intervals. This report presents five-year age interval abridged current life tables. Computation of an abridged life table from which life expectancy is derived requires mainly population and death data by age and sex. In this report, population data consist of the 1990, 2000, and 2010 census counts of residents of each Illinois County and the city of Chicago. These data were aggregated into five-year age groups and by sex and used as denominators in computing mortality rates. The death data were received from the Illinois Center for Health Statistics (ICHS) of the Office of Health Informatics (OHI). ICHS receives these data from the Illinois Vital Records System (IVRS). Number of deaths by sex and specific age for each county were obtained from 1989 to 2011 and aggregated at county level by five-year age groups for each sex. Three-year averages were then computed for the periods 1989-1991, 1999-2001, and 2009-2011 and were used as numerators in computing mortality rates. The overall life tables were constructed using Chiang’s (1984) Method II. This method assumes a homogeneous population in which all individuals are subjected to the same force of mortality, and in which survival of an individual is independent of the survival of any other individual in the group. The method does not remove fluctuations in observed data; therefore, the 2 produced life tables exhibit more the factual mortality pattern in the actual data and less the underlying mortality picture of the populations. Margin of errors were computed to provide basis for evaluating the accuracy of the estimated life expectancies.