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# Presentation: 144682

## Baltimore’s CSX Train Derailment:the AQI’s role in Emergency Response

**U.S. EPA National Air Quality Conference**
**February 6, 2002**
**Randy E. Mosier**
**Maryland Department of the Environment**

## July 18, 2001

**CSX Train has brake actuation at around 3:10 PM**
**First 9-1-1 calls at around 4:00 PM**
**Train accident reported in the Howard Street Tunnel**

## Baltimore &Howard Street

## Mt. Royal Station

**North End of Tunnel**
**Initial Incident Command Post**
**Residential and Commercial Area**

## Camden Yards

**South End of Tunnel**
**Main Incident Command Post**

## Initial Priorities

**Assess the train and contents**
**Attack the fire**
**Protect the community**

## The Train

**3 locomotives, 60 freight cars**
**Total length 4,001 feet**
**Total weight 4,547 tons**
**Mixed load:  pulpboard, woodpulp, brick, soyoil, paper, plywood, steel**
**9 HAZMAT Cars**

## The Cargo

**3 Locomotives**
**60 Rail Cars**
- 31 loaded
- 29 empty
- 11 cars derailed
- 4 derailed with hazardous materials
- Tank car of tripropylene burned
- 9 cars with paper and wood also caught fire

**Propylene glycol**
**Glacial acetic acid**

**Fluorosilicic acid**

**Tripropylene**
**Hydrochloric acid**
**Ethyl hexyl**
**phthalate**

**Rolled Paper**

**Pulpboard**

## Source of the Problem

## Fighting Fire/Pumping Acid

## Getting to the Fire

**First attempts at entry were on the north end**
**Too much heat, smoke and distance**
**Dual attack from south end and manhole proved successful**

## Acid Transfer

**Acid removal delayed by tunnel temperatures**
**Vacuum truck pumps hydrochloric acid from damaged rail car**
**Firefighters apply water spray for vapor suppression**
**Small amount of acid leaked**
**Partially neutralized by limestone**
**Diluted by water main break and fire suppression**

## Next Steps

**Remove cars from both ends**
**Extinguish burning cars**
**Fire burned for several days**
**Secure HAZMAT cars**

## Would you Believe...

## City Impact

**Major sections of downtown closed**
**Orioles games re-scheduled**
**Businesses impacted**
**Portions of Howard Street closed for 7 weeks**

## City Impact

## Community Challenges

**Smoke and soot concerns**
**Airborne Toxics**
**Inner Harbor Water Quality Concerns**
**Heightened HAZMAT Awareness**
**Lost Business**
**Subsequent Event**

## Air Monitoring

**Air monitored in tunnel vicinity, Howard Street and some nearby structures (residential, schools)**
**Air monitored for CO, HCL vapor, total VOCs, combustible gases, pH**
**Continued long after the fire was out**
**No indications of hazardous materials releases**
**Joint federal, state, CSX effort**

## Public Information Challenges

**Incorporation with existing AQI **
**Use of Civil Defense Sirens**
**Many voices, one message**
**Effective spokespeople**

## Thank you for your attention!

**Randy E. Mosier**
**Maryland Department of the Environment****(410) 631-4488****rmosier@mde.state.md.us**
# Presentation: 889771

## What is the best plan?

- Peter Cramton(with Larry Ausubel and Paul Milgrom)
- November 2003

## Clock-Proxy Auction

- Clock phase for price discovery
- FCC states prices; bidders state quantities
- Prices ascend according to excess demand
- Stops when no excess demand on any product
- Final proxy round for adjustments
- Final fitting of demands with complements
- No demand reduction with large buyers

## Advantages of Clock-Proxy Auction

- Clock
- Take linear prices as far as they will go
- Simplicity and flexibility for bidders and FCC
- Expand substitution possibilities
- Minimize scope for collusion
- No exposure problem; no threshold problem
- Proxy
- Core outcome
- Efficiency
- Substantial seller revenues

## Concrete Example

- 90 MHz of 3G Spectrum
- 1710-1755, 2110-2155

## Current approach:FCC sets band plan

| Block | A | B | C | D | E |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MHz | 20 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Licenses | 176 | 6 | 6 | 734 | 6 |

- All frequency paired

## Band plan fits best guess of what industry wants

| Block | A | B | C | D | E |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MHz | 20 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Licenses | 176 | 6 | 6 | 734 | 6 |
| Winner | Cingular | AT&T | T-Mobile | Sprint | Verizon |

- Sources of competition eliminated
- Unpaired or other different approaches
- Size of blocks

## Clock-proxy approach addsflexibility and simplicity

- 36 blocks of 2.5 MHz in each of 734 markets
- Bidders indicate number of blocks (paired/unpaired):
- Nationwide (1)
- Regional economic area group (6)
- Economic area (176)
- Cellular market area (734)
- Specific bands determined at end of auction to maximize fit (contiguous spectrum across frequency and geography)
- Note: need price adjustment model

## Clock-Proxy Auction

- Simplicity (this can done!)
- Good starting point for two-sided auction
# Presentation: 677117

## Design Tool forInflatable Structures

-   Developed improvements to an existing finite element code 		capable of treating large deflections of inflatable antennas having 	non-linear properties
-   Improved software capable of predicting responses caused by 		static, thermal and dynamic loading
-   Improved software is interfaced with RF antennas and ray tracer 	codes
**                              ****COMMERCIALIZATION**
-   Design of inflatable antennas for future NASA and commercial 		satellites
-   Inflatable antennas offer reduced cost and stowed volume         		(both by an order of magnitude)
-   Design of inflatable structures including blimps, balloons, 		inflatable space sunshades

***L’GARDE, INC.******TUSTIN, CA***

**S****mall**
**B****usiness**
**I****nnovation **
**R****esearch**

**      ****GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
-   Received $10M funding for NASA IN-STEP flight 			demonstration of inflatable space antenna technology
-   Design of inflatable structures for future space missions - 	large aperture RF antenna, SAR mapping, power 			antenna, inflatable solar arrays, telescope sunshades, 		deployable booms, and others

