BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 672992

## Project Close Out: The Last HoopsJohn Styba – Helena ADO

## PROJECT CLOSEOUT PROCESSGOAL: IMPROVE EFFICIENCY 

## Reduce Time Projects Are OpenThe Benefits:

- Consultant:  saves time - increases profit
- Process done more efficiently
- Sponsor:  project’s cost less
- No additional charges against open grants
- Sponsor:  no impact on future grants
- FAA does not have to withhold future work

## How To Get There

- Think about the end from the beginning
- Identify what element is the hanging up the process
- Establish a good project filing system
- Improve understanding of everyone’s needs

## Think Closeout “Package”

-    Send in a complete package of       closeout materials rather than individual items
-    Reduces chance items get “lost”
-    Minimizes time to review

## Send It “Right” The First Time

- Incomplete packages, errors in the materials sent, all increase the closeout process time
- “Spool-Up” Time needed each time a closeout  is restarted

## Use A Project Closeout Checklist

-  Too many things to remember – good chance you’ll forget something needed
-  Speeds up FAA’s review
-  Good reference at start of project that identifies what needs to be tracked and assembled

## Common Errors

- As-Builts Missing along with CADD Files
- Certifications Missing
- Copies of Contracts not sent
- Final Pay Request Missing; Grant Amendment request not received
- Errors in final amounts claimed
- Can not determine if material placed met specification requirements and that proper penalties assessed

## Common Errors Continued

- Special Grant conditions not satisfied
- 5010 Airport Master Record Data and Sketch Not Revised
- Pavement File Not Revised
- Construction Narrative missing
- Ineligible work claimed or not broken out

## Tracking Cancelled Warrants

- What’s a “cancelled warrant”?
- Why are they important?
- Who issues them?
- Who does the tracking?
- What tracking format works best?
- Do you have to wait for the last one issued?

## Data Verification:                    The 3-Way Check

- “Forces” the report author to confirm the “numbers”
- Reduces chances error’s are made such as “double counting”
- Allows rapid confirmation of final costs and federal share

## Summary

- Send in a complete closeout package
- Include a bound completed checklist as first page of  the final report
- Verify your numbers – do the “three-way” check – include backup data to show how you did this
- Notify FAA early of amendment needs – get request sent
- Non-Letter Credit: include 2 signed copies final pay request – last payment should not be a large amount

## AND REMEMBER ....

- Call your ADO project manager when you run into problems
- Let them know if there is one last element hanging – maybe able to assist or work something out

## QUESTIONS?
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## The Transform America Transaction Fee 

- A Presentation to the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform
- by
- Jim Baker
- Chairman, Baker & Company, LLC

## Overview

- The Transform America Transaction Fee is a new revenue generating idea that would collect a fee on transactions regardless of payment method.
- It would apply to retail and wholesale sales, business to business purchases and financial or other transactions, including intermediate interchanges, with payers becoming liable for the fee at the point of control.
- The Fee could be assessed as a percentage or on a fixed, tiered, or progressive basis.
- Potential exclusions include cash transactions under $500, employee salaries/wages and savings transactions.

- Transform America Transaction Fee Presentation

- May 11, 2005

## Major Features

**Simplicity**---the Transaction Fee eliminates the federal tax system as we know it—income, payroll, corporate profits and capital gains---thereby drastically reducing the burden and cost of compliance in a transparent.
**Fairness**---the Transaction Fee proposal shares the burden widely, including capture of underground activity and foreign transactions---resulting in rate of 0.4%, achieving revenue  neutrality based solely on the transactions that move through the Federal Reserve.
**Flexibility**---the proposal allows for variation in rate structure and applicability, thereby providing a mechanism to achieve policy goals, including encouraging homeownership and charity.

- Transform America Transaction Fee Presentation

- May 11, 2005

## Major Features

**Economic Impact**---Promotes long-run economic growth by lowering tax and compliance costs, while allowing policy makers flexibility through variation in fee rate and applicability.
- 	The proposal will:
- Motivate firms to undertake projects and workers to supply labor.
- Discourage short-term trading in favor of long-term investments.
- Decrease the burdens on small businesses, allowing these entrepreneurs---the life blood of our economy---to focus on the identification and satisfaction of customer needs.

- Transform America Transaction Fee Presentation

- May 11, 2005

## Conclusion 

- The Transaction Fee holds tremendous promise for achieving the goals of the President’s initiative.  Importantly, the methodology proposed for its implementation reflects a thoughtful approach that would allow for the resulting policy to have mechanisms in place. to address national priorities.

- Transform America Transaction Fee Presentation

- May 11, 2005
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## Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop/CLIVAR Drought Workshop

- Welcome to Nebraska!

**Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop/CLIVAR Drought Workshop**

- Photo: Melissa Widhalm, NDMC

## Nebraska

- Home of the Unicameral
- Home of the 6th Great Lake
- Sandhills
- Kool-Aid, CliffNotes
- Berkshire Hathaway (Warren Buffett), Cabela’s, Union Pacific (World’s largest rail yard in North Platte), Valmont Industries

## Nebraska

- Bird: Western Meadowlark
- Animal: White-tailed Deer
- Fish: Channel Catfish
- Flower: Goldenrod
- Tree: Cottonwood
- Grass: Little Bluestem
- Dance: Square Dance
- Fossil: Mammoth
- Motto: Equality before the law

## Slide 4

## Slide 5

## Lincoln, NE

- Originally called Lancaster in 1856
- Became the Lancaster County Seat in 1859
- Became the capital when Nebraska gained statehood in 1867
- Saline wetlands
- Salt Creek Tiger Beetle
- Lincoln Saltdogs
- Population: 225,581
- Elevation: 1,176 ft
- Annual precipitation: 28.4 inches
- Annual snowfall: 27.5 inches

## Hours:	Monday and Tuesday	9:30 to 5:30

- Hours:	Monday and Tuesday	9:30 to 5:30
- 	Wednesday thru Friday	9:30 to 8:30
- 	Saturday		10:00 to 4:00

