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Conducted by the Bureau of the Census, this survey provides nationally representative data on state prison inmates and sentenced federal inmates held in federally owned and operated facilities. Through personal interviews from June-October 1997, inmates i

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This data set contains the types of background investigations, decisions, level of security clearance, date of security clearance training, and credentials issued to non-FAA Federal employees, contractors, detailees, and interns.

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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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National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWRs or primary standards) are legally enforceable standards that apply to public water systems. Primary standards protect public health by limiting the levels of contaminants in drinking water.

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<p>The full potential of small spacecraft remains untapped because they lack maneuverability. Plasmonic force propulsion provides attitude control capability for small spacecraft with no power penalty and minimal mass and volume penalty. This creates new capabilities for small spacecraft enabling NASA science and exploration missions that were previously impossible. One of NASA’s strategic goals is expanding scientific understanding of the Earth and the universe. NASA envisions a broad class of scientific missions where extremely fine pointing and positioning of spacecraft is required, such as a single Earth observing spacecraft, deployable x-ray telescopes, exoplanet observatories, and constellations of spacecraft for Earth and deep space observations. In recognizing this, the National Research Council emphasized the need for micro-propulsion for extremely fine pointing and positioning of micro-satellites for astrophysics missions.</p><p>Within the context of these types of missions, we propose to assess the ability of plasmonic force propulsion to advance the state-of-the-art. We propose to numerically simulate plasmonic force fields with asymmetric/gradient geometry and relevant solar light constraints, predict nanoparticle velocity, mass flow rate, and resulting propulsion performance (thrust, specific impulse), and evaluate spacecraft position control resolution and pointing precision enabled by plasmonic propulsion. We will compare our results with state-of-the-art thrusters (e.g., colloid/electrospray electric propulsion) and torquers (e.g., reaction wheels). We will also assess the feasibility of plasmonic propulsion to meet and/or exceed the stringent demands of future NASA missions.</p>

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At the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), the Savannah River Site Calibration Laboratory is one of the most advanced radiation calibration laboratory and test facilities in the country. SRNL provides instrument test and evaluation services, exercises, calibration and repair, calibration services for tritium monitoring equipment, and radiological instrument qualification and testing. This unique service is available to government agencies, the US Military and commercial organizations. The SRS Calibration Laboratory Federally approved for radiation protection and instrument calibration Physical and information security are integral parts of operations Comprehensive capabilities for instrumentation performance testing, calibration, and maintenance First Department of Energy laboratory to be accredited by the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) as a Calibration Laboratory for Ionizing Radiation Weapons-grade plutonium, reactor-grade plutonium, and enriched uranium source work capabilities. The Calibration Laboratory staff is highly-trained, knowledgeable, and has an exemplary safety record. They have participated in such projects as Intelligent Personal Radiation Locator (IPRL) advanced technology demonstrations, the Graduated Rad/Nuc Detector Evaluation and Reporting (GRaDER) program, and the Intelligent Radiation Sensing System (IRSS) testing.

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The Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program provides annual information on the rate and number of work related injuries, illnesses, and fatal injuries, and how these statistics vary by incident, industry, geography, occupation, and other characteristics. More information and details about the data provided can be found at http://bls.gov/iif/Data.htm.

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<p> An ultra-compact superconducting on-chip-spectrometer has the potential to revolutionize far-IR through millimeter-wave observational astronomy and astrophysics, allowing for the first time wide-field mm- and sub-mm spectral surveys and efficient follow up observations of known sources. Our ultimate plan is to use planar lithography to fabricate superconductin g transmission line filters to sort incident radiation by frequency to an array of direct detectors such as MKIDs. However, for this task, we are only focusing on the antenna array element and coupling structures which will couple energy from the telescope to the spectrometer chip. We will design and fabricate a 2x2 array of multi-flare-angle smooth walled horn array to demonstrate the feasibility of this concept for the spectrometer-on-a-chip as well as other focal plane arrays in the submillimeter-wave frequency band. The 2x2 horn array antennas will be fabricated using a tool which can make hundreds of arrays of horn antennas without much difficulty. This is the key innovation of this approach. The horn array will be designed for the 190-320 GHz frequency band. We will also design and fabricate a 2x2 array of circular to rectangular transition block which will be used to test the performance of the horn array. Fig. 1 shows the design concept and that fabrication tool that will enable fabrication of antenna arrays with hundreds of pixels.</p>

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In situ, meteorological, navigational, physical and profile oceanographic data were collected, including ABSOLUTE HUMIDITY, AIR TEMPERATURE, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, DEPTH - OBSERVATION, FLUX - HEAT, INCOMING SOLAR RADIATION, LATITUDE, LONGITUDE, RELATIVE HUMIDITY, SALINITY, WATER TEMPERATURE, WIND DIRECTION and WIND SPEED from Moored Buoy at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) Ocean Acquisition System for Interdisciplinary Science (OASIS) moorings (MBARI) using CTD - moored CTD, anemometer, barometers, meteorological sensors, pyranometer and thermistor from 2004-04-30 to 2015-09-07. These data were provided to one of the OceanSITES Data Assembly Centers (DAC). The DAC formatted this information into the OceanSITES file format and passed it on to the Global Data Assembly Centers (GDAC). OceanSITES is a worldwide system of long-term, open-ocean reference stations measuring dozens of variables and monitoring the full depth of the ocean from air-sea interactions down to the seafloor. It is a network of stations or observatories measuring many aspects of the ocean's surface and water column using, where possible, automated systems with advanced sensors and telecommunications systems, yielding high time resolution, often in real-time, while building a long record.