-  1992 Phase 2; SS-126; 8/18/96

- Jet Propulsion Laboratory

**Design Tool for****Inflatable Structures**

***Inflatable Antenna Experiment***
# Presentation: 143741

## LHC Injection in 07“Summer MD-Planning”

- Milorad Popovic

## Outlook

- General Remarks, Visits
- Heiko Damerau before PAC07
- Elias Metral, Massimo Govannozzi after PAC07
- Linac Debuncher Phase?
- PSBooster
- PS
- SuperPS
- Linac-Space Charge
- LHC@FNAL

## From e-mail-Damerau

-  ......I also wanted to come back to you with respect to the longitudinal blow-up in the CPS. The ESME simulations of the AD beam are quite close to reality now. I use a Mathematica script which generates a long ESME input file so that the modulation is generated as it should in the simulations. Apparently there are two ingredients to get them close to the measurements: space charge and a blow-up voltage that might be some 25% larger than what we think (in fact, the operational shunt impedance of the 200 MHz cavities, including amplifier, short circuit transmission lines, damping, etc. are not well known).
-  .....The spread from the linac has not yet been tried.

## Longitudinal Emittance Blow-up   in the PS 

- 08 December 2006

- H. Damerau
- Acknowledgments:
**W. H****ö****fle, T. Linnecar, A. Marmillon, M. Morvillo,                           M. Popovic (FNAL), E. Shaposhnikova, J. T****ückmantel, ****J.-L. Vallet**

**Accelerator Performance Committee**

## Outlook

**Three longitudinal blow-up options in the order of priority:**
**1.****	****Optimize the blow-up**** with 200 MHz system to operate with ****three cavities**** only ****→ ****AD first, then other beams**
**2.****	****Explore the performance**** of the blow-up with an ****80 MHz**** cavity ****→ Further MDs in 2007**
**3.****	****Find “good noise” (well adapted modulation signal) for the blow-up using phase modulation of the main RF system**
**Blow-ups in 2007 (assuming larger voltage per cavity): **
**Try low-energy blow-up with ****three RF cavities**
**Keep one 200 MHz cavity as a hot spare**
**Keep remaining two (not renovated) cavities untouched**
**•****	****If successful ****→ Two cavities to be removed 2007/2008**

**Outlook**

## From Gianluigi, e-mail

- Did you find some time to discuss woth you r colleagues in Fermilab about the possibility of contributing to the simulation of the space charge issues in the PSBooster for an H- injection at 160 MeV (LINAC4)?
- By the way: we made some progress in the understanding of the instability of the LHC beam in the PS: we have found that one of the 40 MHz cavities used for this beam was indeed delivering a voltage different form the expected and it was therefore generating shorter bunches. In that case the LHC beam is getting unstable under the influence of electron cloud.
- We are still analyzing the data but I'll keep you ineformed of the progress.
- Many thanks for your help during your stay at CERN Cheers Gianluigi

## LHC @FNAL
# Presentation: 422164

## Panel Session

**Center Plans for Lab Interaction &**
**Predictive Science Education**

**Panel Members:**
**Caltech - *****Michael Ortiz***
**Michigan - *****James Holloway***
**Purdue – *****Jayathi Murthi***
**Stanford - *****Parviz Moin***
**Texas – *****Tinsley Oden***

## Lab Interaction & Predictive Science Education

***Charge to the Panel:***
- Share and discuss ***ideas*** for how Centers can
- Stimulate interactions with the NNSA Labs, and
- Improve Predictive Science education at their schools.
- This session is intended to elicit ideas that ***derive from*** PSAAP contracts, but that ***go beyond*** what is required by those contracts.
- For example. ***Lab interactions*** might be promoted by
- sabbaticals, workshops, NNSA Lab membership on thesis committees.
- For ***Predictive Science education***, the Center might take the lead in
- new coursework, new curricula, interdepartmental programs, degree options in areas of Predictive Science.
# Presentation: 034356

## DEBT MANAGEMENT PROGRESS

USDA Financial Management
Training

- USDA Financial Management
- Training

## DEBT PORTFOLIO

- $101 billion in direct loan and administrative debt
- $30 billion in credit guarantees
- 32% of the debt owed the Federal Government
- $6.6 billion delinquent debt

## ACCOMPLISHMENTS

- In FY 2003, $1.1 billion of delinquent debt was collected
- $342 million was by Treasury Offset Program (TOP) and other Debt Collection Improvement Act (DCIA) techniques
- 441% increase in DCIA tools collection since 1996
- 98% of $1.7 billion eligible delinquent debt was referred to TOP
- 97% of the eligible delinquent debt was referred to the Treasury Cross Servicing Program

## INITIATIVES

- Automated administrative referrals for TOP, Cross Servicing, and Credit Bureaus
- Debt Check using TOP database for barring delinquent debtors
- Proposed Rule for 7 CFR, Part 3, Debt Management
- Adopt Administrative Wage Garnishment hearing procedures
- Update Debt Management regulations

## DCIA ANNUAL REPORT (1/4)

- General Accounting Office (GAO) Report (GAO-04-47) Debt Collection:  Opportunities Exist for Improving FMS’s Cross-Serving Program.   The report recommended that OMB:
- 	-	 remind agencies to comply with write-off and close-out standards and policies
- 	-  establish a new reporting requirement in which agencies report on internal policies

## DCIA ANNUAL REPORT (2/4)

- Description of agency internal policy on compromising, writing-down, forgiving, or discharging debt
- Statement on consistency of implementation among programs
- Description of deficiencies in policies relating to OMB Circular A-129 and the Federal Claims Collection Standards

## DCIA ANNUAL REPORT (3/4)

- Status of agencies’ reporting of eligible discharged/close-out debt, to the Internal Revenue Service  (IRS) on Form 1099-C
- Description of 1099-C deficiencies
- Description of corrective actions taken or to be taken with a timeline for completion

