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# Presentation: 497481

## 2006 Partners Workshop

*Silver Spring, MD*
*June 6, 2006*
*Timothy Schott *

##                    Outline

- New Operational Products

- Future Work

- Experimental Products

## Probabilistic Winds – Operational  

- Graphical
- Text
- Experimental in the NDFD

## Probabilistic Storm Surge – Experimental 

**Probabilistic Storm Surge – Experimental **

- _[www.weather.gov/mdl/psurge/](http://www.weather.gov/mdl/psurge/)_
- Two choices:
- Overall chance storm surges will be greater than 5 feet above normal tide levels during the next 2 days

**Pre Katrina**

**Post Katrina**

- Storm surge heights, in feet above normal tide level, which have a 10 percent chance of being exceeded during the next 3 days

**Mainland**
**Mississippi**

## Tropical Cyclone VTEC – Experimental 

**Tropical Cyclone VTEC – ****Experimental **

**ALPHA WATCH/WARNING BREAKPOINTS/ADVISORY NUMBER 3**
**NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL012006**
**1000 AM EST TUE MAR 14 2006**
**.HURRICANE ALPHA**
**FLC017-029-037-053-057-065-075-101-103-123-129-142100-**
**/E.NEW.KNHC.HU.W.1001.060314T1500Z-000000T0000Z/**
**1000 AM EST TUE MAR 14 2006**
**INDIAN-PASS-FL                         29.68N 85.27W**
**TARPON-SPRINGS-FL                28.15N 82.79W**
**$$**
**GMZ750-755-770-775-830-850-853-870-873-142100-**
**/E.NEW.KNHC.HU.W.1001.060314T1500Z-000000T0000Z/**
**1000 AM EST TUE MAR 14 2006**
**INDIAN-PASS-FL                          29.68N 85.27W**
**TARPON-SPRINGS-FL                 28.15N 82.79W**

- _[www.nhc.noaa.gov/feedback-tcv.shtml](http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/feedback-tcv.shtml)_
- New format for 2006
- Proposed operational                                    for 2007

## Tropical Cyclone Graphical Hazards – Experimental 

- _[www.weather.gov/os/tropical/hazards.htm](http://www.weather.gov/os/tropical/hazards.htm)_

- Participating WFOs providing Impacts or Threat Graphics
- 2006 is first of a two year experimental effort

## Extreme Wind Warning

- _[http://www.weather.gov/os/hurricane/eww.htm](http://www.weather.gov/os/hurricane/eww.htm)_
- Purpose
- New for 2006
- Extreme Wind Warning Product                            for 2007
- Beyond 2007

## WFO Tropical Cyclone Products Improvement Team

- Desire for clear, concise and meaningful WFO tropical cyclone products
- Feedback needed
- Contact:  scott.kiser@noaa.gov
# Presentation: 341170

## Slide 1

|  |  | Major Challenges in Catalysis | Basic Science Challenges | Where DOE is missing something |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Coal | Production |  |  |  |
| Coal | Utilization | Gassification,  | C-C bond activation |  |
| Coal | Clean-Up | CO2, NOx reduction, S, Particulates | CO2  NOx reduction chemistry |  |
| NG | Production |  |  |  |
| NG | Utilization  | FT, other GTL, H2 production | C-H bond activation |  |
| NG | Clean-up  | CO2 reduction ->HC’s
NOx reduction | CO2 NOx reduction chemistry |  |
| Oil | Production |  |  |  |
| Oil | Utilization | Catalytic combustion |  |  |
| Oil | Clean-up | CO2 reduction ->HC’s
 | CO2 NOx reduction chemistry |  |
| Nuclear | Production |  |  |  |
| Nuclear | Utlilization | Electrocatalysis (H2, hydrocarbs) | CO2 reduction chemistry |  |
| Nuclear | Clean-up | Electrosynthesis |  |  |
| Solar | Production |  |  |  |
| Solar | Utilization  | Photocatalysis, Electrocatalysis | Electron transfer reactions |  |
| Solar | Clean-up | Detox, Water purification |  |  |
| Other | Production  |  |  |  |
| Other | Utilization  | electrosynthesis |  |  |
| Other | Clean-up |  |  |  |

## Slide 2

|  |  | Impact on US Economy | Impact on the
Environment | Likelihood Catalysis can Have a Major Impact | Likelihood a breakthrough in catalysis is possible |  | Magnitude of minimum effort required for success |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Coal | Production
Utilization (gasification)
Clean-Up (CO2, S,Part) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| NG | Production
Utilization (GTL, )
Clean-up (CO2) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Oil | Production
Utilization
Clean-up (CO2) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Nuc | Production
Utilization (electrocat)
Clean-up (Rad, Cor,) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Solar | Production (photocat)
Utilization (electrocat)
Clean-up |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Other | Production
Utilization (electrocat)
Clean-up |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
# Presentation: 485312

## Spectrometer/Telescope

**Spectrometer/Telescope**
** ****for **
**Imaging X-rays **
**(STIX)**

- 90 cm

- 16 cm

- 22 cm

- 10 cm

- 15.2 cm

## Spectrometer/Telescope

**Spectrometer/Telescope**
** ****for **
**Imaging X-rays **
**(STIX)**

- Front Grids

- Telescope Tube

- Rear Grids

- Attenuators

- Electronics Box

- Mounting Ring

- CZT Detectors

## CFRP Tube (graphite epoxy)

- Tungsten
- Multipitch
- Grids

- Tungsten
- Mounting
- Rings

- Aspect
- Slits

- Grid Pitches:
- 20 μm to 2.75 mm
- Thickness:  0.4 mm

## Tungsten Grids

- Attenuators

- CZT Detectors

- Electronics Box

- Tungsten Mounting Rings
# Presentation: 892715

## Updates to External Training Process

- February 2007

- Slides will automatically advance
- or click to advance.

