BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
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## Activation Since Collimators

## Relative Change

## Comments

- We have reduced activation by 40-50% around much of the ring.
- With our current 475 Watt limit, we regularly hit 7.5E16 pph total when we’re tuned well.
- In order to be able to deliver full MiniBooNE intensity at all times, we would have to deliver about 33% more protons (~650 W limit),25% to hit full intensity during shot setup (575 W limit).
- This would probably NOT bring the Booster back to it’s previous activation at most location, including L13 and the RF cavities.
- We can afford to collimate a little less to mitigate the activity at periods 6-8 somewhat.
- Perhaps try running with reduces (or eliminated) primary collimation???
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## Ozone in the operational, prh and prhyb runs for Dec. 16, 2005-Jan.15, 2006

***All run from operational analyses***
- Glenn.White@noaa.gov

***Differences between operational and new system exist in tropics and southern hemisphere, as much as 10-15% of analysed ozone***
***Differences increase for 20 days or so, then stabilize***

## Slide 2

## % difference in time-mean 5-day forecasts 

- % difference in time-mean 5-day forecasts

## % difference in time-mean 5-day forecasts

- Differences between operational and new system increases for 20 days in tropics and SH, then stabilize

## Slide 5

## Slide 6

## % difference 5 day forecasts minus 1 day

## Slide 8

## % difference in time-mean 5-day forecasts 

- % difference in time-mean 5-day forecasts
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## Future Challenges

**The Initial Workshop on USGS/FWS Future Challenges**
**Summary of Breakout Session - Water Resources**

## Goal

- To advance the science needed to predict the **ecological outcomes** and manage the risks of a broad suite **of water management options**
- Examples include changing flow regulation, dam removal, channel modification, water development and riparian vegetation management.

## Major Challenges

**Increasing competition for water resources**
**Define the hydrological requirements for ecosystems**
**Information to the public for decision making**
**Recognize: we work in a social context and we need to communicate our message to the public**
**Setting up the infrastructure & systems for prioritizing applications of new science**

## Major Challenges

**Building capacity and communications to advance the science to meet the new paradigm**
**Large scale**
**Whole hydrograph**
**Dynamic channel**
**Surface water AND groundwater**
**Community **

## Short Term Actions

**USGS working w/NCTC Training Program**
**Develop bi-lateral program**
**In budget in both agencies, commitment at HQ, dual decision making, clear objectives, integrated approach**
**Cross-fertilization between our organizations**
**Starting Point: focus on a few areas on the landscape where there would be transfer value**
**Leverage the advances in technology - data collection, storage, and analysis **

## Partnerships

- EPA
- ACE
- BOR
- NGOs- Scientific Societies, Advocacy, Universities
- NRCS
- Watershed Councils
- Local water management districts
- State resource agencies

## Pearls of Wisdom

- Sustain and support integrated monitoring
- We talk about water in the broadest sense
- Groundwater and surface water are an integrated system
- The Fish is at the table!
- USGS needs to be at the table earlier and longer

## Long Term Actions

**Develop information to support model development**
**Model development and integration**
**Predictive models**
**Application**
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## FLASH FLOODS IN TEXAS

**Karen Gibson**
**Texas Department of Transportation**
**Austin, Texas**

## GOVERNORS’ HIGHWAY SAFETY OFFICES

**Each state is represented**
**Receive federal/state funding **
**Identifies traffic safety problems**
**Administers programs and projects to address issues**
**Driver education is integral function**

## TxDOT

**Mission: provide safe, effective and efficient movement of people and goods**
**79,000 miles of interstates, highways, and farm-to-market on state maintained system**
**Texas leads nation in number of bridges on public roads: 48,000**

## SURVEY OF DRIVERS

**High risk behavior **
**Motorists do not know laws**
**Public empathy when family or friend is involved**

## CHALLENGES

**Texas is fastest growing state with 22 million people**
**Diverse population**
**Thousands of low water crossings**

## FLOOD GAUGES

**FLOOD GAUGES**

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## Slide 9

## Slide 10

## Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)

**www.dot.state.tx.us**
**1-800-452-9292**
**25 district headquarter offices serving 254 counties**
**288 maintenance offices**

## WEB SITE INFORMATIONwww.dot.state.tx.us

**WEB SITE INFORMATION****www.dot.state.tx.us**

## WEB SITE INFORMATIONwww.dot.state.tx.us

**WEB SITE INFORMATION****www.dot.state.tx.us**

## ROAD TIPS HANDBOOK

**Simple & easy to read**
**“****Here’s the Law”**
**Safety Tips**
**A CAR IS NOT A BOAT (Distractions & Cautions)**

## ON THE ROAD RADIO SPOTS

**Free air time**
**Audience of 2 million+ listeners**
**New every month**
**Seasonal**
**100 stations statewide**

## PARTNERS

**Federal and state agencies**
**Schools**
**Civic organizations**
**Employers**
**Schools**
**Associations**

## DRIVERS EDUCATION

**Annually 250,000 Texas teenagers  attend drivers education**
**Extreme weather conditions**
**Flooding, heat, cold, reduced visibility, etc.**

## RURAL PASSENGER SAFETY

**Texas agricultural extension service**
**Local county agents**
**Outreach programs**

## What Does TxDOT Need from NWS?

**Timely warnings to the public (weather alerts, media releases)**
**Coordination with local TxDOT maintenance sections and/or law enforcement agencies**
**Printed materials for distribution network**

## Slide 20
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## pricklypearOpuntia species, including O.  compressa, O.   fragilis,  O.  humifisa, O.  macrorhiza, O.   polyacantha and O.   tortisipna. Other common names; plains prickly-pear, brittle cactus, hairspine cactus and Indian fig.

