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# Presentation: 194831

## DiscussionofHigh-level Strategies for Developinga Future “eScience” Program

*Breakout Group #4, 12/2/2004*

## Articulate the Big National, Societal Goals

- Staying *competitive* in a changing *environment *(as in the natural environment)
- Warming, agriculture, flooding in coastal areas, insurance
- Bootstrapping American competitiveness and ingenuity to create *New Industries*
- Nanotechnology, towards a knowledge economy
*Improving the Human Condition* - Health information, Care Resources, Disaster Response and Management
*Energy, Water, Nutrients*
*Defense* Security Support Systems
- Education

## The Big Goals

**EDUCATION**

*Interdisciplinary*
*Knowledge!*

*Small to Big*

*“**Better Science”*

*Democratization*

*via*

*for*

## Pitching A Future eScience Program

- Consider our program relative to the scope and funding of U.K., EU, Asia
- Current DOE level of $34M is about 1% of OS budget of $3.4B - Can we double?
- We would need a great Program Name
- It’s important and hard to come up with one
- “Cyberinfrastructure” is somewhat vague...
- Encompasses collaboratories, Grid, etc.
- eScience is taken, so...
- Identify the Grand Challenges, translate to the Big Goals, drive the eScience thrusts, cost the program
# Presentation: 570413

## INTEGRAL Archive at HEASARC Status and Plans

- Steve Drake

## INTEGRAL: Mission Status, Overview of US Program & Archive

- INTEGRAL is an ESA mission with NASA participation for hard X-ray/gamma-ray (15 keV-10 MeV) imaging and spectroscopy (& soft X-ray & optical instruments)
- Currently in its 4th year of operations; will be supported  by ESA at least through 2010
- Spacecraft and subsystems all operating nominally
- 4th GO cycle starts in August 2006
- US investigators comprise ~25% of overall GO program (supported by NASA grants)
- NASA GOF mirrors ESA’s ISDC archive, and provides technical and scientific support to US astronomy community (2.5 science FTEs)
- Future of NASA INTEGRAL funding to be determined by 2006 MO&DA Senior Review

## INTEGRAL Archive: Milestones

**July 2004:** The ISDC INTEGRAL Public Data Archive opened with data up to revolution 66 (5-1-03).
**September 2004:** The US INTEGRAL Public Data Archive at the HEASARC opened.
**January 2005:**  All public data was reprocessed into revision 2 format.
- 		- Rev 2 utilizes HEASARC-compatible event file formats
**February 2005: ** The US INTEGRAL Public Data Archive at the HEASARC switches over to revision 2 format data.
**February 2006:**  1.8 TB of public INTEGRAL data available from the HEASARC (most of mission up to Jan/Feb 2005)

## INTEGRAL Archive: Current Status

- New public data is available to the community within a few days of its release from the ISDC.
- The limiting factor is the low data transfer rate from the ISDC.
- ~3 spacecraft orbital revolutions = 9 days of data can be transferred per day.
- All public data through the latest ISDC release (03-31-06) is currently available from the HEASARC archive.

## Accessibility

- The US INTEGRAL Public Data Archive is accessible from the HEASARC via Browse or FTP.
- Downloading the data as a tar file is complicated by the large size of the typical observation, 1 Rev. = 3 days of data = 7-8 GB.
- The HEASARC limit for a tar file is 5 GB ==> the preferred download method is via a wget script created by Browse.
- A detailed description of all the INTEGRAL catalogs available through Browse as well as a detailed cookbook describing the downloading of data : <http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/integral/inthp_archive.html>

## HEASARC and INTEGRAL/GOF

- Download previews and quick-look data
- Multi-band Images, lightcurves,
- - Roadmap for follow-up  analysis

## High-level INTEGRAL Products

- Routine analysis of all public data
- Basic analysis of 600 observations in the archive
-  ISGRI and SPI lightcurves  for 200 bright sources:
- “INTEGRAL Bright Source Catalog”
- “INTEGRAL Source Results”
- ISGRI fluxes in 2 energy bands (23-40, 40-80 keV)
- “INTEGRAL AGN Catalog” - detailed information about  68 AGN available soon
# Presentation: 871865

## 1554

- The Wreck of Three Spanish Ships on Padre Island

## The reasons behind the voyage
The passengers, crew, and cargo
Ocean travel in 1554
The intended route
The storm
The planned trek back to Vera Cruz
The Account of Fray Marcos de Mena
Who survived?
Salvage operations
Discovery of the wrecks
Platoro, Ltd.
The State of Texas vs. Platoro, Ltd.
The Texas Antiquities Act
National Park Service Involvement
Excavation
The Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

- The passengers, crew, and cargo
- Ocean travel in 1554
- The intended route
- The storm
- The planned trek back to Vera Cruz
- The Account of Fray Marcos de Mena
- Who survived?
- Salvage operations
- Discovery of the wrecks
- Platoro, Ltd.
- The State of Texas vs. Platoro, Ltd.
- The Texas Antiquities Act
- National Park Service Involvement
- Excavation
- The Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

## The reasons behind the voyage

## The passengers, crew, and cargo

## Ocean travel in 1554

## The intended route

## The storm

- Contrary to popular belief, the storm was not a hurricane by current definition
- The wrecks occurred in April
- Hurricane season runs from August to November
- “Hurricane” was a name for any severe storm and comes from the name of the Mayan god of the wind:  Hurakan.