## DCIA ANNUAL REPORT (4/4)

- First USDA DCIA Annual Report is due to OMB by June 30, 2004
- Subsequent DCIA Annual Reports are due to OMB by December 31 annually
- For calendar year 2004, two submissions are due to OMB, June 30 and December 31

## CONTACTS

- Dale Theurer, (202) 720-1167
-  	Dale.Theurer@usda.gov
- Joyce Baumgartner, (202) 720-9984
- 	Joyce.Baumgartner@usda.gov
# Presentation: 411372

## Resolving Data Issues

- Lesson 3

## Objectives

- Use FAA Access Corrections Web application to correct or verify data
- Understand and use standalone FAA signature feature
- Identify ISIR issues that may need to be resolved outside of FAA Access

## What do you regularly use to submit corrections to applications?

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## FAA Access - Corrections

## Corrections on the Web

- Confirm data and make corrections
- Save partially completed corrections with password
- Retrieve partially completed corrections with password
- Calculate EFC
- Submit corrections
- Receive confirmations

## FAA Access - Corrections Demo

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## Standalone FAA Signature Feature

- Alerts FAA to needed signature(s)
- Enables FAA to:
- Print signature page and collect signatures
- Select signatures to be applied (Student, Parent, Both)
- Submit electronic signature on behalf of student/parent
- Print resulting confirmation page
- FAA must have a signed signature page before using feature

## Signature Status

***Signature Status***

## Select Signatures

***Select Signatures***

## Signature Confirmation

## Resolving Issues Outside FAA Access

- Groups of issues to be resolved:
- Citizenship
- NSLDS
- Selective Service or Veteran Status
- SSN
- Other
- Resources for how to resolve issues:
- Dear Colleague Letters, Electronic Announcements and Federal Regulations
- FSA Handbook
- ISIR Guide
- SAR Comment Codes and Text

## Activity

- Individual ActivityParticipant Workbook pages 3-8 to 3-9

## Ron Mundo - Debrief

- Issue:
- Ron’s application is missing the parent’s signature
- Ron has signature page with mother’s signature
- Resolution by FAA:
- FAA can use standalone FAA signature feature to submit electronic signature on Ron’s parent’s behalf
- FAA would keep a copy of the signed signature page for school records
- FAA would also print a copy of the confirmation page for school records

## Alison Mayfair - Debrief

- Possible cause for ‘C’ code:
- NSLDS reports loan discharged
- Resolution by FAA
- Review FSA Handbook for dealing with discharged loan

## Shawn Guido - Debrief

- Issues
- Same NSLDS issues as Alison
- Need parent’s and Shawn’s information from tax returns
- NSLDS reports aggregate amounts approaching or equaling loan limits
- Citizenship status not confirmed
- Resolutions by FAA
- Resolve NSLDS issue same as Alison
- Review documentation or help Shawn correct citizenship questions
- Help Shawn correct application with tax return info
- Review NSLDS online to verify aggregate amounts
# Presentation: 843684

## Decision-

**1****Fiona Horsfall and ****2****Harvey Hill **
**1****NOAA/NWS/OCWWS/Climate Services Division; ****2****NOAA/OAR/Office of Global Programs**

**Managed by NOAA Climate Office**
**	*****Program manager***
***	******Cross line office Advisory Panel appointed by NCO Climate Board***
***	******Priorities set by Climate Board in response to recommendations from  regions***
***	******NCO Director is approving official***
**Letter of Intent in response to Request for Proposal**
**Submission of Proposal**
**Review**
***	******Scaled recommendations of merit reviewers***
***	******Funding allocations***
***	******Recommendations of Advisory Panel***
***	******Benefits to regional/local climate-sensitive decisionmaking processes***

**	****The NOAA Climate Transition Program (NCTP) is a proposal-driven program that builds a**** ****deliberate bridge**** ****from research to applications**** ****for expanding regional and local climate services.  It provides a mechanism for:**** **
** ****supporting research that addresses user needs and requirements**** **
** ****transitioning the research to operations **
** ****providing education and outreach capacity for new products**

**Corresponding Author:  Fiona Horsfall, NOAA/National Weather Service/Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services, W/OS4, 1325 East-West Highway, SSMC-II Room 13352, Silver Spring, MD, 20910; email: Fiona.Horsfall@noaa.gov**

**NCTP represents a new way of doing business essential for delivery of climate services**
** ****Advances scientific research**
** ****Supports interactive learning**
** ****Increases scientific capacity**
** ****Develops infrastructure**
** ****Adapts as demand for climate services increases**
** ****Responds to user/decisionmaker requirements**
** ****Results in products that have value to regional/local climate-sensitive ****	****decisionmaking processes**
** ****Open to all**

**Criteria for Proposals**
** ****Clearly defined roles****	**
**	****Research **
**	****Operations **
**	****Decisionmaker**
**	****Extension****	**
** ****Defined **_**participant contributions**_
** ****Formal agreement**** ****between participants**
** ****Statement of**** **_**duration and timeline**_
** ****Benefit analysis**** ****(socio-economic and other quantitative analyses, ecosystem    ****	****benefits, etc.)**
** ****Address**** **_**post audit**_** ****(validation, verification, refinement,**** ****maintenance****)**
** ****Expected**** **_**outcome clearly defined**_

**NCTP Unit Model**

**Decision-**
**makers**

**Research**

**Operations**

**Extension**
# Presentation: 686141

## NPF Washington, DC 2007

## NPF Washington, DC  2007

**Washington Convention Center**
**801 Mount Vernon Place, NW**
**Washington, DC  20001**

## NPF Washington, DC 2007 

**    ****Exhibit Hall – Goal 495 booth**
**    ****534 Booths – 183 Companies   **
**	****	**

**Planning Progress**

| 
Site
 | 
 Days | 
Paid | 
Total |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DC 
Fall 07 | 38 | 1,681 | 3,212 |
| Orlando
Spring 06 | 36 | 1,575 | 2,870 |
| Nashville
Spring 05 | 36 |   958 | 1,679 |
| DC
Fall 04 | 37 | 1,308 | 2,198 |

