BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 788614

## Threats to Coral Reefs

- Natural and Human

## Threats from Nature

- Unusually strong waves such as those from a hurricane
- Water temperature changes
- Dramatic changes in saltiness of water
- Predators, such as snails and crown of thorns starfish
- Overgrowth of algae

## Coral-eating Snails

## Crown of Thorns Starfish

## Threats from Humans 

- Pollution
*Sediments* block light from zooxanthellae
*Chemicals* either poison corals or allow too much algae to grow
- Power plants
- Filter water and kill fish and plankton
- Releasing hot water kills organisms

## Pollution

## Power Plants

## More Threats from Humans

- Deforestation
- Causes erosion which clouds the water
- Burning of trees could be a factor in climate change
- Destructive fishing
- Blasting with dynamite
- Cyanide poison
- Boats running aground, anchors
- Overfishing

## It’s up to Us to Save Coral Reefs

- Be Responsible.
# Presentation: 922162

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# Presentation: 697860

## NAFTA Has Accounted For 55% of U.S. Ag Export Growth

## NAFTA Has Accounted For 55% of U.S. Ag Export Growth

## Benefits of NAFTA

**Ag. exports under NAFTA = 258,000 U.S. jobs**** **
**Average annual growth = $847 million**
**Dismantling trade barriers = market integration  **
**Canada is # 1 U.S. export market **
**Mexico is # 2 U.S. export market **
**U.S. is #1 export market for both Canada and Mexico**

## Growth in U.S. Agricultural Exports Under NAFTA

- 	Under NAFTA, exports of U.S. food and agricultural products reached a record $19.9 billion in 2005

## U.S. Agricultural* Trade with Canada and Mexico($Millions)

|  | Year | U.S. Exports | U.S. Imports | Trade Balance |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 1993** | 5,308.2 | 4,657.9 | 650.3 |
|  | 2005 | 10,569.8 | 12,267.7 | (1,697.9) |
| Mexico | 1993** | 3,618.3 | 2,718.5 | 899.8 |
|  | 2005 | 9,362.3 | 8,333 | 1,029.3 |

- * Excludes Fish and Forest Products
- ** Pre-NAFTA Implementation
- Note: Canada imports over seven times as much in agricultural products, when calculated on a per capita basis.

## Canada and Mexico Account for Much of the Overall Growth In U.S. Agricultural Exports 

**US Ag Exports ($ Billion)**

**Share of Exports (%)**

**Canada**

**Mexico**

**Japan**

**Other Asia Pacific**

**EU25**

**EU-25**

**Asia**
**Pacific**

**NAFTA**

**Rest of World**

## NAFTA Continues to Benefit US/Mexico Ag Sectors 

- The trading relationship developed through NAFTA continues to provide benefits and opportunities for U.S. producers.
- Two-way agricultural trade between the United States and Mexico increased 150 percent since the NAFTA went into effect, reaching $15.7 billion in 2005 compared to $6.3 billion in 1993.

## U.S. Ag Exports to Mexico Under NAFTA 

- U.S. agricultural exports to Mexico have more than doubled under NAFTA since 1993, reaching $9.4 billion in 2004
- Mexico is our second largest agricultural market

## U.S. Ag Exports To Mexico by Sector

- Benefits of NAFTA are widely distributed across U.S. agriculture
- 2005 exports were records for:
- Intermediate & Consumer-Oriented products
- Red meats
- Dairy Products
- Poultry Meat
- Soybean Meal

## Top U.S. Ag Exports to Mexico 2005

## U.S. Ag Exports to Mexico 2005

## Mexican Ag Exports to U.S. Under NAFTA

- Mexico’s agricultural exports to the United States have more than tripled since 1993, reaching a record $8.3 billion in 2005.
- The United States is Mexico’s largest agricultural market.

## Mexican Ag Exports to U.S. 2005
# Presentation: 004615

## RHIC pp Status

- http://www.agsrhichome.bnl.gov/AP/Spin2005/

## Beam experiment

- STAR ire Alarm

- Cryo lead flow problem
- Booster Main Magnet problem

## Slide 3

## Slide 4

## Status

- Luminosity achieved:
- 56x56, 1.0x1011 bunch intensity
- _[Peak luminosity](slide12.xml)__: ZDC 4kHz ~ 1.02x10_31cm-2s-1
- _[Good lifetime](slide8.xml)_
- _[Polarization achieved at store: ~45%](slide13.xml)_
- CNI ready for 120 bunch mode

## Remaining Issues

- _[Emittance](slide9.xml)__[ blowup during the ramp](slide9.xml)_
- Instability along the ramp: negative chromaticity: corrected
- Poor reproducibility of Yellow lifetime at store
- _[Different golden orbit for store](slide11.xml)_
- Couple of good stores over weekend, but not reproducible

## Plan

- Machine development to improve the performance
- Peak Luminosity:
- bunch intensity maxed out at 1x1011 for now
- Go beyond 56 bunches
- Eliminate emittance blowup during ramp:
- Correct the negative chromaticity along the ramp
- Integrated luminosity
- Solve the yellow lifetime issue at store
- Yellow aperture study
- Yellow non-linear corrector setting

## Best store: LP^4

- Lifetime: 17 hours

## Slide 9

## Fill 6997 and Fill 6998

## Angle bump at Store

## High peak luminosity

## Slide 13
# Presentation: 684403

## Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse Office 

- Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse Office** **
**Midyear 2007 NPL Program Snapshot**
*Federal Environmental Cleanups that Put Citizens First*

**National Priorities List (NPL) Information Summary**

***Status of NPL Federal Facilities***

_**Notes:**_**  ****	****All data from 4/9/2007 CERCLIS 3.  **
**	****NPL cleanup data includes both Superfund and RCRA activity at Superfund Federal Facilities.  **