## The planned trek back to Vera Cruz

## The Account of Fray Marcos de Mena

## Who survived?

- Fray Marcos de Mena
- Ship’s Master Francisco del Huerta
- An Unidentified soldier
- others

## Salvage operations

## Discovery of the wrecks

## Platoro, Ltd.

## The State of Texas vs. Platoro, Ltd.

## The Texas Antiquities Act

## National Park Service Involvement

## Excavation

## The Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

## Bibliography
# Presentation: 206504

## Engaging With Local Project Sponsors

- Local Government-Sponsored Project Development Pre-SAFETEA-LUand Post-SAFETEA-LU in Iowa
- Michael LaPietra
- Iowa Division

## Process to Prepare an EIS Pre-SAFETEA-LU

- State Projects
- 404/NEPA Merge
- Can-Do Process
- FHWA/DOT involvement
- Agency roles & responsibilities
- Document preparation and quality

- Locally-sponsored Projects
- No legal tie to “merge” process, no Can-Do
- Little FHWA/DOT involvement
- Uneven agency involvement
- Uneven document preparation and quality

## Before SAFETEA-LU

- State Projects
- Concurrence Points
- Purpose & Need
- Alternatives Analyzed
- Alternatives Retained
- Preferred Alternative
- DOT and agencies like the merge processes

- Local Projects
- No agreed upon development process
- Developed outside of Can-Do and 404/NEPA process
- DOT and agencies dislike local projects

## Post-SAFETEA-LU For State Projects

- Evaluate and Revise 404/NEPA Merge and Can-Do Process
- Scoping meetings
- Public Involvement Plan
- New agencies accommodated by Merge and Can-Do
- With slight modification, Merge Process meets SAFETEA-LU requirements

## Post-SAFETEA-LU for Locally-Sponsored Projects

- SAFETEA-LU Defined Role for Local Sponsor
- Responsibility when participating  as a Joint Lead Agency
- Inviting Agency Participation
- Coordination Plan Preparation
- Joint Decision-making on:
- Purpose and Need
- Range of Alternatives
- Preferred Alternative

**Notes:**
SAFETEA-LU provides that local government sponsors may be provided an opportunity to be a joint lead agency (along with FHWA and the State DOT). 

## Post-SAFETEA-LU: A Streamlined Process for Locally-sponsored Projects

- Local sponsors now engage in 404/NEPA Merge and Can-Do Process because it accommodates SAFETEA-LU requirements
- Agency expectations and involvement is consistent with State projects
- Increased coordination among joint leads, participating agencies, and public

## Post-SAFETEA-LU Challenges

- Notice of Initiation- DOT responsibility but not DOT priority
- Purpose & Need- accommodating the earmark
- Increased start-up time
- Commitment to implementation vs commitment of resources for NEPA
- Increased demands on participating agencies
- Confusion in agency roles (SHPO)

## Locally Sponsored Projects Status

- Four projects subject to SAFETEA-LU
- All are projects supported by earmarks
- One has problematical purpose & need and lack of logical termini
- One is proceeding along nicely
- Two have high controversy due to involvement of significant resources
# Presentation: 200109

## Web Accessibility

**It’s Not Just About Adding Alt Tags**

**Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, as amended by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 requires that Federal agencies' electronic and information technology is accessible to people with disabilities, including employees and members of the public. **
**All Web pages created or modified on or after June 21, 2001 are required to comply **
**Applies to Internet as well as Intranet pages**

## The Standards

**1194.21 Software applications and operating systems. **
**1194.22 Web-based intranet and internet information and applications**
**1194.23 Telecommunications products. **
**1194.24 Video and multimedia products. **
**training and informational video and multimedia productions which support the agency's mission, . **
**1194.25 Self contained, closed products. **
**information kiosks and information transaction machines, copiers, printers, calculators, fax machines, and other similar types of products. **
**1194.26 Desktop and portable computers. **

## Accessibility of Web 2.0

**In 2001, most Web content was left to right, top to bottom, text-based**
**In 2007, content is much more dynamic, fluid, and interactive**
**Multimedia, social media, Mash-up pages all bring new opportunities to the NOAA Web – but they also pose accessibility challenges.  **

## Multimedia / Podcasts

**Captioning required for all training and informational and multimedia productions which support the agency's mission that contain speech or other audio information**
**Podcast  - transcripts **
**PowerPoints, Excel, PDF documents – have you checked these for accessibility? **

**Notes:**
Captioning required for all training and informational and multimedia productions which support the agency's mission that contain speech or other audio information necessary for the comprehension of the content

## The Web as An Application

**The interactive nature of the Web requires more than simply adding an “alt tag” to pages**
**Live content on pages may not be readily available to people using assistive technologies**
**Multimedia rich content may not interact with existing captioning/alt tags**

## Resources

**Section 508**
**www.section508.gov/**
**NOAA Section 508 Contacts**
**www.cio.noaa.gov/itmanagement/508_contacts.htm**
**Accessible Rich Internet Applications **
**www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria**
**U.S. Access Board**
**www.access-board.gov/**
**Section 508 Refresh**
**http://teitac.org/**
# Presentation: 011074

## Comments

- Joseph R. Mason
- Drexel University, the Wharton School, and FDIC

## Managing DI Through the Cycle

- DI is different from other types of insurance.
-  Katrina: Property insurance.
-  Auto: my car
- DI gives claimants $, but takes assets.
- Liquidates and recovers over time: time consistency problem.
-  How does DI reserve for losses?
-  First, observe that gross lossest >  net lossest+m

## Managing DI Through the Cycle

- t

- Reserve Savings

- Financing

## Managing DI Through the Cycle

## Managing DI Through the Cycle

- DI manages liquidation as AMC to achieve reserve savings.
- monitoring, capital , liquidity
- Three important questions:
- What makes banks fail?
- What determines resolution strategy?
- What effect do failures and their resolution have on economic performance?