**Food**:
- The pads and fruits are used as food.  The fruits may be eaten raw, stewed or made into jellies.  The spines on the pads (tuna) are burned or scraped off, the outer skin peeled back, the inner meat sliced into strips and eaten as greens in the summer.  The dried, ground tunas may be mixed in equal proportions with corn meal and made into a mush for winter food.  Seeds are cooked, crushed and used to thicken soups.  By boiling the fruit and draining the water, a syrup is made.  The pears can be fermented and used as a beverage.

**Medicinally:**
-  A heated poultice of pads was applied to breasts to promote milk production.  The fleshy pads(tuna)  were used to bind wounds and on bruises.
**Culturally:**
- The spines were used to lance boils and as sewing needles.  The tunas were used as a red dye for corn mush and as red paint.  To fix color on hides a freshly peeled stem (tuna) would be rubbed over the paint.

- Photo courtesy of:  ©W.L. Wagner. Courtesy of _[Smithsonian Institution, Dept. of Systematic Biology, Botany](http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/index.html#?collections)_. This copyrighted image may be freely used for any non-commercial purpose. For commercial use please contact _[George F. Russell](mailto:russell.rusty@nmnh.si.edu)_.  Please credit the artist, original publication if applicable, and the USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database. The following format is suggested and will be appreciated: **W.L. Wagner** @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database.

- Slide developed by Pat Broyles, Soil Conservationist, Manhattan, KS. PMC.  USDA is an equal opportunity employer.
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## RF Components for Satellite Communications System Using Insular Guides	

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
-   Beam scanning in two planes was demonstrated by 	simple mechanical motion of a conducting image plane
-   Ceramic insular guides gave higher efficiency than 	microstrip feed lines in aperture-fed patch array antennas
-   A slight mechanical displacement of a conducting image 	plane phase shifts in the antenna and allows beam 	steering of the energy radiated
-   The principle of the innovation was demonstrated in the 	64 element scanned array antenna that was delivered to 	Glenn Research Center**	**
**COMMERCIALIZATION**
-   A $750K Air Force contract was awarded to develop a 	W-band (76 GHz) phase scanned antenna with 	transceiver for automotive forward looking radar market 	for use in intelligent cruise control
-   Received $1.2M under Fast Track funding for a 	companion commercialization contract
-  	Two antenna/transceiver models were fabricated, 	delivered and tested on a automobile by the 	commercialization customer

***Epsilon Lambda Electronics Corp.***
***Geneva, IL***

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

**GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
-   The phase-scanned antenna has been patented and 	has potential application to radar and communication 	throughout the millimeter frequency bands
-   Applications include space communications, tactical 	radar target  seekers, and short range radar

- Glenn Research Center
- Communications
- 3-062

**RF Components for Satellite Communications System Using Insular Guides****	**

***W-band phase scanned antenna with transceiver***

**INNOVATION**

- 1992 Phase II, NAS3-27412, 1/01
- NASA Contact – Afroz Zaman
- Company Contact – Robert Knox

- Low loss ceramic insular waveguide feed lines for phase scanned patch array antennas in the Ka Band
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## Major Mines 1851 - 1955

**U.S. Department of the Interior**
**U.S. Geological Survey**

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## Polarized Gun R&D at Fermilab

- American Linear Collider Workshop
- 2003
- Cornell University, Ithaca NY

## Objective

- RF Guns are proven to deliver high brightness beams
- At Fermilab we explore the possibility of flat beam production
- Wouldn’t it be attractive to combine this with spin polarization?

## Objective

- Polarized guns require GaAs cathodes
- GaAs cathodes require excellent vacuum (10-12 Torr)
- The vacuum in rf guns typically ranges around 10-9 Torr
- Need to improve the vacuum drastically

## Idea

- Operate the gun at cryogenic temperatures to lower the equilibrium pressure
- Superconducting gun prevents the use of solenoids -> ruled out
- Operate copper gun at liquid nitrogen temperature

## Idea

- Gas desorption strongly depends on temperaturefor E10kJ/mol -> factor 105!

## Prototype Gun

## Prototype Gun

- Prototype gun available at Fermilab:->1.6 cell L-band gun (1.3 GHz)-> at 35 MV/m dissipates 2.2 MW-> TESLA parameters: 900 ****s, 5 Hz

## Prototype Gun

- At 80 K the dissipated power is reduced by a factor of 2.8-> 	780 kW peak power-> 	3.5 kW average power-> 	Heat flux at cooling pipes 2.5 W/cm2	(nucleate boiling limit 15 W/cm2)	maximum in iris with 3.1 W/cm2

## Temperature Distribution

- Temperature rises with

## Temperature Distribution

## Temperature Distribution

## Temperature Distribution

## Phase I: Vacuum Tests

- Cool down to 80 K-> measure pressure, RGA
- Apply RF-> measure pressure, RGA-> measure dark current

## Phase I: Vacuum Tests

## Phase I: Vacuum Tests

## Phase I: Vacuum Tests

## Phase I: Vacuum Tests

## Phase I: Vacuum Tests

- Initial test: Thursday
- Cleaning: Soon afterwards
- Test with rf: This summer
- Decision to proceed: Thereafter

## Phase II: Quantum Efficiency

- Built a cathode system
- Obtain a (set of) cathode(s)
- Laser diode for Q.E. measurements
- Cryostat
- Measure Q.E. lifetime, dark current

## Phase III: Gun Design

- Design a “usable” gun
- Options for reduction of average rf power?-> reduce heat load-> reduce dark current