## Slide 8

## Workshop Details

- Thank you!
- Funding
- Agendas
- Social Events
- Poster Sessions
- Registration Materials
- NDMC Staff and Students
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## The U.S. and World Situation: Blueberries

**<footer>****USDA**
**Foreign Agricultural Service**
**Horticultural & Tropical Products Division**

## Global Fresh Blueberry Production

**Calendar Years**

**Source:  Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations**

## Top Exporters of Blueberries

**Source:  Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations**

**Calendar Years**

## Top Importers of Blueberries

**Source:  Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations**

**Calendar Years**

## The U.S. Fresh Blueberry Market

**Source: Economic Research Service, USDA; National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA; Bureau of the Census, DOC**

**Calendar Years**

## U.S. Fresh Blueberry Production, Consumption, and Imports

**Source: Economic Research Service, USDA**

**Marketing Years**

## U.S. Trade Balance in Fresh Blueberries

**Source: Bureau of the Census, DOC**

**Calendar Years**

## U.S. Blueberry Exports: Value and Export Value Share

**Million**

**Calendar Years**

**Source:  Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations**

## Top U.S. Fresh Blueberry Export Markets

**Source: Bureau of the Census, DOC**

**Calendar Years**

## Origin of U.S. Imported Fresh Blueberries

**Calendar Years**

**Source: Bureau of the Census, DOC**

## U.S. Monthly Imports of Fresh Blueberries

**Source: Bureau of the Census, DOC**

## U.S. Fresh and Frozen Blueberry Consumption

**Source: Economic Research Service, USDA**

**Calendar Years**

## U.S. Cultivated and Wild Blueberry Producing States

**Maine produces 100% of **
**the U.S. wild blueberry**
** ****crop. **

**Source: National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA**

**2003 SHARE**
**AL – <1%**
**AR – 1%**
**FL - 2%**
**GA - 9%**
**IN - 1%**
**MI - 33%**
**NJ - 21%**
**NY - 1%**
**NC - 12%**
**OR - 13%**
**WA - 7%**
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## The COSMOS AGN Survey

- Jonathan Trump

## The COSMic evOlution Survey

- 2 deg2 equatorial
- HST treasury project
- Deep: ACS iAB < 27
- Multi-wavelength observations
- Similar volume as SDSS, but fainter and higher z
- 19-band photo-z

- Jonathan Trump

- COSMOS

- RA  = 10:00:28.6
- Dec = +02:12:21

- Jonathan Trump

## VLA 1.4 GHz (Schinnerer) – 7 μJy
Spitzer-IRAC 3-8 μm (Sanders) – 10 μJy
Spitzer-MIPS 24 μm (Sanders) – 15 mJy
HST-ACS (Scoville) – iAB~27
Subaru BVriz (Taniguchi) – mAB~27
Also 20 narrow bands to mAB ~ 26
GALEX N/F UV (Schiminovich) – mAB~26
XMM (Hasinger) 0.5-10 keV – 1015 cgs

- Spitzer-IRAC 3-8 μm (Sanders) – 10 μJy
- Spitzer-MIPS 24 μm (Sanders) – 15 mJy
- HST-ACS (Scoville) – iAB~27
- Subaru BVriz (Taniguchi) – mAB~27
- Also 20 narrow bands to mAB ~ 26
- GALEX N/F UV (Schiminovich) – mAB~26
- XMM (Hasinger) 0.5-10 keV – 1015 cgs

- COSMOS Multiwavelength Data

- Jonathan Trump

## COSMOS AGN Survey

- Deep, wide-field AGN survey, down to Seyfert luminosities at z ~ 3
- Bolometric measures of activity from X-ray (XMM), ultraviolet (GALEX), optical (Subaru), IR (Spitzer), and radio (VLA) data
- SMBH demographics, with broad line proxy for measure of supermassive black hole mass
- Statistical sensitivity to rare populations (obscured, BAL, etc)
- Populations of high redshift (z > 4) quasars
- 3D tomography of the IGM
- Host galaxies morphologies measured out to z~1.5 with ACS data
- Environmental dependence of AGN luminosity and energy distributions
- New measure of AGN clustering relative to galaxy large scale structure

- Jonathan Trump

## COSMOS AGN Survey

- Jonathan Trump

## IMACS spectroscopy strategy

- X-ray selected AGN (XMM), priority 1
- Radio selected AGN (VLA), priority 2
- Optically selected z~3-5 AGNs, priority 3
- Extra targets: passive evolvers, dropouts
- iAB < 24 magnitude cut, Yield ~70%
- >90% yield to iAB < 22
- 1200 targets soon (finishing season 2 reduction)
- 700 X-ray selected, 500 radio selected
- >50% obscured AGN

- Jonathan Trump

## First Results: Evolution

- Type 1 AGN dominate z>1
- Obscured AGN (Type 2 & red galaxy) peak at z~0.7?

- Selection effects, but...

- Jonathan Trump

## First Results: Black Hole Masses

- MBH ~ Lα vfwhm2
- Smaller MBH than SDSS
- Large dynamic range
- Works at z~1-2 as well as z~0
- No scatter with different lines

- Use Hβ, MgII, CIV lines to infer MBH 	(Vestergaard & Peterson 2006)

- Jonathan Trump

## Future Work

- Use multi-wavelength observations to:
- Study the bolometric selection of AGN, e.g., what X-ray and radio-selected AGNs does the SDSS miss?
- X-ray / radio emission with AGN type
- Bolometric luminosity function
- Evolution of AGN, obscured -> unobscured
- Host subtraction by morphology & SEDs
- Follow-up on IR, UV variability selection
- Use environment observations to:
- Study AGN hosts to z~1.5 – Gabor talk on Wed.

