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This dataset contains mine addresses for all mines in the database except for Abandoned mines prior to 1998 from MSHA's legacy system. The address is the one entered by the mine operator at the time a Legal ID form is completed for a requested mine identification number. It is updated by MSHA district offices as required. The mine id is the unique key for this data.

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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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The geology data set for this map includes arcs, polygons, and labels that outline and describe the general geologic age and type of bedrock of Iran. The geologic provinces data set includes arcs, polygons, and labels of geologic and petroleum provinces interpreted and designated by R.M. Pollastro from a number of literature and map resources to assist in the assessment of oil and gas resources for the USGS World Energy Project. The oil and gas field centerpoints data set is a point coverage that marks the approximate centerpoints of oil and gas fields in Iran. Political boundaries are provided to show the general location of country and/or other reference 'political' boundaries.

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Website of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). OPM works to recruit, retain and honor a world-class Federal workforce

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Data Mining Tool for Fleet Management Project

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Identify households with absent parents and provide data on child support arrangements, visitation rights of absent parent, amount and frequency of actual versus awarded child support, and health insurance coverage. Data are also provided on why child support was not received or awarded. April data will be matched to March data.

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Farmed Atlantic salmon stocked at net pens in the Northeast.

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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 UTM 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 1:12000.

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<p><strong><u>Motivation:</u></strong> The long, successful history of scientific ballooning, coupled with tightening budgets, has led to a surge of interest in the scientific potential of high-altitude balloon flights. Powerful new payloads are being enabled by advancing technologies (e.g. in detectors, high-speed computers, composite materials, etc.), and these experiments will open new discovery spaces for science at a small fraction of the cost of a space mission. Access to much of this discovery space will depend upon the ability to both measure and control instrument pointing to high precision.</p><p><strong><u>The Experiment:</u></strong> The Precision High Altitude Star Tracker (PHAST) is an unpressurized, high-precision, high-bandwidth star tracker for night and day operations aboard scientific ballooncraft. It will enable pointing knowledge using commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware, and open-source code development. PHAST will take advantage of advances in detectors and ruggedized computers to design <em>without a pressure vessel</em>. The low-cost design (<$70k) will be demonstrated and validated on a shared-ride balloon flight. Subsequently, <em>all drawings, design documents and software will be made available to the scientific community,</em> <em>upon request, at no cost</em>, broadening access to this burgeoning field.</p><p><strong><u>Significance:</u> </strong>The high performance afforded by this tracker will permit the development of pointing control architectures of reduced complexity and cost due to the elimination of redundant motion transducers such as multiple fiber-optic rate sensing gyros.  PHAST will be designed without a pressure vessel, thus significantly reducing launch mass.</p><p><strong><u>Relevance to NASA:</u></strong> The PHAST development and testing program will advance our understanding of the limits of pointing knowledge for ballooncraft. A timely and successful PHAST program will reduce cost and scientific risk for future balloon-borne missions and will be a <em>fundamentally enabling component</em> for experiments pushing the envelope of ballooning capabilities.</p><p>1.2 Objectives and Expected Significance</p><p>By developing a new low-cost star tracker, with high angular precision, fast readout, and the capability of operating in both day and night conditions, we will be providing a new tool that promises cost savings for a wide range of future balloon missions. The capabilities provided by PHAST will be enabling for a number of potential science investigations.</p>

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This data set includes 15 zipped archives of rectified .tif format Landsat 5 TM and Landsat 7 ETM+ scenes from near the study sites of Altamira, Santarem, Ponta de Pedras, and Bragantina in the state of Para, Brazil and Machadinho D'Oeste in Rondonia, Brazil. Dates represent the most cloud-free image retrievals from 1985-2004 and are therefore not continuous. These images may be useful to evaluate potential environmental impacts resulting from the establishment of colonization projects in the Amazon.

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Rocketstar Robotics is proposing the development of a modern dual drive actuator. Rocketstar has put together numerous modern concepts for modular actuators that feature gear ratios on the order of 1000:1 and would be ideal candidates for many space applications. These actuators are evolutionary advancements of actuators that are currently in use today and offer performance benefits over heritage counterparts including; higher torque margins, flexible gear ratios, flexible gearing components, higher specific torque and the ability to be non redundant, electrically redundant or fully mechanically and electrically redundant.

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The Annual Performance Report (APR) provides information on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM)'s progress achieving the goals and objectives described in the agency's Strategic Plan and Annual Performance Plan, including progress on strategies, performance goals and Agency Priority Goals.

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This annual study provides balance sheet and income statement data for domestic private foundations and charitable trusts filing a Form 990-PF, Return of Private Foundation.