## Phase III: Gun Design

- LEP Note 570

- IEEE Trans Nucl Sci NS-28, No 3 (1981)

## Phase III: Gun Design

- Coupled acceleration and storage cavity
- Storage cavity superconducting
- Storage cavity on axis

## Thank You
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## Community Engagement Issues

- There is a large, diverse user population and we cannot engage all of them
- Immediate interest shown by groups most directly affected by SEEDS processes
- Have to engage some communities through proxies
- Target key groups
- Scientific
- Researchers, process experimenters, modelers, long-term climate researchers
- Application
- Operational decision makers
- Data service providers/value-added resellers
- Verify and validate data to create products, assimilation

## Community Engagement Issues (cont’d)

- How to target these groups
- Scientists (hardest to engage)
- Going to their meetings with a clear message of the benefits to them
- Use focus groups (UWGs for example)
- Pick community leaders to act as proxies
- Engage HQ Program Managers
- Applications
- Use existing fora (OGC)
- Talk to Ron Birk
- Data Providers/VARs (easiest to engage)
- Keep participating in Federation meetings
- Get involved in other communities such as digital library and grid

## Community Engagement Issues (cont’d)

- Three views of community engagement
- Getting lessons learned (inside and outside NASA)
- Building a market for your products and services
- Creating cross-cutting processes that enable research, technology, and applications
- Don’t over promise
- Short-term problems may not be solvable in the short term
- Not all users are equal
- Don’t worry about engaging all communities with one person per community
- Biggest bang for the buck may be to give a few key players what they need
- Bring something to the table if you want substantive engagement
- Grant door prize

## Conclusions

- Whatever you do, don’t create barriers to access.
- Different user groups will be interested at different times in this process, depending upon whether they feel directly impacted.
- Go out to the users, but go out with specific messages and focused questions relevant to them.
- Focus on building the framework right now, evolve the engagement as you evolve the framework.
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## ProposedSurface Management System(SMS)Prototype 

- Dave Signor
- SMS Group Lead, AATT Level-IV
- NASA Ames Research Center
- (650) 604-4562
- dsignor@mail.arc.nasa.gov

## Presentation Topics

- Description of NASA
- Current State of NAS Surface Management
- Examples of User Needs
- Vision of NAS Surface Management
- Benefits Provided by NASA
- Examples of Required Data
- How We Reach the Vision
- Discussion

## Description of NASA

- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- United States Federal Agency
- Funded directly by congress
- Not a pseudo-government entity
- NASA can not create or endorse private entities

## State of NAS Surface Management

- SMA at ATL
- SMA/FFP1 (ARTS drop)
- DDTC
- Other individual efforts
- AMASS runway incursion, safety
- NAS not addressed as a system w.r.t. Surface Management

## Examples of User Needs

- Maximize Throughput (arr/dep)
- User Defined Prioritization of Departures
- Gridlock Predictor (gate and ramp resources)
- Departure Queue (sequence and manage)
- Better de-ice Scheduling and Tracking
- Ground Delay for Specific Flights
- Improved Dep Predictions for en route Planning
- Others ?

## Vision of National Surface Management System

- Provide solutions via ADL/ETMS feed to all recipients of ADL/ETMS
- National Surface Surveillance

## General Benefits Provided by NASA

- Focused NASA Research and Development
- Prediction of taxi out time, departure time
- Recommendations regarding pushback sequence, departure queue
- Advocate surface surveillance

## InitialSpecific Benefits Provided by NASA

- Departure Queue (sequence and manage)
- Maximize Throughput (arr/dep)
- User Defined Prioritization of Departures
- Gridlock Predictor (gate and ramp resource)

## CURRENT ADL DATA FLOW

**w/FSM**

**CURRENT ADL DATA FLOW**

## PROPOPSED ADL DATA FLOW

**w/FSM**

**PROPOPSED ADL DATA FLOW**

## Examples of Required Data for NASA to Provide Benefits

- Unfiltered ADL data (every 5 minutes)
- ACID, Type, CLS,
- SGTD, SGTA (OAG data)
- ETD, ARTD, ETA, ARTA
- out, off, on, in
- ETMS data (every 30-60 seconds)
- OAG data
- Flight Plans, radar tracks

## How We Reach the Vision

- Action item: Airlines consider this proposal, discuss with management.
- NASA begin preparation work, with historical ADL data
- ADL/ETMS data access at NASA Ames
- Data Analysis - Research and Development
- Provide Predictions and Recommendations via ADL

## Discussion

- The proposed National SMS prototype
- ADL/ETMS data access and security issues
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## Massachusetts’ 4-Pollutant Power Plant Regulations 

**Sharon Weber**
- Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection

- Air Innovations Conference - August 11, 2004 - Chicago, IL

## Affected Facilities’ Contribution to Generation and Emissions

- 6 affected facilities represent 19% of 2003 New England megawatts of generating capacity
- The 6 facilities emit a substantial portion of MA emissions:
- 46% of 1996 SO2
- 8% of 1996 NOx
- 17% of 2002 point source mercury
- All MA electricity production was projected to account for 29% of 2000 CO2

- August 11, 2004

## Major Provisions Effective May 11, 2001

- Standards
- Output-Based Emission Rates - SO2, NOx, CO2
- Annual caps for CO2 (tons) and Hg (lbs)
- Hg data collection for cap and 2003 proposed standard
- Hg control feasibility report by December 2002
- Compliance schedules
- Dates depend on compliance approach
- standard path - 10/04 and 10/06
- repowering path - 10/06 and 10/08
- Hg cap effective at first compliance date

