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The National Archives and Records Administration Employee Locator is an online system that provides the name, office symbol, location, room, telephone number, and FAX number of National Archives and Records Administration employees.

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The SeaWiFS Deep Blue (SWDB) Level 2 Product contains data corresponding to a single SeaWiFS swath using Deep Blue algorithm. There are about 15 Level 2 data files produced per day. Each contains retrieved aerosol properties averaged to a resolution of 3x3 SeaWiFS pixels (13.5x13.5 km at the center of the swath given 4.5km SeaWiFS pixels). The primary data parameters are aerosol optical thickness, Angstrom exponent, and single scattering albedo. (The Shortname for this product is SWDB_L2). Parameters contained in the SeaWiFS Deep Blue (SWDB) data files include the following: Variable Name | Description |Units aerosol_optical_thickness_550_land | aerosol optical thickness estimated at 550 nm over land | (unitless) aerosol_optical_thickness_550_land_ocean | aerosol optical thickness estimated at 550 nm over land and ocean | (unitless) aerosol_optical_thickness_550_land_ocean_best_estimate | best estimate of aerosol optical thickness estimated at 550 nm over land and ocean | (unitless) aerosol_optical_thickness_550_ocean | aerosol optical thickness estimated at 550 nm over ocean | (unitless) aerosol_optical_thickness_confidence_flag_land | aerosol optical thickness confidence flag over land | (unitless) aerosol_optical_thickness_confidence_flag_land_ocean | aerosol optical thickness confidence flag over land and ocean | (unitless) aerosol_optical_thickness_confidence_flag_ocean | aerosol optical thickness confidence flag over ocean | (unitless) aerosol_optical_thickness_land | aerosol optical thickness at 412 nm, 490 nm, and 670 nm over land | (unitless) aerosol_optical_thickness_ocean | aerosol optical thickness at 412 nm, 490 nm, and 670 nm over ocean | (unitless) angstrom_exponent_confidence_flag_land | angstrom exponent confidence flag over land | (unitless) angstrom_exponent_confidence_flag_land_ocean | angstrom exponent confidence flag over land and ocean | (unitless) angstrom_exponent_confidence_flag_ocean | angstrom exponent confidence flag over ocean | (unitless) angstrom_exponent_land | angstrom exponent over land as derived from aerosol optical thickness at 412 nm and 490 nm | (unitless) angstrom_exponent_land_ocean | angstrom exponent over land and ocean as derived from aerosol optical thickness at 412 nm and 490 nm | (unitless) angstrom_exponent_ocean | angstrom exponent over ocean as derived from aerosol optical thickness at 412 nm and 490 nm | (unitless) End of parameter information

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The Assessment Unit is the fundamental unit used in the National Assessment Project for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources. The Assessment Unit is defined within the context of the higher-level Total Petroleum System. The Assessment Unit is shown here as a geographic boundary interpreted, defined, and mapped by the geologists responsible for the province and incorporates a set of known or postulated oil and (or) gas accumulations sharing similar geologic, geographic, and temporal properties within the Total Petroleum System, such as source rock, timing, migration pathways, trapping mechanism, and hydrocarbon type. The Assessment Unit boundary is defined geologically as the limits of the geologic elements that define the Assessment Unit, such as limits of reservoir rock, geologic structures, source rock, and seal lithologies. The only exceptions to this are Assessment Units that border the Federal-State water boundary. In these cases, the Federal-State water boundary forms part of the Assessment Unit boundary.

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The mission of the ADST program is to advance the process of therapeutic development through research and development of innovative assay designs and chemical library screening methods in the context of disease biology. The program's primary focus is on "gateway translation," which involves bridging the gap between breakthroughs in understanding disease mechanisms and the first stages of drug development. This phase of discovery research is particularly important to disease advocacy organizations seeking to pursue therapeutic development for patients. The ADST program model is designed to overcome translational barriers in developing urgently needed treatments for underserved diseases.

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The Natural Resource Protection and Child Health Indicators, 2013 Release, are produced in support of the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation as selection criteria for funding eligibility. These indicators are successors to the Natural Resource Management Index (NRMI), which was produced from 2006 to 2011 and was based on the same underlying data. Like the NRMI, the Natural Resource Protection Indicator (NRPI) and Child Health Indicator (CHI) are based on proximity-to-target scores ranging from 0 to 100 (at target). The NRPI covers 221 countries and is calculated based on the weighted average percentage of biomes under protected status. The CHI is a composite index for 188 countries derived from the average of three proximity-to-target scores for access to improved sanitation, access to improved water, and child mortality. The 2013 release includes a consistent time series of NRPIs and CHIs for 2006 to 2013. (Suggested Usage: To assist in the country selection process for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) by providing indicators of natural resource protection and child health that complements the governance, social, and economic indicators used by MCC as country selection criteria.)

