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This report summarizes the management of wooded areas on Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge formerly Walnut Creek National Wildlife Refuge between 1992 and 2009.

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This narrative report for Calhoun National Wildlife Refuge outlines Refuge accomplishments from September through December of 1949. The report begins by summarizing the weather conditions, water conditions, and food and cover during this period. Wildlife including migratory birds, furbearers, raptors, and fish is also covered. The Refuge development and maintenance section discusses plantings. The public relations section of the report describes recreational uses, Refuge visitors, hunting, fishing, and violations. NR forms are attached.

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This narrative report for Calhoun National Wildlife Refuge outlines Refuge accomplishments from January through April of 1948. The report begins by summarizing the weather conditions, water conditions, and food and cover during this period. Wildlife including migratory birds, furbearers, and raptors is also covered. The Refuge development and maintenance section discusses physical developments. The public relations section of the report describes Refuge visitors, Refuge participation, fishing, and violations. Items of interest, NR forms, and photographs are attached.

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This metadata is for the vegetation and land-use geo-spatial database for Grand Teton National Park and surrounding areas. This project is authorized as part of the USGS/NPS Vegetation Mapping Program. The program is being administered by the Biological Resources Division (BRD) of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in conjunction with the National Park Service (NPS) Inventory and Monitoring Program. The USGS/BRD is responsible for overall management and oversight of all ongoing mapping efforts. This mapping effort was performed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's (USBR) Remote Sensing and GIS Group, Technical Service Center, Denver, Colorado and NatureServe (formally The Nature Conservancy).

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This 1970 Annual Water Management Plan for the Stillwater Wildlife Management Area summarizes the water receipts, distribution, and marsh conditions attributed to water supply during 1969. From the use of cooperative snow survey data covering the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the current water supply outlook is presented, along with a plan of unit management for optimum use of the anticipated water supply. The water supply for 1970 is expected to be normal.

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This data summarizes the 1999 Christmas Bird Count for Port St. Joe, Florida.

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The objectives of this prescribed fire plan for Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge are to remove 6080 of cattailbulrush to open shoreline access and improve nesting opportunities for shorebirds and waterfowl. Three units are prioritized: Swan Check, West Nutgrass, and South Nutgrass.

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This plan outlines prescribed burns scheduled to take place on Park River NWR during the 1987 fiscal year.

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This 1972 Annual Water Management Program for the Stillwater Wildlife Management Area summarizes the water receipts, distribution, and marsh conditions attributed to water supply during 1971. From the use of cooperative snow survey data covering the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the current water supply outlook is presented, along with a plan of unit management for optimum use of the anticipated water supply. The water supply for 1972 is expected to be fair.

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This is the detailed version of the detailed Large Scale International Boundaries (LSIB) dataset. The boundary lines reflect all current US government policies on boundaries, boundary disputes, and sovereignty. There are no restrictions on use of this public domain data. This dataset will be updated as needed and is current as of July 7, 2015. This dataset is hosted on State GeoNode at http://geonode.state.gov/layers/geonode%3AEurasiaOceania_LSIB_Lines_Detailed_2015.

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This document contains revisions to the 1978 Parker River National Wildlife Refuge Hunt Management Plan. Refuge hunters must obtain a permit to use the hunting areas. Hunters must report their success or failure on sheets provided at hunter access points. Hunters will no longer be required to pass a qualification exam before receiving a permit except for participants in the Young Waterfowl Training Program.

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This dataset includes polygons that describe the geologic age of surface outcrops of bedrock of the Caribbean region (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States, Venezuela, and the Virgin Islands (named countries may not be completely shown on map)).

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The Parker River NWR Sign Plan explains how signs are used on the Refuge to help guide and educate visitors. An inventory of current signs is given as well as a list of sign needs. The following types of signs are discussed: entrance, information, guide, interpretive, boundary, regulatory, traffic control, building designation, safety, and trail markers.

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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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The 1994 Annual Parole Survey provides a count of the total number of persons supervised in the community on January 1 and December 31, 1994, and a count of the number entering and leaving supervision during the year. The survey also provides counts of th

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This is a shapefile and ARC/INFO point coverage of coal geochemistry in the Colorado Plateau. This GIS layer was created from the U.S. Geological Survey's USCHEM database for the Colorado Plateau coal assessment.

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This Floodplain Mapping Submission includes a revised flood hazard dataset. STARR restudied all flooding sources with greator than 1 sq. mi. drainage area and not previously studied in detail with new approximate studies and redelineated all of the effective detailed studies.

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Crop year 2014 US map at the county level shows drought-specific disaster designations across the country under USDA's amended rule.