- August 11, 2004

## Mercury Standard Setting Process

- Regulation 310 CMR 7.29: Emissions Standards for Power Plants: promulgated May 11, 2001
- http://www.state.ma.us/dep/bwp/daqc/files/regs/7c.htm#29
- Mercury coal/emissions baseline testing: 2001-2002
- Stakeholder meetings: Aug/Sep/Oct 2002, Jan 2003
- Feasibility Report: December 2002
- http://www.state.ma.us/dep/bwp/daqc/daqcpubs.htm#other
- Proposed regulation: September 2003
- Final regulation: released May, effective June 4, 2004
- http://www.mass.gov/dep/bwp/daqc/daqcpubs.htm#regs

- August 11, 2004

## Mercury Control Feasibility Report – December 2002

- “Evaluation of the Technological and Economic Feasibility of Controlling and Eliminating Mercury Emissions from the Combustion of Solid Fossil Fuel”
- 85-90+% removal of flue gas Mercury is feasible

- August 11, 2004

## Final Mercury StandardEffective June 4, 2004

- Form of the standard
- Output-based and % control efficiency options
- Level of the standard
- Phase 1: 85% or 0.0075 lb/GWh by 1/1/2008
- Phase 2: 95% or 0.0025 lb/GWh by 10/1/2012
- Demonstrating compliance with the standard
- Every other quarter stack tests 10/06-1/1/2008
- CEMs required beginning 1/1/2008
- Averaging time of the standard
- Rolling 12-month basis

- August 11, 2004

## Media Transfer & Off-Site Mercury Reductions

- Facility mercury caps include mercury emissions due to on-site re-burn of ash or off-site high temperature processing in Massachusetts (e.g., use of ash in cement kiln or asphalt batching plant)
- Mercury standards must be met while including mercury emissions due to on-site re-burn of ash
- Units shutting down can use early or off-site reductions to 2010.  Facilities emitting less than 5 lb in 2001 can use early or off site reductions to phase 2.

- August 11, 2004

## Expected Annual Reductions due to 2001 and 2004 Standards

- SO2: 50-75% (about 56,000-84,000 tons)
- NOx: 50% (about 15,000 tons)
- CO2: 10% (about 1,954,000 tons, implemented on-site or off-site)
- Mercury: 85% (about 155 pounds)

- August 11, 2004
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## Sample Agenda 

**January 12, 2008**
**8:30 – 9:00****	****Welcome – Project Overview**
**9:00 – 10:00****	****Executive Session – XYZ Design Study**
**10:00 – 10:15****	****Working discussion - Design Processes ****(refreshments served)**
**10:15 – 11:00****	****Lecture, Cooling Experiment**
**11:00 – 12:00****	****Film – “Experiment Results”**
**12:00 – 1:00****	****Discussion - XYZ Design Study Report ****(lunch served)**
**1:00 – 2:00****	****Overview – Simulation Techniques**
**2:00 – 2:30****	****Roundtable discussions – Cooling Experiment**
**2:30 – 2:45****	****Targetry Plans Presentation ****(refreshments served)**
**2:45– 4:00****	****Round Table Discussion**
**4:00****	****Adjourn**

## Sample Attendee List

**LBNL Attendees **
- Ann Day
- Kay Smith
- Paul Brown
- Jim Taylor
- Colleen Stein
**SLAC Attendees **
- Dennis James
- Carol Meyer
- Tom Nelson
**LLNL **
- Donna Ramsey
- Lily Chu
- Lisa Hanson
- David Fong – UCSB
- Gary Logan – University of Texas
- John Porter – UCLA
# Presentation: 211666

## Near-IR AOD validation and spatial variability studies in the Extended-MODIS- Validation Experiment (EVE)

- Jens Redemann*a *(Co-PI),  Beat Schmid*a *(Co-PI)*, *Phil Russell*b *(Co-I)
*a*Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Sonoma, CA, USA
*b*NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
- _[http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/AATS-website](http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/AATS-website/)__[/](http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/AATS-website/)_
- email: _[jredemann/bschmid/prussell@mail.arc.nasa.gov](mailto:jredemann/bschmid/prussell@mail.arc.nasa.gov)_
- Preliminary - not for citation

## Contents

- EVE – experiment description
- Near-IR AOD (MO(Y)D04_L2) validation for Collection 04
- Terra
- Aqua
- Spatial variability of AOD on the US West coast during dust transport season
- Summary

## Platform – Instruments in EVE

- Instruments:
- AATS-14, 14-channel airborne sunphotometer, AOD 0.35-2.14m
- CADENZA, Cavity-Ringdown, aerosol extinction - 0.675 and 1.55m
- 3- nephelometer + PSAP, aerosol extinction - 0.453, 0.519, 0.675m

## EVE – domain and ideal flight track

## EVE – glint, clouds and B-1-r-d-s

## Slide 6

## Flight calendar

- Total:    4 days-36 L2 retrievals           5 days-49 L2 retrievals

## Slide 8

## Wavelength [m]

- Wavelength [m]