- Jonathan Trump
# Presentation: 918961

## My 10min talk: Two topics

**  ****(1) ****The Japanese useful data set for the time series data**
**  ****(2) ****Some of our group’s results: **
**         ****Decadal changes of oceanic components **
**            ****in the western North Pacific.**
**                ****(a) Its linear trend and oscillation **
**                ****(b) The change of biological activity in the surface**

## For JMA data: Please contact the members of JMA or MRJ (Ishii, Inoue)

** **

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- 4

- 8

- N

- 0

- N

***1***

***7***

***5***

***E***

- 3

- 4

- .

- 5

- N

***1***

***3***

***7***

***E***

***O***

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- 3

- N

***J***

***p***

**JMA data**
**(1971-)**

**KANSO data (web site)**
***NOPACCS***
***WESTCOSMIC***
**(1990-2001)**

**Longitude(E)**

**Latitude(N)**

**JMA data**
**(1980s-**

*155**E*

*165**E*

**P1 rev.(JODC web site**
**(1999)**

**JODC data (web site)**
**(1960s-**

**JMA data**
**(1971-)**

**KNOT data (web site)**
**(1997-)**

***For JMA data: Please contact the members of JMA or MRJ (Ishii, Inoue)***

## (I)JODC(Japan Oceanographic Data Center)

**(****I)JODC****(Japan Oceanographic Data Center)**
**         ****J-DOSS(JODC data On-line Service System)**

**(****II)IJCD****(Inventory of Japanese Chemical oceanographic Data)**
**     ****Although most of them are closed, **
**      ****it is necessary to contact each PI.**

**Japanese useful data site**

**It is possible to get the JMA data along 137E**

## The linear trend and oscillation

**Many results are only based on the two snap shot data.**
**Thus, using the long term data set, we try to clarify the following:**

## Comparison of DO, PO4 & T between 

**These linear trends and oscillations have completely strong correlation against NPI.**

**Comparison of DO, PO****4**** & T between **
**Japan Sea Deep Water and **
**North Pacific Intermediate Water**

**The change of these parameters**
** ****in the two oceans occurred by 27.4 **********
**(****Japan Sea:3000m, North Pacific:1000m)**

**The change of these parameters **
**synchronized to each other despite these **
**water formation systems to be independent.**

## Possibility of 

**the change of marine biological activity**** **

**Even if the biological activities do not increase remarkably, **
**it is possible that they already changed due to the change of physical conditions.**
** **

**Using the long term data set with biological activity****, **
**we here try to clarify the following:**

## Time series of Chlorophyll-a Subsurface Maximum Depth (CSMD) (m) 

## Density, PO4, Chl and NCP in the mixed layer 

**along 137E ****(3 yrs running mean)**

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- .

## Slide 9
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## Elements of a Winning SBIR Grant Application:

**Lessons Learned**
**Lawrence J. Thomas, Ph.D.**
**AVANT Immunotherapeutics, Inc.**

**AVANT Immunotherapeutics, Inc.**

## AVANT Immunotherapeutics, Inc

**AVANT Immunotherapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of products that harness the human immune response to prevent and treat disease.**

## CETP Vaccine Program

_**Goal**_**:**** To prevent or treat atherosclerosis by vaccination.**
_**Method**_**:**** Induce antibodies to cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP), thereby reducing its activity, and raising serum levels of HDL (high-density lipoprotein) cholesterol.**
_**Progress**_**:**** Currently in a Phase 1 clinical trial.**

## CETP Vaccine Program

_**SBIR Funding (NHLBI)**_
**Phase I SBIR: A Plasmid-based Vaccine to Prevent / Treat Atherosclerosis**
**Phase I SBIR: A Peptide Vaccine to Prevent / Treat Atherosclerosis**
**Phase I and Phase II SBIR: Development of a Transgenic Rat Atherosclerosis Model**

## Lessons Learned

**Before Writing the Application**
**While Writing the Application**
**After Writing the Application**

## Before Writing the Application

**. Understand the SBIR Program. Is it right for your company and the project?**

## Before Writing the Application

**. Clearly define your Specific Aims.**

## Before Writing the Application

**. Preliminary data is valuable.**

## Before Writing the Application

**. Talk to the staff at the appropriate funding agency.**

## While Writing the Application

**. Read the instructions carefully.**

## While Writing the Application

**. Leave enough time for writing, reviewing and modifications.**

## While Writing the Application

**. Talk to the staff at the appropriate funding agency.**

## While Writing the Application

**. Pay attention to the details of the entire application. Be organized. **

## After Writing the Application

**. Talk to the staff at the appropriate funding agency.**

## After Writing the Application

**. Carefully consider the Summary Statement when deciding whether to reapply.**

## After Writing the Application

**. If the Specific Aims need to change, be sure they are still consistent with the company’s project goals.**** **
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## SBN Expansion

- 3-31-04

## Requirement

- Deliver the ever increasing data volume to the field.
- Data delivery requirements to the field are expected to increase by 10 fold by 2010.
- A scalable delivery method is needed to keep up with the demand.
- An open standard solution will allow procurement of COTS equipment.

## The Plan

- Use Digital Video Broadcast – Satellite (DVB-S) technology to deliver high volumes of data to the field.
- Use data compression to free up a SBN T-1 channel.
- Use freed up T-1 to introduce DVB-S technology to 17 Test sites.
- Roll out DVB-S system wide.

## Benefits of DVB-S

- Current SBN technology requires deployment of a new proprietary demodulator to the field for every T1 (1.5 Mbits/sec) increase in data capacity.
- New DVB-S technology is linearly scalable to meet data requirement demands using a single demodulator up to 43 Mbits/s per demodulator (vs. 28  T-1 demodulators).
- DVB-S technology is a one channel solution.
- The inherently bursty data of SBN is transmitted much more efficiently over a single channel, as opposed to discrete T1 channels.
- DVB-S technology is open source, and open standard.
-  Interoperability and competition among vendors.
- A DVB-S demodulator is a fraction of the cost of the existing proprietary SBN demodulators.

## New Gateway Channel (TG2)

- As part of the SBN expansion plan, the freed up SBN T1 channel will be used to deliver additional data (using DVB-S technology) to the field, effectively doubling the existing Gateway channel data capacity.