***NPL Federal Facilities by Agency***
***(Final and Deleted)***

**Other Federal Agencies include: Coast Guard (1), DOI (2), DOT (1), EPA (1), FAA (1), NASA (2), SBA (1), USDA (2)*

**Total number of Federal Facilities and  private sites on the NPL is 1,562*

**21**

**37**

**3**

**54**

**1**

**44**

**1**

**11**

***NPL Federal Facility Site Cleanup Pipeline***

**172**

**153**

**123**

**70**

**56**

**15**

**Facilities **
**with IAGs**

**Final Remedy Selected**

**Deleted **
**Facilities**

**Active RABs/SSABs**

**NPL**
**Facilities**

**All Construction Completed**

***Current Site Work***

***Completed Site Work***

## Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse Office 

**Midyear 2007 NPL Program Snapshot**

_**Notes:**_** ****	****All data from 4/9/2007 CERCLIS 3.  **
**	****NPL cleanup data includes both Superfund and RCRA activity at Superfund Federal Facilities.  **

**Environmental Indicators at Federal Facilities**

***EI Status for Final NPL Federal Facilities***
***(Total Facilities = 172)***

_**Groundwater**_

_**Human Exposure**_

***Remedial Actions and Removal Actions with Institutional Controls***

- Note:  There are 137 NPL Federal Facilities with Institutional Controls.

**Institutional Controls at NPL Facilities**

**Status of 5 Year Review Protectiveness Statements**

***Status of Remedies Requiring Monitoring ***
***at NPL Facilities***
*Total Number of Sites with Completed 5 Year Reviews = 132*
***(Latest Protectiveness Statement at Site)***

- Note:  61% of Facilities have both Human Exposure and Groundwater controlled;  3% of Facilities have neither Human Exposure nor Groundwater controlled

**Interagency Agreements**

- *This SBA site (Cal West Metals) is Deleted from the NPL.

- Note:  In the second quarter of FY 2005, EPA implemented a change in the way 5 Year Review data is recorded.
# Presentation: 411765

## Institute of Transportation StudiesUniversity of California, Davis

***A Hydrogen Fuel Cell Economy***

**Institute of Transportation Studies****University of California, Davis**

***Anthony Eggert***
***Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways (STEPS)***
***March 22, 2007***

## Experience curves and early markets

**Source: Modified from PCAST 1999**

**R&D Investment > Cumulative Production**

**Notes:**
Made more complicated by the fact that various technologies for producing vehicles and fuels are various stages of this cycle.

## Experience curves and early markets

**Source: Ballard (Stack only) and TIAX (Carlson, Larson)**

**180**

## Experience curves and early markets

**Time > Investment > Production**

**RD3 Investment > Production**

## Experience curves and early markets

**Time > Investment > Production**

**RD3 Investment > Production**

## Experience curves and early markets

- R&D

**RD3 Investment > Production**

## Experience curves and early markets

**RD3 Investment > Production**

## What are the early markets?

**Material Handling**

**Portable**

**Auxiliary Power Units**

**Transit Bus**

**Premium/**
**Back-up Power**

- Decreasing FC System Cost

## Experience curves and early markets

**RD3 Investment > Production**

## How will we know when we’re there?

**Source: Wene (2000) referenced from BCG (1968)**

## Thank you!

**Contact information**
**Anthony Eggert**
**E-mail: areggert@ucdavis.edu**
**http://steps.its.ucdavis.edu/ **
# Presentation: 739434

## Review of Energy Trends in Nepal: The U.S. Perspective

- Mr. Greg Priddy
- June 2002
- EIA/SARI Workshop #2
- Kathmandu, Nepal

## Economic Growth and Energy Demand Growth, 1988 - 1999

**Petroleum (0.9%)**

**Natural Gas (1.7%)**

**Electricity (2.9%)**

**Electricity (7.5%)**

**Petroleum (12.4%)**

- United States

- Nepal

- 4.8% / year

- 3.0% / year

## Nepal Per Capita Petroleum Demand

**Petroleum**

**Electricity**

**Natural Gas**

## Nepal Per Capita Electricity Demand

**Petroleum**

**Electricity**

**Natural Gas**

## Nepal Per Capita Energy Demand Indices

**Petroleum**

**Electricity**

**Natural Gas**

## Nepal Energy Demand Trends

-  High growth rate in electricity demand
-  Very high growth in petroleum products consumption, with growth in transportation fuels, and also other products such as kerosene

## Appendix: Some Simple Forecasting Models

## A Simple Nepal Demand Model

- Variables:
**Demand** = total annual average demand (physical unit)
**GDP** = real GDP (billion $, 1990 basis)

## Nepal Petroleum DemandRegression Model 

- Demand = -6.871 + 3.539  GDP
- 				N = 20	R2 = 0.86

## Nepal Petroleum Demand(GDP assumed to grow 4.1% per Year)

## Nepal Electricity DemandRegression Model 

- Demand = -470.9 + 294.2  GDP
- 				N = 20	R2 = 0.99

## Nepal Electricity Demand(GDP assumed to grow 4.1% per Year)

## Nepal Total Energy DemandRegression Model 

- Demand = -0.0200 + 0.0117  GDP
- 				N = 20	R2 = 0.93

## Nepal Total Energy Demand(GDP assumed to grow 4.1% per Year)

## Electricity Imports / Exports

-  Border Trade in Electricity with India
-  While Nepal has a huge potential as a hydropower exporter, it has been a net importer for most recent years.