- Aerosol Optical Depth

## AOD validation, all wavelengths

- MODIS-Terra                                    MODIS-Aqua

## AOD validation, near-IR (1.24, 1.64, 2.14m)

- MODIS-Terra                                    MODIS-Aqua

## Spatial variability in AOD

## Spatial variability in AOD

## Spatial variability in AOD

## Spatial variability in AOD

## Summary / Progress

- In EVE, a total of 36 and 49 coincident AOD validation measurements were collected  for Terra and Aqua respectively. These measurements were all taken over dark water, extend to the 1.24, 1.64 and 2.14m MODIS wavelengths, and are for the smallest regular level 2 AOD retrieval scale of 10km.
- A preliminary analysis indicates that for MODIS-Terra about 80% of the MODIS AOD retrievals are within the estimated uncertainty of  ±0.03±0.05*AOD, this is true for both the visible and near-IR retrievals.
- A preliminary analysis indicates that for MODIS-Aqua about 50% of the MODIS AOD retrievals are within the estimated uncertainty of  ±0.03±0.05*AOD, the fraction of near-IR retrievals that fall within this uncertainty range is about 25%.
- This difference could be due to the fact that there may have been relatively more dust present during the Aqua validation days . Aqua calibration could also be an issue.
- The spatial variability as derived from the suborbital measurements during a few select flight segments is larger than that derived by MODIS, in particular in the near-IR.
- The analysis shows that only measurements within the scale of one retrieval box (~10km) can be used for studies of spatial variability of AOD.
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## FEM Results

**5      500     38**

## Stave deflections

- X direction
- 	pixel width = 50 microns
- 	sigma = 50/sqrt(12) = 14.4 microns
- 	allowed deflection = 14.4/3 = 4.8 microns
- Y direction
- 	pixel length = 400 microns
- 	sigma = 400/sqrt(12) = 115.5 microns
- 	allowed deflection = 115.5/3 = 38 microns
- Z direction
- 	straight line fit error in z converted to error in x,y
- 	estimate = 500 microns
- 	MC simulation much better – needs to be done
- 	ATLAS requirement = 80 microns
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## Goals for the Workshop

- Paul Hertz
- Explorer Program Scientist
- Office of Space Science

- Explorer Workshop
- March 12, 2002
- Washington, DC

## The Explorer Team

- Program Scientist	Paul Hertz	HQ
- Program Executive	Marcus Watkins	HQ
- Program Manager	Tony Comberiate	GSFC
- Acquisition Manager	Carlos Liceaga	LaRC
- Discipline Scientists	SEC and A&P	HQ
- Program Office	Code 410	GSFC
- And a cast of dozens ...

## The President’s FY03 Budget Proposal

- The Administration is reviewing programs throughout the federal government to identify strong and weak performers. The budget seeks to redirect funds where appropriate from lesser performing programs to higher priority or more effective programs. Particularly, when low performing programs are in priority areas, deficiencies will be addressed through reforms to improve performance. The following table presents the ratings of selected programs for illustrative purposes. Some of these programs will be improved by proposals described in this chapter.
**Program / Assessment / Explanation**
- Discovery and Explorer Programs
**Effective **
- Space science missions competitively selected from researcher proposals. Successful cost/risk management and science results.

## Just to Get it Out of the Way

- MIDEX 5/6 Selection	Late April / Early May 02
- SMEX 8/9 Downselect	Late June / Early July 02
- MIDEX 5/6 Downselect	Approx January 03
- SMEX 10/11 AO	Approx January 03

## Workshop Methodology

- Presentations involve top level policy, process, and constraints
- Not concerned with AO detail or how-to
- Numerous opportunities to question Explorer policies and processes
- Presentations will be posted on the Workshop web site
- No minutes, no proceedings

## Workshop Goals

- Present current NASA thinking on the Explorer Program
- Solicit community input
- Discuss new ideas with the community
- Opportunity for NASA outreach
- Opportunity for community face-to-face
- Especially Technology Showcase

## Slide 7

## Additional Topics
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## 
New Hire Orientation

Monday – Bldg. 100, Room 116D
7:30 – 8:00  NASA Welcome
Review Forms/Swear In/Health Benefits
Patsy Segura x 5131
Susan Staley x 5770

Main Gate
8:00 – 8:30 Security
Badge Process
Norma Guillermo x 7529

Cafeteria Back Room
8:30 – 9:00 ISO 9000 Briefing
Juan Perez  x 5226 
9:00 – 11:30 Safety Briefing, 
Site Safety Tour & VPP
Jeff Campbell x 5232
11:30 – 12:00  Lunch

Return to Building 100, Room 116D
Patsy Segura x 5131

**New Hire Orientation**
_**Monday – Bldg. 100, Room 116D**_
*7:30 – 8:00  NASA Welcome*
- Review Forms/Swear In/Health Benefits
- Patsy Segura x 5131
- Susan Staley x 5770
_**Main Gate**_
*8:00 – 8:30 Security*
- Badge Process
- Norma Guillermo x 7529
_**Cafeteria Back Room**_
*8:30 – 9:00 ISO 9000 Briefing*
- Juan Perez  x 5226* *
*9:00 – 11:30 Safety Briefing**, *
*Site Safety Tour & VPP*
- Jeff Campbell x 5232
- 11:30 – 12:00  Lunch
**Return to Building 100, Room 116D**
- Patsy Segura x 5131

_**Tuesday – Bldg 101 **_
_**IT Training Room**_
*8:30 – 9:30 IT Briefing*
- Peter Goldman x 5601
_**Cafeteria Back Room**_
*9:30 – 10:30 Environmental*
- Harold Harrison x 5461
- Larry Ganong x 5396
*10:30 – 10:45 Property Control*
- Richard Franco  x 5627
- Jimmy Lujan x 5614
_**Bldg. 104 Fire Dept. Briefing**_
*11:00 – 11:30 Fire Ext. Training*
- J. Herrera, C. Tahuahua  x 5215
- 11:30 – 12:00 Lunch
**Return to Work Area**