## SBN’s Future

- After the DVB-S technology is proven, SBN will become a single channel carrying all SBN data using DVB-S.
- Data requirements will be evaluated yearly and the SBN channel will be scaled accordingly.

## Migration to high capacity, single DVB-S SBN channel

- 1.544 Mbits/sec

- GOES EAST
- 1.544 Mbits/sec

- OCONUS
- 772Kbps

- TG
- 1.544 Mbits/sec

- Past SBN
- Configuration Through 8-5-03

- Compressed
- GOES WEST
- 1.544 Mbits/sec

- Compressed
- GOES EAST
- 1.544 Mbits/sec

- OCONUS
- 772Kbps

- TG
- 1.544 Mbits/sec

- SBN configuration from 8-5-03 through 8-12-3

- Combined
- GOES East/West
- 1.544 Mbits/sec

- Combined
- GOES East/West
- 1.544 Mbits/sec

- OCONUS
- 772Kbps

- TG
- 1.544 Mbits/sec

- SBN configuration from 8-12-03 through 8-19-03

- Combined
- GOES East/West
- 1.544 Mbits/sec

- OCONUS
- 772Kbps

- TG
- 1.544 Mbits/sec

- Current SBN configuration

- Past SBN Configuration.

- SBN configuration after compressing GOES feeds.

- SBN configuration after combining GOES feeds.

- Current SBN configuration transmitting test DVB-S signals
- On the former GOES West channel.

- DVB-S Test Signals
- 1.544 Mbits/sec

## Migration to high capacity, single DVB-S SBN channel
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## Plan View - Proposed STAR Shielding 3 Aug 05 (Pendzick)

- _5 O’clock_

- blue

- yellow

## Elevation View - Proposed STAR Shielding 3 Aug 05 (Pendzick)

- _5 O’clock_

## Beam View - Proposed STAR Shielding 3 Aug 05 (Pendzick)

## Beam View - Proposed STAR Shielding 3 Aug 05 (Pendzick)

## Beam View - Proposed STAR Shielding 3 Aug 05 (Pendzick)

- _5 O’clock_

## Beam View - Proposed STAR Shielding 3 Aug 05 (Pendzick)

- _5 O’clock_

- blue

- yellow

## D0 – DX, 5 o’clock

## D0 – DX, with proposed shielding, 5 o’clock

## D0 – DX, with proposed shielding, 5 o’clock
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## The OSG Resource Selection Service (ReSS)

- Gabriele Garzoglio
- Fermilab, Computing Division
- March 13, 2007

## The Resource Selection Project

- The Resource Selector Service implements cluster-level Workload Management on OSG.
- The project started in Sep 2005
- Sponsors
- DZero contribution to the Common Project
- FNAL-CD (30% FTE Gabriele, 50% FTE Tanya)
- Collaboration of the Sponsors with
- OSG (TG-MIG, ITB, VDT / John Weigand)
- CEMon gLite Project (INFN)
- FermiGrid
- Glue Schema Group

## The Resource Selection Service Motivations / Deliverables

- A Resource Selector allows...
- ...expressing requirements on the resources in the job description
- ...the user to refer to *abstract *characteristics of the resources in the job description
- The Resource Selection Activity has two major goals
- Enable OSG resource usage by DZero. Jobs are prepared and data is handled by the SAM-Grid.
- Develop and deploy a Resource Selection Service that VOs with requirements on job management similar to DZero can use.

## The Resource Selection ServiceArchitecture

- Condor
- Match Maker

- Info
- Gatherer

- Condor
- Scheduler

## Status

- Development is mostly done
- We may still add SE to the resource selection process
- Integration of ReSS with Fermigrid is done
- Assisting Deployment of ReSS on Production OSG
- Worked with ITB since May 06, targeting deployment for Summer 06
- Validation process very slow: OSG 0.6.0 released on Mar 07.
- Using ReSS on SAM-Grid / OSG for DZero data reprocessing for the available sites
- However, the delay in OSG deployment makes operations difficult (keeping “right” amount of idle jobs at sites)
- Working with OSG VOs to facilitate ReSS usage

## Current Deployment

## Remaining Tasks for the Project

- Assist with OSG deployment
- Assist OSG VOs (e.g. Engagement) to use ReSS
- Integrate ReSS with GlideIn Factory
- Check with collaborators if they are interested in SE support
- ...one of the last development activities on the table today
- Assist OSG with Truth-In-Advertisement (GIP)
- Move project from devel. to maintenance
- estimated effort reduction: from 0.8 FTE to 0.25 FTE
- Maintain CEMon in VDT reasonably up to date

## Conclusions

- ReSS Project is naturally moving from development to maintenance
- We are still involved in integration and supporting activities
- More info at _[http://](http://osg.ivdgl.org/twiki/bin/view/ResourceSelection/)__[osg.ivdgl.org/twiki/bin/view/ResourceSelection](http://osg.ivdgl.org/twiki/bin/view/ResourceSelection/)__[/](http://osg.ivdgl.org/twiki/bin/view/ResourceSelection/)_
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## WELCOME TO MACEDONIA

- MARCH 2004

## SEED BUDGET, FY 2004$39 MILLION

- Transfers to other U.S. Government Agencies (4.2)

- Education and Local Economic Development (6.4)

- Accelerated Economic Growth (12.4)

- More Democratic Institutions (11.8)

- Participant Training and Program Support (4.2)

## MACEDONIA’S NATIONAL GOALS

- NATO Application 2006, Membership 2008
- Equipment
- Reorganization
- EU Membership next decade
- Rule of Law
- Ohrid Framework Agreement implementation
- Name of Country

## MACEDONIA’S NATIONAL GOALS

- NATO Application 2006, Membership 2008
- Equipment
- Reorganization
- EU Membership next decade
- Rule of Law
- Ohrid Framework Agreement implementation
- Name of Country