**   ****Goal: 2,500 Paid/**** ****6,375 Attendees**

## NPF Washington, DC 2007

**150+ Workshops**
**Majority New**
**13 Business Tracks**
**Address Quality Excellence**
**Intelligent Mail and Seamless Acceptance**
**13 Certificate Programs**
**Quality Processes Professional**
**Technology Innovations Professional**
**Government Mailers Professional  ****	**

**Program Content**

***NEW!***

***NEW!***

## NPF Washington, DC 2007

**6 Special Sessions**
**The New Law:  Implications and Opportunities**
**Implementing Intelligent Mail to Drive Business Results**
**Pricing Change Insights**
**Technology in the Postal Service**
**Global Business Strategies**
**Postal Inspection Service**

**Program Content**

## NPF Washington, DC  2007 

**Direct Marketing **
**Smart Addressing for Tomorrow**
**Package Day**

**Symposiums**

## NPF Washington, DC 2007 Exhibit Hall

**Exclusive Hours**
**Monday and Tuesday  9 – 10 am**
**Wednesday  9 – 12 noon**
**Daily Raffles Including Ford Fusion**
**Industry Pavilion**
**Daily Theme at USPS Booth**

## NPF Washington, DC 2007PCC Leadership Conference

**Elevated Educational Offerings**
**Better Communication**
**New Monthly Newsletter:  *****PCC Insider***
**Improved Website**
**Rewritten Publication 286**
**Improved Leadership Awards**
**New Area Awards**
**Active PCC Advisory Committee**

## NPF Washington, DC 2007

_**Sunday**_
**NPF Welcoming Reception – 5 – 7 pm**
_**Monday**_
**Opening Session – 8 – 9 am**
**Awards Lunch – 12:15 – 1:45 pm**
**Area Receptions  – 5:45 – 7:30 pm**
_**Tuesday**_
**General Session – 8 – 9 am**
**PCC Reception – 8 – 11 pm**
_**Wednesday **_
**General Lunch – 12:30 – 2:00 pm**
**Closing Event – Air and Space Museum – 7 – 11 pm**

**Events Schedule**
# Presentation: 493992

## Formal Approaches 

**to Swarm Technologies**
- Executive Briefing

*Christopher Rouff, Amy Vanderbilt - SAIC*
*Walt **Truszkowski, James Rash -  **NASA GSFC, Code 588*
*Mike Hinchey - NASA GSFC, Code 581*

- SAS 2004

## Problem

- Future space missions will require cooperation between multiple satellites/rovers
- Developers are proposing intelligent, autonomous swarms to do new science
- Swarm-based systems are highly parallel and nondeterministic
- Testing these systems using current techniques will be difficult to impossible

## ANTS Mission

## ANTS MISSION

## Difficulty of Testing Swarms

-  Emergent properties that may not be known
-  Highly distributed and parallel
-  Large number of interacting entities
-  Worse than exponential growth in interactions
-  Intelligent entities (capabilities increase over time)
-  Total or near total autonomy
-  Very little experience in verification and validation of swarm-based systems

## Relevance to NASA

** **Many future missions will be intelligent collaborative distributed systems
-  Autonomy and autonomic properties will be necessary to manage and operate these systems
-  Swarms will allow new way for doing science
-  Verifying these missions will be paramount due to complexity and emergent behaviors
-  Need verification techniques for these systems

## Approach

-  Survey formal approaches for agent-based, multi-agent and swarm-based systems for appropriate swarm-based methods
-  Apply most promising approaches to parts of ANTS
-  Evaluate methods for needed properties
-  Model and outline swarm-based formal method
-  Develop formal method for swarm-based systems
-  Do formal specification of ANTS using new method
-  Prototype support tools

## Accomplishments

** **Surveyed formal approaches
-  Applied most promising approaches to ANTS
-  Evaluated methods
-  Developed properties for swarm formal method
-  Developed model and outline for a hybrid swarm-based formal method

## Model of Formal Method

## Next steps

- Develop formal method for swarm-based systems based on current model
- Do formal specification of ANTS using new method
- Prototype support tools
# Presentation: 709488

## Dr. Ed Rappaport
Deputy Director, TPC/NHC
Chair

- Deputy Director, TPC/NHC
- Chair

**Working Group for Hurricane  and Winter Storms Operations and Research**

## Action Item Review

**62****nd**** IHC Action Items**
- 18 Action Items
- 7 items closed by incorporating changes into NHOP
- 1 item closed to normal staff actions
- AOC agreed to investigate ways to keep the duration of Surveillance missions at least 8 hours
- 4 items were Informational
- Format for hurricane hotline conference calls
- ICAO Tropical Cyclone Advisory bulletin
- Dual tasking of P-3 aircraft
- Eastern Pacific Public Advisories Issued at all Times; Issuance of Intermediate Advisories of TCs Over Land;
- 6 items to be worked

## Action Item Review

**62****nd**** IHC Key Actions**
**Changes to TEMPDROP Message**
- WG accepted; implementation to be worked at April 2008 dropwindsonde meeting
**Clarifying requirement for core Doppler radar**
- AOC will work with NCEP/EMC and NHC for recommended changes to NHOP
- Once received, the changes will be incorporated in 2008 NHOP
**Standardization of TC fix messages**
- Minor change to be incorporated in 2008 NHOP
- Small team from JTWC, NESDIS, and NWS will develop recommendation for full standardization for the 2009 season

## Action Item Review

**62****nd**** IHC Key Actions**
**AFRC SATCOM ground station software update**
- AFRC and NHC will work issues and make necessary IT changes to accommodate the software update
**53****rd**** WRS: funding to support CHAT and Winter Storm missions **
- OFCM will facilitate actions between NORTHCOM, AFRC, and NOAA to identify funding source(s)
**OFCM will work with NOAA & AFRC to facilitate update of the Memorandum of Agreement (last updated 2000)**