## Rajkamal Iyer and Jose L. Peydro-Alcalde, “Interbank Contagion: Evidence from Real Transactions.”

- Directly models contagion via interbank exposure data among large Indian banking institutions at the time of the failure of the Madhavan Mercantile Cooperative Bank (MMCB) March 10-12, 2001 due to fraud.
- Institutional Environment: Much like U.S. Credit Union system.
- Data:
- 3/31/01 (public) and 12/31/01 (CB) deposit data.
- 3/31/01 balance sheet data.
- 3/31/01 MMCB deposit exposure (source?).
- 3/31/01 interbank exposure.
- Findings:
- 1. Exposure to MMCB (-) related to deposit growth.
- 2. Test individual bank:
- media coverage;
- release (by bank) of exposure information regarding MMCB;
- importance of government mandate in general vs. MMCB exposure in particular.

## Greg Caldwell, “An Analysis of Closure Policy under Alternative Regulatory Structures.” 

- Theoretical adaptation of Repullo (JMCB 2001) and Kahn and Santos (2001).
-  Examines bank choice of risk given institutional AMC design.
-  Looks at welfare Implications of resolving failure where:		W=(, A0, , A, AM, , , AC, , , R)
- Key to theory is assumption of difference between:
-  benevolent supervisory agency ;
-  self serving deposit insurer.
- General idea is that “ benevolent supervisory agency” is more likely to resolve through merger to preserve desirable social investment.
- Vulture capitalist vs. AMC
- LCR vs. EPOR
- Merger facilitated by capital infusion (forbearance)?

## Managing DI Through the Cycle

## Carlos Ramirez and Philip Shively, “Do Bank Failures Affect Real Economic Activity?” 

- Empirical Application: follow on CM (2003) and AKM (JMCB 2005) using state-level data to identify real effects of bank failures.
- Bank Fails → Business Fails?
- Business Fails → Bank Fails?
- Impulse vs. Propagation
- Use 48 state-level VARs. Find 		Bank Fails → Business Fails		NOT Business Fails → Bank Fails
- Then seeks to identify why Bank Fails → Business Fails. Answers:
-  deposits ser capita
-  loans per capita
-  branching dummy
-  DI dummy

## Managing DI Through the Cycle

**What makes banks fail?**
**What determines resolution strategy?**
**What effect do failures and their resolution have on economic performance?**

## Managing DI Through the Cycle
# Presentation: 183782

## PHOBOS22.5 & 62.4 GeV Cu+Cu

- Peter SteinbergBrookhaven National Laboratory
- March 23, 2005

## PHOBOS Cu+Cu 200 GeV

## The Week in Chipmunk 2

- Low radiation, excellent uptime.  Thanks!

## Progress in 62.4 GeV

- Goal: 250M

- Expect: ~100M

## Progress in 62.4 & 22.5 GeV

- Goal: 250M

- Expect: ~100M

- Expect: ~15M(!)

- Final: ~115M (B+ ~ B-)

## 22.5 GeV Running

- Fast startup - only glitch was problem with bunch mask

- ZDC gains up byx9 - look reasonable

## Efficiency of 22.5 GeV Run

- Vertex Distribution much wider, since no rebucketing.
- No way to improve trigger w/o large loss of efficiency
- We believe our B-off analyses can use a lot  of this
- Multiplicity
- Elliptic Flow
- Fluctuations
- Low-pT identified particles

## PHOBOS requests for last 18 hours

- 2 hour stores
- 2 more polarity flips
- An extension to the 22.5 GeV run
- More experts are getting married
- One more energy (56 GeV)
- Si+Si - we know you can do it!
- Access to replace beam pipes for p+p
- Thanks for your patience!
# Presentation: 461290

## GMI Aerosol Activities

- Joyce Penner

## Progress on nucleation and coagulation models

- UMaer model description publication has been drafted, editing currently underway
- Box model intercomparison publication has been drafted, waiting on my editing
- 2-D intercomparison has been initiated—UMaer added to AER 2D model, debugging underway

## Progress on adding aerosols to GMI

- Successful addition of sulfate aerosol (and other aerosol types) to all met-field versions of GMI by LLNL
- Successful transfer of code go Goddard
- Goddard has run the DAO version of the code through 1 year – results seem reasonable in comparison to U. of Mich. IMPACT results
- Awaiting simulations with all met fields to analyze

## AEROCOM aerosol model intercomparison

- We attended the 1st organizational meeting in July and showed IMPACT results, and discussed the capabilities that GMI will bring to the table
- Provided IMPACT results for the first part of the intercomparison
- Helped organize a session at the Fall AGU meeting
- Will hold a press conference discussing early results

## Outline of AEROCOM procedures

- Phase 1 results submitted in June 2003:
- Each model to also infer aerosol optical depth (no control on humidity treatment, etc.)
- Each model to use whatever sources they have
- Phase 2
- Sources specified; have not yet finalized biomass burning sources
- Results submitted by end of Dec.
- Workshop in Mar 3 – 5, 2004

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## Slide 9

## Slide 10

## Slide 11

## Slide 12

## Slide 13

## Slide 14

## Slide 15
# Presentation: 088608

## User Feedback on Video

- Rick St. Denis
- Glagow University

## Outline

- Summary of Thoughts
- Our Equipment
- Our Usage

## Summary of Thoughts

- Great Service, very reliable, very enabling
- Greatest fear: that you improve something!
- Greatest problem: need to use Windows
- Versions of  Viacom Viavideo: 3 is ok, 5 is fiddly (does not allow calling from address book)

## Equipment

- Used for CDF experiment
- Used by CDF Glasgow at Fermilab and in Glasgow
- Zydacron or Polycom Viavideo (on laptop)
- Use it with broadband from home (256)
- At fnal, use a variety of Polycom-equipped rooms
- Use by phone (a lifesaver!)

## Our Usage

- Meet Oxford, Glasgow, FNAL, Texas every morning (CST) for 15 minutes for virtual coffee for the CDF SAMGrid project operations
- Used for various physics and design meetings
- Used for ad-hoc debugging meetings.

## Sharing Apps

- Not been successful at application sharing, but surviving fine.