## Slide 5

## SOCIAL TRANSITION: EDUCATION

**SOCIAL TRANSITION: EDUCATION**

## Youth volunteers multiply program outreach.

- Mak-Action gain practical leadership experience.
# Presentation: 514191

## October 2005 SECAA Program ReportR.E. McGuireSpace Physics Data Facility / NASA Goddard

**Status, Metrics and Highlights**
**Work In-Progress and Planned**
**Budget Overview**

## Status and Metrics

**Current SECAA data services are operating continuously and without significant problems**
**Figure shows growing combined usage of full range of services**
- Some pre-2001 FTP (in “Files Retrieved”) and GIFWalk statistics not available

## Status and Metrics (cont)

**CDAWeb use by function**
- 55 instruments with ~current data served by CDAWeb

**SSCWeb use by function**
- 37 current and 75 total spacecraft orbits in SSCWeb

## National and International Use of CDAWeb

**290 distinct IP addresses made >100 requests July 1, 2004- June 30, 2005**
- 1300 distinct addresses made >10 requests

## Select Accomplishments

**Science Advisory Group (SAG) meeting Sept 29-30 at Goddard**
- Chair:  Terry Onsager (NOAA)
- Members :  Larry Paxton (APL), John Richardson (MIT), Neal Hurlburt (LM SAL), Dave Sibeck (GSFC), Aaron Roberts (GSFC, senior consultant)
- Committee analysis still in progress
- General sense was a well established and successful foundation in services highly valuable to the solar wind-magnetosphere community
- Recommendation that SECAA should build boldly from this base into services over an expanded range of S3C disciplines and data
- View that SECAA should strongly assert its critical role as a center for integrated services and access to data of the S3C Great Observatory
**New CDAWeb server and backup system now being installed/tested**
- Server transition anticipated in late October
**CDAWeb Plus has been made operational**
- Additional capabilities and expanded support for external sites (per SAG) in progress
- Responding to the SAG discussions, we are analyzing the value we could add and how best to leverage emerging VSO capabilities in adding solar data services to CDAWeb Plus
**New data continues to be added to our services**
- Voyager hourly magnetometer data through 2004
- Leveraging VHO Rsync infrastructure to serve updated and expanded range of Wind 3DP data
**Now phasing-in more automated maintenance of orbit database for SSCWeb **
# Presentation: 530045

## EDAS monitoring of North America

- _[http://www.](http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/EDAS)__[cpc](http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/EDAS)__[.](http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/EDAS)__[ncep](http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/EDAS)__[.](http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/EDAS)__[noaa](http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/EDAS)__[.](http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/EDAS)__[gov](http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/EDAS)__[/](http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/EDAS)__[products](http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/EDAS)__[/EDAS](http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/EDAS)_

-                           Yucheng Song
-           (Thanks to Kingtse and Wayne)

## Animation of 10m wind over NAME region

## 3 hrly animation of moisture flux

## 3 hrlyAnimation of Precipitation

## 200mb Streamline
# Presentation: 373518

## President Harry S. Truman Fellowship in National Security Science and Engineering 

**President Harry S. Truman Fellowship in National Security Science and Engineering**** **

- Sandia is a multi-program laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration.
- Sandia works in close partnership with federal agencies, universities and industries to remain at the leading edge in accomplishing our work.
- The Laboratories’ principal locations, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Livermore, California, offer a complete range of cultural and recreational activities.
- US Citizenship is required.   An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

- Sandia National Laboratories is seeking applicants for the President Harry S. Truman Fellowship in National Security Science and Engineering.  Candidates are expected to have solved a major scientific or engineering problem in their thesis work or will have provided a new approach or insight to a major problem, as evidenced by a recognized impact in their field.
- The Fellowship provides the opportunity for new Ph.D. scientists and engineers to pursue independent research of their own choosing that supports the national security mission of Sandia.  The appointee is expected to foster creativity and to stimulate exploration of forefront science and technology and high-risk, potentially high-value R&D.
- Sandia has research focus areas in:  Advanced Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics; Bioscience and Technology;  Combustion, Chemical and Plasma Sciences; Engineering Sciences; Intelligent Systems and Robotics; Materials Science and Technology; Microelectronics and Microsystems; Nano Sciences and Technology; Pulsed Power and Directed Energy; and, Remote Sensing and Satellite Systems.
- Eligibility criteria include: U.S. citizenship, the ability to obtain a DOE "Q" clearance; candidates must have been awarded a Ph.D. within the past 3 years at the time of application or will have completed all Ph.D. requirements by commencement of appointment; and, candidates must be seeking their first national laboratory appointment.
- The Truman Fellowship is a three-year appointment normally commencing on October 1, although exceptions may be made to accommodate special circumstances.  For Fellows beginning their appointments in 2006, the salary is $94,200.  A panel of senior scientists and engineers at Sandia will review candidates.  Application deadline is December 5, 2005.   For more details, visit our Web Site:
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# Presentation: 828585

## The NDBC Tropical Expansion:  Overview and Emerging PIRATA Partnership

- Don Conlee
- Chief Scientist
- National Data Buoy Center
- Stennis Space Center, MS 39529

## Project Background

- Congressional Supplemental following active 2004 U.S. tropical season (Dec. 05)
- NCEP/NHC prioritized from 51 previously-identified NCEP locations of buoy needs
- Enough Funding for 7 buoys
- 6 new
- Maintain Pensacola buoy scheduled for removal
- Desired availability – Start of next Atlantic tropical season (1 June 05)

## Requirements/Priorities

- Required:  Continuous Wind Sampling, Surface Pressure, Waves
- Desired:
- SST, Air Temp, Humidity (Provided)
- Upper Ocean Heat Content, Rain (Partial/Planned)
- High Reliability/Survivability
- Large Hulls (12m and 10m Discus, 6m NOMAD)
- Quadruple Instrument Redundancy
- 2 complete integration systems per buoy
- Backup Communications (Goes + Iridium)

## 12m 

- Placeholder for some cool pics from Stuart.