## Action Item Review

**62****nd**** IHC– Four Old Open Action Items**
- One was closed
- Access to operational storm surge SLOSH output
- Three still open
- Expendable Bathythermograph (AXBT) Observations on Tasked Reconnaissance Missions
- Status
- EMC developing requirements document
- OFCM will coordinate with NWS and 53rd WRS for AXBT and other associated equipment/system requirements to facilitate funding for this mission
- Satellite Ocean Surface Vector Winds Operational Requirements
- Status: Executive Secretary to WG/HWSOR will draft advocacy letter ASAP, on behalf of National Hurricane Forecast and Warning Program (i.e., IHC), for the Federal Coordinator’s signature to be sent to NOAA/NESDIS

## Action Item Review

**62****nd**** IHC – Four Old Open Action Items**
- Three still open ***(continued)***
- USDA identified need for six products to be available in GIS format from NHC
- Status
- Two products ready for 2008 TC season
- One product not yet available; however, on requirements list for NCEP development
- NWS working with USDA on the other three products (or alternative products)
# Presentation: 508203

## Voyage Event Recorder

- Challenges
- 		Purpose
- 				and
- 				     	 Solutions

**Notes:**
Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen and distinguished guests,
My name is Steven Spendlove and I am here today to present to you,
our little black box, (ha ha) 

## Voyage Event Recorder

- Scope of Presentation

- Purpose for Recorders
- Uses for Recorders
- Recorders as a training device
- Recorders as a watch dog
- Technical Advancements

**Notes:**
Purpose:

Uses:

Training Device:

Watch Dog:

Technical Advancements:

## Voyage Event Recorders

- Purpose for Recorders

- Princess Cruises have used a voyage event recorder for the last
- six years.
- The VER (voyage event recorder), has played a significant part
- in many incidents and has proved a very valuable data source.
-  Legal issues

**Notes:**
The Princess Cruises Fleet, currently 9 vessels (with three new builds on the way) are all equipped with a VER

INCIDENTS:

LEGAL:

## Voyage Event Recorders

- Uses of the Recorder

- The Uses of the Voyage Event Recorder
- 	•  Data gathering for review
- 	•  Lessons to be learned
- 	•  Training
- 	•  Technical

**Notes:**
DATA GATHERING:

LESSONS:

TRAINING:

TECHNICAL:

## Voyage Data Recorder

- Watch Dog

-  	***Notice anything different?***** **
- 	• 	Recorded Data versus the Human
- 	•  	Unofficial Policing
- 	Legal Issues

**Notes:**
 NOTICE: VDR versus VER

RECORDED DATA VS THE HUMAN:

UNOFFICIAL POLICING:

LEGAL ISSUES:

## Voyage Event Recorder

- Technical Advancement

-   	Recording Devices and Mediums
-  	Technical Equipment and Interfaces
-  	Environmental Interfaces
-  	Transmissions of Data
- 	Review of Data

**Notes:**
DEVICIES/MEDIUMS:

TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT:

ENVIRONMENTAL INTERFACE:

TRANSMISSIONS OF DATA:

REVIEW OF DATA:
# Presentation: 680548

## Recap...                                                                                 

- * In the last video conference(03/28), we discussed mostly SEM and AFM results
-    taken on samples 398 and 396 and effect of nucleation pre-treatment.
- * SEM results on sample 396 shows that the top surface has some gaps and is not
-    continuous at some point.
**Today’s Presentation:**
- * With reference to some anomaly observed on sample 396, we did Auger measurement
-    on top and bottom surface of sample 396 and found that top surface of sample 396 is
-    graphitic in nature, which is in contrast to other sample studies so far(398 and 5%UNCD)
-    except sample 147, which also shows similar graphitic signature on the top surface.
- *We will discuss the reasons behind such anomalies observed.

## Top Surface: Sample 396

**Top Surface: Sample 396**

## Sample 398: Top Surface

**Sample 398: Top Surface**

## Top Surface: Sample 396(survey scan)

**Top Surface: Sample 396(survey scan)**

## Bottom Surface: Sample 396

**Bottom Surface: Sample 396**

## Bottom Surface: Sample 396(survey scan)

**Bottom Surface: Sample 396(survey scan)**

## Bottom Surface: Sample 396(XPS survey scan)

**Bottom Surface: Sample 396(XPS survey scan)**

## Top Surface: Sample 147

**Top Surface: Sample 147**

## Observations:

- *Auger scan taken on sample 396 and 147 shows that their top surface is graphitic. The
-   SEM images taken on these samples also shows same “dirty” nature. The graphitic nature
-   observed on sample396  may be related to its nucleation process anomaly indicated by Jenny.
- *Auger scan taken on Sample 398 top surface shows true diamond signature.
- *Sample grown on SiO2 shows less or almost negligible amount of Si on the back side as
- Compared to samples grown on Si.
- *A sample with conditions similar to 396 should be grown again and needs to be tested
-   by Auger.
# Presentation: 060023

## “Remove Me” Surf Results

- 215 addresses from spams with “remove me” claims tested (e.g., click here to remove your address from future mailings)
- 135 removal links or addresses were dead or did not function.
- Attempts to send reply email messages were equally unsuccessful.
- 77 targeted for warning letters or email messages stating:
*	**“**False or deceptive representations, such as the removal representations in the email promoting your website, may violate section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act.”*
- “Remove Me” Surfers:** **Alaska State Troopers, Alberta Government Services, British Columbia Securities Commission, British Columbia Solicitor General, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Idaho Attorney General, Montana Department of Administration, Oregon Department of Justice, Washington Attorney General, Washington State Department of Financial Institutions.
# Presentation: 784909

## Non-Roman Data in Name Authority Records

- Plans for NACO Expansion

## Assumptions

- LC/NACO Authority File would only have one authority record per entity
- Non-Roman data in authority records will follow MARC 21's "Model B" for multi-script records (that is, no 880s)
- Script/language usage in authority records will continue to be limited by:
- Ability to conform to the MARC-8 repertoire for Non-Roman characters (initially)
- General access to Microsoft Windows-compatible IME's and fonts

## NACO Model

- 1XX in Roman script, established per AACR2 (per current practice)
- 4XX(s) in Roman script (current practice)
***New:  ***4XX(s) in non-Roman script, based on usage and general guidelines for references
***New:  ***Source found citations (670s) with non-Roman data

## Examples

- “Roman” name, with 4XXs for non-Roman forms (not all applicable references are shown)

## Examples

- “Non-Roman” name, with 4XXs for Romanized and non-Roman forms (not all applicable references shown)

## Implementation Issues

- Work with PCC libraries to see if it is possible to formulate guidelines (for all languages and scripts) for choosing non-Roman variant forms for use in authority records (and bibliographic 880)
- Policies for qualifiers (e.g., should additions be in the "language of the catalog" or "language of the heading")?
- Policies for dates, including "visual" or "logical" order conventions for bi-directional script headings
- Possible LCRI changes to accommodate, etc.
- LC to draft white paper summarizing issue, proposing possible solutions, review by NACO nodes, PCC, etc.