## Usage

- No worry about scheduling a room: just bring a laptop: Have done meetings when at summer schools

## Conclusion

- THANKS for a great product that is reliable and fantastically useful.
- Please don’t improve it to death
- But if you are, linux-compatible usage would be really helpful.
# Presentation: 780393

## National Tribal WQX/STORET Data Management

**November 29, 2007**

## Data Management

- May use Microsoft Access, Excel, or other in-house systems
- Use template format to manage data
- Be consistent internally to avoid re-work
- Coordinate with laboratory

## STORET Warehouse Overview

**Organization**

## Metadata for Sharing Data

**Who****	****Organization**
**What****	****Characteristic (Chemical, Taxa, ****	****	****	****	****Physical)**
**Where****	****Monitoring Location**
**When****	****Date**
**Why****	****Project Description**
**How****	****Sample Collection Method & ****	****	****	****	****Analytical Method.**

## Projects

- ID
- Name
- Description

## Monitoring Locations (Stations)

- ID
- Name
- Description
- Type
- Lat/Long, Method, Datum
- State, County

## Activity

- ID
- Date, Time
- Medium
- Type
- Depth
- Collection Method
- Collection Equipment

## Results

- Characteristic Name
- Value, Units
- Sample Fraction
- Analytical Method
- Analysis Date
- Detection Limit
- Comments

## Data Standards

- Methyl tertiary butyl ether
- 2-Methoxy-2-methylpropane
- Methyl-t-butyl ether
- MTBE
- CAS 1634-04-4

**Are these the same?**

## Required Characteristics

- Water Temperature
- pH
- Turbidity
- Dissolved Oxygen
- Total Phosphorus
- Total Nitrogen
- E-coli
- Macroinvertebrates (abundance)
- Habitat Assessment (Stream bank erosion, stream bottom char, land use, etc.)

## Any

**Questions?**

## Contact Information

- STORET Helpdesk
- (800) 424-9067
- STORET@epa.gov
- Tribal STORET/WQX Support Hotline
- (800) 844-0638
- owsupport@rti.org
# Presentation: 538910

## The SPL Chopper-Status Report F.Caspers

- Motivation and basic concept
- What have we got so far
- Where do we need to go
- What are the constraints
- Elements required for implementation
- Discussion, outlook and near future planning

- SPL chopper-status report          Cuvet, Genest, Caspers

## Motivation and basic concept

- A double meander structure (400mm length) printed on an alumina substrate has been designed and developed four our application + parameters (v/c=8%)

- beam

- Metallization:
- Molybden/mangan +
- silver

- SPL chopper-status report          Cuvet, Genest, Caspers

## What have we got so far

- The printed meander lines on alumina with metallic back-plane

- SPL chopper-status report          Cuvet, Genest, Caspers

## Where do we need to go

- We have to build a vacuum tank around the basic structure shown before
- It has to fit into an available quadrupole which cannot be opened (cut into 2 halves)
- We need water cooling (electrical and beam losses) for the chopper plates

- SPL chopper-status report          Cuvet, Genest, Caspers

## Constraints

- Maximum length between flanges=500mm
- Chopper plates must be electrically floating (triax system!) wrt ground and to each other.
- Tough space limitation from the quadrupole
- Chopper plates must remain demountable and adjustable, if required

- SPL chopper-status report          Cuvet, Genest, Caspers

## Chopper plates with quadrupole

- SPL chopper-status report          Cuvet, Genest, Caspers

## Water cooling circuit

- Only upper plate cooling circuit shown here

- SPL chopper-status report          Cuvet, Genest, Caspers

## Chopper plates and feed-through

- SPL chopper-status report          Cuvet, Genest, Caspers

## Vacuum tank+ chopper plates +water-cooling

- SPL chopper-status report          Cuvet, Genest, Caspers

## Electrical isolation of water circuit

- SPL chopper-status report          Cuvet, Genest, Caspers

## Triaxial feed-through 

- SPL chopper-status report          Cuvet, Genest, Caspers

## Support for the chopper plates(1)

- SPL chopper-status report          Cuvet, Genest, Caspers

## Support of the chopper plates (2)

- SPL chopper-status report          Cuvet, Genest, Caspers

## Chopper in the quad

- SPL chopper-status report          Cuvet, Genest, Caspers

## Discussion, Outlook .....

- We hope that the present design fits all the requirements and does not bring along bad surprises.
- The layout has been chosen for a maximum flexibility (tolerances, adjustment )
- If all goes well we can start hardware tests fall 2004.

- SPL chopper-status report          Cuvet, Genest, Caspers

## The latest planning (J. Genest)

- Study of support structure
- May 2004
- Finalizing design drawings
- mid May until mid July 2004
- Implementation of hardware
- mid July until end of August 2004

- SPL chopper-status report          Cuvet, Genest, Caspers
# Presentation: 656692

## Studies of Martian Sedimentological History Through In-Situ Study of Gale (and Oudemans?) Crater(s): A Proposal for the Mars Science Laboratory

- Nathan Bridges
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory

## Oudemans?

## It’s Too High

## Slide 4

## Slide 5

## Slide 6

## Acknowledgements

- Pictures: MOC (MSSS) and THEMIS (ASU)
- Most of the science: Malin and Edgett (MSSS); I am an advocate for this site, but have not done detailed investigations like M and E have.

## MOLA

## THEMIS

- VIS

## THEMIS

- IR

## Slide 11

## Gale layers 

- Gale layers
- near mound

## Eastern Gale

## Slide 14

## Exhumation

## Gale Crater Characteristics

- Suite of layered deposits and more recent fluvial features
- Basal layers are finally bedded (lake bed sediments?)
- Basal layers surmounted by a massive mound of material that is higher than the crater (Medusa Fossae material?  What is it?)
- Layers have been partially stripped away.  How?