## In the Locks...

## 10m Launch

## 6m NOMAD High Reliability Variant

- 6m NOMAD High Reliability Variant

- 	12m (Yucatan) – Late April, Early May
- 	10m (Central Carib.) – Late May
- 	6m (Atlantic) – Late May

- PIRATA
- 38°W Line

- WHOI
-  NTAS

## PIRATA Partnership

- Tropical Expansion briefed at PIRATA-10 in Fortaleza, Dec. 2004
- Asked PIRATA SSC to consider desirability of “PIRATIZING” easternmost buoys.
- Letter of 2 February asked NDBC to consider adding instrumentation, including subsurface
- NDBC is accommodating on a non-interference basis with primary mission
- Opportunity to test emerging capabilities and gain experience with tropical climate observation
- Build relationship with PIRATA principals
- Better satisfy original NWS/NCEP/NHC requirement

## “Piratizing”, Phase 1

- Add Rain and Precision SW Radiation to 6m NOMAD buoys
- Add CT capability to small companion buoy
- (ADCP and Dir. Waves = Lagniappe)
- Enhanced calibration, add post-calibration
- Associated Data Management and Distribution

## NDBC 1.8m Wave Buoy

## 1.8m with ADCP

- 1.8m w/CT String Mooring Design

**Notes:**
Maximum depth error:  3.5% (500m), Taut would be about half the error.  

## Next Steps

- Deploy 1.8m companion at easternmost buoy if unable to include on CG initial deployment
- Evaluate effectiveness with PIRATA
- Use interface for rain and radiation to improve resolution and sampling
- Add current meter at 10m

## More Climate Partnerships

- Continuing and Expanding Radiation Observations on MON – WHOI
- Provide NTAS data to NHC (no GTS/model input)
- CO2 on Coastal MON buoy this summer –PMEL (Sabine)
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## Single Photon Applications (day 1)

- Gravity Detectors /	 Interferometer
- QKD
- LOQC
- High 
- Quantum Imaging
- Clock Synchronization
- Quantum Repeater
- Magnetometer
- Chem-Bio Agent detection
- QKD attacks via QND
- Noninteraction imaging
- Thz?
- Nsom
- Single Molecule fluorescence microscopy

- Telecomm issues
- Freespace issues
- Night vision/ Astronomy
- Neutrino/ Dark matter detection, cherenkov
- Hyperspectral Imaging
- Bioluminescence
- HPLC Detector
- Blind to stray light
- Radiation hardened/ space qualified
- Environmental monitoring
- Sensors
- Metrology

##         Desires (day 1)

-  ~50%
-  ~99.9%
- high Power
- # counting – 1 from 2 or n>2
- many
- cheap
- Array detection
- Array coincidence
- Low timing jitter <1fs
- Big commercial market
- Short propagation delay
- Polarization sensitive
- Nondistructive - aging
- Minimum cooling needs

- Wide bandwidth
- Narrow bandwidth
- Supernarrow band - heterodyne
- Dual band/ 4 bands
- Low dark count
- High dynamic range
- Wavefront phase sensitivity
- Pixilated in the UV
- Position sensitivity
- Solar blind/ blind where ever you want
- Photon amplification – no excess noise, zero noise fig
- Space qualified

##        Solutions (day 2)

- Upconversion (IR >> Visible)
- Thermal/ bolometer/ superconducting/ cryo
- Advanced APDs – materials,...
- Low noise amplification
- Hybrid  -x
- Atomic ensembles
- Light couplers
- PMT
- MCP
- Arrays
- Non-geiger

##        Potential Roadblocks (day 2)

- Spotty/no manufacturer
- Low  in some
- Low “detection efficiency”
- Light coupling
- Commercial market
- Size
- Price
- Real life operation
- Scaling – arrays, , # of pixels
- Fill factor – lenses
- Array electronics

- Max count rate (atomic vapor)
- Metrology methods
- Solid state pump
- Fiber leakage
- Parasitic fluorescence
- Detector emission (of light)
- Low temp electrical integration
- Robustness- lifetime
- Big leading application needed for industry
- Virtual journal, more meetings focused on single photon detectors

## Future, Summary (day ?)
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**     ****Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA)**
**       ****Low Energy Demonstration Accelerator**
**	****	****	****	****      ****(LEDA)**

## LEDA Status

**Advanced Accelerator Applications—Low Energy Demonstration Accelerator**
**Recently completed the Beam Halo Experiment**
**Fielded new systems**
- Magnets on Halo beamline
- New wire scanner and halo scraper mechanisms and software
- Vacuum for halo beamline
**Successful data acquisition**
- Data analysis shows good correlation with models
- Verification of halo leads to questions about  why
- More to come...
**As of last week, future uncertain but bleak**

## LEDA Beam Halo Challenges

**Diagnostics**
- Wire scanner / Halo scrapers
- LabView -> EPICS
- Automated scans and scrapes through EPICS sequence/OPI
**Magnets**
- 52 magnet latticeon Halo beamline
- 4 quadrupole singlets
- 48 quadrupole bulks/ 6 bulk supplies with 8 shunts
- Field Point I/O
- Ethernet IP
- LabView-> EPICS
**Control System Integration**
- Run permit
**Operations support**
- Many different systems
- Support systems, data taking, EPICS, UNIX, Labview, all tools

## Control System for the LEDA 6.7-MeV Proton Beam Halo Experiment

## LEDA Lessons Learned

**Fielding new hardware in an upgrade**
- Behind schedule
- When it doesn’t work
- No local  experts or support
**Let the engineer program it**
- LabView is “easy” but
- All programs are different
- Novice vs. expert
- More layers to debug
- No revision control
- Guess who gets called
**Control System Integration**
- Run permit
- vxStats
- Can’t guarantee run permit when you don’t have into
- Archiving, time stamps
**Operational Support**
- Communication
- Teamwork/support

## LEDA Lessons Learned

**“****Maintenance nightmare” **
- Many different systems
- few people to support them
- Need to call “experts” to troubleshoot
- Revision control
- No consistency
- Can’t enforce
**What Worked Well:**
- Operations support
- Assigned, on-call
- Responsive
- ELOG
- Archiving
-  Standard EPICS systems
# Presentation: 759870