## 
New Hire Orientation

Tuesday – Bldg. 100, Room 116D
7:30 – 8:00  NASA Welcome
Review Forms/Swear In/Health Benefits
Patsy Segura x 5131
Susan Staley x 5770

Main Gate
8:00 – 8:30 Security
Badge Process
Norma Guillermo x 7529

Cafeteria Back Room
8:30 – 9:00 ISO 9000 Briefing
Juan Perez  x 5226 
9:00 – 11:30 Safety Briefing, 
Site Safety Tour & VPP
Jeff Campbell x 5232
11:30 – 12:00  Lunch

Return to Building 100, Room 116D
Patsy Segura x 5131

**New Hire Orientation**
_**Tuesday – Bldg. 100, Room 116D**_
*7:30 – 8:00  NASA Welcome*
- Review Forms/Swear In/Health Benefits
- Patsy Segura x 5131
- Susan Staley x 5770
_**Main Gate**_
*8:00 – 8:30 Security*
- Badge Process
- Norma Guillermo x 7529
_**Cafeteria Back Room**_
*8:30 – 9:00 ISO 9000 Briefing*
- Juan Perez  x 5226* *
*9:00 – 11:30 Safety Briefing**, *
*Site Safety Tour & VPP*
- Jeff Campbell x 5232
- 11:30 – 12:00  Lunch
**Return to Building 100, Room 116D**
- Patsy Segura x 5131

_**Wednesday – Bldg 101 **_
_**IT Training Room**_
*8:30 – 9:30 IT Briefing*
- Peter Goldman x 5601
_**Cafeteria Back Room**_
*9:30 – 10:30 Environmental*
- Harold Harrison x 5461
- Larry Ganong x 5396
*10:30 – 10:45 Property Control*
- Richard Franco  x 5627
- Jimmy Lujan x 5614
_**Bldg. 104 Fire Dept. Briefing**_
*11:00 – 11:30 Fire Ext. Training*
- J. Herrera, C. Tahuahua  x 5215
- 11:30 – 12:00 Lunch
**Return to Work Area**
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## Why do we need it? Maybe not?
Can our current correctors handle the job?
How should the system look?
Problems or issues?

- Why do we need it? Maybe not?
- Can our current correctors handle the job?
- How should the system look?
- Problems or issues?

## Horizontal Beam motion

## Beam Signal while cycling T:HA49 correctors at 15 Hz

## Slide 4

## Since at 15 Hz we can generate a 174 micron kick we should

- Be able to generate at least a 131 micron amplitude kick at 20 Hz
- which is much stronger than the strongest signal of 32 microns
- observed at 12 Hz. So the correctors are able to damp all oscillations
- below 20 Hz if driven correctly.

## How should the system look?

- BPM 1

- BPM 2

- Processing

- Corrector 1

- Corrector 2

- CDF

- D0

- D1

- B1

## Algorithm for orbit correction 

**Simulated beam response to applied kick 0.5 micro-rad kick of 20 Hz at D0 low beta quad as measured at A0 yield 30 micro-meter oscillations. Turn-by-turn (top) and frequency (bottom)**** **

## Simulated beam response with damping feedback turned on. Now beam motion down to < 2E-20 meters at A0. Turn-by-turn (top) and frequency (bottom). The correctors are running < 0.8 micro-rad which would require cycling correctors at .324 Amps much less than the 1.2 Amps we were able to produce at 15Hz. If quad motion was located at B0 the optics are very similar and simulations produce similar results.

## A detail schematic of a single orbit correction node 

- BPM 1
- HB11

- BPM 2
- HB13

- Corrector 1
-     HB19

- Corrector 2
-      HB13

- Sample
-  And
-  Hold
- Card

- Sample
-  And
-  Hold
- Card

- Op-amp x A

- Op-amp x B

- Op-amp x C

- SUM

- Beam sync trigger

- 1-200 Hz filter

- 1-200 Hz filter

- Op-amp x D

- SUM

**A more detailed schematic of the damping system. Here Gains A,B and C are determined by the optics, voltage to position ratio of BPMs and voltage to Amp ratio for the correctors reference voltage. We have BPM transfer function of 12V/m, corrector transfer ratio of 2.54********-rad/Amp and controlled by reference voltage transfer function 5 Amps/volt. This gives a total BPM voltage to reference voltage multiplicative factor as (1/12)x(1/2.54E-6)x(1/5) = 6561.67. The optics factor are F****a****=1.88E-5, F****b****= -0.021,  F****c****=     -0.039, and F****d****=-2.371E-4. So a first estimate has A = 0.1233, B = -137.7, C = -255.9 and D = -1.555. **

## Issues to worry about? Phase shift?

- Is this a real phase shift???  The snap shot time stamp says yes. But calculations from skin effect of stainless steel beam pipe say no.

## With resistivity 

- With resistivity

- K become (1+i)*0.023√f . With a beam pipe thickness ~ .32 cm the phase
- shift becomes

- Or 1.63 degrees at 15 Hz.