## Updates to the SATERN External Training Process

- _Copy Functionality_
- The External Training Request Form, NF-1735 now has a copy functionality to duplicate a form used in the past.
- _Evaluations_
- After you attend External Training, you will receive an email with a link to an online evaluation form to close the process.

## NF-1735 Copy Functionality

- 	SATERN can create a copy of an External Training Request Form     (NF-1735) that was submitted in      the past.
- This helps you by:
-   SAVING TIME
- You can resubmit changes without filling out the whole form.
-   NO DUPLICATION OF DATA ENTRY
- Information that is the same does not have to be re-entered.

## Here’s how you do it:

## Create an original NF-1735, 

**Create an original NF-1735, **
**Request for Training.**
**SATERN website:**
**https://satern.nasa.gov**** **

## After you complete and submit an NF-1735 Form for External Training...

**After you complete and submit an NF-1735 Form for External Training...**

## You will be able to reuse or resubmit the form by using the new “Copy Request” button.

**You will be able to reuse or resubmit the form by using the new “Copy Request” button.**

## When to use the Copy Function

- _To correct data_
- Sample scenario: You submitted an NF-1735, but the Supervisor in your Learner Profile was incorrect at the time you submitted the form.  Instead of redoing the entire form, you can withdraw the request, change your Supervisor in your Learner profile to the correct Supervisor, and then use the Copy Request button to re-submit the form. ** **
- _To use for similar training events_
- Sample scenario: You are taking several courses at a university.  Since each course needs an NF-1735, use the Copy Request button to retain similar information and edit specific course data.

## Updates to the SATERN External Training Process External Training Evaluations

- After you attend External Training, you will receive an email with a link to an online course evaluation.
- As a learner, you _must complete_ this evaluation to receive credit for the course in your SATERN learning history.

## Summary

- Changes to External Training process
- New copy function in NASA Form 1735
- New process for course evaluation
**General information, including job aids for SATERN processes, can be found at: **
- _[http://ohr.larc.nasa.gov/training/SATERN/index.html](http://ohr.larc.nasa.gov/training/SATERN/index.html)_
- _[https://saterninfo.nasa.gov](https://saterninfo.nasa.gov/)_
# Presentation: 157719

## D0 Status: 04/15-04/22

- Week integrated luminosity
- 0.93pb-1 delivered
- 0.75pb-1  utilized (80%)
- Data collection
- global data collections during all stores
- full detector in readout
- physics trigger menu: v5.01
- major sources of downtime last week
- startup after long shutdown
- new DAQ system debugging/tests
- prescales adjustments for high luminosity store
- Beam conditions

- Dmitri Denisov, AEM

## D0 Detector Status

- Luminosity detector
- stable operation
- Silicon detector
- silicon detector is running well since water leak was fixed 2 weeks ago
- high voltage turn OFF time is down to 3 minutes
- improvements in overall operating efficiency
- studies of “grassy” noise in F-disks made by Micron are in progress
- total of about 10% of F-disks channels are affected
- increase in number of noisy strips vs time has been observed
- Calorimeter
- stable operation
- Muon system
- report by Dennis Shpakov today
- Forward Proton Detector
- routine pots insertion during stores
- timing studies done Saturday evening

- Dmitri Denisov, AEM

## Fiber Tracker Status

- 167 Analog Front End (AFE) boards currently installed on the platform
- The Central Fiber Tracker is fully instrumented
- The Central Preshower is fully instrumented
- 92% of installed AFE boards  have revised temperature control
- Forward preshower
- Operating parameters
- optimization
- Track reconstruction

- Dmitri Denisov, AEM

## This Week D0 Run Plan

- Global data collection today and tomorrow
- DAQ system tests during 3 shifts of BD studies
- Continue physics data taking with full detector in readout starting Wednesday
- global trigger list v5.01
- readout rate ~80Hz
- rate to tape ~20Hz
- No access requests as of now
- This week is the D0 Collaboration meeting week

- Dmitri Denisov, AEM
# Presentation: 209199

## NUCLEAR SCIENCE DIVISION

- Business Manager (Acting)
**E. Saucier**
- Resource Manager
**J. B. Lofdahl**

- Institute for Nuclear and
- Particle Astrophysics
**R. G. Stokstad**
*Program Head*

- Low Energy
- Nuclear Science

- Relativistic Nuclear Collisions
**H. G. Ritter**
*Program Head*
**G. Odyniec**, *Deputy*

- Nuclear Theory
**X.-N. Wang**
*Program Head*

- Weak Interactions
- KamLAND
**S. J. Freedman**
*Group Leader*

- Neutrino Properties
**K. T. Lesko**
*Group Leader*

- Exotic Nuclei
**J. Cerny**
*Group Leader*

- Heavy Elements
**H. Nitsche**
*Group Leader*

- Nuclear Reactions
**L. G. Moretto**
*Group Leader*

- Nuclear Structure
**P. Fallon**
*Group Leader*

- Isotopes Project
**C. Baglin**
*Group Leader*

- Detector Development
**H. H. Wieman**
*Group Leader*

- RNC Computing
**E. L. Hjort**
*Group Leader*

- Hard Probes
**P. M. Jacobs**
*Group Leader*

- Soft Hadronic Physics
**N. Xu**
*Group Leader*

- STAR
**H. G. Ritter**
*Group Leader*

- Weak Interactions
**S. J. Freedman**
*GroupLeader*

- 88-Inch Cyclotron
**C. M. Lyneis**
*Program Head*

- Operations
**J. Morel**
*Crew Chief*

- Accelerator ECR Physics
**D. Leitner**
*Group Leader*

- Research Coordination
**M. A. McMahan**
*Group Leader*

- Mechanical Engineering
**S. P. Virostek**
*Group Leader*

- Electrical Engineering
**TBD**
*Group Leader*

- Neutrino Astronomy
**R.G. Stokstad**
*Group Leader*

- IceCube
**R. G. Stokstad**
*Project Head*
***W. S. Edwards***
*Project Engineer*

