BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 856002

## Risk & Uncertainty in Lake Powell and Lake Mead Operations

**NIDIS Scoping Workshop**
**Boulder, CO**
**October 1, 2008**

## Key Lake Powell and Lake Mead Elevations

- Express risk by quantifying likelihood of reaching these elevations in the future
- Lake Powell Release Tier
- Equalization
- Upper Elevation Balancing
- Mid-Elevation Release
- Lower Elevation Balancing
- Lake Mead Shortage and Surplus triggers
- Minimum power pools
- Recreation
- Others

## Hydrologic Modeling Used to Simulate Future System Conditions

- Factors in future Lake Powell elevations
- Release Tier, i.e. release
- Future water use schedules
- Initial conditions (Lake Powell and Lake Mead)
- Future inflows into the system
- Future conditions of system most sensitive to uncertainty in future inflows
- Can use different methods to postulate future inflows and quantify this uncertainty

## Models Used to Simulate Future Reservoir Levels

- Colorado River Simulation System (CRSS)
- Basin-wide long-term planning model
- Monthly timestep (5 to 50-year simulation horizon)
- Used in Shortage & Coordinated Operations EIS
- CRSS-Lite
- Annual timestep “simplified” version of CRSS
- Used to develop alternatives studied in EIS
- 24-Month Study
- Basin-wide mid-term operations model
- Monthly timestep (1 to 2-year simulation horizon)
- Used in Annual Operating Plan planning process

## CRSS in Shortage & Coordinated Operations EIS

- Used to determine potential hydrologic effects and compare operational alternatives
- Numerous input and assumptions go into the model
- Addresses uncertainty to future inflows by performing multiple simulations for a given alternative
- Results expressed in probabilistic terms
- Can answer questions about risk with results

## Slide 6

## Risk & Uncertainty in Lake Powell and Lake Mead Operations

**Risk & Uncertainty in Lake Powell and Lake Mead Operations**
**NIDIS Scoping Workshop**
**Boulder, CO**
**October 1, 2008**
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## MIT MRSEC Michael F. Rubner DMR-0213282 Seed Project: Creating ripples on nanoparticles

- The ongoing development of nanotechnology is pushing the boundaries of science and engineering to new extremes. This is particularly true with the ultra-small bits of matter known as nanoparticles, which show great promise in a wide variety of applications ranging from biomedical to electronic. In a MRSEC funded seed project, Professor Stellacci has demonstrated that it is possible to create sub-nanometer ordered domains on these already remarkably tiny particles (see figure below). In this project (Jackson, et al, Nature Materials 3, 330-336, 2004) the authors have created a new family of nanoscale materials that present phase-separation at an unprecedented length scale. They show that when gold or silver nanoparticles are coated with a mixture of different ligands, ~6 Å wide alternating rings of hydrophobic and hydrophilic molecules form. This unique subnano-structuring of the ligand shell provides new properties to the particles such as unique and unexpected solubility that is controlled by the sub-nanometer texture. A  remarkable resistance to protein nonspecific adsorption has also been observed, suggesting the use of these texture nanoparticles in biomedical devices and implants that require protein non-fouling properties.

- Well-defined sub-nanometer domains of organic molecules decorate a gold nanoparticle.
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## STATEWISE DISTRIBUTION (WIND POWER) 

**Average PLF’s  vary from 22% to 35% depending  on the State.**** **

## COST ECONOMICS (WIND) 

** **

** **

## WIND  -  INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES 

** **
******        ****Corporate Users of Power**
******        ****Potential Pollution Traders**
******        ****Project Promoters / Developers**
******        ****Production of WEG’s**
******        ****O&M, Monitoring, Consultancy**

## MNES’ Database of Small Hydro Potential Sites Identified in India up to 25 MW Capacity

**Average PLF’s vary from 30% to 60% depending on location.**** **

## COST ECONOMICS (HYDRO)
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## Making a City Energy Efficient

**Experiences from the City of Medford**

## Medford’s Energy Efficiency History

- August 1999: ICLEI Cities for Climate Protection
- September 1999: Creation of Medford Energy Task Force
- October 1999: Solar Panels installed at City Hall and High School
- October 1999-City Hall Retrofits and Conversion to Natural Gas heat

## Medford’s Energy Efficiency History (cont’d)

- January 2001: Hire Energy Efficiency Coordinator (Environmental Agent)
- October 2001: First City in Commonwealth with approved Climate Action Plan
- March 2002: Join Rebuild Massachusetts/ Rebuild America Campaign
- September 2002: Begin benchmarking building energy performance

## Medford’s Energy Efficiency History (cont’d)

- October 2002: Receive 5 electric vehicles from Ford & convert cemetery to Biodiesel
- April 2003: First Earth Month of Events, including Energy Efficiency Fair
- July 2003: Creation of Energy & Environment Office
- September 2003: Receive 2 Electric Vehicles from GM (EV-1) for 2 year use

## Medford’s Energy Efficiency History (cont’d)

- October 2003: Medford is only MA City to receive Clean School Bus USA grant
- October 2003: Development of schools maintenance plans
- January 2004: Mayor McGlynn appoints 9-member Medford Clean Energy Committee
- April 2004: Medford High School EIS online

## How Medford is doing it

- Full-time staff & Energy Task Force
- Interns/volunteers
- Grants (over $500,000 to date)
- Utility Rebates
- Partnerships-Rebuild America, EnergyStar, Clean Cities Coalition, Clean School Bus
- Press coverage

## Building Retrofits/Conversions

- _Retrofits_
- Lighting Retrofits at City Hall, Public Safety Building, Library
- New Windows at Public Safety Building

- _Conversions_
- Natural Gas Heat at High School, City Hall, Fire Stations
- All new schools have natural gas heat