## But first ...

- NACO record exchange between nodes and master file must migrate from MARC-8 to UTF-8 environment
*Note: LC/CDS will continue to distribute MARC-8 and UTF-8 for the forseeable future.*

## Timeline

- Migration to UTF-8 for NACO exchange, no earlier than Oct. 1, 2007
- Inclusion of non-Roman data in authority records, no earlier than December 2007
- Longer term:
- Indicating "preferred" non-Roman heading in 7XX (optionally)
- Expanding beyond CJK, HAPY, G, C

## What about ...

- All that great non-Roman data we've already input into bibliographic 880 fields?
# Presentation: 335510

## Caltech CCN Schematic

- Sheath Air

- Aerosol Sample

- Water
- (to wet column walls;
- introduced in intervals)

- Heating/Cooling Sections

- Detector

- Scattered Laser Light

- Signal to data acquisition system

- Optics Head

- Laser

- Column
- (lined with filter paper)

## Caltech CCN

- Column Specifications
- Number of Columns: 3
- Length: 1.3’ (0.4 m)
- Diameter: 0.75” (1.9 cm)
- Wall Thickness: 0.065” (1.6 mm)
- Operating Conditions
- Linear axial temperature gradient
- 3 Supersaturations: 0.2%, 0.5%, 0.7%
- Total Flow Rate: 0.5 lpm
- Sheath to Aerosol Ratio: 6-10
- Sampling Rate: 0.5 Hz
# Presentation: 130924

## Milling Oat Production

**Milling Oat Production**

**May, W.E.**** 1****, Shirtliffe, S.J., Mohr, R.M. and Lafond, G.P**
**1** Agriculture and Agri-food Canada
- Indian Head, Saskatchewan, Canada

## Outline

**Cultivar**
**Seeding Date **
**Seeding Rate and Wild oats**
**Fertility**
**Cropping Sequences**
**Harvest management**

## Cultivar

**Select cultivar acceptable to millers**
**Select Adapted Cultivar**
**Take advantage of improved genetics**
**Not Silver Bullet**

## Seeding Date

**Seed Early for consistent yield and quality**

## Slide 5

## Seeding DateRust Resistant cultivar

**Seeding Date****Rust Resistant cultivar**

## Seeding Date

**Seeding Date**

## Seeding Date

## Seeding Date

## Seeding Date

## Seeding Date and Wild Oats

## Seeding Date and Wild Oats

## Seeding Date

## Seeding Rate and Wild oats

**Seeding Rate has a small impact on yield and quality**
**Importance of this impact should increase in the presence of wild oat**

## Seeding Rate and Wild Oats

## Seeding Rate and Wild Oats

## Seeding Rate and Wild Oats

## Seeding Rate and Wild Oats

## Fertility

_**Nitrogen**_
**60 kg/ha of applied N is enough**
** ****higher levels tend to decrease test weight with out increasing yield **
**Red River valley can be an exception**

## Fertility

## Seeding Rate and Wild Oats

## FertilityOat-Flax-Wheat

## FertilityOat-Flax-Wheat

## S-T Zero Till

**S-T Zero Till**

**L-T Zero Till**

**Plot Areas**

## Oat Yield 2003 

**Oat Yield 2003**** **

## Oat Test Weight

**Oat Test Weight**

## Oat Thin Seed

**Oat Thin Seed**

## Oat Plump Seed

**Oat Plump Seed**

## Fertility

_**Phosphorous**_
**Small yield increases when soils low in phosphorous**
**No consistent effect on quality**

## Fertility

_**Potassium**_
**No large effect on yield or quality**
_**Sulfur**_
**No large effect on yield or quality**

## Cropping Sequences

**Very little info more required**

## Swathing

## Swathing

## Swathing

## Swathing

## The People Who Do The Work

**Roger Geremia**
**Orla Willoughby**
**Randy Shiplack**
**Steve Kopp**
**Alan Davies **
# Presentation: 682433

## NSIDC User Experiences

**Marilyn Kaminski**
**MODIS Product Team Lead**
**July 24, 2002**

## User Data Distribution

**Eight Snow/Sea Ice Products Available from NSIDC**

| Request Dates | # requests | # granules | Vol (MB) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2/24/2000-12/31/2001 | 694 | 27,545 | 352,546 |
| 1/1/2002-7/15/2002 | 643 | 35,159 | 558,099 |

## User Experiences

**User Experiences**

**Problem:  EDG is slow/cumbersome/difficult to use**
**Solutions:**
**	****- Data pool will allow many users to avoid using EDG**
**	****	****(status:  currently being installed in test mode;**
**	****	****will move to Ops after internal testing)**
**	****- NSIDC script being developed to enter queries directly**
**	****	****with ESDT/location/start time/stop time/contact info**
**	****	****(status:  developed for internal use; looking to**
**	****	****expand capabilities to facilitate placing user**
**	****	****orders covering extended time periods)**
**	****- Improved EDG tutorial available for users**
**	****- Subsetting & spatial subscriptions**
**	****- GISMO-E/PSQ in development with ECHO for polar queries**