- GRETINA
**I. Y. Lee**
*Project Head*
**Sergio Zimmerman**
*Project Engineer*

- Projects
**J. N. Marx**
*GS Deputy for Projects*

**NUCLEAR SCIENCE DIVISION**
- Division Director: **James Symons**
- Deputy for Low Energy Nuclear Science: **Volker Koch**

- Safety Coordinator
**K. L. Hardy**
- Chair ES&H Committee
**K. T. Lesko**
# Presentation: 201922

## Ideal Data Entry

- Fast
- Efficient
- Minimal Room For Errors
- Contented Data Entry Person =>

## The Reality....

- Not So Contented Data Entry Person =>

## The Solution

- Get Someone Else To Enter Your Data
- Use A Program Designed To Make Data Entry Easier
- Life Afterwards =>

## Datastor

- Comprehensive BatchFile And SIM File Creator
- Takes the guesswork out of coding files from hardcopy
- Handles sample, habitat and biological data

- And of course....

## Comes With An Artistic CD Label

## What Datastor Does

- Creates Batch Files For STORET or SIM
- Uses STORET Data Tables To Help Ensure Accuracy
- Handles Sample, Field Observation, Data Logger, Habitat and Biological Data
- Fast
- Can Be Used On Computer That Does Not Have STORET

## Datastor Also...

- Allows Creation Of New Trips And Visits In Batch Files
- Takes Advantage Of SIM Data Validation And Automatic Trip And Visit Creation
- Includes SIM Configurations For Water Quality And Biological Data

## It Comes With Dataconvert

- Matches Datastor With Another Totally Unimaginative Name For Software

- However...

-  Dataconvert Helps Transform Spreadsheet Files To SIM Compatible Files
-  Allows Creation Of Customized Files To ‘Fill In The Blanks’ For Analytical Methods, etc.
-  Assists Moving Data To SIM Without Need For STORET Characteristic Groups

## Dataconvert Also Comes With...

- Ready To Use SIM Configuration File

- And Of Course ...

- Since On The Same CD As Datastor It Also Has An Artistic CD Label
# Presentation: 506528

## Desktop Access to Remote Resources

- Gregor von Laszewski
- gregor@mcs.anl.gov
- http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~gregor

## Logistic

- Thanks for coming
- Talks: morning
- Working groups: afternoon
- Lunch: in Room B in cafeteria
- Dinner: tonight, headcount

## Wording

- Desktop
- Wokstation UNIX, NT, 98
- Browser     Netscape, MS
- PalmPilot, Pager
- Remote Resources
- compute resources:
- supercomputers, workstations, PC’s
- Data Resources:
- databases, information services

## Problem

- To many machines, platforms, os
- Possibly a good thing
- Goal:
- Enable Uniform or seamless access via GUI
- Hide details and satisfies many “customers”

## How to get there?

- Analyse
- What projects are out there?
- What are their goals?
- WHAT CAN WE REUSE?
- WHERE DO WE HAVE TO EXPAND?
- WHAT IS THERE CURRENT STATE?

## What is out there?

- Metacomputing Infrastructures
- Legion, Globus, ..., Sun’s Jini Services
- Scheduler Interfaces
- Unicore, WebSubmit, ...
- Distributed Component Systems and Builders
- Arcade, CAT, Gecco, Paws, SciRun, Webflow,...
*Send mail to: gregor@mcs.anl.gov*

## TOOLS

_*Graphical User Interfaces*_
_*Discovery, Access, Authentication/Authorization, Scheduling/Leasing*_
- Services (client/server)
- Shell tools
- Application Interfaces

## 1-Tier, 2-Tier, and 3-Tier

## Information Services

- Properties of a computer and data resources
- Information discovery
- Compute resources
- Databases
- Interfaces
- Interface to schedulers, queues on compute resources....
- Interfaces to other services

## User Related Issues

- Security and authentication
-  Job submission (compilation, exec, kill)
- Job submission language
- Job monitoring
-  Access to data servers
- Information discovery for users
-  Client side tool interfaces
-  Debuggers, performance visualization, collaboration, visualization in general

## Administration of remote resources

-  Who uses them?
- Status of the queues, data
- Monitoring of user activities
- Accounting, User, Syste
- Scheduling Policies
- Reservation, History Information about usage
- Interpretation of history related data

## Technical Aspects

- Operating System? NT, Unix, etc.
- Compilers and Libraries
- C/C++ compiler, Java language, Class, Jar, and Zip file, DLL,...
- Dynamic properties
- Libraries
- Which security library?

## Suggestion for Working groups

- Group A: Frontend
- GUI for job submission and job composition, ...
- Group B: Backend
- How can group A be supported. What can we give group A so that they develop better UI.
- Once this is done further meetings with for example more high level interfaces
- Matlab, Excel, ...

## Working Groups

- Projects?
- Define small project to be solved
- Instead of horizontal separation
- Chose topic:
- batch processing
- security
- job composition
- ...