## Nepal Net Electricity Imports / Exports

- Net Exports

- Net Imports
# Presentation: 088775

## Deducing the Three Dimensional Structure of the Corona from STEREO/COR1 Coronagraph Observations

*Joseph M. Davila (GSFC), O. C. St. Cyr (CUA-GSFC), and Russel Howard (NRL)*

**INTRODUCTION**
- With the launch of the STEREO mission coronagraph images from two viewpoints will be routinely available.   SECCHI, the remote sensing suite, contains a nested set of coronagraphs imaging the Thomson scattered corona from 1.3 Rsun to beyond 1 AU.
- It is generally accepted that these images will allow the determination of the 3D nature of streamers, CMEs and other coronal structures.  In spite of this expectation, it is not clear what the best method to use the available data to obtain the 3D density distribution.
- In this paper we begin to consider the 3D reconstruction process for coronagraph images.  The models presented here were developed with COR1 images in mind, but it is believed that the algorithms developed will be useful for COR2 and possibly HI as well.
**INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION**

**CONCLUSIONS**
**Simple intensity images from two viewpoints is not sufficient to unambiguously determine the structure of the 3D corona**
**However, other information relating to the 3D structure is available**
**Polarization**
**Temporal variation**
**These data for an inhomogeneous data set which bound any reconstruction attempt**
**The optimum algorithm for combining these different type of data is not known**
**This problem is very similar to the problem of binocular vision in robots.  It is hoped that some of the lessons learned there can be applied to the solar problem.  The major difference is that robotic vision deals with optically thick sources, and the corona is optically thin.**

- COR1 is an internally occulting coronagraph providing images with an annular field of view extending from 1.32-4 Rsun.  A second coronagraph, COR2, will image the K-corona from 2.5-15 Rsun.

**DISCUSSION**
- Two views are NOT sufficient for the unique determination of  3D density distrubution of a coronal streamer or CME.  This can be proven conclusively by considering the imaging process in Fourier space.
- There are three properties that can be observed that  related
- Parallax derived from the two views
- Temporal changes due to rotation
- Polarization information
- The best method for the combination of this information is not known.  However, the problem is similar to the problem of binocular robotic vision.
- In this paper we begin the discussion which, we expect, will lead to an algorithm for the determination of streamer structure.
# Presentation: 785547

## Superconducting Strand and Cable Studies for Nb3Sn High Field Dipole Magnets

- Emanuela Barzi

**VLHC Magnet Technologies Workshop**
**Fermilab, May 24-26, 2000**

## Outline

** ****Target requirements for Nb****3****Sn**
** ****Where are we? Work in progress on:**
**	***** Strand characterization**
**	***** Cable optimization**
** ****Can we improve performancies?**
**	***** HT times ******** Breakthrough for Internal Tin**
**	***** J****c****, d****eff****, stability**
** ****Conclusions**

## Target Requirements

**W/Cu to non-Cu=1.2**
**10%-20% Degradation**
**15% Margin**

**Jc > 3000A/mm2****	****	****Deff < 30-40 micron**
**Piece length > 1 km****	****Cu to non-Cu up to 1.5**
**As short as possible reaction cycles**
**As cheap as possible**

## Strand Description

## Jc vs. B

- Jc vs. B

## Low Field Magnetization

**3-0-3 T Hysteresis Loops**
**@ 1T/min.**

## Effective Filament Diameter

**d****eff**** - ****1.0 mm strands**
**OST****	****114 - 121 ********m**
**IGC****	****89 - 142 ********m**
**PIT****	****54 ********m**

## Cable Samples for Cos-Theta

**Cable Short Samples**
- Number of strands	28
- Keystone Angle		0.91deg
- Cable width		14.24 mm
**Mean thicknesses****	****1.706-1.885 mm **
- SS core			0.025*12 mm2

**Packing Factor range****	****85-95 %**

## Ic Cabling Degradation

- Ic Cabling Degradation

## Common Coil Rectangular Cables

## Nb3Sn - State of the art

## Heat Treatment Optimization -1

**Jc**

## Heat Treatment Optimization -2

**Magnetic Stability**

## Conclusions

** ****More work**

## Is deff a geometrical parameter?

- Is deff a geometrical parameter?
# Presentation: 665617

## Strategies for serving citizens better with IT

*E-Government North American Day 2005*
*Mérida, Yucatán*
*March 16-18, 2005*
*Luis Miguel Chong*

## Meeting Citizens Needs

- No unified Customer Satisfaction Index for Federal Government Agencies, however...
- e-México Umbrella
- E-Government
- E-Health
- E-education
- E-economy
- Focus Groups
- Internet habits
- Site Positioning & e-México Services
- CCDs assessment
- Communities

## Meeting Citizens Needs

- Centros Comunitarios Digitales
- Users
- Interaction with e-Mexico
- Citizen Satisfaction
- CCD
- E-Mexico Portal & content

## Meeting Citizens Needs

- Specific IT related Customer Satisfaction Surveys
- Red de Atención Ciudadana
- Common CRM for Federal Government
- Tax and Revenue
- Delivery of e-Services
- e-SAT
- IMSS desde su empresa
- Healthcare providers
- Customer Satisfaction
- Electronic Patient Records/PrevenIMSS
- Successful delivery of prescriptions/e-prescriptions,
- Wait time/appointments

## IT and the Transformation of government services:  SAT case

- e-Services multi-access platform
- Consolidated/Single Account per taxpayer

## IT and the transformation of  government services:  IMSS case

- Electronic Health Record
- IMSS desde su Empresa
- SIAREFI

## Listening to our citizens...

- Integrated Citizen Relationship Management:  Red Federal de Atención Ciudadana
- Single point of contact management for all federal government agencies

| Medio de captación | Recibidas |
| --- | --- |
| Peticiones (escritos)  |     559,613  |
| Llamadas Telefónicas |     207,577  |
| Atención Personal |     141,779  |
| Atención a Grupos |            560  |
# Presentation: 809842

## Compact High Speed, High Power Laser

**Compact High Speed, High Power Laser**

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

**SDL, Inc.**

- Sunnyvale, CA

**INNOVATION**
- High power laser suitable for optical communication systems operating at rates up to 2.5 gigabits per second
**ACCOMPLISHMENT**
- Demonstrated a prototype high power optical link for satellite communications
- Compact laser operates at 1072 nm with output power of 6 watts
**COMMERCIALIZATION**
- Commercial sales of products based on technology are significant
- High power laser for precision cutting and welding, high resolution soldering, thin film etching and drilling
- High speed laser marking system for semiconductors and other materials
- Lasers for research and development work
- Company purchased by JDS Uniphase Corporation

