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This map shows the potential current distribution of Gunnison's Prairie Dog, in the context of current and near-term terrestrial intactness and long-term potential for climate change and energy development.

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Quantitative coral disease assessments were conducted at 40 different U.S. Pacific coral islands, banks, and atolls, spanning more than 5000 km apart and over a 40 latitudinal gradient Distribution and abundance of disease were determined based on 2, 25m belt transects 26 wide at 326 sites, and ten broad diseases were identified, affecting 25 scleractinian genera. Pacificwide, the most geographically and taxonomically widespread diseases were bleaching and skeletal growth anomalies, detected at 65 islandsatolls and on 19 and 11 genera, respectively. Band diseases black band and banded fungal disease were rare 0.1 prevalence, with only two cases enumerated on Porites and Coscinaraea. Although Pacificwide mean prevalence was low, sitespecific hotspots occurred at Johnston, Kure, and Rose Atolls, French Frigate Shoals, and Guam. Prevalence patterns also varied among coral taxa, with only a few families being disproportionately affected by disease: Poritidae, Acroporidae, and Faviidae. Of potential concern is the presence of white syndrome at Johnston Atoll and French Frigate Shoals which can result in severe and rapid tissue loss, particularly on the tabular Acropora cytherea.

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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is producing detailed geologic maps of the coastal sea floor. Bathymetric and sidescan-sonar data, originally collected by NOAA for charting purposes, provide a fundamental framework for research and management activities along this part of Block Island Sound, show the composition and terrain of the seabed, and provide information on sediment transport and benthic habitat. During June 2012, bottom photographs and surficial sediment data were acquired as part of a ground-truth reconnaissance survey of this area. Interpretations were derived from the multibeam-echosounder, sidescan-sonar, sedimentary, and photographic data collected in Block Island Sound. For more information on the ground-truth survey see .

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The Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise (JALBTCX) has performed a coastal survey along the Gulf of Mexico coastline of MS in 2005 after landfall of Hurricane Katrina. The data types collected include bathymetry and topographic lidar point data, and true color imagery. The collection effort follows the coastline and extends 500m inland and 1000m offshore or to laser extinction, whichever comes first. Topographic lidar is collected with 200% coverage, yielding a nominal 1m x 1m post-spacing. Where water conditions permit, the bathymetry lidar data will have a nominal post spacing of 4m x 4m. The true color imagery will have a pixel size approximately 35cm. The final data will be tied to horizontal positions, provided in decimal degrees of latitude and longitude, and are referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83). Vertical positions are referenced to the NAD83 ellipsoid and provided in meters. The National Geodetic Survey's (NGS) GEOID03 model is used to transform the vertical positions from ellipsoid to orthometric heights referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88).

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Reduced mass composite materials are crucial to the success of aerospace systems, but are inhibited by expensive autoclave consolidation, especially for large parts. To remedy this, NASA-LaRC has been developing cost-effective high-performance thermoplastic composite materials for years. NASA materials could dramatically reduce the cost of large aerospace structures, because those materials avoid the autoclave. However, NASA lacks a robust, cost-effective fabrication process to tow-place these emerging materials into laminates, and thus can?t evaluate their usefulness to industry. This program develops for NASA-LaRC the processing equipment that allows material evaluation and allows out-of-autoclave fiber placement. In particular, this program will deliver a heated in situ deposition head to fit on NASA-LaRCs placement machine. Heads can also be sold to industrial companies for existing placement machines so that aerospace composites can be fabricated out of the autoclave. In phase I, the deposition head will be designed and reviewed with NASA. The process window requirements for the placement head for NASA materials will be verified. In phase II, we will complete the design, fabricate, install, and prove-out the head equipment. We then start up the deposition head at NASA so that the emerging NASA-LaRC materials can be proven in laminates.

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These data are derived from a point shapefile created nightly from data in the Utah Division of Water Rights Database. The source data were acquired on October 26, 2005.

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Abundance data represent estimates of percent cover of species type (coral or algal) in 10 randomly placed quadrats along two 50 meter transect lines of each site. Data are available for 10 sites from Oahu to the Island of Hawaii taken in 2001 in support of the Macroalgal Ecology and Taxonomic Assessment (TEAM) Project. The species for abundance estimates include 11 corals, 5 invertebrates, 33 algals, and 2 benthic types (turf or sand). The role that marine algae play in a coral reef system is often overlooked because of lack of knowledge that they are the primary producers in the system. The coral reef ecosystem in Hawaii contains about ten times more algal species than coral species, some of them regulating space that permits coral recruitment. The primary purpose of the TEAM research program is to provide taxonomic and ecological algal expertise for the Coral Reef Monitoring and Assessment Program (CRAMP). Our group also seeks to develop, implement and assess new methodologies for quantitatively surveying benthic algal communities in the Hawaiian Islands.