## Talks

- Answer the question:
- What specifically, is provided by the project (short)
- How can it be reused in other projects if at all.
# Presentation: 070472

## Highlight:  Studying a New State of Matter    The Quantum Spin Liquid

- Y. **Lee **(MIT) and D. **Nocera** (MIT)
- This work was supported primarily by the **MRSEC Program** of the National Science Foundation under award number **DMR-0213282.**

- Refrigerator magnets and compass needles are examples of materials with interacting spin systems.  In both examples, the spins of the individual electrons inside the material tend to align in the same direction, yielding a net magnetic moment.  However, theorists have predicted a new state of matter called the “quantum spin liquid” in which spins fluctuate in unusual ways.  It is believed that a spin-1/2 kagomé lattice (composed of corner sharing triangles, see Figure 1) is an ideal system to look for spin liquid physics due to a high degree of spin frustration.  Despite intense theoretical interest, experimental studies of the spin-1/2 kagomé lattice have been hampered by the difficulty in synthesizing such materials.  Recently, Professors **Lee** and **Nocera** of the **MIT MRSEC** have synthesized and studied such a system [J.S. Helton et al., submitted to *Physical Review Letters* (cond-mat/0610539)].  As shown in Figure 2, they have succeeded in transforming the compound clinoatacamite into an ideal kagomé lattice material called herbertsmithite.   Susceptibility and specific heat measurements as well as inelastic neutron scattering measurements suggest that an unusual spin-liquid state with essentially gapless excitations is realized in this kagomé lattice system.   Studies of this material are expected to provide important insights into the behavior of high temperature superconductors.

**Highlight:  Studying a New State of Matter    The Quantum Spin Liquid**

**Figure 1.**  Schematic of a possible spin arrangement in a kagomé lattice.

**Figure 2.**  The chemical transformation from the three-dimensional network of Cu ions in clinoatacamite to the ideal kagomé layers of herbertsmithite.
# Presentation: 090509

## Freshwater Mussels of the Big South Fork Cumberland River, TN-KY

**Freshwater Mussels of the Big South Fork Cumberland River, TN-KY**

## Confluence of the New River and Clear Fork

## Freshwater Mussels of the Big South Fork Cumberland River, TN-KY

- 55 Species documented
- 26-28 Extant
- Historically, possible 70 species
- 6 Federally listed (5 extant), 1 candidate
- BSF best endemic fauna remaining in CU river system
- Only known population of *E. walkeri*
- Best population in CU system for *E. brevidens*
- Best population of *P. fabula *in CU/TN
- BSF 1 of 3 streams in TN (Clinch-Duck) with critical seed stock
- Approved NPS (EA) to restore extirpated species

## Slide 4

## Slide 5

## P. fabula – best population in Tennessee and Cumberland River Systems

*P. fabula – *best population in Tennessee and Cumberland River Systems

## E. brevidens - best population Cumberland River system

*E. brevidens* - best population Cumberland River system

## E. walkeri – Only known population 

*E. walkeri* – Only known population

## New River, TN drainage

- 60% of all coal mined in TN comes from NR drainage
- NR headwaters of BSF major source of coal fines
- 1st report of live mussels in NR since 1938
- 5 species extant in NR, 1 Federally listed
- Coal washing, new mining, and pumping out existing deep mines serious threat

## New River – reclaimed mine slide

## Smokey Creek

## Smokey Creek

## New River - Devonia facility from top of waste pile

## New River - Devonia Settling lagoon

## New River near Devonia

## Smokey Junction washing plant Yard Sump

## Discharge from Yard Sump to New River 

- Discharge from Yard Sump to New River

## Coal refuse slag pile

## Gas extraction pipeline

- Gas extraction pipeline

## Yellow Boy- acid mine drainage

## Big South Fork lowest recorded flows “17 cfs” at Leatherwood Ford

- Big South Fork lowest recorded flows “17 cfs” at Leatherwood Ford

## Big South ForkHighest recorded flows“65,000 cfs”

- Big South ForkHighest recorded flows“65,000 cfs”

## The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area was established by Congress in 1974 to conserve and interpret  an area containing unique cultural, historical, geological, biological, archeological, scenic, and recreational resources, and preserving the Big South Fork as a natural free-flowing stream.
# Presentation: 138343

## Backsplash

- Use of ACD creates a problem of backsplash which mainly is a soft radiation from the shower in a calorimeter.
- Backsplash can create a veto-signal in ACD, dramatically reducing efficiency to photons.
- Efficiency of EGRET degraded by 50% at 10 GeV already
- Segmented ACD is a way to minimize this effect.
- Beam test at SLAC and Monte Carlo simulations demonstrate that segmentation of ~1000 cm2 at the top of GLAST is sufficient to maintain >90% efficiency up to 300 GeV
- For off-axis events the ACD is closer to the “source” of backsplash; finer segmentation on the sides of ACD is required
- 8
# Presentation: 114754

## Novel Synthesis of Si/Ge-Based Magnetic Semiconductor Films and HeterostructuresFrank Tsui - University of North Carolina - DMR-0441218

- Background: Reflectance of a ternary epitaxial film @ 658nm

- 3D

- Quasi-
- 2D

*x*/*y* ~ 3

- 2D

- Novel Synthesis of Si/Ge-Based Magnetic Semiconductor Films and HeterostructuresFrank Tsui - University of North Carolina - DMR-0441218

- 2D regime: Atomically smooth, coherent epitaxy with lattice constants obeying Vegard’s law and very low strain (**<<0.1%)
*High quality p-type* *magnetic semiconductors*

## Novel Synthesis of Si/Ge-Based Magnetic Semiconductor Films and HeterostructuresFrank Tsui - University of North Carolina - DMR-0441218

- Magnetic hysteresis loops for Co0.8Mn0.4Ge0.88 epitaxial film: *Room temperature ferromagnetic semiconductor*

- 323K
- 293K
- 250K
- 200K

- 150K
- 100K

- Collaborations, Education and Outreach
- 2 graduate (Liang He and Brian Collins) and 2 REU students (Andrew Fuller from UNC and David Lorang from GA Tech) contributed to the work
- Students ran experiments at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) Argonne National Lab. Our work on complementary doping was one of the Science Highlights of 2004 of APS
- A. Fuller presented his work to the NC State Legislature last summer in the “Research in the Capital” program, representing undergraduate research in the UNC system
- A. Fuller received a Kauffman Fellowship from UNC for his work

- Novel Synthesis of Si/Ge-Based Magnetic Semiconductor Films and HeterostructuresFrank Tsui - University of North Carolina - DMR-0441218