**GOVERNMENT/ SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
- Laser supports optical communication development for Space Station and the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST)

***Optical Systems Will Improve Space Communications***

- 1994 Phase II; NAS7-1395
- NASA/JPL Contact - Hamid Hemmati
- Company Contact - Robert Waartz

- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Success Story #7-016

## Slide 2
# Presentation: 915676

## Slide 1

**Notes:**
FIGURE 31.3. Different groups of C-type lectins and their domain structures. Seventeen groups are shown, defined by their phylogenetic relationships and domain structures. Some of the groups are soluble proteins and others are transmembrane proteins. The group III collectins form oligomeric structures, shown as cruciform and bouquet structures in the box. Each of the domains is named as indicated in the key. (DC) Dendritic cell; (NK cell) natural killer cell; (CTLD) C-type lectin domain; (MBP) mannose-binding protein; (SP-A and SP-D) surfactants; (CCP) complement control protein.
# Presentation: 080336

## Sensitivity Analysis of an Off-the-Shelf Land Surface Model

- Chinedu T.J. Ekwueme
- Ecology Emphasis Group
- PI: Manuel Gimond
- SLSTP Trainee 2004

## Introduction/Background

-           Changes in land surface energy fluxes, due to different land cover types, can induce changes in local weather patterns.  Surface meteorological conditions are influenced in large part by the land-surface boundary.  Therefore, land surface heat and water fluxes are important input components to meteorological models used to predict weather and climate.  The land surface model (LSM) used in this project is called Noah.  Noah is an off-the-shelf open source model
-           Knowing the sensitivity of Noah to each input parameter (wind speed, air temperature, solar radiation, downwelling longwave radiation, pressure, humidity, albedo, and vegetation fraction) allows for proper allocation of resources in acquiring input parameter data.  This results in a more cost-effective method to calibrate and validate the land surface model.

## Materials/Methods 

- For each simulation, one input variable was modified using set intervals while keeping the rest of the variables constant.  Noah’s output variables were then compared with input variables to assess the model’s degree of sensitivity to each input variable.  This process was repeated for all 8 input variables resulting in 111 simulations.

## Conclusion

- The results presented here allows one to derive empirical equations relating Noah’s sensitivity of the state variables to the input variables.
- The empirical equations could then be used to assess required input precision given needed output accuracy.
# Presentation: 874807

## Optimizing Science & Exploration Working Group:An opportunity to reinforce Moon-Mars linkages

- NASA HQ joint working group (ESMD/SMD/SOMD)
- Ongoing effort to infuse science objectives/requirements into the Exploration Architecture and Constellation Architecture requirements documents
- Developing science scenarios for Lunar exploration
- Deriving requirements to optimize science return
- Focus is on Lunar science--_however_, it is also an opportunity to reinforce the linkages between Mars science and future humans to Mars architectures and the evolving Lunar exploration architecture
- Work involves outreach/engagement/participation of broader science community (e.g., LEAG, NLSI, MEPAG, etc.)
- If interested, please provide your contact information to 	George Tahu (george.tahu@nasa.gov)
# Presentation: 677602

## Miniature Ultra-Stable Diode Laser

-  Phase I resulted in a stabilized laser diode delivered to NASA 		including commercial quality packaged electronics
-  Phase II resulted in a miniaturize laser diode, frequency 		reference and control electronics the size of a cigarette pack
**                             ****COMMERCIALIZATION**
-  Manufacturing an external cavity diode laser that grew out of the 	Phase I research
-  Currently commercializing a miniaturize laser diode and 		electronics package designed for OEM marketplace
-  Laser offers wavelengths from 630 nm out to 2000 nm
-  200 units have been delivered to research universities
-  Firm anticipates sales of $3 M in 1997

***ENVIRONMENTAL OPTICAL SENSORS, INC.******BOULDER, CO***

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

**     ****GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
-  High bit rate coherent optical communication systems, 		passive ring cavity-type fiber gyroscopes, optically 			pumped rubidium and cesium clocks
-  Precision metrology, and the detection of trace 				compounds and pollutants in the atmosphere and in 			water
-  Process control medical applications and agricultural food 	processing

- 1992 Phase 2; SS-129; 6/6/97

- Goddard Space Flight Center

**Miniature Ultra-Stable Diode Laser**

***Tunable Laser Diode***
# Presentation: 674209

## Compact Low Cost 

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
-   Base technology developed through NASA Marshall STTR
-   Chosen for inclusion on NASA Intl. Space Station for water 	processing O2 generator
-   Bantam program dropped size by 10 and Gen II Program 	dropped size by 20
-   Team of Makel, Case Western Reserve University 	(CWRU), 	Kennedy, and Glenn received the 2003 TGIR award
**COMMERCIALIZATION**
-   Phase III funding of $1.6M from NASA Glenn to target 	Bantam applications, ability to detect fires, and follow-on  	Gen II and Next Generation Launch technologies Leak 	Detection System research
-   In-kind of $25K each from Makel, Cleveland Metrohealth, 	and CWRU for asthma clinical and treatment application 	apparatus/mask research
-   Working with Boeing on sensors for fire detection to be 	tested in July - $30K
-   Ford Motor has installed on hydrogen internal combustion 	vehicle and on U car concept vehicle at Detroit 2003 Auto Show