## Engineering Constraints (MER ellipse)

- <date/time>

- Ellipses: 20 x 20 cm can fit in many good places
- Bulk Inertia (TES, IRTM): 	323, 316
- Fine Comp. Inertia (IRTM):	240
- Rocks (IRTM):			15
- Albedo (TES):			0.215
- Elevation:				-3.6 km

## Land north of filled channel; drive through channel and up through strata.  ROI:

- 4.8S,142.0E
- 4.8S,142.4E
- 5.1S,142.0E
- 5.1S,142.0E

- Land south of fine layers, drive through fine layers and up into mound.
- ROI:
- 5.4S,142.3E
- 5.7S,142.7

## MSL Investigations of Gale

- Investigation of Fine Layers
- This is probably an ancient cratered lake which, unlike Gusev, preserves fine-scale layered stratigraphy.
- Many layers were covered for some time prior to exhumation and may be well preserved.  They are certainly well exposed and accessible.  This is a promising site to study possible ancient fluvial (biological?) environments
- Study of mound material will address nature of enigmatic mantle over much of Mars.
- Study of more recent channels may provide information on fluvial processes.
- All of this needs more refinement, including finalizing the best ellipse and rover path.  However, Gale is a good site.
# Presentation: 727423

## Spatially Resolved and Atom Specific Microscopy and Spectroscopy

- “New Characterization Tools”
- What can we do now that we could not do before and how will it change the world

## Complementarity of techniques

- Insight  NN where N = number of tools
- We want everything at once!

## “Real-time” surface imaging methods 

- Nanoscale [“atomic” resolution]
- Fast Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM)
- Field Ion Microscopy (FIM/FEM)
- Mesoscale [chemically sensitive]
- Low Energy Electron Microscopy (LEEM)
- Photoemission Electron Microscopy (PEEM)
- Ellipsomicroscopy for Surface Imaging (EMSI)
- Imaging FT-IR spectroscopy

## Pattern formation on catalysts

- J. Lauterbach, et al.,
- Surface Science 294 (1993) 116

## Ellipsomicroscopy for Surface Imaging (EMSI)

## P > 10-3 mbar -> EMSI

*T = 540 K, CO/O**2** = 0.11. Image size:1mm x 1.25 mm, dt = 0.33 s*

- Lele, T. and J. Lauterbach, _Chaos_ **12**(1) (2002) 164-171.

- Video

## Low Energy Electron Microscopy & Synchrotron-based Photoemission Electron Microscopy

**RuO****2**** growth**

## Probing of Valence Electrons with X-rays

-  **Atom specific **
**Orbital symmetry selective**
**Experiment--Theory**

## Catalytic Chemistry with Orbitals

- Theoretical simulations, Mats Nyberg, Stockholm University

**Probe pulse at different delay time ********t**

- Both N atoms

- New Ru Catalyst
- Active site at steps

- Hansen et.al. Science 294, 1508 (2001)

**Haber-Bosch****	****	**
**N****2    ****+   3****H****2 ****   2NH****3**** **

## XASpectroelectrochemistry

- Element specific
- Resolves multiple redox sites
- Perfect for fuel cells

## New Tools for Neutron Scattering:

**Determination of**** ****Chloroform Adsorption site in Faujasite**
**From H pair distribution function.**
- (J. Eckert, C. Mellot-Draznieks and A. K. Cheetham, J. Am. Chem. Soc. **2002**, *124*, 170 )

- Parallel detectors offer more sensitivity
- Vibrational spectroscopy without selection rules

## Slide 12

## Pressure-induced reconstructions on Cu(110) exposed to H2

- Laegsgaard, Osterlund, Thostrup, Rasmussen, Stensgaard and Besenbacher , *Rev. Sci. Instrum*. **72** (2001), 3537-3542.

- Pressure-induced reconstructions on Cu(110) exposed to H2

- Atomic Resolution Images Under High Pressure Conditions

- In-situ HRTEM offers defect analysis - identification of active sites in vanadyl pyrophosphate catalysts

## Z-contrast STEM

- EELS

**1.4Å**

** **

**As**

** ****Z=31**

** ****Z=33**

**Notes:**
Z-Contrast - Scatter from nuclei - Direct map of atomic structure with resolution of the probe:
Eg GaAs, one of the materials we propose to study.  Must be able to distinguish Ga from As - distinguish polarity directly.  No other technique can do this.  Also EELS for identifying impurities and measuring local electronic structure at atomic columns selected from the image!

## EELS profile across a single particle

- 2nm

**Co/Ni Concentration profile**

## Imaging of Active Catalyst Atom Configurations

****

**-alumina**

**1.3 Å probe**

**Pt on **

****

**-alumina**

**0.5 Å probe**

**Imaging of Active Catalyst Atom Configurations**

**Pt atoms sit in surface vacancies**
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## Calibration and monitoring system for FPD

-  to check  the response of the MAPMT and L0PMT
-   as it involves in time ( + to see if we have any dead channels
-   + compare the response of the individual channels ?)
- LMB (light mixing box) – LEDs inside; after the LED receives
- the electric pulse it emits the light which is transmitted via optical
- fibers into MAPMT (L0PMT)

**Notes:**
LMB

## LMB – light mixing box

- FPD has 5 LMBs (dip – 36 fibers; A1,A2,P1,P2 – 64 fibers each)

- SLP pulse

-           PIN power
- (+6,-12V,ground)

- PIN out

- 3m long
- round 1mm

**Notes:**
LMB

## SLP pulse     

- The SLP pulse will be generated by the special VME boards.
- These boards are in the moveable counting house.
- The pulse will be send via the long green signal cables to
- our LMBs in the tunnel. The leading edge of this pulse should
- be sharp (5-15?ns) after the long cable to be able to produce light.