- T
# Presentation: 116800

## Research Business Models Subcommittee Workshop

- University of North Carolina
- November 17, 2003
- Randy Main
- Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

## Characteristics of Independent Research Institutes

- Single mission institutions – Research
- Generally small in size, average research budget of $28 million
- Awarded 10% of total NIH budget
- Very competitive, NIH success rate much higher than national average
- Subject to OMB Circular A-122

## General Reimbursement Observations

- Non-profit institutions are not reimbursed full costs, thus are expected to lose money on sponsored research awards
- Commercial contractors are awarded full costs plus a profit
- What gives here?
- It’s all about attitude

## Additional Consequences of the Attitude

- Non-profit institutions can’t be trusted to make responsible business decisions
- Particularly decisions to construct new facilities – Lease Purchase Analysis
- But we are putting our own capital at risk
- Or the capital markets weigh in and will only finance projects of reasonable risk

## Other Common Misperceptions

- Indirect costs are not real costs
- Indirect cost reimbursement provides a profit margin or slush fund
- Non-profit institutions have no incentive to manage costs

## Our Reality

- Facilities and Administrative costs are part of the real costs of conducting research and must be reimbursed
- We cannot shift costs to other lines of business, we only do research
- Discretionary funds come from fund raising and investment income and are the only sources available to fund new initiatives and pilot projects

## Other Inequities

- Inconsistent cost policy interpretation between regional offices
- Lack of central office efforts to eliminate inconsistencies between regions

## One Size Will Not Fit All

- Funding agencies and recipient institutions must be flexible
- Models must be flexible
- Developing cooperative working relationships with agencies does yield results

## The Issue and Solution

- The federal government wants us to be good stewards of the tax  payers dollars, and we are
- They want us to comply with the growing mountain of regulations, and we do
- Now they must uphold their end of the bargain and  reimburse our full costs of stewarding the research dollars and complying with regulations
# Presentation: 044184

** **
**Enhancing Peer Review: **
**Highlights of Changes Effective for September 2009 Council**
- Sheryl K. Brining, Ph.D.
- Director, Office of Review, NCRR

## Major NIH-Wide Changes

**SCORING CHANGES**
***Reviewer score range***** is ****1 – 9****, not 1 – 5**
**Whole numbers only, ****no decimals**
***Application score range***** will be ****10 – 90****; calculated as an average of all reviewer scores multiplied by 10**
**Expect more “ties”**
**Criterion scores: ****assigned reviewers have an *****option***** ****to**** ****use the 1 – 9 scale to score up to five individual criteria (e.g., Significance, Investigator, Innovation, Approach, Environment)**

## 1 – 9 Scoring Scale

| Impact | Score | Descriptor | Strengths/Weaknesses |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| High Impact | 1 | Exceptional |  
 |
|  | 2 | Outstanding |  |
|  | 3 | Excellent |  |
| Moderate Impact | 4 | Very Good |  |
|  | 5 | Good |  |
|  | 6 | Satisfactory |  |
| Low 
Impact | 7 | Fair |  |
|  | 8 | Marginal |  |
|  | 9 | Poor |  |

- Strengths

- Weaknesses

**Notes:**
Right column displays two corresponding triangles.  One triangle is labeled “strengths” and gets progressively smaller from 1 to 9.  The second triangle is labeled “weaknesses” and gets progressively larger from 1 to 9.  
IMPACT	    SCORE	DESCRIPTOR
High Impact		1	Exceptional
			2	Outstanding
			3	Excellent
Moderate Impact	4	Very Good
			5	Good
			6	Satisfactory
Low Impact		7	Fair
			8	Marginal
			9	Poor

## Face Page of Summary Statement:Terminology Change

- New Term: IMPACT/PRIORITY SCORE

## Scoring Individual Criteria

- The NIH database that produces the summary statements is designed to capture only 5 criteria scores (R01 model)
- Many NCRR mechanisms have >5 criteria (primarily the center grant mechanisms)
- Currently, for NCRR center grants, the reviewer includes a verbal descriptor (Outstanding, Excellent, etc.) for each sub-section
- We are assessing needs across programs and will apply numerical scores to individual criteria (sub-sections) as appropriate

## R01-Types of Summary Statements

- Reviewers will be instructed to focus on strengths and weaknesses and refrain from giving “advice”
- Content of critiques may contain less prose and more bulleted-type of format
- Each reviewer critique may start with a table of criterion scores
- Each criterion write-up to be limited to 1⁄4 page

## More Information

**NIH Enhancing Peer Review web site**
- 	_[http://enhancing-peer-review.nih.gov/](http://enhancing-peer-review.nih.gov/)_
**NIH Peer Review Oversight Committee (PROC)**
- 	_[EnhancingPeerReview@mail.nih.gov](mailto:EnhancingPeerReview@mail.nih.gov)__     _
- Raynard Kington, Chair, Acting Director, NIH
- Larry Tabak, Chair, Acting Deputy Director, NIH
- Sally Rockey, Co-Chair, Office of Extramural Research (OER)
- Toni Scarpa, Co-Chair, Center for Scientific Review (CSR)
- Jeremy Berg, National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
- Story Landis, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
- Alan Willard (NINDS), Integrator
**NCRR-specific questions**
- Sheryl K. Brining, Director, Office of Review, NCRR
- 301-435-0809
- sb44k@nih.gov
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## NATIONAL FHWA ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE2008

**NATURAL DISASTER EFFECTS ON YOUR OFFICE**

## HURRICANE KATRINA IMPACTS – MS DIVISION GREATLY EFFECTED

- Very Little Fuel For Employees
- Difficulty In Actually Getting To The Office
- Many Trees Down
- Some Roads Closed
- No Electricity At The Office Or In Homes
- Inability To Use E-mail, Phones
- People Displaced
- Many Employees Had To House Families From The MS Gulf Coast
- Psychological Effects On Employees

## “PASS TO BAY BRIDGE”

## “BILOXI BAY BRIDGE”

## NEPA REGULATIONS

**EMERGENCY ALTERNATIVE ARRANGEMENTS **
**Under the NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT **
- 1. CEQ NEPA Regulations: 40 C.F.R. section 1506.11 Emergencies:
- “Where emergency circumstances make it necessary to take an action with significant environmental impact without observing the provisions of these regulations, the Federal agency taking the action should consult with the Council about alternative arrangements. Agencies and the Council will limit such arrangements to actions necessary to control the immediate impacts of the emergency. Other actions remain subject to NEPA review.”