## User Experiences

**Problem:  ISIN projection is difficult to use**
**Solutions:**
**	****- NSIDC providing EDC with code fixes for MRT (grid problems**
**	****	****with CMG)**
**Other NSIDC Activities:**
**	****- MODIS Land Workshop on Radiation Budget Variables and**
**	****	****Snow & Ice Products; Boston, MA; Oct 21-23**
**	****- Improved MODIS image gallery available**
**	****- Improved HDF-EOS support pages (planned)**
**	****- Better advertisement of NSIDC-developed data manipulation**
**	****	****tools (MS2GT, PHDIS)**
# Presentation: 703389

## Summary of DCS Manufacturers Meeting March 22/23, 2004

- Peter Woolner
- Mitretek Systems
- _[pwoolner@mitretek.org](mailto:pwoolner@mitretek.org)_
- 703-610-1724

## Most Of The Proposed Changes Seem To Be Acceptable As Is

- B: 3.1  Format
- C: 3.2  Scrambling
- D: 3.4  Encoder Flush
- E: 3.5  Interleave (?)
- F: 3.7.1  Prohibited Characters (?)
- G: 3.7.2  EOT
- H: 3.8  Max Message

- I: 3.9  Freq Adjust (rt)
- M: 4.3.2  Modulation Stability
- N: 4.4  Phase Noise
- P: 4.5.2  Mid Band Spectrum
- Q: 4.6  Fail-Safe

## Non-Agreed Items (1)

- A: 2.1  Timing Accuracy
- All agreed 300 should be as tight as 1200
- Most considered ±0.1 s too tight but ±0.5 s was easy
- The reason cited was the length of time after a GPS fix before shutdown is required
- Corresponding reduction in message lengths are:

| Alloc. Window | Bytes at 300 bps |  | Bytes at 1200 bps |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  | 0.1 sec | 0.5 sec | 0.1 sec | 0.5 sec |
| 5 sec | 137 | 107 | 630 | 510 |
| 10 sec | 324 | 294 | 1380 | 1260 |

## Non-Agreed Items (2)

- Frequency Plan, Frequency Stability, and Filters
- 1200 bps in 1500 Hz, 30 Hz, RRC required
- 1200 bps in 2250 Hz, ~100 Hz, RRC optional
- Relative effects (if max 20 ch at 1200) are:
- Loose 20 channels at 300 bps
- System data rate goes from 97.6 to 93.3 kbps
- Max msg/hour goes from 170280 to 161280
-       (No Int’l chan, 25% 5 sec, 75% 10 sec)

## Non-Agreed Items (3)

- Power Control was considered desirable but would be best if control was remote
- Became another item to consider in the DCPI discussion

## DCPI

- NTIA is asking questions about the current DCPI link which does not meet their Power Flux Density requirements
- NOAA must respond in a few weeks
- I believe DCPI must be re-designed or it will be lost permanently

## Potential Reasons for DCPI

- A revised and improved DCPI link could be used for the following:
- An alternate timing reference
- An alternate frequency reference
- A remote control system including EIRP
- An easier way to reduce required DCP EIRP (saving battery or prime power consumption)
- A failure analysis tool
- A last resort override for NOAA
- Platform interrogation

## Possible Power Reduction Process

- Measure all uplink powers relative to pilot and calculate average
- Notify all users of this average level
- Get 1200 bps users to reduce to avg. level
- Get 300 bps users to reduce to avg. -3 dB
- Repeat until desired level is reached
- ALL users would need to cooperate over the full adjustment period (months or years) unless remote power control is made mandatory

## Steps to Implement a New DCPI

- Users decide what they want it to do
- System design and format for how to do it
- Vendors design and estimate costs
- Users decide if the cost is worth the benefits
# Presentation: 527908

## Tunable Laser Diode and Optical Phase-Lock Loop E-TEK Dynamics, Inc., San Jose, CA 

- Innovation
-   Tunable laser diode and optical phase-locked loop for telecommunications incorporating
-     applied fiber optic, integrated optic and precision optical coating  technologies.

- Accomplishments
-    Developed electronically tunable sources with very narrow line width using innovative
-      approaches and optical phase-locked loop.
-    The firm’s wavelength division multiplexers (WDMs) are designed to increase the bandwidth
-      capacity of fiber optic networks. Other company components, including isolators, couplers
-      and integrated optics, are critical in enabling optical communications systems. These
-      products are utilized in terrestrial and submarine long-haul fiber optic networks as well as in
-      short-haul markets, such as metro and cable.

- Commercialization
- JDS Uniphase Corporation and E-TEK Dynamics, Inc.) announced on June 22, 2000 that they have reached an agreement with the United States Department of Justice ("DOJ") that will permit JDS Uniphase to complete its merger with E-TEK. The consent decree with the DOJ gives antitrust clearance to the merger, which is now subject only to E-TEK stockholder approval and the other customary closing conditions specified in the merger agreement
- JDS Uniphase Corporation (NASDAQ: JDSU; TSE: JDU) and E-TEK Dynamics Inc. (NASDAQ: ETEK) announced today the signing of a definitive merger agreement valued at approximately $15 billion based on January 14, 2000 closing stock prices.
- The firm’s  headquarters are in San Jose, Calif., it is a leader in the design and manufacturing of high quality passive components and modules for fiber optic systems. The firms wavelength division multiplexers ("WDMs") are designed to increase the bandwidth capacity of new and existing fiber optic networks.
- The firm  has approximately 2,450 employees and reported revenues of $72.5 million in its second   quarter ended January 1, 2000. JDS Uniphase has over 8,200 employees and reported sales of $230.1 million in its first quarter ended September 30, 1999.
- The firm was named by Business Week as one of the “Hot Growth Companies of 2000”, in their May 29, 2000 issue.

- Government/Science Applications
-   NASA and DOD communication equipment and networks.
-   Tracking, ranging, sensing, optical lidar and high-speed signal processing.
-   Debris detection and avoidance for space vehicles.