## City Hall Example

## Solar Panels at Hormel Stadium

- No money
- Local Contractor donates time and expertise
- Municipal Workers install
- Panels will cover lights for all night home games

## Plan for Schools Maintenance

- EIS in high school, 15 minute intervals of real time data
- Working with State Division of Energy Resources and utilities-audits and inventories of all schools
- Develop O&M plans for each building
- Train current staff
- Initiate energy education in schools

## Slide 11

## Keys to Success

- Helpful to have a plan
- Need a champion, preferably elected official or decision maker
- Partnerships
- Utility Rebates!!
- Publicity

## Contact Information

- Kim Lundgren, Environmental Agent
- Energy & Environment Office
- City of Medford, MA
- 781-393-2137
- klundgren@medford.org
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## Security Benefits of Energy R&D 

**Security Benefits of Energy R&D **

*Presented to the*
***Conference on Estimating the Benefits of Government-Sponsored Energy Technology R&D***
***March 4, 2002***
**Margie Tatro**** **
**Director, **
**Energy and Transportation Security Center**
**Sandia National Laboratories**
**(505) 844-3154**

- Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company,for the United States Department of Energy under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.

## Issues to Explore 

**Energy Security –  Definition to Consider**
**Measures of Energy Security**
**Possible Benefits Indicators**

## What is Energy Security?

**Measured by:**
**Investor and consumer confidence**
**Time to restore service following a disruption and other reliability metrics**
**Secondary indicators:**
**Energy trade deficit, imports versus domestic production, diversity of sources and delivery mechanisms, and others**
**Includes Physical and Cyber Perspectives**
**	**

**Energy is available WHEN needed **
**at a predictable price.**

## How Can We Measure Energy Security?

**Confidence – feeling, must poll people**
**Price/earnings ratio for investors**
**Reliability – can measure, for electricity:**
**Transmission reliability (voltage, frequency)**
**Wholesale market performance (price deltas, transmission load relief)**
**Customer outages (number of customers, unserved energy, economic impact, time to restore service)**
**Diversity of supply – fraction from each fuel source, can measure**
**Diversity of delivery mechanisms -  options, can measure**
**Number of cyber attacks – can measure**

## Frequency Excursions are One Measure Electric Power Reliability

- SOURCE: Report from NERC Performance Subcommittee to Operating Committee – 1Q2001

- Over frequency

- Under frequency

## Energy Outages Impact Many Other National Operations

**Oil / Gas**

- Compressor
- Station

- Fuel
- Supply

**Communications**

- End
- Office

- Switching
- Office

**Transportation**

- Transport

- Traffic
- Light

- Reservoir

- Substation

**Water**

- Fire station

- Hospital

- Emergency
- Call Center

- Ambulance

**Emergency **
**Services**

- Check
- Processing
- Center

- Bank

- Federal Reserve

- ATM

**Energy Outages Impact Many Other National Operations**

- Military
- Installations

- Pension/Service
- Payments
- Treasury Dept.

- Legislative Offices

**Continuity**
**of Gov’t **
**Services**

**Banking Finance**

## COMPARISON OF ECONOMIC IMPACT

**COMPARISON**** OF ECONOMIC IMPACT**

**--------**** Houston, Scenario #1 - Series of Small Disruptions - One Month Apart/Short but Regular**
**--------**** Houston, Scenario #2 - Short-Lived but Large Disruption**

## The Challenge – Energy Security Measures are Influenced by Factors Other Than DOE Activities

**Benefit Options to Consider**
**Ask infrastructure owners and operators if DOE efforts have helped them**
**Follow confidence, reliability, diversity metrics and watch for trends in areas where DOE R&D is underway**
**Others?**
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## INTERFACE WITH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

- ED MAYS
- AEM, EMSHG
- BIRMINGHAM FCC

## Disaster Declaration Surge Capacity and Capability

- Patient distribution decision-making to patient arrival at area health facilities

## Sufficient medical surge capacity to respond to a naturally occurring catastrophic disaster

- Hospital Beds & Facilities
- Healthcare personnel
- Equipment & supplies
- Patient movement capability
- Expertise

## TRIAGE

**Initial Care:  Victims arriving, unknown number**

**Immediate Care**

**Delayed Care**

**Basic Care**

**Definitive Care: No more victims arriving; known number**

**Optimal Care**

## Identify Requirements

- Ambulatory
- Non-ambulatory
- Nursing Home patients
- Special Needs Shelter
- Pediatric
- Deceased
- Non-responsive or comatose

## What Organizational Structure is in Place?

- Many localities have established operational interaction between HCFs to monitor Emergency Department and Critical Care Capacity, Ambulance Diversion, and other everyday situations.
- Establish Processes Prior to time of Crisis – planning team or designated transportation officer

## What mechanism allows HCFs to interact with one another in time of need?

- Hospital Communication Centers established for patient transport
- EMS Command Centers
- Local Hospital Associations
- Regional EMS Council
- MMRS or some modified plan for MCI

## Management of Healthcare CoalitionIssues	

- Communication and information management processes has to be standardized among the NDMS hospitals, including formats for data sharing– alert to discharge of patients
- Patient information -- Standardize patient tracking system for NDMS hospitals and FCC needs to be develop.
- Accountability of Nursing Home beds when you have patients transferring from Long Term Care facilities, how long does NDMS manage theses patients? These patients are in a definitive medical care facility but  they are displaced.
- Utilization of case managers from your NDMS hospital

## Issues	

- Activation times – level of surge capacity/capability needed in the community
- Mental Health Services and Social Services for HIV patients after triage.
- Clinical Staff available to escort psychiatric patients or patients that are ambulatory going by other transportation assets
- Activation of Special Needs Shelters
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##                                                                                        USDA Rural Development