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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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The Personnel application is used by the Human Resources Staff and records a wide variety of employment and position information on Government employees working for the Criminal Division. It also tracks job postings in the Division and information on appl

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The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that 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 purpose of this file is to provide the geography for the 2010 Census Blocks along with their 2010 housing unit count and population. Census Blocks are statistical areas bounded on all sides by visible features, such as streets, roads, streams, and railroad tracks, and/or by nonvisible boundaries such as city, town, township, and county limits, and short line-of-sight extensions of streets and roads. Blocks are the smallest geographic areas for which the Census Bureau publishes data from the decennial census. A block may consist of one or more faces.

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The Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) dataset is a survey of the Atchafalaya Basin project area. The entire survey area for Atchafalaya encompasses approximately 1650.5 square miles. The LiDAR point cloud was flown at a nominal post spacing of 1.0 meters for unobscured areas. The LiDAR data and derivative products produced are in compliance with the U.S. Geological Survey National Geospatial Program LIDAR Guidelines and Base Specifications, Version 13-ILMF 2010. The flight lines were acquired by Aerial Cartographics of America, Inc "ACA", which required eight missions between December 18, 2012 - March 01, 2013. Derivative products from the aerial acquisition include: raw point cloud data in LAS v1.2 format, classified point cloud data in LAS v1.2 format, bare earth surface (raster DEM) tiles in 32-bit floating point raster ERDAS .IMG format, breaklines in ESRI Arc Shape format, control points in ESRI Arc Shape format, project report, and FGDC compliant XML metadata.

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The National Reporting System for Adult Education, 2011-12 (NRS 2011-12) is part of the Adult Education and Family Literacy program; program data is available since 1997 at . NRS 2011-12 (http://www.nrsweb.org) is a cross-sectional study that was designed to monitor performance accountability for the federally funded, state-administered adult education program. States were required to submit their progress in adult education and literacy activities by reporting data on core indicators of outcomes on all adult learners who receive 12 or more hours of service as well as state expenditures on the adult education program. States could also report on additional, optional secondary measures that included outcomes related to employment, family, and community. The study was conducted using a web-based reporting system of states. NRS 2011-12 is a universe survey, and all states submitted data. Key statistics produced from the study include student demographics, reasons for attending the program, receipt of secondary school diploma or general education development (GED) certificate, placement in postsecondary education or training, educational gain, and employment placement and retention.

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Each person who files bankruptcy is required to attend a meeting of creditors and respond to questions under oath from the trustee and creditors. The meetings are held nationwide. In those locations where the room is controlled by the USTP, if a participa

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<p> Description: explore mission architectures to the Moon's southern Aitken Basin, the surface of Saturn’s moon, Titan, and the surface of Venus that do not rely on Plutonium for power, but instead are powered by a metal-combustion engine. Objective: Using advanced metal combustion systems for power generation through turbines and Sterling engines rather than relying on radioisotope power systems Several targets of interest in solar system exploration require non-solar power sources due to permanent shading from craters or clouds due to extreme distance from the sun. These missions are typically considered with radioisotope power sources, but the scarcity of such fuel reduces the number of missions that NASA can execute in any decade. This study will explore mission architectures to the Moon's southern Aitken Basin, the surface of Saturn’s moon, Titan, and the surface of Venus that do not rely on Plutonium for power, but instead are powered by a metal-combustion engine. The Applied Research Lab at Penn State has been developing advanced metal combustion systems for power generation through turbines and Sterling engines that have significantly higher energy density than chemical batteries. This NIAC study team will choose one of these missions to study in detail at the NASA Glenn Research Center's COMPASS Lab, resulting in a mission concept report. Proving the feasibility of using metal combustion to power spacecraft in sunless regions would be a breakthrough and shift our expectation of what explorations are possible through Discovery and New Frontiers missions without relying on radioisotope power sources.</p>

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NASA's program for Solar System Exploration will augment the current remote sensing approach to solar system exploration with a robust program that includes in situ measurements at key places. This requires robotic explorers capable of operation and survivability in high-temperature/high-pressure environment to service the needs of the future in situ exploration of Venus as well as atmospheric probes for giant planets. This program will design a Venus probe thermal management system capable of sustaining operation for 20 hours or more. To support the design, new thermal management technologies will be evaluated and considered for use the harsh Venusian environment.