- Points of Contact:
-    -  NASA Collin Hieger (281)-483-1803
-    - Company: (408) 546-4608 or email to: info@e-tek.com
-      1986 SBIR Phase II; NAS9-17992

- Johnson Space Center 	May 31,  2002 		09-026

- Title
# Presentation: 099255

## CO2 Fluxes in a Cold Desert Biome

**Utah State University**
**Lawrence Hipps****	****Biometeorology**
**Dani Or****	****	****Soil-Environmental Physics**
**John Stark****	****	****Microbial Ecology**

**General Goals:**
** ****Study role of soil physical properties and microbial processes in governing the CO****2**** exchanges**
** ****Examine CO****2**** Fluxes for 3 plant communities**

## 3 Plant Communities:

**Sagebrush          ****Crested Wheatgrass ****	****	**** ****Juniper**

**Eddy Covariance Estimates of Fluxes of**
**Momentum**
**Sensible Heat**
**Latent Heat**
**CO****2**

**With CSAT and LI-7500 sensors**

**Flux system  installation completed in August 2000**
**Net radiation and soil heat fluxes added this fall**

## Soil Measurements

** ****Soil moisture and water potential**
**	****TDR, neutron Probes, and Psychrometers**
** ****Soil CO****2**** Flux**
**	****Chamber Approach**
**	****Vertical concentration gradients in upper soil**
** ****Heterotrophic Microbial Activity and Nutrient Cycling**
**  ****Microbial biomass C;    Available C pools;**
**  ****N-Mineralization and Nitrification;    N immobilization;**
**  ****Nematode and Protozoa populations;**
**  ****Bacterial and Fungal biovolume**
**	**

## Central Question

** ****temporal fluctuations in precipitation**
** ****interactions between the physical properties of soil and the nutrient dynamics of the microbes **

**Central Question**
# Presentation: 164084

## Development of microsatellite markers for Puccinia psidii, a rust fungus threatening ohia (Metrosideros polymorpha) and other Myrtaceae in Hawaii

**Shaobin Zhong and Baojun Yang**
**Department of Plant & Environmental Protection Sciences**
**University of Hawaii at Manoa**
**Honolulu, Hawaii**** **

## Life cycle and host range of Puccinia psidii

**Life cycle and host range of *****Puccinia psidii***

**Host range: 20 genera and 71 species from Myrtaceae: Eucalypteae, Leptospermeae, Melaleuceae, Metrosidereae, Myrteae, Syncarpieae and Syzygieae (Glen et al. 2007)**

**(Glen M et al. 2007. Australasian Plant Pathology 36: 1–16) **** **

## origin

- 1977

- 2005

**Origin and Distribution of *****Puccinia psidii***

## 2005

***Puccinia psidii *****in Hawaii**

## Rhodomyrtus tormentosa

*Rhodomyrtus tormentosa*

*Metrosidero polymorpha*

*Eugenia koolauensis*

*Melaleuca quinquenervia*

## Ohia is often one of the first plants to colonize new lava flows and is the major component in Hawaiian forest

**Ohia is often one of the first plants to colonize new lava flows and is the major component in Hawaiian forest**

**Photo by C. Elevitch**

## The native Hawaiian honeycreeper ‘apapane on an ‘Ohi‘a lehua 

**The native Hawaiian honeycreeper ‘apapane on an ‘Ohi‘a lehua **

## Questions to be answered:

**How many races (or strains) have been introduced into Hawaii?**
**Where were these races from?**

## SSR-enriched DNA library

**SSR-enriched DNA library**

**DNA sequencing**

**Primer design**

**Evaluation of SSR markers**

**Population genetics**

**216 clones**

**80 primer pairs**

**15 SSRs**

## HI

- Florida

- Brazil

- PsSSR12

## HI

- Florida

- Brazil

- PsSSR195

## HI

- Florida

- Brazil

- PsSSR208

## Dendrogram based on 71 alleles from 15 SSR loci

- 100

- 85

- 100

- 100

- 93

**Dendrogram based on 71 alleles from 15 SSR loci**

## Summary:

**Fifteen microsatellite markers were developed**
**Seventy one alleles were identified among 19 isolates analyzed**
**Three genotypes found in four isolates from Florida and two genotypes detected in four Brazil isolates**
**Only one genotype was found in 12 Hawaiian isolates**

## Acknowledgements:

**Acelino Alfenas (Federal University of Viosa, Brazil)**
**Robert Hauff (Hawaii Department of Agriculture, Hawaii)**
**Eloise Killgore (Hawaii Department of Agriculture, Hawaii)**
**Min Rayachhetry (US Forest Service, Florida)**
**Les Szabo (CDL-USDA, Minnesota)**
**Janice Uchida (University of Hawaii, Hawaii)**
# Presentation: 037912

## STOP

*Chan Ho Yi*

*5886*

*85*

*203B*

*1M hydrochloric acid,** *

*aqueous solution, contaminated *

*with heavy metals** *

*X*

*4/8/2004*

*X*

*X*

_**Guidelines for SAA Management**_

- Containers must be _**labeled**_
- Containers must be kept _**closed**_ at all times except when adding waste
- Containers must be _**compatible**_ with contents
_***Physically separate wastes that may react if mixed***_
- Sort wastes that may react with one another into different **secondary containers**
- Your wastes must be appropriately segregated
- Only like wastes can be accumulated in the same container
- Acids with Acids
- Nonhalogenated solvents with nonhalogenated solvents
- Accumulate acids and bases in separate containers

- Time limit = _**9 Months**_

_**Your SAA may contain the following items:**_
**Secondary containment** (required for all liquids and glass containers)
- Waste items with **Hazardous Waste labels** (completely **filled out**)
- Funnels or other waste transfer equipment
_**Other items (empty containers, chemicals, etc.) are not allowed in the SAA because they may be mistaken for unlabeled Hazardous Waste**_

_**All High Lighted Fields **_
**   **_**Must Be Filled Out **_
**         **_**Completely**_

_**Generator Assistant**_
-  _________________
-  _________________

_***Fax requisition for hazardous waste pickup @ X4838 when:  ***_
- Waste container is no longer needed
- Waste container becomes full
**9 months** from SAA start date is approaching

_**___________________________________________________________________________________**_

**STOP**