***Makel Engineering, Inc.***
***Chico, CA***

**S****mall Business**
**T****echnology **
**TR****ansfer**

**GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
-   Responsive to NASA’s Advanced Space Transportation 	Mission Safety Objective of reducing incidence of crew 	loss and reducing costs
-   Marshall has funded Next Generation Launch Technology 	project with Makel, CWRU, & Kennedy
-   NASA Kennedy is verifying flight qualification in 	development of postage size sensor
-   System delivered and validated on two NASA Hyper X 	flights with demonstration considered a substantial 	program accomplishment
-   Technology is used in the NASA Helios Program and on	the Intl. Space Station for water processing O2 generator

- Glenn Research Center
- Instrumentation and Controls
- 3-108

**Compact Low Cost **
**Hazardous Gas Detection System**

**INNOVATION**

- MSFC Phase II, NAS8-98028, 8/03
- GRC 1999 Phase III, NAS3-99164
- NASA Contact – Gary Hunter
- Company Contact – Dr. Darby Makel

- Microfabricated Hydrogen Sensors

- Timely and accurate leak detection
- or miniaturization of sensor size and electronics
-  and reliable operation in inert environments
# Presentation: 696142

## Mni Sose Intertribal Water Rights Coalition, Inc.

- Western Area Power Administration
- Upper Great Plains Region
- Post-2010 Power Marketing Initiative
- April 11, 2007
- Rapid City, SD

## Marketing Plan

## Post-2010 Resource Pool

- Up to 1% - approximately 20MW
- Consider new customers
- Consider other appropriate purposes

## Post-2010 Resource Pool Allocation Process

- Publish FRN soliciting Letters of Interest – June, 2007
- Public Information Forum – Sioux Falls, SD – July 24, 2007
- Public process continues
- Implementation (if required) - Fall 2010

## Points of Contact and Information

- John A. Pankratz
- Western Area Power Administration
- Public Utilities Specialist
- (406) 247-7392
- Email: _[pankratz@wapa.gov](mailto:pankratz@wapa.gov)_
- Website: _http://www.wapa.gov/ugp/Post2010/default.htm_
# Presentation: 735997

## Trying to understand  tracking

**Preliminary findings (t00.53.00):**
**Study of Pt = 50 GeV/c single muons show:**
****** ******** ****90 % for central tracks**
**Study of 100 evts. Z********ee show:**
**No added minbias:**
**16034 generated tracks**
**546 reconstructed**
**Added minbias**
**18375 generated tracks**
**514 reconstructed**
**Remark:  nb. of  reconstructed electron pairs: **
**64 for no-minbias, 54 with  minbias**

- A. Zylberstejn

- 28 Juin 1999

**Checked that problem not due to CFT/SMT matching******** concentrate on  CFT only with single muons**
**Possible source of low ********: **
**clustering (P. Bonamy): Clusters in chunk********“home made” clusters**
** ****Errors in track finding:**
** ******** ****0.5*(fiber diameter)/r/********12**
**	****small displacement of cluster position relative to hit position ******** big effect on track ********2**

- A. Zylberstejn

- 28 Juin 1999

- Geant

- X

- X

**O**

**O**

- CFT digi

- In D0geant, hits and de/dx in cylindrical rings: no fiber geometry implemented. In Simpp digitization in CFTdigi .
- To study digitization/clustering drop chunk and use code with debug outputs

- A. Zylberstejn

- 28 Juin 1999

## Delta rays

- Problem with delta rays going backwards:  digitized fibers on the other side of the CFT

- Delta rays crossing part of a fiber: no dealt with correctly

- Displacement of the cluster center due to delta rays

- A. Zylberstejn

- 28 Juin 1999

**Found a bug in computing intersection of track with fiber: fiber diameter used instead of radius in formula**
**After correction for the bug;**
**for single central muons:**
**	******** ******** ****90% ********98%**
**For Z ******** ee**
**no minbias:     757 recons. Tracks**
**with min bias: 839 recons. tracks**

- A. Zylberstejn

- 28 Juin 1999

**Try to find the reason for ineff. ******** 2% playing around with the geometry: **
** ****small changes in digitization (use fibers instead of doublets, discard fibers with very low de/dx,...) induces big differences in tracking efficiencies due to small errors  used in the fits.**
**  ****No real progress**

- A. Zylberstejn

- 28 Juin 1999

_**Very important**_**:**
**use the exact geometry:  digitization class has to be rewritten; Clustering has to be reconsidered**
**Need careful study of the measurements errors as a function of CFT layer number, CFT layer type (axial / stereo), Nb. Of doublets in the cluster,...**

- A. Zylberstejn

- 28 Juin 1999

## General remarks

**CFT code  hard to enter into for non C++ experts: can only play with the algorithmic part**
**Tracking code impossible to follow/contribute for non experts: many many classes involved calling each other, not speaking of algorithms**

- A. Zylberstejn

- 28 Juin 1999
# Presentation: 107119

## ATO Technical Operations

- Bob Kitson
- ATO Technical Operations
- Operations Branch, ANM-470

## Overview

- Briefing will focus on areas of interest to Airports (not comprehensive)
- Organization charts
- Airway Facilities functions in the past
- Technical Operations
- Concept of operations changes
- What’s the same
- What’s different
- Question and Answer time

## Reporting in Old Organization

**Reporting in Old Organization**

**Free**
**Flight**

**FAA Administrator**
**&**
**Deputy Administrator**

**Air Traffic Services**
**Subcommittee**

**ATO Chief**
**Operating Officer**

## Reporting in New Organization

**Air Traffic Services**
**Subcommittee**

**FAA Administrator**
**&**
**Deputy Administrator**

**Reporting**** in New Organization**

**ATO Chief**
**Operating Officer**

**Terminal**

**Flight**
**Services**

**Technical**
**Operations**

**System**
**Operations**

**Finance**

**Operations**
**Planning**

**Acquisition & **
**Business Services**

**Safety**

**Communications**

**En Route**
**& Oceanic**

## Airway Facilities Functions

- Establish new FAA facilities and services
- NAS Implementation – National organization with field office in each region
- Own/operate/maintain FAA NAS Facilities
- Facilities belong to a Systems Management Office (SMO) – Seattle, Salt Lake, Denver
- Engineering/admin support at region
- Airspace – review airport development
- Protect FAA facilities from development, done by region
- Non-Federal Facility oversight