## THE COMPLETED “BILOXI BAY BRIDGE”

## Slide 7

## Slide 8
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## Cancer Disparities Research Partnership (CDRP): Linking University & Community Radiation Oncology to Improve Cancer Outcomes

- Patrick D. Maguire, M.D.
- New Hanover Radiation Oncology
- Wilmington, NC

## CDRP: Partnerships in Radiation Oncology

- The Problem
- Clinical Trial Enrollment
- University vs. Community
- The CDRP Solution
- Long-lasting Relationships
- TELESYNERGY®

## Clinical Trial Enrollment: Failing our patients, both current & future?

- Pediatric vs. Adult
-  ~50% vs. <5% (DHHS, 2003)
- Majority vs. Underserved
- Low minority enrollment (0.05 x 0.1)
- Are trial endpoints representative?

## University vs. Community Radiation Oncology:Ivory Tower vs. The Dark Side!

## “Make Love, Not War”

- _UNIVERSITY:_
- Research, lab & clinic
- Focused expertise
- New technologies
- Clinical trials

- _COMMUNITY:_
- Large n (patients)
- Convenience
- Cultural bonds
- Clinical trials less common

## Essentials of A Successful Relationship

- Mutual contribution & care
- Mutual benefit
- Marriage: love & effort!

## The CDRP Solution to The Clinical Trials Problem:

- Marriages Between University &
- Community Radiation Oncology Centers

## U.S. Map

## CDRP in North Carolina

**New Hanover Regional Medical Center**
**Wilmington**

**University of North Carolina**
**Chapel Hill**

**160 Miles**

## The UNC – NHRMC Bond

- _We started with:_
- Strong foundation
- Patient referrals (two-way street)
- Occasional visits

- _CDRP grant added_:
- TELESYNERGY®
- New multi-disciplinary & enhanced rad onc relationships
- Regular tumor boards
- IMRT shared planning
- Phase II H&N trial
- Quarterly visits

## Slide 11

## A Year of TELESYNERGY® in NC

- August 2004 – August 2005
- Multi-disciplinary tumor boards	 79
- Treatment planning			   7
- _Other__	__	__	__	__	__	__   9_
- Total						 95

## “Improving Cancer Outcomes for African Americans in Southeastern North Carolina”

## Rad Onc Clinical Trial Enrollment at NHRMC (2004 – 2006)

- _Disease Site_	_African American/Total_
- H&N 			4			22
- Lung				0			 6
- Breast			5			 8
- Prostate			2			 2
- Cervix			0			 2
- _Anal__	__	__	__	__1__	__	__	__ 2_
- Total				12			42

## Phase II Trial of Hyperfractionated IMRT with Concurrent Weekly Cisplatin for Stage III & IVa Head & Neck Cancer

- Designed & opened in community with IMRT planning advice from university
- Later opened at university
- A model of cooperation & teamwork!

## CDRP Summary

- Enrollment in adult clinical oncology trials is poor, especially for underserved
- Relationships b/w university & community cancer centers can be enhanced
- These bonds may improve patient care, including clinical trial enrollment
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## CGSIC 43rd Meeting
Arlington, Virginia
10 March 2004

- Arlington, Virginia
- 10 March 2004

- GPS Outage Reporting

## Background

** ****The Triad**

**Military Users**

**All other users**

**Aviation Users**

**Notes:**
The primary sources of information create of a triad of organizations, each with their own responsibility.
The FAA National Operational Command Center is responsible for distributing NOTAMS and coordinating spectrum issues dealing with GPS.
The GPS Support Center supports the Defense user and handles information concerning operation of the satellites.
The Coast Guard Navigation Information Service located at NAVCEN is the contact point between non-military user and the system operators.

## Outage Reporting

- Disruption to GPS service should be reported to:
- USCG NAVCEN
- http://www.navcen.uscg.gov
- On-line form
- An attempt will be made to identify the problem
- Response to user

## GPS Page Choices

** ****GPS Status Reports**
** ****GPS Service Interruptions**
** ****GPS Almanac Information**
** ****Precise Ephemeris Info**
** ****Subscribe to Listserver Messages**
** ****Selective Availability**
** ****GPS Modernization**
** ****Report a GPS Problem**
** ****Frequently Asked Questions**
** ****Augmentation Systems**
** ****Reference Information**

**GPS Page Choices**

## Outage Reporting

- 1. What indicated there was a problem?
- 2. How many Satellites were being tracked?
- 3. What SVs were being track?
- 4. Elevation of the receiver antenna?
- 5. Duration and number (approximate) of known occurrences?
- 6. Did any operator (you) action help?
- 7. Location of problem? *
- 8. Closest geographic region*
- 9. Type of equipment? (receiver model, antenna type, etc...)
- 10. Type of installation? (boat, car, handheld, plane)
- 11. Other probable causes? *
- 12. What was the receiver being used for at time of occurrence?
- 13. Contact Information

**Navigation Information Service**
- http://www.navcen.uscg.gov
- http://www.navcenter.org/ (mirror site)
- E-mail: nisws@navcen.uscg.mil
- Phone:  +1 703 313 5900
- Fax:      +1 703 313 5920
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## Session #18

- HISPANIC SERVING INSTITUTIONS
- OPEN FORUM
- Joel V. Harrell, Director
- Special Initiative Services

## Who are we?

- 	Within the School Services and Training Channel, the Special Initiative Service unit strives to proactively identify the unique needs of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving institutions, and Tribally controlled colleges.