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The Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) LAS dataset is a survey of select areas within Southwest Florida. These data were produced for the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD). Two SWFWMD datasets are included in this metadata record; they are Peace River South and Carter Creek. The Carter Creek portion of this data is a small data set in the northwestern part of Highlands County, which has been appended to the larger data set of Peace River South for ease of use within the NOAA Coastal Services Center (CSC) Lidar Data Retrieval Tool (LDART). Information that is specific to each data set has been maintained. PEACE RIVER SOUTH The Peace River South LiDAR (P692)Survey project area consists of approximately 1,801 square miles and covers Hardee and DeSoto Counties and portions of Highlands and Charlotte Counties. The LiDAR point cloud was flown at a density sufficient to support a maximum final post spacing of 6 feet for unobscured areas. 3001 inc. acquired 445 flightlines between February 11, 2005 and April 14, 2005. The data was divided into 5000' by 5000' foot cells that serve as the tiling scheme. The Peace River South LiDAR Survey was collected under the guidance of a Professional Mapper/Surveyor. CARTER CREEK The Carter Creek LiDAR Survey project area consists of approximately 26 square miles and is located in northwestern Highlands County. The LiDAR point cloud was flown at a density sufficient to support a maximum final post spacing of 4 feet for unobscured areas. 3001 Inc. acquired 60 flightlines between February 6, 2006 and February 7, 2006. The data was divided into 5000' by 5000' foot cells that serve as the tiling scheme. The Carter Creek LiDAR Survey was collected under the guidance of a Professional Mapper/Surveyor.

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This dataset consists of contours showing generalized lines of equal regolith (unconsolidated sediment) thickness overlying bedrock in the Lost Creek Designated Ground Water Basin, Weld, Adams, and Arapahoe Counties, Colorado. Regolith thickness was contoured manually on the basis of information provided in the dataset ds507_regolith_data. The U.S. Geological Survey prepared this dataset in cooperation with the Colorado Geological Survey and the Lost Creek Ground Water Management District.

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This leaflet lists all bird species that could have been observed on Tetlin NWR during 1990.

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The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, has produced detailed geologic maps of the sea floor in Long Island Sound, a major East Coast estuary surrounded by the most densely populated region of the United States. These studies have built upon cooperative research with the State of Connecticut that was initiated in 1982. The current phase of this research program is directed toward studies of sea-floor sediment distribution, processes that control sediment distribution, nearshore environmental concerns, and the relation of benthic community structures to the sea-floor geology. Acoustic data collected during hydrographic surveys provide valuable base maps for marine geological interpretations. These maps help define the geological variability of the seafloor (one of the primary controls of benthic habitat diversity); improve our understanding of the processes that control the distribution and transport of bottom sediments, and the distribution of benthic habitats and associated infaunal community structures; and provide a detailed framework for future research, monitoring, and management activities. This shapefile represents the interpretation of modern processes and features found on the bathymetric data set of study area H11250, The Race. Sharing of multibeam bathymetric data (NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson, October 2003 survey H11250) between NOAA's Atlantic Hydrographic Branch and the State of Connecticut/USGS Geologic Mapping Cooperative has yielded a new geologic perspective on approximately 93.75 km2 of the sea floor in the vicinity of The Race, an area where the Orient Point-Fishers Island segment of the Harbor Hill-Roanoke Point-Orient Point-Fishers Island-Charlestown Moraine marks the dividing line between easternmost Long Island Sound and northwestern Block Island Sound. The detailed bathymetry collected by NOAA has been examined in relation to seismic data collected concurrently, as well as archive data collected as part of a long-standing geologic mapping partnership between the State of Connecticut and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). These new data reveal previously unknown details of the physical character of the sea floor such as bedforms, moraines, and ship wrecks. These features have been mapped as interpretive GIS data layers that can be used in conjunction with the multibeam grid H11250G or related shaded relief graphics (h11250gcolhs.tif).

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A prognostic system needs to separate nominal component behavior from the faulty ones even in the cases when those behaviors are similar. Advanced pattern recognition techniques are required to separate nominal and faulty input-output component data vectors in a complex high-dimensional space. We propose to develop the Multi-agent Prognostic Health and Usage Monitoring (Multi-PHUM) and test it in a subsection of an aerospace vehicle. MULTI-PHUM is hierarchical with the lower levels performing ordinary diagnostics and prognostics using graph-based fault diagnosis technique to place alarms on safety-critical components and handle situations with multiple faults. At the intermediate level of hierarchy, MULTI-PHUM uses neural network techniques such as the Extended Auto Associative Neural Networks (E-AANN) to detect the faults not detected by lower level graph-based method. Yet at a higher level of hierarchy, MULTI-PHUM performs advanced rule-based pattern recognition for abnormalities in the system not detected by lower levels. The essence of MULTI-PHUM is based on the latest tools in the information age and hence has a strong commercial potential for the management of other systems that have to economically maintain healthy fleets such as airline systems with many aircrafts or future swarms of UAVs.

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The dataset consists of closed compliance investigations, conducted by the OFCCP, since FY 2004. This data provides information on the OFCCP's efforts to enforce the EEO-mandated laws and regulations within the Federal Contractor Community (those companies which have been provided government contracts).