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The STTR Phase I proposal aims to develop innovative device concepts and fabrication techniques that enable the construction of high-performance uncooled long-wave infrared (LWIR, 8-12?Ym) photodetectors. LWIR photodetectors are of great importance in real-time acquisition of radiation characteristics of the Earth and its environments for understanding and predicting the Earth's climate and potential hazards. Quantum dot infrared photodetector (QDIP) technology offers an excellent choice for LWIR sensing due to its superior performance, including high temporal resolution (<1 ?Ys) and low noise equivalent temperature difference (NETD <10mK). However, existing QDIP technology requires cryogenic cooling to reduce dark current, which substantially increases size, weight and power consumption. Because of this, the proposed research aims to develop innovative device concepts and fabrication techniques that can substantially reduce dark current, thus allow the construction of uncooled QDIPs. The uncooled QDIP technology enables high-performance LWIR detecting on a chip with significantly reduced payload. It is highly desired in many Earth science applications. The Phase I work will perform feasibility investigation of the proposed device concept, optimize quantum dots growth and annealing techniques and produce a preliminary design for a prototype system that can be built and demonstrated in Phase II with a NASA supplied platform.

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The Impact Evaluation of Race to the Top and School Improvement Grants (RTT-SIG Impact Evaluation) is a study that is part of the Impact Evaluation of Race to the Top and School Improvement Grants (RTT-SIG Impact Evaluation) program. RTT-SIG Impact Evaluation (http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/projects/evaluation/other_racetotop.asp) is a cross-sectional survey that assesses the implementation of the Race to the Top (RTT) and School Improvement Grant (SIG) programs at the State, local education agency (LEA), and school levels, as well as whether the receipt of RTT and/or SIG funding to implement a school turnaround model has had an impact on outcomes for the lowest-achieving schools. Additionally, the study investigates whether RTT reforms were related to improvements in student outcomes and whether implementation of the four school turnaround models, and the strategies within those models, was related to improvement in outcomes for the lowest-achieving schools. The study was conducted using a combination of telephone interviews and web-based surveys targeted to school administrators at the state, LEA, and school levels. Key statistics produced from RTT-SIG Impact Evaluation include State, LEA, and school adoption levels of policies and practices promoted by RTT and SIG, as well as impacts on student outcomes of RTT and SIG funding.

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Next generation air traffic management systems are expected use multiple software tools and quantitative methods for managing traffic flow in the National Airspace. NASA and other aerospace research centers are involved in developing advanced numerical algorithms for strategic traffic flow management. These algorithms can be invoked at fixed time intervals, or can be employed whenever adverse traffic flow conditions occur. In order to avoid spurious responses, the control algorithms should be used only when actual traffic flow problems are likely to arise, and not in response to normal flow variations. Queuing models describe the aggregate stochastic behavior of the national airspace, and can provide not only mean flow characteristics, but also the expected variations. This proposal advances the development of a queuing model-based methodology for triggering traffic flow management algorithms. The approach , based on the measured state of the national airspace system. The approach exploits recently-developed queuing models of the NAS, together with recent advances in estimation theory. Phase I research will demonstrate the feasibility of developing the traffic flow management triggering system using a simulation model of the national airspace system. Phase II research will integrate this methodology with NASA's traffic flow management algorithms, and assess the overall system performance n the ACES environment. Algorithms and software developed under the SBIR project will be delivered to NASA at the end of Phase II work.

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To support a long-term NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) for sustainable management and conservation of coral reef ecosystems, from 2010-02-17 to 2010-03-23, reef fish assessment surveys were conducted, as a part of Rapid Ecological Assessments (REA), during the Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (RAMP) Cruise HA1001 in the American Samoa region by the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) at the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC). During the cruise, 2 REA sites were surveyed at South Bank in the American Samoa region. At each REA site, fish biologists entered the water and conducted a fine-scale (~700 m^2) and high degree of taxonomic resolution REA survey to assess and monitor species diversity, size distribution, and abundance of fish in shallow-water hard-bottom (less than 30 m) habitats. Reef fish assessment surveys were focused on cataloging the diversity (species richness), abundance (numeric density) and biomass (fish mass per unit area) of diurnally active reef fish assemblages. The stationary point count (SPC) method was used to quantify reef fish species. Two divers lay out a 30 m transect line, and position themselves at the 7.5 and 22.5 meter marks. The SPC biologist then records estimated size and abundance of all fish within a visually estimated 15-m diameter cylinder centered on the stationary diver (7.5-m radius, total area ~ 177m^2 per cylinder). The diver first spends 5 minutes identifying all fish species in the cylindrical area, then proceeds to count and estimate size (total length) for each in a series of "instantaneous" point counts or sweeps of the cylinder. Fish were identified at the species level, wherever possible. All reef-associated fish, including those in the water column, were surveyed. The survey time for each stationary point count survey was approximately 20 min and generally four stationary point count surveys (two per diver) were conducted at each fish REA site. After completing REA surveys, divers noted the presence, at the survey site, of any unusual fish species not counted during SPC counts, in order to facilitate species lists per location.