-                                                                                        USDA Rural Development
**                                                                                             ****514/516 Labor Housing Program**

- www.rurdev.usda.gov/me
-    OBJECTIVE
-  Farm Labor Housing loans provide farm labor housing in either dormitory, single family, or multi-family 	apartment style.
-    ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS
-  Farm Owners
-  Family Farm Partnerships
-  Family Farm Corporations
-  Farming Associations
-  Non-Profit Organizations and Limited Partnerships
-    ELIGIBLE PROPERTIES
-  “On-Farm” Provides housing for domestic farm laborers employed by the farm borrowers.
-  “Off-Farm” Provides housing for domestic farm laborers employed by numerous farm entities.
-     ELIGIBLE FARM LABORERS/TENANTS
-  Must be domestic farm laborers
-  United States citizens or legal aliens, permanently admitted to the United States (No H2A, H2B, etc.)
-     RATES AND TERMS
-  Rate:        1 percent
-  Loan terms of up to 33 years
-  Rental Assistance may be available to eligible off farm applicants
-      FEES
-  Credit Report:	$28 for individual; $40 for corporations

## For more information regarding the 514/516 Farm Labor Housing Program visit our web site at www.rurdev.usda.gov/me, or contact the Rural Development Area Office serving your county:

_**State Office**_
**	****	****Michael W. Aube, State Director**
- 		967 Illinois Avenue, PO Box 405
- 		Bangor, ME  04402-0405
- 		Tel:  (207) 990-9110
_**Presque Isle Area Office**_**	****	**_**Lewiston Area Office**_
**Richard W. Ireland, Area Director****	****	****Orman Whitcomb, Area Director**
- 735 Main Street, Suite 1			254 Goddard Road, PO Box 1938
- Presque Isle, ME  04769-5015		Lewiston, ME  04241-1938
- Tel:  (207) 764-4155, Ext. 4		Tel:  (207) 753-9400, Ext. 200
- Aroostook, Washington, and		Androscoggin, Franklin, Kennebec,
- Northern Penobscot			Lincoln, and Oxford
_**Bangor Area Office**_**	****	****	**_**Scarborough Area Office**_
**Raymond S. Roberts, III, Area Director****	****William F. Bailey, Jr., Area Director**
- 1423 Broadway, Suite 3			306 US Route 1, Suite B1
- Bangor, ME  04401- 2468		Scarborough, ME  04074-9774
- Tel:  (207) 990-3676, Ext. 323		Tel:  (207) 883-0159, Ext. 4
- Hancock, Knox, Penobscot,		Cumberland, Sagadahoc, and York
- Piscataquis, Somerset, and Waldo
- 		    ******************************************
**Rural Development is an Equal Opportunity Lender, Provider, and Employer. Complaints of discrimination should be sent to USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, Washington, D. C.  20250-9410,                                                           or call (800) 759-3272 (voice) or (202) 720-6382 (TDD)**
- 9/2005
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## Forum 4 – Vehicle Highway Cooperative Systems: The Evolution of Cooperative Intersection Collision Avoidance

- Vicki Neale
- Leader, Safety and Human Factors Engineering Group
- VTTI
- June 26, 2003

## Intersection Crash Statistics (Smith and Najm, based on 1998 GES)

- Approximately 27% of police-reported crashes
- By Crash Scenario:
- SCP				36.6%
- LTAP/OD			27.3%
- LTAP/LD			15.9%
- LTIP				  4.7%
- RTIP				  4.7%
- Other				10.8%

## Contributing Factors for Intersection Violation Crashes

## Two Approaches to Address Intersection Collisions

- Infrastructure
- Vehicle
- How do we develop these approaches for a systematic and logical deployment considering
- Resources of government and industry?
- Near-term need to reduce intersection fatalities?

## Continuum of Deployment

- Example of a system evolution

- Infrastructure
- Only

- Gradual Deployment of Vehicles

- Infrastructure-
- Vehicle Cooperative

- Increasing Level of Benefit

## Basic Infrastructure System Components

- Signal Controller
- at Intersection

- Sensors
- (on-road)

- Computer
*Decision*
*Making*
*Algorithm*

- Warning
- Interface

- Phase &
- Timing

- Range &
- Rate

- On/Off

## Advantages of Basic Infrastructure System

- Near-term deployable
- Cost of parts at VTTI demo < $4000
- Technology is mature
- Implementation is conducted at state DOT level

## The Next Step

- Signal Controller
- For Intersection

- Sensors
- (on-road)

- Computer
*Decision *
*Making*
*Algorithm*
*Communication*
*Link*

- Interface

- Antenna

- Phase &
- Timing

- Range &
- Rate

- On/Off

- Signal
- Data

## Advantages of Adding Communications

- Provides the foundation for OEM involvement of a fully cooperative system
- Appropriately equipped vehicle could receive signal phase and timing information at a minimum

- Positioning system
- (e.g., GPS&GIS map)

- In-Vehicle Sensors
- (e.g., braking, speed, etc.)

- Communications (Receiver)

- Data stream from signal with phase and timing information

- Computations
- (Dynamic Algorithm)

- Driver Vehicle Interface

## OEM Involvement Provides Progress Along the Continuum

- Vehicle Only Solution to Stop Sign Violations

**STOP**

**STOP**

- Computations
- (Dynamic Algorithm)

- Positioning system
- (e.g., GPS&GIS map)

- In-Vehicle Sensors
- (e.g., braking, speed, etc.)