## Cartridge

- MAPMT calibration:
-  - 16 LMB fibers per cartridge
-  - each LMB fiber is connected to the bunch
-    of 8 250m fibers
-  - each of these little fibers goes to one MAPMT
-    channel (there are glued into the cookies)
- L0PMT calibration:
-  - make another hole and use the spare LMB fibers

## Layout     

- 2 – PIN power (+6V,-12V,ground – from AMP power supply)
- 3 – SLP
- 4 – ribbon cables
- 5 – optical fibers
- 6 – flat cables (between MAPMT and AMP)

- Layout
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## State of the Art Accident 

- State of the Art Accident
- Recorder Technology - Highway

- Les Dole
- President & CEO
- Cadec Corporation

## About Cadec Corporation

**About Cadec Corporation**

-     In the commercial trucking
-        technology industry for over 26
-        years.

-     Over 75,000 onboard units
-        installed.

-     Innovator in the field of
-        transportation technology.
-  Electronic DOT logs
-  Electronic state fuel tax

## About Transportation Technology

**About Transportation Technology**

-    Onboard Computing
-    Wireless Communications
-    Enterprise Wide Reporting and                       	data Integration

**Today’s Focus is the Onboard Computer or “OBC”**

## About Mobius TTS 

- Cadec’s Mobius TTS® OBC collects information in 3 major categories:
-    Driver Performance/Productivity
-    Safety and Compliance
-    Business Specific

- About Mobius TTS

**Safety and Compliance**

## Accident Prevention!

- Mobius TTS provides instantaneous feedback and coaching to the driver as specific speed limits are approached and exceeded.

- Safety and Compliance Information

- DOT states that a majority of all motor vehicle accidents are caused by excessive speed.

- Management reports, by exception, help quickly identify problem/unsafe drivers.

**Accident Prevention!**

## Accident Information

- Accidents happen no matter what pro-active steps are taken to prevent them.

**Do you know what happened to this vehicle?**

**Mobius**** ****TTS does!**

## Accident Reconstruction

- Mobius TTS:
-    Passively tracks speed, RPM and location
-    Telemetry *every second!*
-    Records information from specific switch inputs              that include time, duration and location of activation.  Switch input sources can include, but are not limited to:
-  Brakes
-  Headlights
-  Wipers

## Slide 8

## Points of Brake Activation

## Point of Hard Braking

**Point of Hard Braking**

**Sudden Swerve**

## Vehicle path

**Second-by second speed**

**Second-by second RPM**

## Exact Speed at Activation

- Point of Switch Activation

- Exact RPM at Activation

## Summary

**Summary**

-     Powerful data analysis/reporting package.

- Mobius TTS combines:

-     Powerful onboard processing.

-     Global Positioning System tracking.

-     Direct connection to engine for second-
-        by-second speed tracking.

-     Multi-mode wireless communication to
-        automatically send vital data/telemetry
-        back to the office.

## Summary

**Summary**

-    Proactively identify, manage and perhaps even terminate “risky” drivers  before an incident occurs.  This can dramatically lower the overall risk of an accident.

- This allows Mobius TTS users to:

-    Should an accident occur, Mobius TTS can reconstruct the event using a combination of speed, position, time and other switch input information, giving a detailed picture of exactly what occurred!

## Thank You

- Please stop by our display table to check out a live Mobius TTS system.
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## Ohio River

- Case Study

**Notes:**
Recent relief map of the US illustrating the Ohio River basin. 

## Ohio River Basin - 1905 

**Ohio River Basin - 1905**_ _
- _Rivers of North America: A Reading Lesson for Students of Geography and Geology_, by Israel C. Russell, New York, G.P.Putnam’s Sons London, John Murray 1905

**Notes:**
1905 map of the US illustrating the Ohio River basin

## http://kare.iewateshed.com

**Notes:**
Maps illustrating the Ohio River Basin. 

## Alexander County IL

- Map – Microsoft MapPoint

**Notes:**
Floodprone communities within Alexander County Ill. 

## Marietta OH

- Map – Microsoft MapPoint

**Notes:**
Map of the floodprone community of Marietta Ohio.  

## Pleistocene view of Ohio Basin (Issues) 

**Notes:**
Pleistocene view of the Ohio basin. 

## Bed rock topography (Issues)

**Notes:**
Bed rock topography of the Ohio River basin. 

## Glacial Landscape (Issues)

**Notes:**
Glacial landscape contributing to the fluvial morphology of the Ohio River basin. 

## Teays Pre Glacial (Issues)

**Notes:**
Illustration of pre-glacial terrain.
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## Range and Spaceport Science and Technology Conference                            Colorado Springs, CO - January 10-13, 2005

**Conference Information at http://artwg.ksc.nasa.gov**

**Conference Registration**

**Hotel Reservations**

**Registration Fee $275 per person due by Jan 3, 2005**
- FAX, email or mail completed registration form along with payment (check, credit card, money order) to **ASRC Aerospace Conference Registration POC **by _Jan 3, 2005 to guarantee registration._
- If paying by check, make checks payable to: ASRC Aerospace

**Registration Forms** available at http://artwg.ksc.nasa.gov
**Conference Registration POC                **Tricia Gryn, Project Administrator II           Mail Stop: ASRC-19                              Kennedy Space Center, FL  32899              FAX: (321) 867-7534                              VOICE: (321)861-7469                            Email: tricia.gryn-1@ksc.nasa.gov

**Wyndham Colorado Springs  **5580 Tech Center Drive    Colorado Springs, CO  80919       (719) 260-1800

**Make reservations by Dec 20, 2005** directly with Wyndham Colorado Springs at 1-719-260-1800.
**Reference** ARTWG/ASTWG Conference, Jan 10-13, 2005.
- Please make reservations early to ensure lowest conference rate.