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The word volcano is used to refer to the opening from which molten rock and gas issue from Earth's interior onto the surface, and also to the cone, hill, or mountain built up around the opening by the eruptive products. This slide set depicts ash clouds, fire fountains, lava flows, spatter cones, glowing avalanches, and steam eruptions from 18 volcanoes in 13 countries. Volcano types include strato, cinder cone, basaltic shield, complex, and island-forming. Perhaps no force of nature arouses more awe and wonder than that of a volcanic eruption. Volcanoes can be ruthless destroyers. Primitive people offered sacrifices to stem the tide of such eruptions and many of their legends were centered around volcanic activity. Volcanoes are also benefactors. Volcanic processes have liberated gases of the atmosphere and water in our lakes and oceans from the rocks deep beneath Earth's surface. The fertility of the soil is greatly enhanced by volcanic eruptive products. Land masses such as islands and large sections of continents may owe their existence entirely to volcanic activity. The "volcano" is used to refer to the opening from which molten rock and gas issue from Earth's interior onto the surface, and also to the cone, hill, or mountain built up around the opening by the eruptive products. The molten rock material generated within Earth that feeds volcanoes is called magma and the storage reservoir near the surface is called the magmachamber. Eruptive products include lava (fluid rock material) and pyroclastics or tephra (fragmentary solid or liquid rock material). Tephra includes volcanic ash, lapilli (fragments between 2 and 64 mm), blocks, and bombs. Low viscosity lava can spread great distances from the vent. Higher viscosity produces thicker lava flows that cover less area. Lava may formlava lakes of fluid rock in summit craters or in pit craters on the flanks of shield volcanoes. When the lava issues vertically from a central vent or a fissure in a rhythmic, jet-like eruption, it produces a lava fountain. Pyroclastic (fire-broken) rocks and rock fragments are products of explosive eruptions. These may be ejected more or less vertically, thenfall back to Earth in the form of ash fall deposits. Pyroclastic flows result when the eruptive fragments follow the contours of the volcano and surrounding terrain. They are of three main types: glowing ash clouds, ash flows, and mudflows. A glowing ash cloud (nuee ardente) consists of an avalanche of incandescent volcanic fragments suspended on a cushion of air or expanding volcanic gas. This cloud forms from the collapse of a vertical ash eruption, from a directed blast, or is the result of the disintegration of a lava dome. Temperatures in the glowing cloud can reach 1,000 deg C and velocities of 150 km per hour. Ash flows resemble glowing ash clouds; however, their temperatures are much lower. Mudflows (lahars) consist of solid volcanic rock fragments held in water suspension. Some may be hot, but most occur as cold flows. They may reach speeds of 92 km per hour and extend to distances of several tens of kilometers. Large snow-covered volcanoes that erupt explosively are the principal sources of mud flows. Explosions can give rise to air shock waves and base surges. Air shock waves are generated as a result of the explosive introduction of volcanic ejecta into the atmosphere. A base surge may carry air, water, and solid debris outward from the volcano at the base of the vertical explosion column. Volcanic structures can take many forms. A few of the smaller structures built directly around vents include cinder, spatter, and lava cones. Thick lavas may pile up over their vents to form lava domes. Larger structures produced by low viscosity lava flows include lava plains and gently sloping cones known as a shield volcanoes. A stratovolcano (also known as a composite volcano) is built of successive layers of ash and lava. A volcano may consist of two or more cones side by side and is referred to as compound or complex. Sometimes a violent eruption will partially empty the underground reservoir of magma. The roof of the magma chamber may thenpartially or totally collapse. The resulting caldera may be filled by water. The volcanic structure tells us much about the nature of the eruptions.

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Our 7,500-square-foot dynamometer facility offers wind industry engineers a unique opportunity to conduct lifetime endurance tests on a wide range of wind turbine drivetrains and gearboxes at various speeds.

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This report accompanies the spatial vegetationhabitat database produced for Camas National Wildlife Refuge NWR. The purpose of this report is to provide enough information so that the spatial vegetation database can be used with full knowledge of the quality of the data. The goal is to provide enough relevant information so that the methods could be followed with similar results. This project occurred over the time period from Spring 2011 to Fall 2012. It was funded through the USFWS Inventory and Monitoring Initiative, under Grant xxxx. The articulated goals of the project were to a provide a vegetation mapping pilot project in Region 1 with a focus on articulating lessons learned, b provide Camas NWR with a vegetation database that can be used for planning and refuge management, based upon methods with some rigor. This report will first provide background for the project, including background on past habitat mapping projects, and an articulation of refuge needs that drove the project. Second, field methods and subsequent vegetation classification and legend development will be discussed. Next, remote sensing methodology is discussed, followed by the validation and accuracy assessment AA field campaign. Finally, AA results will be evaluated, with an emphasis on understanding confusion between mapping classes. The appendices provide important information that accompany the use of the map. First, is a dichotomous key to the mapping classes of Camas NWR. Second, is an articulation of how ruderal classes are defined in the NVC. Third, are the National Vegetation Classificiation System NVCS full descriptions for NVCS Groups. Included in these descriptions are NVCHabitat relationships developed by Refuge Biologists. The fourth appendix provides more detail on the NVCS Alliances, a finer grain of detail in the NVCS.