## Even if this does turn out to be a problem we can look to solutions used at

- The APS where a simple phase and amplitude compensation circuit are used to
- Compensate phase shifts due to electronic and skin effects of aluminum beam
- Pipe yielding phase shifts in excess of 90 degrees.
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## Financial Management Professional Development Program

- Peggy Javery

## Highly Qualified Financial Management Professionals

- CFO Act of 1990
- Joint Financial Management Improvement Program
- OMB Circular A-123
- Federal Managers’ Financial Integrity Act
- Continuing Professional Education (CPE)

- Office of the Chief Financial Officer

## USDA Training and Development 

- Promote Training
- Develop CPE Guidelines
- Commitment
- Monitor CPE Credits
- Encourage Certification Achievement
- CPA, CGFM
- Financial Management Service, USDA Graduate School, Management Concepts

- Office of the Chief Financial Officer

## Core Competencies

- General Accounting
- Federal Accounting
- Basic Government Accounting/Operations
- Planning, Budgeting and Accountability/Business practices
- General Management
- Information Technology
- General/Leadership skills

- Office of the Chief Financial Officer

## Certificate of Training

- United StatesDepartment of Agriculture
**Certificate** **of Training**
- This is to certify that
- Has satisfactorily completed

- Date

- Office of the Chief Financial Officer

## Required Courses For Certification

- Governmental Budgeting and Accounting Concepts
- SGL Basic
- FASAB
- Appropriations Law
- Performance-Based Budgeting
- Management Accountability And Control
- Dollars & Sense
- Preparing & Understanding Financial Statements
- Budget Analysts Guide To Justification, Formulation and Execution
- FFIS or Current Accounting System
- BRIO/SAS/Discoverer

- Office of the Chief Financial Officer

## USDA Sponsored Training

**CONTROLLER OPERATIONS DIVISION **
**CUSTOMER LIAISON AND TRAINING BRANCH **
** **
- The Controller Operations Division, Customer Liaison and Training Branch is advertising the following training sessions for customer agencies.  Agency site training is available upon request.  Classes are scheduled for 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.  Classes will include lecture and hands-on exercises, followed by questions/answers.

**USDA Sponsored Training**

- Office of the Chief Financial Officer

## Q & A

**Q & A**

- _[Peggy.Javery@USDA.Gov](mailto:Peggy.Javery@USDA.Gov)_
- (504) 426-5125

- Office of the Chief Financial Officer
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## From the Wright BrotherstoMars

- Joyce Kilmer Elementary School
- Chicago, Illinois

## Wright Brother’s Power Source

## Mission to Mars’ Power Source

## Control

## part1_high.mov

## Control

## Odyssey – Mission to Mars

## Landing

## Mars Landing

## Slide 10

## ENTRY.MOV

## Slide 12

## Spirit and Opportunity

## Is there or was there life on Mars?

## Acknowledgement

- Wilbur Wright -Tom Benson- Nasa Aerospace Engineer
- Dr. Geoffrey Landis, Nasa Research Scientist
- Nasa Explorer School
- NES Staff: 	Patrick Welch
- 		Linda Little
- 		Marge Lehky
- 		Jim Fitzgerald
- 		Patrick Huth
- _[http://www.centennialofflight.gov/sights/index.htm](http://www.centennialofflight.gov/sights/index.htm)_
- _[http://www.nasa.gov/](http://www.nasa.gov/)_
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## The Data ExplosionHow can we achieve interoperability?James WilliamsSiemens Corporate ResearchPrinceton, NJ

**The Data Explosion****How can we achieve interoperability?****James Williams****Siemens Corporate Research****Princeton, NJ**

## What are the right questions?

-  **Size**: data is growing, how do we cope?
-  **Repeatability**: how do we standardize and normalize image generation?
-  **Availability**: how do we get what we want, where we want, in time to make a difference?
-  **Processing**: how do we make algorithms comparable and portable?
-  **Validation**: what are the right mechanisms for validation?
-  **Context**: how can we convert data into knowledge?

- ?

## The challengeof  size

-  Data sizes grow relentlessly
-  Spatial resolution: CT
-  Temporal Resolution: US
-  Multiple modalities, PET/CT...
-  Follow-up studies
-  Network bandwidth as the bottleneck:
-  Faster networks or...
-  Move processing near the data!
-  When we can, compress: What is diagnostic quality? Where do we need it & when?

## The challengeof  repeatability

-  Sources of variation in acquisition
-  Hardware
-  Calibration
-  Protocol
-  Reconstruction
-  Automation of MR scan-rescan protocol: 	AutoAlign & Phoenix

## Goalsof  availability

-  The imaging workspace available anywhere
-  reading room
-  office
-  home
-  All data relevant to the patient in one click
-  All data relevant to the protocol available and searchable (teaching cases etc..)
-  Some steps in the right direction: web clients, hanging protocols

## Towards the compatibility andcomparability of processing

-  Visualization, detection, segmentation, registration measured with respect to reference standards (VRD)
-  Cross platform executables
-  Plug-in processing, DICOM WG23
-  ITK, a reference implementation?
-  Open the platforms, but we must assure:
-  Safety
-  Privacy
-  Stability

## The challengeof  algorithm validation

-  Create reference databases as open challenges
-  Should part of the database be hidden to avoid over-training?
-  Database must grow and change as acquisition evolves
-  Fast-tracking through the FDA
-  Validation & liability as a 3rd party business?

- QSR

- CE

## Data in context

-  Beyond images: patient record, lab data, genomic, proteomic data
-  The universal medical record: technology is not the problem. Individual privacy, ethics and economics are the key drivers.
-  The anonymous database of everything. The benefit is clear, how do we cover the cost?
-  Making knowledge from data. The structure has to support exploration for anecdote, and testing of hypothesis.
# Presentation: 489833

## Formation of an Interactive Plant Outreach Database with Integration of Clinostat Data for Space Life Sciences Education

- Rachel Naegele1, Chinyere Nwokeabia2, Peter Chetirkin3, William Payne4
- 1University of Hawaii Manoa, 2California State University, Long Beach, 3Dynamac Corporation, 4Matrix Information Systems Incorporated

## INITIAL DESCRIPTION

- 	An interactive plant outreach database (IPOD) would increase the accessibility of data to researchers, teachers and the general public. To demonstrate how future experiments can be integrated into IPOD, a 5 week experiment using clinostats was performed. The clinostats tested the effects of simulated microgravity upon *Brassica rapa* and the growth characteristics of BIONA, a Russian made substrate.