## Technical Operations – conceptual changes

- Airway Facilities owned NAS facilities, Technical Operations eventually will not
- AF managed/executed sustainment of facilities
- Should the roof be replaced or patched
- AF established facility requirements
- Does that ATCT need power backup or not?
- Technical Operations – service provider to operational units – Enroute/Terminal/Flight Services
- Execute facility maintenance/repair on contract
- Requirements and budgets will come from operational business units

## Technical Operations – What the same

- For now, functions in regions continue as is
- NAS Implementation offices will establish facilities, and handle reimbursable agreements
- Facility relocations when airport work requires it
- Regional engineering staff still reviews airport development for impact
- Local FAA maintenance personnel performing the same function
- SMO offices remain in Salt Lake, Denver, Seattle
- Field office below SMO unaffected
- Non-federal program oversight unchanged

## Technical Operations – what’s different

- Engineering/Admin functions may undergo consolidation in future – unknown at this time
- Tech Ops nationally will be responsible for Navigation systems acquisition/establishment
- Heavy focus on reducing operations costs
- New facilities will be scrutinized not only for establishment, but operations costs
- May extend to reviewing existing facilities
- Terminal portion of ATO will become more involved in operating decisions
- May affect how we maintain facilities/services at airport

## Question and Answer Time

- Thanks for your time and attention!
# Presentation: 192944

## Getting Along with Your Laptop . . . at home

- For more information, contact the Ergo team x5818 or ergo@lbl.gov

*A laptop allows you use it in myriad settings, i.e., floor, *
*couch, bed, or coffee table.  Unfortunately, this portability*
*also exposes you to myriad *_*posture problems*_*!*

- Before. . .

- . . . After

- Forward bent trunk and head and
- awkward arm and wrist postures
- at laptop that’s too low/too far

- Use a firm cushion on your lap
- to raise the laptop, and pillows
- to support your arms

**Notes:**
Specifically, Managers, supervisors and PIs have some key duties.  In a few moments you will work in pairs to discuss how you comply or conduct these:

Review and update employee Job Hazard Questionnaire (JHQ) when scope of work changes and annually.  This is 
Conduct On Job Training (OJT) and maintain documentation of it. 
   The reference manual contains a template that can be used as a form of OJT Documentation 
Conduct Workspace Inspections Quarterly:
Use the Walkaround Inspection Guide pamphlets
Comment on good work practices (behaviors)
Enter deficiencies
Observe work processes and make improvements where feasible
Ensure your employees have the correct PPE.
Review formal Authorizations (AHDs, etc.) annually.
Update the HEAR database annually.
Exercise Stop Work Authority when necessary.
Be familiar with the Lab’s incident reporting system. (ORPS, SAAR, Compensation,etc...)
Report all incidents and near misses

Turn to your neighbor and take the next 5 minutes to review what you think each task entails and/or how you conduct the following.
# Presentation: 708077

## Health IT Arrangements with Physicians:  Implementation Concerns

**Lawrence Hughes**
***Regulatory Counsel***
**American Hospital Association**
**Liberty Place, Suite 700**
**325 Seventh Street, NW**
**Washington, D.C.  20004**
_**[lhughes@aha.org](mailto:lhughes@aha.org)**__** **_

## Implementation Concerns

**Lack of IRS guidance**
**New Stark/Anti-kickback regulations – limitations**
- Restrictions on scope of permissible donation (hardware excluded)
- Interoperability, including impact on customization
- 12-month certification and impact on multi-year rollouts
- Equivalency
- Cost-sharing
# Presentation: 509463

**The British Atmospheric Data Centre**
**Alison Pamment**
**Kevin Marsh**

## Slide 2

## Data Provision to Non-Modellers

- More than half the BADC users are not atmospheric scientists
- For example, the LINK project provides data to the climate impacts community
- Currently 81 registered users worldwide from a variety of backgrounds: climate change research, soil science, social sciences, tourism.

## The LINK project

- DEFRA funded project to make Hadley Centre Climate Model output available to the research community
- Begun in 1991 by CRU; BADC involved since 2002.
- Variety of model versions: HadAM3, HadCM2, HadCM3, HadRM2, HadRM3, HadGEM1.
- Variety of experiments: IPCC ghg scenarios, “All forcings”.

## The LINK dataset

- LINK now has almost 900GB of data in 7million files and is the 12th largest dataset at the BADC.
- Model output is held at daily, monthly and seasonal intervals
- PP and ascii formats
- Many of the users are not experts in using either of these data formats

## Ascii File Example

## Technical Issues

- Original CRU archive extracted data for a limited list of model variables
- Users inevitably ask for a variable which isn’t in the list
- ASCII files did not all have same format
- Format specifiers in some files were found to be incorrect

## User Requests (1)

- “How do I read these files? I’m not a programmer”
- “Help! The ascii data files you created for me are too large for Excel...”
- “Can you give me the temperature data for 51N, 4.1W, with the data in order time,lat,lon,temp?”
- “Why is the ascii hadrm3 file for ‘prec’ missing?”

## Model configurations

- Global – mostly requested by attribution/Climate change researchers
-  Regional – Climate change impacts research
- Regional model difficult for non-experts as data are on “rotated pole” grid.
- Users of CRU ascii RM files have to use a lookup table to locate cells of interest in “real” lat-lon co-ordinates

## Regional Model Area

## Slide 11

## User requests (2)

- Users have asked for data for several cells, from several runs, for several decades – time consuming.
- Users ask for scientific guidance on most appropriate model runs to use for their research – queries are passed on.
- “You have data for SRESA2a but not SRESA2b/c –where is it?”