- Driver Vehicle Interface

## System Matures Along Continuum

- Example: Graded Warnings
- Possible to present a series of graded warnings based on situation severity
- Advisory – approaching intersection, may violate
- Warning –violation likely, response up to driver
- Control – violation imminent
- Can present graded warnings via different modes
- e.g., auditory plus visual interface for advisory, more urgent auditory plus haptic interface for warning
- Example: 1-lane to 5 lanes

## Challenges During Evolution

- Testing, testing, testing
- Further development of technologies
- Coordination between government and industry for deployment
- Cost/benefit trade-off
- End result: Toolbox
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## Our Successful Journey to Inclusion

- Archived Information

- West Feliciana Parish Schools
- Lloyd Lindsey, Jr.
- Jesse Perkins
- Amy Betts

## Parish History and Growth

**Parish History and Growth**

**    ****From Agriculture and Audubon...**

**To Tourism, Nuclear Plants, and Angola**

**1990 Census**
**  ****12,195**
- $8,525 per capita income

**2000 Census**
**  ****15,111**
- $16,124 per capita income

##   The How

## The Why

- High Risk Factors in West Feliciana Parish

**Children in Poverty**

**Low Maternal Education**

**Low Birth Weight**

**Apgar Scores**

**Teen Births**

**Births to unmarried women**

## The Results

## District Performance Score (DPS) and DPS Label

| Rank of DPS | District Name | 2002-2003 DPS | DPS Label |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | St. Tammany Parish | 108.7 | Three Stars |
| 2 | Livingston Parish | 106.4 | Three Stars |
| 3 | West Feliciana Parish | 105.0 | Three Stars |

**District Performance Score (DPS) and DPS Label**

## Fall 2003 Subgroup Performance Scores (GPS)

| District GPS  | Black GPS | White GPS | Non-LEP GPS | F/R Lunch GPS | Paid Lunch GPS | SPED GPS | REG GPS |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| State | 58.5 | 101.4 | 80.9 | 68.0 | 99.3 | 44.7 | 85.7 |
| West Feliciana Parish | 77.4 | 125.1 | 105.2 | 79.9 | 124.9 | 58.7 | 112.5 |
| St. Tammany Parish | 77.6 | 116.6 | 110.1 | 86.7 | 119.2 | 72.2 | 116.5 |
| Livingston | 61.6 | 106.5 | 85.9 | 69.8 | 105.3 | 38.0 | 92.4 |

## Special Education Graduation Statistics

## Continuous Improvement Monitoring

| LEA | Diploma

(99-00 
And
02-03) | Passed 4th Grade ELA
(99-00 
And
 02-03)
 | Passed 4th Grade Math
(99-00 
And 
02-03)
 | Passed 8th Grade ELA
(99-00
And
02-03)
 | Passed 8th Grade Math
(99-00 
And
 02-03)
 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| State of Louisiana | 15.2%

22.6% | 45.2%

50.9% | 40.3%

59.7% | 48.3%

50.1% | 26.9%

36.1% |
| West Feliciana Parish | 40.0%

36.4% | 54.5%

73.5% | 31.8%

67.7% | 77.8%

66.7% | 44.4%

61.9% |

**Continuous Improvement Monitoring**
**Special Education**
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## Simulation for STAR background/shielding

**I have given a file of particle parameters to Bernd so that you guys can have more meaningful detector response.**
**MARS manual : “... A disadvantage of this approach is the impossibility of directly studying fluctuations from cascade to cascade, or of studying production correlations....”**
**In MARS, energy deposition ~ “W*DELE” and I’m not sure how to put energy deposition cuts ....**

- Aug. 4, 2005

## The following plots are run with the same conditions as last week (1 GeV cut at particle energy) and the “only” change is the geometry.

Most events would not have particles actually arrive at the EEMC area behind the pole-tips.
All the plots here are averaged over large no. of events (2.5 million). 
I intend ONLY to compare the geometrical / shielding effects.

**Most events would not have particles actually arrive at the EEMC area behind the pole-tips.**
**All the plots here are averaged over large no. of events (2.5 million). **
**I intend ONLY to compare the geometrical / shielding effects.**

- Aug. 4, 2005

## After removing the floor (concrete/soil), peaks show up in both upper/lower parts.

**After removing the floor (concrete/soil), peaks show up in both upper/lower parts.**

**muon-subtracted**

- Aug. 4, 2005

## One thing that I have realized is that my ceiling in MARS is too high by 60 cm ... but not a huge effect   

**One thing that I have realized is that my ceiling in MARS is too high by 60 cm ... but not a huge effect   **

**total**

**muon-subtracted**

**floor put back in**

- Aug. 4, 2005

## Al Pendzick’s shielding as before

**Al Pendzick’s shielding as before**

**XY**

**YZ**

**X (******** ********ve** **)**

- Aug. 4, 2005

## Where do particles for those peaks come from ?

- Aug. 4, 2005

## My imaginary shielding

**10 cm radius hole**

**Al Pendzick’s shielding**

**DX magnet**

**cross-section view (XY)**

**top view (XZ)**

**112.5 cm**

- Aug. 4, 2005

## If you remember, even with A. Pendzick’s shielding, the upper peaks are still there.  Now, I put in my imaginary shielding in addition.