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The Former Prisoner of War (POW) Statistical Tracking System database is a registry designed to comply with Public Law 97-37, the Former Prisoner of War Benefits Act of 1981. This database contains information about the Medical Evaluation Program for ex-POWs at VA facilities. The program provides a complete medical and psychiatric evaluation of ex-POWs. Only ex-POWs who volunteer to participate in the program are included in this registry. Health examinations are given to ex-POWs at VA facilities. The findings are then recorded on a special coding sheet, VA Form 10-0048a. Quarterly, these code sheets are sent to the Austin Information Technology Center, where they are manually keyed into the database. The main users of this registry are: * The Advisory Committee on Former Prisoners of War * Congress * National Academy of Sciences * Researchers * The National Center for Veteran Analysis and Statistics.

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) have embarked upon a collaborative effort to produce an online tool to allow for the open dissemination of Acropora-related datasets. An ArcGIS geodatabase has been built with the purpose of effective and accurate depiction of benthic data related to Acropora palmataand A. cervicornis. The geodatabase has been populated with significant multi-agency data from federal, state, university and non-government organizations. These agencies include NOAA, National Park Service, FWC, University of Miami, Univeristy of North Carolina - Wilmington, National Coral Reef Institute and The Nature Conservancy. All datasets include Acropora presence/absence and latitudinal /longitudinal coordinates at the minimum. This project was funded by award NA1ONMF4720029 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Marine Fisheries Service, U.S. Department of Commerce.

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Section 4558 (b) of the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) requires CMS to develop and implement by January 1, 2000, a method to measure and report the quality of renal dialysis services provided under the Medicare program. To implement this legislation, CMS decided to fund the development of CPMs based on the National Kidney Foundations Dialysis Outcome Quality Initiative (DOQI) Clinical Practice Guidelines.

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The data being displayed are census tract level counts of NSP-funded activities and is derived from an extract of HUD's Community Planning and Development’s (CPD) Disaster Recovery Grants Reporting (DRGR) System. Each observation in the raw DRGR extract is an address at which an NSP activity took place. If multiple activities took place at one address, that address would be in the database multiple times and may over-count NSP activity. This situation is likely if a grantee reports the same property under an “acquisition” activity and a “rehab” activity. The data will also over-count NSP activity if grantees enter an activity at a single address in multiple quarterly performance reports. Conversely, if multiple units were assisted at a single address, that address may under-represent NSP activity. This situation is likely if a grantee reports a single address that actually represents a group of properties or a property with multiple units. The observations were reported by grantees as completed through March 31, 2011. A ”completed” activity has met its national objective; for NSP-funded units this frequently means it has been occupied by a low or moderate income household. Only addresses that were geocoded to a high level of accuracy were included.

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The National Research Council (NRC) has identified the need for motors and actuators that can operate in extreme temperature environments as a technical gap to exploring deeper into our solar systems. Bear Technologies has been exploring motor design for more than 5 years. A number of designs are blended to create the basis of the proposed innovation. The research focuses on a fundamentally different motor design that explores the use of flexures to amplify the forces created by the electro-magnets. In this way, the design can be much simplified, eliminates wear, free play and the need for lubricants. Bear will focus on investigating low stress flexure designs and relatively high force electro-magnetic drives that can produce the forces needed for a high torque motor. If proven this flexure component will be an enabling technology for the extreme environment high torque motor.

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A report generated by Commerce and submitted to Congress every 180 days pursuant to the Softwood Lumber Act of 2008, detailing any subsidies, including stumpage subsidies, provided by countries exporting softwood lumber or softwood lumber products to the United States.

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The ETDMS project is intended to coordinate with the Data Access the Life Cycle initiative to provide VDB users with an Enterprise Test Data Management System capable of meeting a full array of user needs for system testing.

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These data identify, in general, the areas where final critical habitat occurs for 83 listed plant species known historically from the island of Kauai. A total of approximately 21,266 hectares (ha) (52,549 acres (ac)) of land on the island of Kauai and 144 ha (357 ac) of land on the island of Niihau fall within the boundaries of the 217 critical habitat units designated for the 83 species. This critical habitat designation requires the Service to consult under section 7 of the Act with regard to actions carried out, funded, or authorized by a Federal agency. Section 4 of the Act requires us to consider economic and other relevant impacts when specifying any particular area as critical habitat. This rule also determines that designating critical habitat would not be prudent for seven species. We solicited data and comments from the public on all aspects of the proposed rule, including data on economic and other impacts of the designation

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This database designed to record the captured data and produce reports on shipments under purview of the Cargo Preference Laws of the United States. It allows DOT/MARAD to monitor international shipping for the cargo under Cargo Preference.

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Federally designated critical habitat for the Everglades Snail Kite

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Total annual electricity generation by country, 1980 to 2009 (available in billion kilowatthours ). Compiled by Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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Imports and exports of petroleum products and crude oil. Weekly, monthly, and annual data available. Users of the EIA API are required to obtain an API Key via this registration form: http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/register.cfm