## User requests (3)

- “I am looking for climate data projections from HADCM2 for the period 1994-2099 for study area of Eastern Colorado in USA, I need help how to find it online and how to extract in a form usable to me.”

## Issues Arising

- Need a tool for rotating regional model data back to standard lat-lon co-ordinates
- Handling user requests can be very time consuming
- Important to cater for the needs of users who have neither scientific nor technical expertise
# Presentation: 084094

## JPDO Weather IPTNetwork Centric Operations

- Committee for Environmental Information Systems and Communications
- May 17, 2005

## Goals

- Identify Government organizations participating in weather NEO activities
- Catalog existing NEO Policies and Standards and identify JPDO agency revision activities
- Describe funded weather or aviation NEO activities among the JPDO agencies
- Encourage collaboration among JPDO efforts
- Construct a roadmap to an Initial Operational Capability supporting aviation weather
- Adopt a set of compatible weather NEO Policies and Standards among the JPDO agencies

## Objective

- Facilitate NGATS commonality
- DOD GIG
- Virtual Joint METOC Database
- Joint METOC Broker Language
- FAA System Wide Information Management (SWIM)
- Weather is a COI
- NOAA National Digital Forecast Database
- Primary weather information provider to both DOD and FAA
- _Not_ to promote any particular solution, but to coordinate
- How can we help?

## Next Generation Air Transportation System Information Sharing Environment

- Metadata Tagging
- Real Time
- Push
- Data Base Mx

**Weather Info Producer**

- Search
- Receive
- Pull
- Translate

**Consumers of**
**Weather Info**

**Next Generation Air Transportation System Information Sharing Environment**

- Applications

-         Info-sharing Standards

**Developer**

-     Data Format

**Weather Sources**
**Observations**
**Diagnoses**
**Forecasts**
**Archived info**

**ATS Users**
**Cockpit**
**Dispatcher**
**TFM Automation**
**Safety**
# Presentation: 540317

## eastern cottonwood  

_*Populus*_ * *_*deltoides*_ Bartr. ex Marsh.
- Synonyms:  _*Populus*_ * *_*angulata*_.
- Other common names;  cottonwood, common cottonwood, plains cottonwood,
- river cottonwood, southern cottonwood, Texas cottonwood, Carolina poplar,
- plains poplar, eastern poplar and necklace poplar.

**Food: **
- The inner bark and sap were used for food only during times of starvation.  The bark and twigs were commonly  fed to horses for winter feed.
**Medicinally:**
- A tea was brewed from the bark and taken to treat colds, coughs, whopping cough, tuberculosis and intestinal worms.  The bark was mixed with black haw or wild plum barks and used by women for weakness and debility.
-  A poultice of leaves and/or bark was stirred in water and applied on boils, bruises, bumps, open sores and sprains on both people and horses.
-  The buds were mixed with bear fat and applied externally to treat for bronchitis, coughs, backaches, muscle aches, sprains, eczema, earaches and on open sores.

- Photo courtesy of:  Robert H. Mohlenbrock. USDA NRCS. 1995. *Northeast wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species*. Northeast National Technical Center, Chester, PA. Courtesy of _[USDA NRCS Wetland Science Institute](http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/WLI/)_. This image is not copyrighted and may be freely used for any purpose. Please credit the artist, original publication if applicable, and the USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database. The following format is suggested and will be appreciated:  **Robert H. Mohlenbrock** @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / **USDA NRCS. 1995. *****Northeast wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species*****. Northeast National Technical Center, Chester, PA.**

- Slide developed by Pat Broyles, Soil Conservationist, Manhattan, KS. PMC.  USDA is an equal opportunity employer.
# Presentation: 795472

## JHT Progress Report: Ocean Heat Content Estimates In The Eastern Pacific Ocean For SHIPS Forecasting

- Lynn K. “Nick” Shay and J. Brewster
- RSMAS, University of Miami
***Goal: To assess the impact of the upper ocean thermal structure on hurricane intensity in EPAC.***

## Background: 

**Ocean Heat Content** (OHC) has been found to improve intensity forecasting in Atlantic Ocean Basin in SHIPS (DeMaria *et al.* 2005; Mainelli *et al.* 2006).
- Extending the approach to the EPAC given the significant ocean variability.  JHT Grant Progress incorporates:
- Data Synthesis from EPIC, TAO Moorings, Satellite Radar Altimetry (Topex, Jason-1, GFO and Envisat), XBT transects) (Yr 1).
- Data Comparisons and Integration with GDEM (Yr 1).
- Monitoring Phase (Yr 2).
- Estimates for SHIPS (Yr 2)

## NSF/NOAA Aircraft and TAO Buoys Sample Strategy

**          ****NOAA WP-3D**

**NCAR- C130**

## Approach: Two-Layer Model (Kundu 1991).

**Approach: Two-Layer Model (Kundu 1991).**

- Reduced gravity
- Infer depth of 20oC Isotherm using SHA and seasonal climatology.
- Estimate 26oC depth- relative to 20oC.
- Estimate OHC using isotherm depth and SST.
**Ground Truthing.**

## TS  Diagrams a) 93W,  b) 94.3W, c) 96.6W and d) 97W 

## NOAA R/V Brown Versus WP-3D CTDs -10N

**Airborne Oceanography Works!**

## Annual Mean Wind Stress Aug 99-Jul 2000 : Fig. 5 from Kessler (2002)

## Blended Altimetry Derived Fields and Warm Eddy Pathway.

## Sept (left) and Oct (right) OHC of Warm Core Eddy10oN TAO Mooring OHC and D20oC.The shallow isotherm depths may be an indication of the Costa Rica Dome.