## All Kids CountNational Program Office

- Quantitative Performance
- Indicators
- March, 2000

## Measuring Progress

- What and Why?
- Methodology
- Results
- Conclusions

## What and Why?

- 16 AKC II Projects
- Quantitative measures
- Timeliness
- Database Maturity
- Provider Participation
- Coverage Levels

- To establish standardized measures to assess:
- registry maturity
- progress over time

## Methodology

- 8 quantitative indicators
- 7 process
- 1 outcome-based
- 6 month intervals
- Self report survey

## Results - 1Timeliness of Data Captured

- % births captured within 42 days.
- electronic transfer - average 61% (median 75%)
- other methods -  9.5% and 43%
- % shots captured within 7 days.
- electronic submissions - average 50% (median 62%)
- paper submissions - average 9% (median 5%)
- even mix - average 19% (median 13%)

## Results - 2Database Maturity 

## Results - 3Provider Participation

## Results - 4Provider Participation Aggregate

## Results - 5Private Provider Levels

- Mandatory reporting legislation - 7 projects
-  average enrolled:  85% (median 91%)
- average submitting data: 71% (median 84%)
- No reporting legislation - 9 projects
-  average enrolled:  51%  (median 36%)
- average submitting data:  38% (median 25%)

## Slide 10

## Fully Operational StatusRanking

**Points accumulated**

**Ranking**

## Conclusions - 1

- Anything worthwhile is not easy at first!

## Conclusions - 2

- Data Collection and Reporting Issues
- systems not designed to collect indicator data
- elusive, fluctuating denominators
- data source problems - - e.g. vital records
- data quality/duplicate records
- low provider participation levels
- historical data skews results

## Conclusions - 3

- Despite difficulties are indicators useful?

## Conclusions - 4

- Progress can be measured across projects
- indicators 2, 4 and 6 are best
- Weak or problematic areas identified
- inadequate deduplication
- data capture delays
- Indicators can be good internal mgt. tool
- indicators must be a priority for projects -- they require some work

## Conclusions - 5

- Next steps
- continue administering survey through June 2000
- further analysis of data
- publish results

## Contact Information	

- KC Edwards
- (404) 687-5622
- kcedwards@taskforce.org
- Presentation requests:
- info@allkidscount.org
# Presentation: 840814

## Complex Engineered and Natural Systems

**National Science Foundation**
**Directorate for Engineering**
**Adnan Akay and Judy Raper**

## Slide 2

## ET

**Wastewater**
**Conduits**

**Stormdrains**

**Septic **
**Systems**

***Impervious***
***Surfaces***

***Artificial ***
***Channels***

**Wells**

***Water***
***Table***

***Hyporheic &***
***Parafluvial Zones***

- E

- RO

***Regional GW***

***Local GW***

***Riparian &***
***Upland ***
***Forest Patches***

- RO

- I

***Rooting***
***Zone***

**Water **
**Supply **
**Pipes**

- RO

***Interbasin***
***Transfers of ***
***Water & ***
***Wastewater***

**The Urban Water Cycle**

- P

**Courtesy of Ken Belt, USFS**

## Complex Engineered and Natural Systems

**Definition: Complex, Complexity (adj., n)**
- Consisting of interconnected or interwoven parts;
- Involved or intricate, as in structure; complicated.
- Difficult to understand because of intricacy:
- A whole composed of interconnected or interwoven parts
- Engineering Complexity -- the condition of being difficult to explain and predict systems behaviors, robust operation of the same.
**Complexity in**
- Engineered systems
- Natural systems
- Interface of engineered and natural systems

## The Challenge

- Creation of common principles, unified theories, and methods to design, operate, and protect complex engineered systems.
**Sources of complexity**:
- Too much information, too many components, too many constraints, too many parameters for consideration to accomplish a particular task
- Not enough information about essential elements or components of a system or about their interfaces
- Not enough information about how elements or components will behave under known or unknown conditions that may lead to unintended consequences

## 
To encourage the community to think about
What is complex system science
Fundamental questions related science of complexity
Questions related to design, control and management of complexz systems

To invest in the development of “science of the complex”

- To encourage the community to think about
- What is complex system science
- Fundamental questions related science of complexity
- Questions related to design, control and management of complexz systems
- To invest in the development of “science of the complex”

- NSF Role

## NSF Activities

- A series of workshops on complexity
- Considering complexity under three topics
- Transportation Systems
- Biological Systems
- Healthcare Delivery

## Infrastructure - Transportation

## Biological Systems

## Neuromuscular Biomechanics

- CAREER PI: Francisco Valero-Cuevas, Cornell University

- analysis of dexterous manipulation; characterization of  muscle and brain activity; & computational modeling of dexterity

## Healthcare Delivery

## ITR: High-Resolution Cortical Imaging of Brain Electrical Activity. Bin He, U Minnesota

**Mechanisms of cognitive processes and brain functions**

**ITR: High-Resolution Cortical Imaging of Brain Electrical Activity. Bin He, U Minnesota**
# Presentation: 132522

## Slide 1

**Notes:**
Both elk and mule deer inhabit the various zones within the park.

## Slide 2

**Notes:**
Elk are larger and heavier than mule deer.  They tend to spend the summer in the higher elevations and come to lower elevations only when abundant snow or lack of food forces them to.

## Slide 3

**Notes:**
Elk have very specific eating habits.  They will eat their favorite food, often aspen bark, until the availability drops.  Then they will eat their second favorite food until that food becomes scarce.  And so on...