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The marine mammal and sea turtle layers in MarineCadastre.gov represent habitat-based density-model estimates of animal density. The marine mammal layers are a subset of a larger data set being delivered via the Cetacean and Sound Mapping website (http://cetsound.noaa.gov) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The model results show estimates of the average number of animals present per square kilometer during a given season. Most of the average estimates of animals per km2 are less than 1 because marine mammals are highly mobile and often occur in large groups. For example, an average value of 0.5 bottlenose dolphins per km2 during the summer could mean that 1 animal would be present every other day, or 1 group of 5 animals would be present once in a 10 day period, or 1 group of 50 animals would be present every 100 days, etc. These data originate largely from marine mammal observations generated through shipboard and aerial surveys conducted by NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service. Models explicitly incorporate environmental factors whenever possible. The model outputs were generated through a collaborative effort that included NOAA, the U.S. Navy, and Duke University.

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List of program office contact information for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM): phone number and emails.

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_(Abstract):_ Each TMY is a data set of hourly values of solar radiation and meteorological elements for a 1-year period. Solar radiation is modeled using the NREL METSTAT model, with surface observed cloud cover being the principal model input. The container file contains one TMY file for each selected station in the region, plus documentation files and a TMY data reader file for use with Microsoft Excel. _(Purpose):_ Simulations _(Supplemental Information):_ A TMY consists of months selected from individual years and concatenated to form a complete year. The intended use is for computer simulations of solar energy conversion systems and building systems. Because of the selection criteria, these TMYs are not appropriate for simulations of wind energy conversion systems. A TMY provides a standard for hourly data for solar radiation and other meteorological elements that permit performance comparisons of system types and configurations for one or more locations. A TMY is not necessarily a good indicator of conditions over the next year, or even the next 5 years. Rather, it represents conditions judged to be typical over a long period of time, such as 30 years. Because they represent typical rather than extreme conditions, they are not suited for designing systems and their components to meet the worst-case conditions occurring at a location.

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Monthly 2005 data at the company level on imports of crude oil and/or petroleum products into the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands other U.S. possessions, and Foreign Trade Zones located in the 50 States and DC by each importer of record. Based on Form EIA-814 data.

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Centralized Reporting Team (CRT) manually compiles and distributes a weekly operations status report (OOR) to OIT senior leadership regarding project status information and leading division metrics. The OOR project objective is to provide TSA leadership with an automated weekly report that enables leadership to perform analytics to identify and mitigate risks.

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The historical Merged Land-Ocean Surface Temperature Analysis (MLOST) is derived from two independent analyses, an Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature (ERSST) analysis and a land surface temperature (LST) analysis using the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) temperature database. The data is merged into a compilation for monthly global surface temperature dating back from 1880 to the present, updated monthly, in gridded and timeseries formats. The changes from prior versions include improved tuning procedures, processing sea ice bias correction directly from ERSST, and the addition of satellite data. This data set is used in climate monitoring assessments of near-surface temperatures on a global scale.

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The Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP) is an annual data collection conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The DCRP began in 2000 under the Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-297). It is the only national statistical co

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Metal, hydrocarbon, or nutrient data have not been recorded for the Arctic coastal plain 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Arctic Refuge in areas of prospective oil and corridor development. Predevelopment baseline data for contaminants are necessary to enable general characterization of water quality and contaminant residues, as well as to provide sitespecific predevelopment information in the event of a Congressional decision to open the Arctic coastal plain to oil and gas exploration and development. This study examines 19881989 samples of sediments, water, sedge, birds, invertebrates, and fishes from the 1002 area. Volume 1 of the three volumes in this report describes the study area, study sites, methods, and objectives, and provides summary statistics geometric mean, arithmetic mean, arithmetic standard deviation, maximum, minimum, and median for those analytes with more than 23 of the concentrations greater than the limit of detection. Volume 2 contains the raw metal and hydrocarbon contaminant data, and the raw water quality data. Volume 3 summarizes quality assurancequality control QAQC results which include mean relative percent differences RPDs from duplicate analyses, mean percent recoveries from spiked analyses, mean recoveries and Z scores from standard reference material analyses, and maximum concentrations from blank analyses. For a comprehensive description of all quality assurancequality control methods, also see Volume 1. These reports provide a database on a sufficient number of aquatic, terrestrial, and lagoon samples to enable general characterization of water quality and contaminant residues, as well as to provide site specific predevelopment information. The reader is strongly encouraged to use the QAQC data in Volume 3 to assess data quality on an analytebyanalyte basis for each sample matrix. This information will be used by Refuge management and State and Federal regulators to assess any post development changes that result from any oil and gas exploratory or production activities. The data will also be useful in evaluating special use permits, Clean Water Act Sections 402 and 404 permits, and State wastewater permits, and in recommending appropriate mitigation measures if development occurs on the 1002 area.