## EPAC Paradox 

**Strong vertical temperature, salinity and density gradients at base of OML in EPAC...**
**Implications for mixing...and ocean (SST) cooling.**

**N~20 cph**

## Hurricane Juliette-Induced Cooling

## GDEM Depth of 20oC Isotherm and Reduced Gravity (g’x 100):

**95****o****W **
**Ocean ****Structure: **
**EPIC**

## Summary: 

- NOAA/NSF EPIC, XBT transects and NOAA TAO data providing insights into the formation and propagation of warm eddies in the EPAC and the OHC variability-ground truthing....
- OHC estimates are significantly less (<60 kJ cm-2) than warm features in the western Atlantic Ocean Basin (>100 kJ cm-2)-L&V-16 kJ cm-2.
**Strong stratification (N ~ 20 cph)** underneath the ocean mixed layer that precludes strong mixing during TC passage over the warm pool.
- Over the next few months, finish comparisons between the in situ data sets with GDEM and relate data to SHA from several platforms.
- With respect to altimetry, Jason-1, GFO and TOPEX data are superior to Envisat SHA fields based on efforts using pre and post-Rita data.
# Presentation: 388541

## Developer Infrastructure:Table and Image Package (tip),Science Tools Application (st_app)

- James Peachey, HEASARC

## What is TIP?

- File-format independent (FITS, Root)
- STL friendly, row oriented (iterators, functors, selection of fields)
- Table access
- Image access

## Tabular Data Extension

- Header
- Keyword 1 = Value1
- Keyword 2 = Value 2
- ...
- Keyword K = Value K

|  | Field 1 | ... | Field j | ... | Field M |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Record 1 |  |  |  |  |  |
| ... |  |  |  |  |  |
| Record i | Cell 1 | ... | Cell j | ... | Cell M |
| ... |  |  |  |  |  |
| Record N |  |  |  |  |  |

## TIP Table Main Classes

**Extension**
- Header * getHeader();

**Header**
**  ****void getKeyword(T &) const ;**
**  ****void setKeyword(const T &);**

**Table**
**  ****Iterator begin();**
**  ****Iterator end();**

## Client Code

- _[http://www-glast.slac.stanford.edu/software/sciencetools/development](http://www-glast.slac.stanford.edu/software/sciencetools/development)_
- Click frame/non frame -> Doxygen for tip
- See examples drawn from tip’s sample.cxx program.
- Highlights:
- Factory class for creating Tables
- Keyword read access
- Table cell read access
- Keyword and cell modify access

## How Does Table::Iterator Work?

- Dereferences to Table::Record type
- Table::Record has a collection of Table::Cell objects
- Client determines which cells are used in computation
- Table::Cell objects query the table for each value

## Status of TIP

- FITS table cell r/w
- Root TTree cell r/w
- FITS keyword r/w
- Table data lookup by name
- Bidirectional iterator

- Image handling
- Root keywords?
- Details such as null values, units etc.
- Read-only table access
- Browsable tables
- Support for functors and random access iterators
- File creation (done)
- Memory resident Tables
- Adding fields (columns)

- Working

- Needs Work

## What is st_app?

- Standard “main” and lightweight support for application development
- A place where global application features can be added/changed without changing individual applications
- Top-level rationalized exception handling
- _[http://www-](http://www-glast.slac.stanford.edu/software/sciencetools/development)__[glast](http://www-glast.slac.stanford.edu/software/sciencetools/development)__[.](http://www-glast.slac.stanford.edu/software/sciencetools/development)__[slac](http://www-glast.slac.stanford.edu/software/sciencetools/development)__[.](http://www-glast.slac.stanford.edu/software/sciencetools/development)__[stanford](http://www-glast.slac.stanford.edu/software/sciencetools/development)__[.](http://www-glast.slac.stanford.edu/software/sciencetools/development)__[edu](http://www-glast.slac.stanford.edu/software/sciencetools/development)__[/software/](http://www-glast.slac.stanford.edu/software/sciencetools/development)__[sciencetools](http://www-glast.slac.stanford.edu/software/sciencetools/development)__[/development](http://www-glast.slac.stanford.edu/software/sciencetools/development)_
- Click frame/non-frame -> Doxygen for st_app
# Presentation: 335280

## DOT Acquisition Oversight – A Three-Pronged Approach

_***Clarify and Formalize Procurement Authority***_
- OA Heads of Contracting Activities (HCAs) report to their Heads of the Operating Administrations (HOAs)
- Procurement authority flows from the Chief Acquisition Officer (CAO), to the Senior Procurement Executive (SPE), to the HOAs to the HCAs
- SPE to weigh in on selections for the Chiefs of Contracting Operations (COCOs)

_***Risk Management***_
- The CAO/SPE will approve Acquisition Strategy for major acquisitions throughout DOT
- The SPE will implement a review process for non-IT investments
- OSPE is piloting the A-123 “Framework for Assessing the Acquisition Function” within its office.
- An annual self-assessment for the OAs
- Self-assessment supplemented by a periodic  in-house review by OSPE and other OA contracting staff
- One DOT PRISM will allow the SPE insight into DOT-wide contracting
- Federal Acquisition Certifications for Contract Specialists, COTRs and Program Managers have been implemented and will ensure appropriate training for key acquisition workforce members

_***Strategic Approach to   Acquisition at DOT***_
- The Procurement Management Council will be changed into the Strategic Acquisition Council--a council that will focus on making acquisition more strategic throughout DOT, with increased communication and collaboration
- We have developed strategies to increase communication and collaboration between DOT acquisition professionals
- Sharepoint team discussion sites-one for COCOs and one for all DOT acquisition professionals
- DOT Acquisition Forums – invite key federal acquisition leaders and DOT leaders
- Brown Bag with the SPE
- We have procured a DOT-wide Acquisition Solutions subscription to develop expertise of staff and add valuable resources
- We are relooking strategic sourcing

_***Background***_
*DOT is at risk with its current decentralized and non-strategic approach to acquisition*
- GAO High Risk List:  Managing Federal Contracting More Effectively
- IG 2009 Top Management Challenges:  Improving Contract Operations and Maintaining Procurement Integrity