## Slide 4

**Notes:**
Heavy browsing by elk can have a great impact on plant diversity in an area.

## Slide 5

**Notes:**
Elk populations are high in the park and surrounding area.

## Slide 6

**Notes:**
Mule deer are not such picky eaters.  They will eat a diversity of plant food.

## Slide 7

**Notes:**
Unlike elk, they can survive on low grade food items.

## Slide 8

**Notes:**
Mule deer can be found at all elevations in the park from the Montane Grasslands to the Rio Grande.  

## Slide 9

**Notes:**
Populations of mule deer are also high.  Mule deer have less impact on plant diversity in an area.

## Slide 10

**Notes:**
Mule deer are frequently seen in the most heavily visited area of the park, Frijoles Canyon.

## Slide 11

**Notes:**
Although we ask visitors to stay on the trail and not to enter the Ancestral Pueblo dwellings, we have no like control over deer activities.  If you tell them to stay on the trail, they are likely to give you attitude.
# Presentation: 114757

## In PBS, bare magnetite nanoparticles and polymer complexes pass through the zero charge point at a pH corresponding to the first acidity constant of a phosphate.  This suggests that the charge characteristics of hydrophilic magnetite-polymer complexes are likely dominated by adsorption of phosphates in physiological media.  Thus, in order to stabilize dispersions of these complexes in physiological media, one can adsorb cationic dispersion stabilizers onto the anionic phosphate surfaces.  The nanoparticles depicted below are stabilized in PBS by adsorption of a poly(propylene oxide-b-ethylene oxide) copolymer tipped on the hydrophobic end with three ammonium ions.

**Complex with 41 wt% Fe****3****O****4**
**and a 5600 PPO-3800 PEO**

**Well-Defined Macromolecule-Magnetic Nanoparticle Complexes: Judy S. Riffle, Virginia Tech, DMR 0312046**

**Notes:**
This slide is just a different way of graphing aspects from slides 4 and 6.  The interesting thing here is that each system passes through the zero charge point at a pH of approximately 2.5, which is extremely close to the last pKa of phosphate.  The indicates that phosphate is adsorbed to the surface of the particles in some capacity.  Whether or not the phosphate is competitively adsorbing with the triamine and “kicking off” polymer cannot be determined by this measurement, but cross-analysis with TGA data might give some indication.

## Well-Defined Macromolecule-Magnetic Nanoparticle Complexes: 

**Collaborations among J.S. Riffle (VT), A.V. Kabanov and T. Bronich (U. Nebraska) are determining how magnetic fields affect uptake of magnetic complexes in multi-drug resistant cancer cells, and how applied fields change cell responses. **

**Michelle Gasky (UNMC) and Nikorn Pothayee (VT) study uptake of magnetic nanoparticles with/without applied magnetic fields**

**Solenoid magnet with temperature control for conducting cell cultures in a field**

**Well-Defined Macromolecule-Magnetic Nanoparticle Complexes: **
**Judy S. Riffle, Virginia Tech, DMR 0312046**
# Presentation: 888595

## Madison, VASite ID 511130003

- 2002 back trajectories for July 16th, 2002, collection hour beginning at 1700 hr (21 UTC)

- Attachment E – 8-hour Ozone Designation Docket

## 1700 hr = 21 UTC = 81 ppb

**1700 hr = 21 UTC = 81 ppb**

## 1800 hr = 22 UTC = 85 ppb

**1800 hr = 22 UTC = 85 ppb**

## 1900 hr = 23 UTC = 92 ppb

**1900 hr = 23 UTC = 92 ppb**

## 2000 hr = 00 UTC = 91 ppb

**2000 hr = 00 UTC = 91 ppb**

## 2100 hr = 01 UTC = 89 ppb

**2100 hr = 01 UTC = 89 ppb**

## 2200 hr = 02 UTC = 88 ppb

**2200 hr = 02 UTC = 88 ppb**

## 2300 hr = 03 UTC = 83 ppb

**2300 hr = 03 UTC = 83 ppb**

## 2400 hr = 04 UTC = 80 ppb

**2400 hr = 04 UTC = 80 ppb**
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## MARINE ENGINEERING DIV.

**MARINE ENGINEERING DIV.**

**JAMIE LECOMPTE**
**PORT ENGINEER**
**CHARLESTON, SC**

## WHAT THE CONTRACTOR BID ON...

**WHAT THE CONTRACTOR BID ON...**

## WHAT THE USER GROUPS EXPECTED...

**WHAT THE USER GROUPS EXPECTED...**

## FINISHED PRODUCT AFTER GOVERNMENT CHANGES!

**FINISHED PRODUCT AFTER GOVERNMENT CHANGES!**

## FY 2006 MODIFICATIONS

- UNCONTAMINATED SALT WATER SYSTEM INSTALLATION
- A FRAME INSTALLATION
- 02 LEVEL EXTENSION
- DECK TIE DOWN INSTALLATIONS

## FY 2006 MODIFICATIONS

- AUTOMATION UPGRADES
- BILGE KEEL INSTALLATIONS
- MOON POOL EXTENSION
- PORTABLE AIR TUGGERS
- 01 LEVEL WINCH DECK

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## Slide 9

## Slide 10

## Slide 11

## Slide 12

## Slide 13

## Slide 14

## Slide 15

## FY 2007 PLANNED WORK

- GENERAL MAINTAINANCE ITEMS
- REDUNDANT AC PLANT
- EXHAUST STACK PIPE EXTENSIONS
- IMPROVED MARKEY COM15 CONTROLS
- FUME HOOD INSTALLATION, WET LAB

## UNMET REQUESTS

**DEEP WATER WINCH FOR A FRAME OPERATIONS**
- DEPTH OF OPERATIONS?
- PULL REQUIRMENTS?
- PAY IN/OUT SPEED RATE REQUIREMENTS?
- OTHER REQUIREMENTS?

## UNMET REQUESTS

**A FRAME BOOM?**
- NEED DETAILS, SPECIFICS
- WILL REQUIRE ENGINEERING
**ADDITIONAL DECK SOCKETS.**
**01 LEVEL CONTAINER SOCKETS.**
**OTHER REQUESTS?**
- PLEASE FILL OUT REQUEST FORM

## QUESTIONS??

**JAMIE LECOMPTE**
**NOAA PORT ENGINEER**
**PH: 843-566-9191**
**FX: 843-566-9121**
**EMAIL: jamie.a.lecompte@noaa.gov**