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The salt marshes of California have undergone significant changes in the last century. The increased human population in California has reduced the viability of salt marshes by elimination or reduction of fresh water input, reduction of tidal flush, introduction of exotic predators, increased anthropogenic contamination, and a reduction in the total number of marshes Goodbred et al., 1996. The lightfooted clapper rail Rallus longirostris levipes is believed to have been common in salt marshes and has an historical range extending from Santa Barbara County, California, to northern Baja California, Mexico Grinnell et al., 1918. Its diet is known to consist primarily of invertebrates various crab species, California horn snail, Cerithidea californica, but softer material like vegetation, spiders, and insects that are not detectable in its regurgitated pellets may also be part of its diet Jorgensen, 1975. They also take small 24 cm intertidal fish Ledig, pers. obs. The lightfooted clapper rail is listed as an endangered species by both the federal and the California State governments US Fish and Wildlife Service, 2001; California Department of Fish and Game, 2001. Because of concern about contamination impacts on rail populations, we collected samples of addled rail eggs, crabs, and sediment from the salt marshes at Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge in Orange County and Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge in San Diego County, both in southern California. Previous analyses for organic contaminants showed no evidence that either organochlorine pesticides primarily DDT metabolites or polychlorinated biphenyls were affecting reproductive output of the lightfooted clapper rail at Seal Beach or Tijuana Slough marshes Goodbred et al., 1996. Our tests for inorganic analytes, however, show potential threats from Cr and Cu, both from possible anthropogenic sources.

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Community garden sites throughout Boston. Access may be restricted to community members. Inaccurate information? Contact us with corrections.

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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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The management actions in the wildlife ponds on Coldwater National Wildlife Refuge create a highly variable and dynamic environment for amphibians and reptiles. Some ponds contain water for long periods of time and others briefly. Managed ponds have different wetdry cycles than unmanaged ponds . In addition, control of willow invasion by chemical and mechanical means represents levels of perturbation that may affect amphibians. This report summarizes three years of field investigations on these animals in this dynamic environment. Total amphibian species richness for the refuge was 12. Species richness among ponds ranged from 2 to 10; modal number of species per pond was 4. Number of frog species ranged from 2 to 10 per pond. Two species of salamanders were encountered: Siren intermedia and Notophthalmus viridescens. Average number of species in treatment ponds 4.33 was nearly identical to the average number in notreatment ponds 4.25 and not significantly different. Number of tadpole captures per trap night in minnow traps a measure of relative abundance in treated ponds 0.722 was slightly higher than captures per trap night in notreatment ponds 0.594 but the difference was not significant. Analysis of body size relationships in Leopard Frog samples obtained during the same sampling period showed that disk and herbicide treatments do not directly affect body sizes and development of this species. The variable responses to changing water levels by reproductive adult amphibians create the complex interplay of management treatments mostly drawdown schedules with water levels, natural water loss from evaporation, frog responses to water dynamics, species larval developmental periods, and food availability from pond flora. The primary conclusion is that frog populations apparently have not been adversely or directly affected by management treatments of disking or herbicide applications.

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The Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology investigates the organization, compartmentalization, and biochemistry of eukaryotic cells and the pathology associated with human disease.

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This project merged recently collected topographic, bathymetric, and acoustic elevation data along the entire California coastline from approximately the 10 meter elevation contour out to California's 3 mile state water's boundary. This metadata record describes the Digital Elevation Model (DEM) created from the lidar and multibeam data. The DEM has a 1m cell size. Topographic LiDAR:The topographic lidar data used in this merged project was the 2009-2011 CA Coastal Conservancy Lidar Project. The data were collected between October 2009 and August 2011. This collection was a joint effort by the NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM); the California State Coastal Conservancy (SCC) Ocean Protection Council (OPC); Scripps Institution of Oceanography; and the Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise (JALBTCX). The data coverage extends landward 500 m from the shoreline, along the entire California coastline. The LAS classifications are as follows: 1-Unclassified, 2-Ground, 7-Noise, 9-Water, 10- Mudflats, 12-Overlap. The LAS points were manually re-classified from water and unclassified to ground in offshore areas where necessary. Bathymetric LiDAR: The bathymetric lidar data used in this merged project was 2009-2010 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Center of Expertise (JALBTCX) lidar, provided by JALBTCX. The data were collected for the California Coastal Mapping Project (CCMP). The original data were in ASCII format and were converted to LAS v1.2. The LAS data were classified as follows: 21-Non-submerged Bathymetry, 22-Bathymetry, 23-Ignored Submerged Bathymetry/Overlap. Multibeam Acoustic Data: The acoustic data data used in this merged project were provided by the California Seafloor Mapping Program (CSMP) Ocean Protection Council and NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The original data were in ASCII format and were converted to LAS v1.2. NOAA's VDatum software was used to vertically transform soundings from mean lower low water (MLLW) tidal datum to NAVD88 orthometric datum where necessary. The LAS data were classified as follows: 25-Submerged Acoustic, 26-Ignored Submerged Acoustic/Overlap. Upon receipt of the data, the NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) converted some of the classifications for data storage and Digital Coast provisioning purposes. The following are the classifications of data available from the NOAA Digital Coast: 1 - Unclassified, 2 - Ground, 7 - Low point (noise), 9 - Water, 11 - Bathymetry, 12 - Overlap, 13 - Submerged Acoustic, 14 - Non-Submerged Bathymetry, 15 - Ignored Submerged Bathymetry/Overlap, 16 - Ignored Submerged Acoustic/Overlap