## Slide 3

## Examples of Services Provided

- Technical assistance in programmatic and administrative areas.
- Provide customized training that is developed to meet the unique needs of the institution

## Examples of Services Provided

- Assists institutions in performing on/off campus assessments and if warranted, the development of corrective action plans

## Basic Guiding Principles of Assistance

- We are here to help!
- We are not program reviewers or auditors
- Our emphasis is self- initiated institutional self improvement

## HSIs CLIENTS

- Hispanic Serving Institutions

## HISPANIC SERVING INSTITUTIONSExpenditure Levels 

**2005-2006 AY **
** **
**Pell Grants****	****	****	****	****	****$1,503,436,785     FFEL****	****	****	****	****	****	****$1,766,964,862**
**Direct Loans****	****	****	****	****	****$   342,860,878**
**FSEOG****	****	****	****	****	****$     73,802,117 **
**FWS****	****	****	****	****	****	****$      83,248,511**
**Federal Perkins****	****	****	****	**_**$      52,420,911**_
**Total****	****	****	****	****	****            $3,822,734,064  **

## Most Frequently RecurringAudit/Program Review Findings 

- R2T4 Calculations not performed
- R2T4 Calculations performed late
- R2T4 Calculations performed              incorrectly
- Inadequate SAP Policy

## Most Frequently RecurringAudit/Program Review Findings 

- Excess cash on hand
- 	FISAP incorrectly completed
- Inadequate Title IV Funds reconciliation procedures
- Failure to meet required institutional financial ratios
- Lack of written policies and procedures

## Special Initiative Service

- 	We appreciate your feedback and comments.
- We can be reached at:
- Phone:  404-562-6295
- Fax:      404-562-6283
- Email:   joel.harrell@ed.gov

## THANK YOU!
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## chinkapin oakQuercus muehlenbergii Engelm.Synonyms:  Quercus acuminata, Q.  alexanderi, Q. castanea, Q. prinoides.Other common names:  Chinquapin oak, yellow chestnut oak, yellow oak, chestnut oak, rock chestnut oak, rock oak.

**PLANT FACTS:**
- Chinkapins are most commonly found on well-drained bottomland soils and limestone hills near water.  They occur in all states east of the Mississippi River.  It generally grows from 50 to 90 feet in height, a canopy of 20 to 40 feet in width and a diameter of 18 to 24 inches.  The champion tree is 100 feet tall with a trunk diameter of 6 feet in Breckenridge County, Kentucky.  The Chinkapin can live to be 600 years old.
- It naturally crosses readily with a number of other oak species.  Several hybrid trees have been identified.
- Because it holds up well to strong winds it makes a good moderate size tree in windbreaks.  It is very susceptible to salt and is rarely found near any oceans.  It is a good ornamental tree for landscaping in very large open spaces, which have deep, uncompacted soils.
- It seldom grows large enough or in abundance to be commercially important, but it does make good firewood.

- Photo courtesy of:  Kansas Forest Service.

- Slide developed by Pat Broyles, Soil Conservationist, Manhattan, KS. PMC.  USDA is an equal opportunity employer.
# Presentation: 514179

## Table Mountain Observatory

**Table Mountain Observatory**

**Jim Abeyta**
- NOAA Space Environment Center

**Description**

- The Table Mountain Observatory is located approximately 10 miles north of Boulder.  The site is managed by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).  Other tenants who maintain facilities at TMO include NOAA’s Environmental Technology Laboratory (ETL), Air Resources Laboratory (ARL), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS).
- SEC maintains and operates a satellite receive facility and a ground based magnetometer at TMO.  The satellite receive facility has three satellite receive systems.
- SEC also receives data from a USGS magnetometer located at TMO.
# Presentation: 686927

## WIA Section 188 Disability Checklist Training

**Element 5.8**
**Employment Practices**

**Notes:**
NOTES:

##  Employment Practices Covered by WIA Section 188

**	****Section 37.10 prohibits discrimination on the ground of:**
**	****	****Race****	****	**** National Origin**
**	****	****Color****	****Disability**
**	****	****Religion****	****Political Affiliation or belief**
**	****	****Sex ****	****	****Age**

**Notes:**
NOTES:

## Employment Practices Covered by WIA Section 188

**Employment practices covered by Section 504 are incorporated into Part 37 by reference**

**Notes:**
NOTES:

##  Employment Practices Covered by WIA Section 188

**	****Discrimination on prohibited grounds covers employment practices in the administration of, or in connection with:**
** ****WIA Title I – financially assisted ****	****programs ****	****and activities**
** ****Any program/activity operated as ****	****part of ****	****the One-Stop delivery system**

**Notes:**
NOTES:

##  Employment Practices Covered by WIA Section 188

**	*****What employment practices are covered?***
*** ******Employee Selection***
*** ******Promotion***
*** ******Awards***
*** ******Pay***
*** ******Training/Education***
*** ******Reasonable Accommodations***
*** ******Termination***

**Notes:**
NOTES:

## Employment Practices Covered by WIA Section 188

**	****All recipients must have effective procedures in place for addressing reasonable accommodations for employees and applicants for employment who have disabilities**

**Notes:**
NOTES:

## Employment Practices Covered by WIA Section 188

**	****All recipients must have effective procedures in place for reviewing job descriptions and announcements to ensure the use of legitimate nondiscriminatory qualifications**

**Notes:**
NOTES:

## Employment Practices Covered by WIA Section 188

**	****In hiring, recipients must not engage in pre-employment medical inquiries**

**Notes:**
NOTES:

## Employment Practices Covered by WIA Section 188

**	****All recipients must have procedures that protect the confidentiality of all employee medical information**

**Notes:**
NOTES:

## WIA Section 188 Disability Checklist Training

**Element 5.8**
**Employment Practices**

**Notes:**
NOTES:
# Presentation: 518370

## Slide 1

## 1962

- _1962_
- First close-up view of Venus via Mariner 2.