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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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1) The purpose of this project is to assist the NMFS Regional Office with the Oregon Water Quality Criteria Biological Opinion. 2) Lyndal Johnson (NFWSC FTE) is the project manager, and the primary staff doing the work are Julann Spromberg (NMFS Term) and David Baldwin (NMFS FTE). 3) The project involves literature review and population modeling to estimate water concentrations of copper, cadmium, and ammonia associated with increased mortality or reduced growth in juvenile salmonids. 4) Specific products to be produced include sections for the NMFS Biological opinion. A manuscript in a peer-reviewed journal is also a possibility. 5) Specific audiences include but are not limited to the NMFS Regional Office, EPA, and other federal, state, and local agencies interested in water quality management. 6) This is a stand-alone project. 7) This is an ongoing project; the majority of work has been completed, but some review and revision is still occurring. Modeled effect on population growth rate of contaminant impacts on growth and mortality at proposed water quality standards.

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The National Aquatic Resource Survey (NARS) findings for nutrients in streams and lakes highlight that nutrient pollution is widespread across the United States and impacts biological communities. The NARS analysis examined the range of values for nutrients in least-disturbed sites in a WSA region [WSA regions are modified Level III ecoregions from Omernik (1987)] and used this distribution for nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) to separate sites into those having high, medium, or low concentrations of nutrients. Sites identified as "high" were worse (i.e., had higher nutrient concentrations) than 95% of the sites used to define least-disturbed condition. Similarly, the 75th percentile of the least-disturbed distribution was used to distinguish between sites in medium and low condition. This means that sites reported as being as "low" were as good as or better than 75% of the sites used to define least-disturbed condition. A relative risk analysis of the data from this survey found that nationally streams and lakes have more than two times greater risk of having degraded biological communities when nutrient concentrations are high than when they are low. For more information, please consult the National Wadeable Streams Assessment (WSA) Report available online at: http://water.epa.gov/type/rsl/monitoring/streamsurvey/index.cfm:

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Apprehensions / Seizure Statistics - Fiscal Year 2013 (Oct. 1st through Sept. 30th) Fiscal Year 2013 - Nationwide Apprehenions By Sector: Accompanied / Unaccompanied Juveniles, Total Juveniles, Total Adults Fiscal Year 2013 - Nationwide Apprehensions by Sector: by Gender Fiscal Year 2013 - Nationwidie Apprehensions/Seizures by Border Region

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Survey data includes spatial datasets and data tables necessary to digitally represent data collected in the survey phase of the study. (Source: FEMA Guidelines and Specs, Appendix N)

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TASK NAME:NRCS LAUDERDALE MS 0.7M NPS LIDAR. LiDAR Data Acquisition and Processing Production Task. USGS Contract No. G10PC00057. Task Order No. G12PD000125 Woolpert Order No. 073054. CONTRACTOR: Woolpert, Inc. LiDAR data is a remotely sensed high resolution elevation data collected by an airborne platform. The LiDAR sensor uses a combination of laser range finding, GPS positioning, and inertial measurement technologies. The LiDAR systems collect data point clouds that are used to produce highly detailed Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) of the earth's terrain, man-made structures, and vegetation. The task required the LiDAR data to be collected at a nominal pulse spacing (NPS) of 0.7m. The final products include first, last, and at least one intermediate return LAS, full classified LAS and one (1) meter pixel raster DEMs of the bare-earth surface in ERDAS IMG Format.

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This raster dataset represents the boundaries of the hydrogeologic areas of the Southwest Principal Aquifer (SWPA) study of the National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) program. It is a compilation of the pre-existing Hydrogeologic Areas of the Southwest Ground-Water Resources Project, with additional data from the Central and Coastal basins of California, Northern New Mexico Rio Grande Valley, and South Central Colorado San Luis Valley.

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Best time series, taking the data from the most recent run available.

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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 State Plane 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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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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A long-term center goal at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC) is the formulation and implementation of a framework for an intelligent rocket test facility (IRTF). The IRTF is to provide reliable, high-confidence measurements for a variety of propulsion test articles. Smart sensor components play key roles in providing the distributed intelligence needed to perform diagnosis of its overall health and to further develop the Integrated System Health Management (ISHM), which has been identified as a key component to design exploration systems for the mission to go back to the Moon and explore Mars. Requirements to achieve this mission include improvements in safety, life-cycle costs, and autonomous operation of exploration systems. The objective of the Phase II effort is to complete the development of the sensor fusion based on the architecture that was presented in Phase I. Specifically, we intend to succeed in: (1) Providing health condition monitoring capability at the intelligent transceiver; (2) Providing analytic and diagnostic intelligence at the intelligent transceiver; (3) Enhancing IEEE 1451.x based standard for sensor data management and distributions; (4) Providing appropriate communications protocols to enable complex interactions to support timely and high quality flow of information among the system elements.