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This dataset contains counts of hearing request receipts in the months shown and objections to appearing at the hearing by video teleconferencing (VTC) known as “opt-outs”.

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NASA has an unmet need for clean, dust-free surfaces critical for many mission applications: solar panels and collectors, aircraft components, optical windows, photographic equipment, and flight suits. However, dust mitigation and removal remains a difficult task, particularly given the nature and morphology of space-born particulate materials and the strong bonds they can develop with any surface. Several mechanical techniques involving shaking and wiping have been devised to address this problem, but these are difficult to implement and expensive to maintain over mission life cycles. One successful innovation that has been developed and tested for dust removal is the "electrodynamic shield" or EDS. The EDS is composed of inter-digitated, electrically conductive electrodes connected to an AC power supply. The main parameters that govern the efficiency of dust removal are the voltage and the frequency of the AC signal applied to the electrodes. Poly Adaptive, LLC, proposes to investigate the novel application and use of nanoscale materials to address severe limitations of existing EDS designs caused by the metallic electrodes that reduce the amount of radiation reaching solar panels. Successful Phase I results will show the feasibility of an EDS that is transparent and can be placed on top of any surface.

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Chemical, physical, profile and laboratory analysis oceanographic data were collected aboard the OCEAN VERITAS in the Gulf of Mexico from 2010-09-11 to 2010-09-13 in response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill event on April 20, 2010, by the Subsurface Monitoring Unit (SMU), which consisted of multiple government and corporate agencies. These data include CDOM fluorescence, Semivolatile Organic Compounds, Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPH), Volatile Organic Compounds, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, hydrostatic pressure, salinity, sound velocity, temperature and water density. The instruments used to collect these data included CTD, bottle, fluorometer and oxygen meter along with other physical sampling devices. More specific information about each data set is located in their individual metadata records. This data set also contains products created for use in real time analysis and decision support. These products may include charts, graphs, maps, plots, and GIS formatted data files. The CTD data underwent preliminary quality assurance and control procedures at the National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC). The analytical chemistry data are provisional and provide results of onshore laboratory analysis of water and sediment samples. Cruise level information consisting of data management documents, cruise reports and plans, videos and pictures, and other miscellaneous documentation were gathered by the data managers. (NODC Accession 0069110)

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The U. S. Navy dedicated the decommissioned Spruance Class destroyer ex-PAUL F. FOSTER (EDD 964), Test Ship, primarily for at sea demonstration of short range weapon systems and other surface combat and weapon system projects. In addition to Combat & Weapons system Test & Evaluation, the Test Ship supports multiple types and all levels of engineering, testing and evaluation aspects of Naval systems including: Floating laboratory for design investigation, training, and logistics product proofing Distance support development Advanced technology demos Target Evaluation Hull, Mechanical, and electrical initiatives In-Service Engineering agent (ISEA) investigations The Test Ship provides the Navy with an at-sea weapons test and evaluation platform that can be manned when appropriate and, by design, has the unique capability of being operated in remote control to support live-fire test operations to fully evaluate the complete detect-control-engage sequence. Test Ship operations are conducted from facilities at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme (NSWC PHD) and Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division at Point Mugu within the Sea Test Range. The Test Ship implements radio frequency connectivity coupled with fiber optic technology to provide remote controlled combat system and ship navigation capabilities to support a variety of unmanned test events. This capability allows for the conduct of very close in engagements by self defense weapons systems of real-world targets. Targets can fly attack profiles in a realistic at sea environment without risk to personnel. The combat/weapon system and navigation control is performed from the Surface Warfare Engineering Facility (SWEF) at NSWC PHD.

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The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) publishes a composite FEB Network Strategic Plan, which includes the FEB Network vision and mission, as well as FEB Lines of Business objectives. A new plan is released every five years.