## 1965

- First close-up view of Mars thanks to Mariner 4.
- It orbited Mars for three years following the
- encounter.

## 1973

- Pioneer 10 is first to visit Jupiter. It is
- currently 8 billion miles from the Earth.
- Mariner 10 is first to visit Mercury.

## 1979

- Pioneer 11 gets first close-up look at Saturn.
- Its last signal was received in 1995.

## 1985

- Uranus' first close-up by Voyager 2.

## 1989

- Voyager 2 takes first close-up of Neptune.
- It is almost 90 Aeronautical Units
- from Earth and still sends back
- signals today.

## 2001

- New Horizons was proposed to AO-OSS-01,
- NASA's Jan. 20, 2001, request for flyby mission
- proposals to Pluto-Charon and the Kuiper Belt.
- New Horizons was one of two proposals chosen
- for further concept study in June 2001, and NASA
- selected New Horizons as its Pluto mission on
- Nov. 29, 2001. Led by Principal Investigator (PI) Alan
- Stern of the Southwest Research Institute's Space
- Studies department, the mission team included
- major partners at the Johns Hopkins University
- Applied Physics Laboratory, Stanford University,
- Ball Aerospace Corp., NASA Goddard Space Flight
- Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

## 2002

- National Research Council's Decadal Survey for Planetary
- Science ranked the reconnaissance of Pluto-Charon and
- the Kuiper Belt as its highest priority for a new planetary
- mission this decade.

## 2004

- INL builds its Space and Security
- Power Systems Facility.

## January 12, 2005

- New Horizons teams from across
- the country gather at Cape Canaveral
- to watch Deep Impact launch and
- undergo first pre-launch run-through.

## May 2005

- PI Alan Stern and Project Scientist
- Hal Weaver lead team to discovering
- two more of Pluto's moons. They are
- 43,450 kilometers (27,000 miles)
- away from Pluto.

## 2005

- New Horizons’ RTG is built in just
- nine months at INL. It is taken to
- Kennedy Space Center in Florida
- for pre-launch testing.

## January 2006

- INL’s RTG is delivered to NASA and
- installed in New Horizons just days
- before the launch.

## January 19, 2006

- New Horizons mission
- successfully launches from
- Kennedy Space Center at
- 14:00:00 PM. It was the fastest
- launch ever at 22,000 miles per
- hour.

## February 2007

- New Horizons will reach Jupiter.
- The craft will take close-up photos
- and will be the closest flyby of the
- gaseous giant. New Horizons will fly
- through Jupiter's vicinity and gain
- momentum like a slingshot through
- its gravitational pull. Speeds will
- increase to roughly 36,000 miles
- per hour.

## 2014-2015

- First close-up photos of Pluto will
- travel back to Earth in 4 1/2 hours.

## July 2015

- Closest encounter with the
- ninth planet. The closest
- photographs will be 1,000
- times the resolution of the
- best pictures from the Hubble
- Space Telescope.

## 2016-2020

- New Horizons exploration
- of Kuiper Belt Objects.
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## Key Management Guidelines

- Introduction, Glossary, and Acronyms
- Tim Polk, NIST

## History

- Key Management Workshop #1 identified the need for a guidelines document as a companion to the Key Management Schemes document
- Scope and audience were not defined

## Scope

- Scope evolved over time
- In principle, should be as narrow as possible
- In practice, we need to fill out our current document suite
- New items still being added
- Key confirmation
- Selecting key derivation functions

## Scope, Cont’d

- In the end, our scope is everything that is:
- outside the mathematics of the key management schemes; AND
- not covered in current NIST documents

## Audiences

- In principle, one focused audience is best
- In practice, NIST has numerous communities to serve and limited resources
- Three audiences targeted:
- Standards developers
- Implementers
- System administrators

## Protocol Developers

- Protocol developers need guidance and a toolkit of appropriate building blocks
- The toolkit is the FIPS algorithms
- This document must provide the guidance

## Cryptographic Module Implementers

- Different applications impose different key management requirements
- Module developers may gain greater understanding of the features required to support target applications

## Systems Administrators

- A system is composed of products that were developed by third parties
- Configuration and selection of components is critical to the level security that is actually achieved
- Cryptographic modules
- Protocol stacks
- Applications

## Consequences

- Document is a bit unwieldy
- It includes information of marginal interest to every audience
- Document is very comprehensive

## Overview

- Introduction
- Guidelines
- Algorithms, Keys, and Keying Material
- Key Management Lifecycle
- General Key Management Guidance
- Selected Infrastructures
- Selected Protocols
- Selected Applications

## Algorithms, Keys, and Keying Material

- Classes of algorithms
- Classes of keys
- Protection requirements for different classes of keys

## Key Management Lifecycle

- Framework for the lifecycle of a cryptographic key

## General Key Management Guidance

- Key management policy
- Key usage, key lifetime, auditing, key recovery, etc.
- Cryptographic algorithm and key size selection
- Assembling an appropriate suite of algorithms
- Key establishment schemes (placeholder)

## Selected Infrastructures

- Guidance on key management requirements for selected infrastructures
- Expect to cover Kerberos and PKI

## Selected Protocols

- Guidance on key management requirements for selected protocols (assumes multiple participants)
- TLS
- S/MIME
- Others?

## Selected Applications

- Guidance on key management requirements for selected applications
- Assumption is one participant
- Example is encrypted file storage

## Glossary of Terms and Acronyms

- Eighty five terms defined
- Fourteen acronyms