**total ~19% as before**

**total ~0.7% as before**

**muon-subtracted**

- Aug. 4, 2005
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## FAA (Southwest Region)AIRPORTS DIVISIONPARTNERSHIP CONFERENCEANNUAL AWARDS PRESENTATIONS

- <date/time>

***FAA (Southwest Region)******AIRPORTS DIVISION******PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCE******ANNUAL AWARDS PRESENTATIONS***

## PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCEANNUAL AWARDS PRESENTATIONSArkansas/Oklahoma Airport Development Office

***Rogers Municipal - Carter Field ***
***Rogers, Arkansas***

## Rogers Municipal Airport – Carter Field

**Rogers Municipal Airport – Carter Field**

## Runway Safety Area 

**Runway Safety Area **
**September 2002**

## Runway Safety Area – Construction Completed

**Runway Safety Area – Construction Completed**
**2005**

## ARFF Building & Airport Traffic Control Tower

**ARFF Building & Airport Traffic Control Tower**

## PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCEANNUAL AWARDS PRESENTATIONSArkansas/Oklahoma Airport Development Office

***Cushing Municipal Airport ***
***Cushing, Oklahoma***

## Cushing Municipal Airport – 2005

**Cushing Municipal Airport – 2005**

## Cushing Oklahoma

**Cushing Oklahoma**
**“****Pipeline Crossroads of the World”**

## Cushing Municipal Airport - 2005

**Cushing Municipal Airport - 2005**

## PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCEANNUAL AWARDS PRESENTATIONSLouisiana/New Mexico Airport Development Office

***St. John the Baptist Parish Airport ***
***Reserve, Louisiana***

## Slide 12

## PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCEANNUAL AWARDS PRESENTATIONSLouisiana/New Mexico Airport Development Office

***Double Eagle II Airport ***
***Albuquerque, New Mexico***

## Slide 14

## PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCEANNUAL AWARDS PRESENTATIONSTexas Airport Development Office

***Killeen-Fort Hood Regional Airport ***
***Killeen, Texas***

## Slide 16

## Slide 17

## PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCEANNUAL AWARDS PRESENTATIONSAirport Division, Planning and Programming BranchEnvironmental Achievement Award

***Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport ***
***Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas***

## Slide 19

## Slide 20

## PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCEANNUAL AWARDS PRESENTATIONSAirport Division, Safety and Standards BranchAirport Safety Award

***Shreveport Regional Airport ***
***Shreveport, Louisiana***

## Slide 22

## Slide 23

## FAA (Southwest Region)AIRPORTS DIVISIONPARTNERSHIP CONFERENCEANNUAL AWARDS PRESENTATIONS

- <date/time>

***FAA (Southwest Region)******AIRPORTS DIVISION******PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCE******ANNUAL AWARDS PRESENTATIONS***
# Presentation: 731536

## MAJOR  MANUFACTURERS

** **
******     ****Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited**
******     ****VA Tech Escher Wyss Flovel Ltd**
******     ****Jyoti Limited**
******     ****Boving Fouress Limited**
** **

## SMALL HYDRO  -  INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES 

** **
******        ****Industry based R & D**
******       ****Collaboration / JV for Equipment Manufacturing**
******        ****Collaboration / JV for R & M of old projects**
******        ****Developer / Promoter of SHP Projects**
******        ****Detailed Designing / Consultancy**

## Potential for Bagasse-based Cogeneration in Major Sugar Producing States in India
# Presentation: 225584

## NanoLab:  A hands-on introduction to nanoscience for scientists and engineersLloyd A. Bumm and Matthew B. Johnson, University of Oklahoma, DMR-0304664

- NanoLab is a sophomore level laboratory course in nanotechnology.  We have taken this hands-on approach to introduce students to the concepts used in nanotechnology much earlier than they would see them in the standard curriculum.
- Although sophomore level students do not generally have the background to understand the full theoretical explanation of all the phenomena, they do take with them a basic understanding that

- * Goal:  Provide hands-on learning about concepts and methods in nanoscience.
- * Vehicle:  Lectures & Lab Activities.

- can serve as a framework for appreciating the broader issues when they encounter them in later courses.
- Topics we have covered are:  crystal structure, x-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, electron microprobe, spectrophotometry, extinction, light scattering (Rayleigh & Mie), microfluidics, scanned probe microscopy, and thin-film growth.

## NanoLab:  A hands-on introduction to nanoscience for scientists and engineersLloyd A. Bumm and Matthew B. Johnson, University of Oklahoma, DMR-0304664

- Pattern in etchedinto Si substrate

- NanoLab:  A hands-on introduction to nanoscience for scientists and engineersLloyd A. Bumm and Matthew B. Johnson, University of Oklahoma, DMR-0304664

- Original Mask Pattern

**Microcontact Printing Pattern Transfer**
- photographic Film mask
- photoresist master (MicroChem SU-8 2010)
- PDMS stamp (Dow Corning Sylgard 184)
- Patterned SAM etch resist on Pd film on Si
- Etch Pd film to produce the final pattern
- Use Pd film as etch resist of Si
- HF etch Si substrate

**NanoLab Students Perform AFM Lithography**

- NanoLab has been offered as an intensive intersession course and during the semester.  The enrollment (6 & 12) included Physics and

- Engineering students.  The graduate student who enrolled developed a module in her research groups area of expertise (microfluidics).
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## ATD Research Needs and PrioritiesPanelists

- Dr. Jay Boris – Navy/NRL
- Mr. Walter Schalk – NOAA/ARL
- Mr. John Pace – DoD/DTRA
- Ms. Jocelyn Mitchell - NuRC
- Dr. David Bacon – SAIC
- Dr. Zafer Boybeyi - GMU

## Research Needs and Priorities

- Most pressing needs
- Needs easily reached
- Understanding requirements to prioritize research needs
- Coordination and collaboration of efforts

## Research Needs (OFCM  Report) 

**Source Characterization**
**Chemical Mixtures**
**Collaboration and Coordination**
**Limits of Predictability**
**Measurement Strategies**
**Characterization of Urban Canopy**
**Urban Dispersion**
**The Planetary Boundary Layer**
**PBL Modeling Errors**
**Coastal Influences**

**Concentration Variability**
**Deposition Rates**
**Resuspension Rates**
**Cross-Media Interactions**
**Chronic Health Effects**
**Complex Terrain**
**Indoor-Outdoor Interactions**
**Nocturnal Boundary Layer**
**Land Surface Models**