**Advanced Range Technologies**
** ****Working Group**

**Advanced Spaceport Technologies **
**Working Group**

**Future Interagency Range and Spaceport **
**Technology Program**

**Website:** http://www.wyndham.com/hotels/COSCO/main.wnt?aff=wyn02
**Join Wyndham by Request:  **https://www.wyndham.com/wbr/join.wnt
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## Slide 1

## Appropriate Technology

**Local resources for local needs**
**No harmful emissions or waste**
**Supported by local workforce**
**Decentralized, distributed & small scale**
**Inexpensive**
**Economic opportunity**
**Local traditions and culture**

## Sustainable Development
Triple Bottom-Line

**Triple Bottom-Line**

## iCAST Mission

**To provide appropriate technology and business solutions that enable sustainable growth for communities worldwide**

- Community-Based
- Learning

- Community
- Capacity
- Building

- Community Sustainable Development

**Notes:**
Education – curriculum development on sustainability & AT; case studies from projects; R&D on new AT; & Service Learning (project participation)
Capacity Dev. – infrastructure projects in water, sanitation, energy & housing
Enterprise Dev – creating viable business enterprises using AT

## The iCAST Model

**The *****i*****CAST Model**

- Underserved
- Communities

-   Business Knowledge

- Financial Resources

- Technical Expertise

***community powered results.***

**Notes:**
We are the project coordinator/facilitator/manager

## Project

**Project**
**Team**

**Faculty & Students**

**Community**
**Organizations**

***i*****CAST**
**Staff**

**Subject Matter Experts**

**Government**

## Benefits to the Community

**Access to knowledge & technical capability**
**Capacity building for problem solving & project capabilities**
**Demonstration of new opportunities for community development**
**Linking education with opportunity**

## Benefits to the Community

**Access to financial & technical resources**
**Creation of new local jobs, careers & businesses**
**Expanded opportunities & markets for existing businesses **
**Improved public services**
**Retention of capital in local economy**

## AST Energy Opportunities

**Oil Seed Crops**
**Biodiesel (Community-Scale)**
**Meal**
**SVO**

## AST Energy Opportunities

**Bio-Energy**
**Wood Pellets **
**Space Heating**
**Briquettes**

## AST Energy Opportunities

**Solar**
**PV**
**Irrigation Systems**
**Solar Thermal**
**Community Pool**
**Passive Solar **
**Home Design**
**Wind **
**Small Scale**
**Ag. applications**** **

## AST Energy Opportunities

**Low-Income Housing**** **
**High-Efficiency**
**Renewable Energy**

## Contact Information:

- International Center for Appropriate and Sustainable Technology

**Email: paul@ic-ast.org**
**Phone: 303-462-4100**
**Website: **_[www.ic-ast.org](http://www.ic-ast.org/)_
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## IT Project Risk Management

**FY 2005 CPIC & A-11Training**
**April 2, 2003**

## Purpose of Having a Risk Management Plan / Strategy

- Identify the likelihood of various risks associated with carrying out the IT project as envisioned:
- Technology obsolescence;
- Reliability of systems;
- Missed scheduling milestones;
- Significant ($) over-runs; and
- Overall likelihood of project failure
- Develop detailed mitigation plan to off-set the various risks throughout the project life-cycle.
- Continue to assess actual progress made toward off-setting identified risks throughout duration of project, as part of on-going project management.

## OMB Definition of High Scoring Risk Management Strategy

- ▪	OMB scoring for Risk Management is broken out as follows:
- 	−	(5 points): Risk assessment was performed for all mandatory elements 	and risk is managed throughout the project.
- 	−	(4 points): Risk assessment addresses some of the risk, but not all that 	should be addressed for this project.
- 	−	(3 points): Risk management is very weak and does not seem to address 	or manage most of the risk associated with the project.
- 	 −	(2 points): Risk assessment was performed at the outset of the project but 	does not seem to be part of the program management.
- 	 −	(1 point): There is no evidence of a risk assessment plan or strategy.

## Required Components of Risk Management Strategy / Plan

| Date | Area of Risk | Description | Probability of Occurrence | Strategy for Mitigation | Current Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| (When initially identified?) | Organizational | (Does current organization support project?) | (High, Medium
or Low) | (what action is proposed to offset risk)? | (What has been done to date?) |
|  | Business | (Does project support business lines?) |  |  |  |
|  | Data/Info | (Are there sufficient data, info requirements?) |  |  |  |
|  | Technology | (Any Risk of technology obsolescence?) |  |  |  |
|  | Strategic | (Does project support DOI / bureau strategic goals?) |  |  |  |
|  | Security / Privacy | (Risk w/ reliability of system, info availability, confidentiality, etc?) |  |  |  |
|  | Project Resources
 | (Are there significant staffing / $ constraints?) |  |  |  |

## Currency & Relevance of Risk Mitigation Strategy / Plan 

**Refer to Risk Mitigation Plan as dynamic document & “work in Progress” that continues to evolve.**
**Document, date, & explain any modifications made to original risk mitigation plan.**
**Used as a tool to continuously monitor project & catch any problems before they become insurmountable.**
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## Web-Based Education for Research
June 17, 2006

**June 17, 2006**

## Central Dogma

**“****In the first place, it is assumed that education is a process which seeks to change the behavior pattern of human beings.”**

**Tyler RW. General statement on evaluation. *****Journal of Educational Research. *****1942;35:492-501**

## Information Distribution = Education

**Education**
**Knowledge acquisition ******** durable performance improvement**
**New skills**
**New behaviors**
**Models = mentor, trial & error, simulation**

**Info Distribution**
**Knowledge acquisition ******** transient performance improvement (if any)**
**Skills already in place**
**Behaviors unchanged**
**Models = lectures, books, journals**