## MAIN STORY

- 	Educational outreach is a very important aspect of NASA. One such endeavor by the Space Biology Outreach Program (SBOP) is the formation of an interactive plant outreach database (IPOD). IPOD would pull the experimental data and results from Biomass Production Chamber (BPC) experiments and other experiments grown in environmental growth chambers (EGCs). To demonstrate this integration, two students from NASA’s Spaceflight and Life Sciences Training Program conducted a 5 week experiment using clinostats. The experiment tested the difference between two versions of BIONA and *Brassica rapa* growth in clinostats. The clinostats were divided into 4 groups (3 bottles in each): static control, static experimental, vertical experimental and horizontal experimental (Fig. 1). A square of BIONA was added to each bottle as well as three *Brassica rapa* seeds. The plants were grown to maturity and harvested. Measurements of plant height, leaf and flower count, and mass were taken for each bottle. The measurements were examined for existing trends and characteristics (Fig.2). The information from this experiment was integrated into the database and made accessible to teachers, students and researchers. SBOP is also providing the same materials to teachers. Teachers will be able to perform similar experiments in their classrooms, and students will be able to add their data to IPOD and compare it with existing data.
- 	This research was conducted as part of the 2004 Spaceflight and Life Sciences Training Program funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The authors recognize the support of the Dynamac Corporation, the NASA Spaceflight and Life Sciences Training Program Academic Partner Alliance and the United States Department of Agriculture.

## Figure 1. Experimental setup with clinostat and static groups

**Vertical experimental treatment**

**Horizontal experimental treatment 90****°**** to gravity**

**Static control treatment**

**Static experimental treatment**

- Figure 2. Comparison of  the water loss between Static BIONA V3 and Static control BIONA V4
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## NJ Team Coordination

- Turning Obstacles
-  into
-  Opportunities
- Deborah De Santis and Larry Hatton

## Challenges

- NJ’s participation in two Policy Academies
- Problems with first plan
- Change in administration
- No buy-in
- Unclear authority on team

## Challenges (cont.)

- Issues confronted by 2nd planning team
- Re-assignment of staff in Governor’s office assigned to issue with no replacement
- Lack of doers
- Difficult to get people to do more than come to meetings
- Governor’s resignation announcement

## Coordination/Communication

- Recognized need to increase universe of stakeholders
- Hosted regional stakeholder meetings
- Increased buy-in
- Got volunteers
- Expanded the planning team
- Ex: Included re-entry representatives

## Coordination/Communication (Cont.)

- Developed a road show
- Developed a power-point presentation to meet with Government agencies and advocacy groups
- Helped to define our goals and garner interest
- Highlighted different points depending on audience
- Ex: Different presentation for Human Services staff as opposed to Housing Finance staff

## Opportunities

- Created task force to maximize McKinney Vento share
- Representatives from DHS, DCA, NJHMFA, and CSH attend CoC meetings with goal of leveraging funds to maximize Federal funds
- Has led to discussion of need for balance of State application
- More willingness within State to rethink State-imposed requirements

## Opportunities (Cont.)

- Coordination with re-entry Policy Academy
- Co-hosting re-entry forums
- Developing a FY 2006 Re-Entry Housing Initiative
- Funding several re-entry projects
- Pooling funding sources (Ex: Juvenille Justice and Division of Youth and Family Services)

## Opportunities (Cont.)

- Child welfare reform
- Prioritizing funding
- $160 million initiative
- $35 million commitment from housing agencies to match funds from DHS for families in shelters, homeless youth, and youth aging  out of foster care
- Shifting from shelters to permanent housing
- Deploying funds through team approach

## Contact Information

- Larry Hatton, NJ Department of Human Services
- Phone: 609-984-9335
- lhatton@dhs.state.nj.us
- Deb De Santis, Corporation for Supportive Housing
- Phone: 609-392-7820
- deborah.desantis@csh.org
# Presentation: 233008

## Do We Need Transmission Adequacy Standards?

- Wally Gibson, NWPCC
- Energizing the Northwest
- Portland, Oregon
- September 29, 2004

## Overview

- How do we get investment?
- How do we get the right investment?
- Some practical problems
- The role of transmission adequacy standards

- September 29, 2004

## How Do We Get Investment?

- Clarify economic interests
- Who wants to get power and from where?
- Who will have power to deliver and to where?
- Define economic projects
- What are the constraining elements?
- Often need wide area perspective to identify communities of interest
- Should not preclude single interest projects
- Offer usage rights in return for investment

- September 29, 2004

## How Do We Get the Right Investment?

- Clarify costs of and opportunities for return on alternative projects to meet all or part of load
- Transmission expansion
- End-use measures
- Alternative generation siting
- Prices
- Information + incentives
- Risk does not go away
- Wrong location, wrong fuel, wrong capital investment, etc.

- September 29, 2004

## Some Practical Problems

- Transmission queues
- Not deal well with interrelated nature of solutions on the transmission system
- Who finances?
- Should not count on speculative investment
- Lumpiness and free ridership
- Need to facilitate communities of interest
- May have to live with free riders temporarily

- September 29, 2004

## The role of an adequacy standard

- Small to none
- Not clear what you get for an adequacy standard
- Does not resolve any of the difficult issues
- What investment?
- Who pays?
- Better to focus on clarifying environment for investment

- September 29, 2004