## NRC StudyNational Coordinated Effort

- New dispersion model constructs (computational)
- Techniques for ensembles at urban scale-probabilistic information to user
- Effective real time assimilation of meteorological and CBN sensor data
- Urban field studies for meteorological and dispersion modeling
- Bulk effects of urban area on surface energy, moisture, and momentum
- Establish an operational urban forecasting and dispersion system; use as test bed for instrumentation and model evaluation and development
- Develop measurement systems

## Research Needs and Priorities(Panel Abstracts)

- Urban wind, turbulence, dispersion
- Urban validation data
- Integrate agent sensors into modeling systems
- Characterize scales at, below, and above T&D scales
- Observations – minimal set of obs required; *in situ* obs of thermal effects in cities
- Acquire knowledge and develop models to evaluate local effects
- Accuracy of PBL flows – daytime and other
- Meteorological & tracer data in 3 dimensions
- Uncertainty in models & inputs

## Research Needs and Priorities (Panel Abstracts)

- Conveyance of the threat
- Study  local to regional scales
- Coupling of mesoscale and dispersion modeling – on scene data

## Research Needs(Consolidated?)

**Diurnal PBL**
- Land surface models / heterogeneous lower BC
- Initial and Lateral BC
- Parameterizations at smaller grid sizes (horizontal & vertical)
- 4-D Measurements at high resolution
- Quantifying Errors and Uncertainty
**Urban Dispersion**
- Field and wind tunnel studies for validation data sets
- New model constructs
- Probabilistic information to user
- Effects on thermal, moisture, radiative, momentum at different scales
- Urban morphology

## Priorities

**$$$$$**
**Collaboration / Cooperation**
**Full Time Operational Urban Network**
- Forecasting
- Dispersion modeling
- Real-time data assimilation into forecast & dispersion models
- Test bed
- Instrument development and evaluation
- Model performance evaluation
- Measurement strategies
# Presentation: 918707

## EKOFISK
Using The OAI protocol in practice

Hilde Høgås

- Using The OAI protocol in practice
- Hilde Høgås

## Ekofisk – Norwegian (petroleum) history 

- Oil first discovered in the North sea in 1969
- Oil production started 1971
- The oldest platforms will be shut down from 2003

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## Project Cultural Heritage Ekofisk

- Saving the history of Ekofisk for the future
- Partners
- ConocoPhillips
- Norwegian Petroleum Museum
- The Regional State Archive in Stavanger
- The National Library

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## Project Cultural Heritage Ekofisk 

- Preserving the objects
- Artifacts
- Photos
- Films
- Radio programs
- Interviews (text and sound)
- Periodicals
- Technical drawings
- Archival material
- Digital objects
- mp3, wav
- jpeg, gif, tiff
- mpeg,mpg
- doc, pdf...

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## Ekofisk Metadata

- Metadata in several different databases

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## Using The OAI-protocol

- XML-files

- OAI-Repository or textfiles
- OAI-Harvester
- Common DC metadata format
- Search engine *FAST Search & Transfer ASA*

*Search engine*

*The OAI protocol*

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## The Mavis OAI Repository

- Common format: DCEkofisk
- Extended Dublin Core format
- In XML

- Mavis mapping to DCEkofisk
- Only the bibliograhic description

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## Mapping Mavis to DCEkofisk

| DCEkofisk | Mavis |
| --- | --- |
| DC.Title | TITLE_DESC |
| DC.Creator | NAME |
| DCE.Creator.Role | ROLE + ROLE_NOTE |
| DC.Description | TITLE_INDEX_POINT.SUMMARY |
| DC. Publisher | NAME + ROLE (=PRS) + ROLE_NOTE |
| DC.Date | OBJECT_DATE_TYPE = PRODUCTION  /  YEAR_FROM   /   YEAR_TO   /  CIRCA |
| DC.Format..Extent | DURATION_HR  /  DURATION_MIN  /  DURATION_SEC |
| DC.Format..Medium | FILE_FORMAT |
| DC.Identifier | OBJECT_RESOURCE_IDENTIFIER.RESOURCE_IDENTIFIER |

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## First Draft

**Search for information:**

- All the words

**ekofisk tank**

- The exact phrase

- Any of the words

- None of the words

- Display

- 10 results

- Information in

- Any language

- Document type

- All document types

- Search  information

- Anywhere in the record

- Only find results updated

- The last month

- Advanced search
- _Simple search_
- _Help_

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## Progress 

| The Ekofisk web site: | End of 2004 |
| --- | --- |
| Cross database search: | End of 2003 |

- Mapping:	Hilde.Hogas@nb.no
- OAI protocol:	Jan.Trulsen@nb.no
- Indexing:	Sverre.Bang@nb.no

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# Presentation: 737911

## This presentation is for illustrative and general educational purposes only and is not intended to substitute for the official MSHA Investigation Report analysis nor is it intended to provide the sole foundation, if any, for any related enforcement actions. 

## GENERAL INFORMATION

- Operator:		Eighty Four Mining Company
- Mine:		Mine 84
- Accident Date:	April 5, 2007
- Classification: 	Stepping or Kneeling on Object
- Location: 		District 2,
- 		Washington County, Pennsylvania
- Mine Type: 	Underground Coal Mine
- Employment:	528
- Production:	17,000 tons/day

## ACCIDENT DESCRIPTION

- At approximately 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 5, 2007, a 50-year old continuous miner operator, with 27 years of mining experience, was injured in the 7B-8B cut-through entry. The accident occurred as he was walking behind the center roof-bolting machine to check for  slack cable needed to allow the machine to move forward. The victim slipped on the mine floor which caused him to twist his left ankle and fall to the floor. The initial injury was first believed to be a sprained left ankle but was later determined to be a simple fractured left fibula.
- The victim was given first aid at the mine and transported to Canonsburg Hospital and treated. On April 11, 2007 a cast was put on the ankle. The victim died on April 28, 2007. The coroner concluded that the victim died as a result of pulmonary thromboembolus, due to deep vein thrombosis of the left leg due to blunt force trauma of the leg sustained as he fell at work on April 5, 2007.

## ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS

*Root Cause*: Historically, the mine floor can be wet which results in slippery walking conditions. This particular entry was wet and slippery with firm bottom conditions. Sloughage of the roof and ribs was normal in the area.
*Corrective Action*: Mine management developed a program to conduct thorough visual examinations of work areas prior to performing any work and thereafter as conditions change. Also, obstructions that may cause slipping and tripping hazards will be removed. Management instructed miners to be aware of footing and surrounding areas while walking.

## ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS

**No enforcement action taken**

## Best Practices

Conduct thorough visual examinations of work area prior to performing any work in the area and thereafter as conditions warrant. 
Remove obstructions and items from the work area that may cause possible slipping and tripping hazards. 
Be aware of footing and surrounding areas while working. 

- Conduct thorough visual examinations of work area prior to performing any work in the area and thereafter as conditions warrant.
- Remove obstructions and items from the work area that may cause possible slipping and tripping hazards.
- Be aware of footing and surrounding areas while working.
# Presentation: 741678

## What’s New?DOL-ACS Provider Search

- FECA

## PROVIDER WEB SEARCH		

- The search results within this function will list only the physicians who have agreed to have their practice information available to users
- This feature may be useful in the initial choice of physician.  However, an employee must submit a written request to OWCP with his or her reasons for desiring a change of physician and obtain approval

## Have you been looking for a physician in your area?

## Check out the Web Site!

- _You can now use the __ACS-DOL Web Portal to search for physicians_
- _[http://owcp.dol.acs-inc.com](http://owcp.dol.acs-inc.com/)_
- You can search for a physician by name, address, or even by specialty

## Slide 5

## Make sure to read and accept the Agreement

## Then select your program

## Now you can select one or more criteria to find a provider

- Specialty
- Last Name or Practice Name
- First Name
- City
- State
- Zip Code

## Slide 9

## To find a provider...

- Enter your search and Click Submit!
- Here are some tips:
- The “Reset” button will clear the search fields
- The “Back” button will return to the program screen
- If you would like to select more than one provider type or specialty, press the CTRL key while you scroll down

## Almost done...!

- Review your search results
- You can sort the results by clicking on the column name or the arrows up and down
- The search results will display only providers who have agreed to be included in this feature

## Results Page

- JOHN DOE, MD

- 123 Main Street
- Any-town, US 123450000

- (555) 987-
- 6543

- 124 Main Street
- Any-town, US 123450000

- JANE SMITH

- (555) 213-
- 4657

- ORTHOPAEDIC
- ASSOCIATES

- 321 Elm Street
- Any-town, US 123467778

- (555) 789-
- 3456

- Notice multiple pages

- Sort the columns

## Help!

- For assistance, please contact our ACS-DOL Web Portal Helpdesk at           1-800-461-7485
- Our agents are available to assist you Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern time
# Presentation: 567713

## Proposal for a new PHENIX groupEwha Womans University, Seoul

- Lead by Il Park
- Member Institutions
- Department of Physics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
- School of Science Education, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
- NCC Collaborator
- Strong connection with Yonsei across street
- Strong connection of Korean Industry via SENS
- ETRI        (LG, SAMSUNG etc)
- KAIST
- Silicon Lab

## Group Members
3 faculty, physicist  (institution leader: Shinwoo Nam)
Shinwoo Nam, professor, high energy physicist, hardware
Insik Hahn, professor, nuclear physicist, software
Il H. Park, professor, astroparticle physicsist, hardware 
2 research professor (Dr. Hyo Eun Ahn, one to be hired)
2 engineers, one for Electronics, the other for Semiconductor sensors
1 Ph.D. student (Aram Kim)
3 Master Students (Jung Lan Kim, Jung Sook Yoo)
 Current Activities
CREAM cosmic ray experiment at Antarctica: in charge of entire system of silicon charge detector (500 silicon sensors and 6000 electronics channels)
Linear Collider R&D on silicon sensors for silicon-tungsten EM calorimeter
Pulse shape analysis and DAQ of silicon detectors
Proposed Activities In PHENIX
Nosecone Calorimeter Upgrade: silicon strip-pixel and pad sensor design, test, mass production
Funding
Under proposal to funding agency

- 3 faculty, physicist  (institution leader: Shinwoo Nam)
- Shinwoo Nam, professor, high energy physicist, hardware
- Insik Hahn, professor, nuclear physicist, software
- Il H. Park, professor, astroparticle physicsist, hardware
- 2 research professor (Dr. Hyo Eun Ahn, one to be hired)
- 2 engineers, one for Electronics, the other for Semiconductor sensors
- 1 Ph.D. student (Aram Kim)
- 3 Master Students (Jung Lan Kim, Jung Sook Yoo)
-  Current Activities
- CREAM cosmic ray experiment at Antarctica: in charge of entire system of silicon charge detector (500 silicon sensors and 6000 electronics channels)
- Linear Collider R&D on silicon sensors for silicon-tungsten EM calorimeter
- Pulse shape analysis and DAQ of silicon detectors
- Proposed Activities In PHENIX
- Nosecone Calorimeter Upgrade: silicon strip-pixel and pad sensor design, test, mass production
- Funding
- Under proposal to funding agency
# Presentation: 725532

## Global IOOS Milestone:  New Platforms in Service

-      FY2006 Target: 761 new ocean observing platforms deployed and reporting;
-      Jun 2006: 489 total ocean observing platforms (target 571); 442 ARGO floats

- Aug. 06

- G

## GPRA:  Reduce the Error in Global Measurement of Sea Surface Temperature

**Reduce the error in global measurement of Sea **

**surface Temperature**

-      FY06 target: 0.5 °C;     Long-term Target: Error of 0.2 °C by 2009.

- More rapid expansion of the in situ network over the next several years will minimize the satellite bias error, enabling more accurate global sea surface temperature from a combination of satellite and in situ measurements.

- _Satellite bias error_: the systematic difference between satellite-derived vs. *in situ *actual measurement of sea surface temperature

- Jun. 06

- G
# Presentation: 818612

## ElectronicMail Irregularity Reporting(eMIR)

## eMIR – Status

**As a Result of Pilot Tests:**
**Upgrade  capabilities (customer search, problem identifiers)**
**Enhance features (attach image, edit problem report, manage problem reports)**
**Re-engineer using new technology (J2EE)**

## eMIR – Status

**Timeline:**
**Develop – Spring/Summer 2004**
**Test – Summer 2004**
**National Training Deployment – July/August 2004**
**National Implementation – Fall 2004**

## eMIR – Status

**Communication Plan:**
**Business Mail Customers**
**USPS Customers**
**Operations **
**Mail Processing Facilities**
**Marketing**
**Business Mail Acceptance**
**Sales**
**Business Services Network**
**Information Technology**
**Help Desk**

## eMIR – Status

**Training:**
**Audience**
**Business Mail Acceptance**
**Mail Processing**
**Format**
**Online (Web-Based)**
**Facility Briefings (Stand-Up Talks)**
**Video**
**Schedule – July/August, 2004**

## Slide 6
# Presentation: 662997

## NASA NYCRI 2006Autonomous Vehicle Control System

- Advisor: Dr. Haim Baruh
- Mentor: Lucian Iorga
- Researcher: Christopher Bussetti

## An Autonomous Vehicle

- How it works:
- The camera from the follower vehicle tracks the 3 red targets on the lead vehicle (which is a remote control car).
- Transfers coordinates to the onboard PIC micro computer via serial connection.
- The computer controls the motor and the steering.
- The Bluetooth wireless antenna sends control data to laptop computer for monitoring at Rutgers.

## The Development of the Autonomous Robot 

- Platform development
- Use of a Rutgers MAE undergraduate design
- Repairs and improvements
- Modifications
- The development of a control law
- Need a robust control law
- Test new approach towards robust control developed at Rutgers MAE

## Project stages and responsibilities

- Modifications of the steering mechanism
- Change control of  steering
- Implement new robust control law
- Build a second follower car

## The New and Improved Vehicle

- Choose new hardware:
- A similar computer will be used
- Rotating camera
- Voltage regulator
- Modify chassis
- Building a camera turret
- Mount electronics on chassis

## Thank you
# Presentation: 891524

## NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY POLICY 

** ********        ****To support and accelerate power generation from **
**            ****renewables to meet the minimum energy needs**
******        ****Provides for supportive fiscal regime, single window **
**          ****clearance, leveraging  additional budgetary resources   **
**          ****from other departments, preferential prices for renewable **
**          ****electricity etc.,**
******       ****Envisages Medium term (2012) Capacity addition goal of:**
**-   Wind Energy – 5000 MW**
**-    Small Hydro – 2000 MW**
**-    Biomass Power/Cogeneration – 2500 MW**
**-    Urban/Industrial waste to Energy – 220 MW**
**-     SPV Power – 30 MW**
**-     Solar Thermal Power – 250 MW**

## RENEWABLE ENERGY PLAN 2012 

** ********       ****Achieving a 10% share for renewables in the new power **
**           ****capacity  by adding up of about 10,000 MW through **
**           ****Renewables.**
******        ****Deployment of Solar Water heating systems in one Million **
**           ****homes**
******        ****Electrification by renewables for 24,000 unelectrified           **
**           ****villages**
******        ****Deployment of 5 million solar lanterns and 2 million solar **
**           ****home lighting systems**
******        ****Coverage of 30 million households through improved wood **
**           ****stoves**
******        ****Setting up of further 3 million family size biogas plants**

## TARGETS FOR 10TH FIVE YEAR PLAN (2002-2007) 

******        ****Wind Power – 1500 MW**
******        ****Small Hydro Power – 600 MW**
******        ****Biomass Power/Co-generation/Gasification – 775 MW**
******        ****Solar PV Power – 5 MW**
******        ****Solar Thermal Power – 140 MW**
******        ****Energy from Urban / Industrial waste – 80 MW**
******        ****Total fund Required – US$3.43 Billion**
**	*****  Budgetary Support by Government of India – US$ 0.20 **
**          ****Billion**
**	*****  Private Sector Investment (Equity + Loan) – US$ 3.23 Billion**

## TARGET FOR 11TH FIVE YEAR PLAN (2007 – 12) 

******        ****Wind Power – 3500 MW**
******        ****Small Hydro Power – 1400 MW**
******        ****Biomass Power/Co-generation/Gassification – 1725 MW**
******        ****Solar P Power – 25 MW**
******        ****Solar Thermal Power – 110 MW**
******        ****Energy from Urban/Industrial waste – 140 MW**
******        ****Total fund Required – US$ 8.96 Billion**
**	*****  Budgetary Support by Government of India – US$ 0.48 **
**             ****Billion**
**	*****  Private Sector Investment (Equity + Loan) – US$ 8.48 Billion**

## Renewable Energy Potential and Current Achievements in India

_**A.  Power from Renewables**_