## Adult Learning Theory vs Educational Approaches

|  | Internet | CBT | Lecture/
Classroom | Workshop/
Mentor | Journal/
Text |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Interactive | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Multimedia | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| On-demand | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Contextual learning | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Durable | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Easy to Create & Use | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| Distribution Costs  | Low | High | High | High | Low |

## If You Build It, Will They Come?

## Internet vs Live Experts

**Pain management CME**
**Four best speakers in California**
**Online program developed by experts**
**Randomized trial of 62 MDs**
**Satisfaction very high for both**
**Comparable improvement in knowledge, attitudes on standardized survey**

## NIDA Project

**What skills are important?**
**How to measure?**
**How to teach?**
**How to accommodate variations in prior training and English proficiency**

## Planned Programs

**The Effects of Drugs on the Brain – Implications for Treatment**
**Designing and Managing a Drug Abuse Treatment Program**
**Organizing a Clinical Trial**
**Advanced Topics in Field Research**
**Program Evaluation, Report, and Grant Writing**

## Prototype Program

**Neurobiology of addiction**
**Uses multiple media**
**Provides links to resources**
**nida.lecturehall.com**
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## Free Radical Observations and Chemical Kinetics in the Atmosphere 

## Slide 2

## Slide 3

## Detection of NO2 by Laser-induced Fluorescence

**White Cell**

**To Pump**

**532 nm**

**Nd:YAG**

**NO****2**** Reference**

**I**

**Etalon**

**I****o**

**585 nm**

**Tunable Dye Laser**

**Power**
**Monitor**

**Sample Inlet**

**Cooled PMT**

**Filters to block**
**laser scatter**

**2****A****1**

**2****B****2**

- >700 nm imaged on to PMT

- 585 nm

- We use light of 585 nm to excite NO2 to a narrow rovibronic feature.  Red-shifted fluorescence
-  is imaged onto a cooled PMT.  We have demonstrated a detection limit of 20 ppt with 20 second averaging.

**NO****2*******

- Detection of NO2 by Laser-induced Fluorescence

## Slide 5

## Julian Day

- UC Blodgett Forest  August 16-29, 1998

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## Slide 9

## Slide 10

## Slide 11

## Slide 12

## Most important parts of

- NOx/NOy   photochemistry

## Slide 14

## 4989 observations

## Slide 16

## Slide 17

## Slide 18

## Slide 19
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## OTHER RESOURCES

**Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)**** **
**AND**
**NEO TRACKING SYSTEM**

## TANF

**States would be justified in using Federal TANF funds only for emergency repatriation development and planning activities. **
**Such expenditures can be justified through the grandfathering authority provided at title IV-A, section 404(a)(2) of the Social Security Act (Act). **

## TANF

**These activities include, in addition to the development of plans, participation in preparedness exercises to test plans and training necessary to implement the plan, and other activities specified in the Code of Federal Regulations at 45 CFR, section 205.45 (State emergency welfare preparedness). **
**45 CFR 263.13 limits the use of Federal TANF funds for administrative purposes to not more than 15% of the State's adjusted Federal TANF grant. **

## TANF

**For more information contact the Office of Family Assistance **
**Elaine Richman (202-401-5088) **
**Robert Shelbourne (202-401-5150)**

## NEO Tracking System

- Registration Kit ~ $9K

- Conveyance Kit ~ $13K

## NEO Tracking System

**Improve the Efficiency of Evacuation Operations**
**Manifest and Track Evacuees using the FedEx/UPS Model of Barcode Scanning at Departure and Arrival events**
**Use Robust, Redundant Communications for Transmission of Encrypted Evacuee Data**

## NEO Tracking SystemProcess

**Automated Registration System**
**Capture critical information**
**Additional Information can be captured - situation dependent**
**Capability to update data as needed or required**
**Capability to export data to other systems**

## NEO Tracking SystemProcess

**Departing Evacuees have Evacuation Bracelets Scanned**
**Multiple Methods to Send and Receive Encrypted Data**
**Arriving Evacuees’ Bracelets Scanned at New Location**
**Evacuee data is updated and can be securely shared with other tracking and accountability systems via the Web or FTP**

## Questions / Demonstration

- Mike Masica
- Chief, Operations Support Division
- Defense Manpower Data Center
- (831) 583-2400, extension 5237
- _[michael.masica@osd.pentagon.mil](mailto:michael.masica@osd.pentagon.mil)_
- Major Larry Chinnery, USA
- NTS Program Manager
- Defense Manpower Data Center
- (831) 583-4019
- _[lawrence.chinnery@osd.pentagon.mil](mailto:lawrence.chinnery@osd.pentagon.mil)_
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## WireFly X PRIZE Cup

- Overview for COMSTAC
- Michael S. Kelly, RLV/WG
- 25 October 2006

## Highlights

- First actual X PRIZE Cup
- Two competitions
- Northrop-Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge
- NASA Centennial Challenges Space Elevator Games
- First flight of a vehicle under FAA/AST Experimental Permit

## Armadillo Experimental Permit

- Experimental Permit (EP) required for Lunar Lander Challenges at X PRIZE Cup (instead of launch license)
- Armadillo completed EP requirements Thursday, 19 October, in first untethered flight at Las Cruces

## Remaining Events on Friday and Saturday

- Successful completion of full flight profile by Armadillo
- Several High-Power Amateur Rockets flown
- Hybrid and LOX/alcohol static engine firings
- Bell Rocket Belt
- F-117 and F-18 fly-by

## Armadillo Flight and Landing

## And Other Flight Events

## FAA Participation

- Experimental Permitting
- HPAR trajectory simulation and rail parameter study pre-event
- Real-time 6 DOF simulation during event using real-time winds
- IIC event safety

## Back Story

## Conclusions

- XP Flight Ops had its work cut out for it
- FAA indispensable part of the team
- Despite challenges, audience experienced smooth event