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Download a list of crop year 2013 drought-specific designated Primary and Contiguous Counties in PDF File Format.

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ELS is a system based out of the E3 Bureau that provides information on E3 staff, including name, contact information, geographic/sector focus, and expertise. While it is primarily an E3 database, other offices and bureaus provide limited contributions for their staff as well.

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Hydrographic and Impairment Statistics (HIS) is a National Park Service (NPS) Water Resources Division (WRD) project established to track certain goals created in response to the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA). One water resources management goal established by the Department of the Interior under GRPA requires NPS to track the percent of its managed surface waters that are meeting Clean Water Act (CWA) water quality standards. This goal requires an accurate inventory that spatially quantifies the surface water hydrography that each bureau manages and a procedure to determine and track which waterbodies are or are not meeting water quality standards as outlined by Section 303(d) of the CWA. This project helps meet this DOI GRPA goal by inventorying and monitoring in a geographic information system for the NPS: (1) CWA 303(d) quality impaired waters and causes; and (2) hydrographic statistics based on the United States Geological Survey (USGS) National Hydrography Dataset (NHD). Hydrographic and 303(d) impairment statistics were evaluated based on a combination of 1:24,000 (NHD) and finer scale data (frequently provided by state GIS layers).

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NASA's Future Air traffic management Concepts Evaluation Tool (FACET) is a simulation tool to evaluate next generation air traffic management (ATM) systems. FACET has been gaining popularity with ATM researchers in research years due to its well-designed user interface and robust capabilities for simulating the interaction between the National Airspace System (NAS) and new ATM concepts. Since controller task load and performance is a critical aspect of any future ATM concept, we propose to integrate human performance metrics into FACET. Currently, the only representation of human performance in FACET is through calculation of dynamic density, which estimates controller task load at the sector level through regression analysis of subjective controller ratings for current operations. However, the applicability of dynamic density in its current form for predicting controller task load of future ATM operations is unknown. By integrating human performance metrics directly into FACET, preliminary task load implications and predictions of workload-constrained sector capacity of any future ATM concept would be immediately available to researchers. This would be particularly useful to future ATM tradeoff studies and could be used in lieu of subjective controller ratings for preliminary recalibration of dynamic density for future ATM operations.

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This part of DS 781 presents data for the bathymetry and shaded-relief maps of Offshore of San Francisco, California (raster data file is included in "Bathymetry_OffshoreSanFrancisco.zip," which is accessible from http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/781/OffshoreSanFrancisco/data_catalog_OffshoreSanFrancisco.html. The bathymetry and shaded-relief maps of Offshore of San Francisco, California, were generated from bathymetry data collected by Fugro Pelagos, and by California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB). Mapping was completed between 2004 and 2008, using a combination of 400-kHz Reson 7125 and 244-kHz Reson 8101 multibeam echosounders. These mapping missions combined to collect bathymetry (sheets 1, 2) from about the 10-m isobath to beyond the 3-nautical-mile limit of California's State Waters. A large portion of this map area was re-mapped in 2009, however the older bathymetry data were used in this map due to co-registered, acoustic backscatter data. NOTE: the horizontal datum of the bathymtry data (NAD83) differs from the horizontal datum of other layers in this SIM (WGS84). Some bathymetry grids within this map were projected horizontally from WGS84 to NAD83 using ESRI tools to be more consistent with the vertical reference of the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88). These data are not intended for navigational purposes.

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GHRSST Level 3C North Atlantic Regional Subskin Sea Surface Temperature from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on board Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) satellite

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MODIS/Terra Snow Cover 8-Day L3 Global 500m SIN Grid

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The Topological Faces / Area Hydrography Relationship Files (FACESAH.dbf) contain a record for each face / area hydrography feature relationship. Face refers to the areal (polygon) topological primitives that make up MTDB. A face is bounded by one or more edges; its boundary includes only the edges that separate it from other faces, not any interior edges contained within the area of the face. The face to which a record in the Topological Faces / Area Hydrography Relationship File (FACESAH.dbf) applies can be determined by linking to the Topological Faces Shapefile (FACES.shp) using the permanent topological face identifier (TFID) attribute. The area hydrography feature to which a record in the Topological Faces / Area Hydrography Relationship File (FACESAH.dbf) applies can be determined by linking to the Area Hydrography Shapefile (AREAWATER.shp) using the area hydrography identifier (HYDROID) attribute. A face may be part of multiple area water features. An area water feature may consist of multiple faces. The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation.