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U.S. Geological Survey personnel have assessed trace metal concentrations in sediment and sediment-dwelling species since 1977 in the vicinity of the discharge of the Palo Alto Regional Water Quality...

In 2008, separate flood events occurred in the Midwest in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, and September.Author: U. S. Department of the InteriorPublisher: Createspace Independent...

Beginning in 1997, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defined a contaminated section of the Palos Verdes Shelf region in southern California as a Superfund Site, initiating a continuing...

The purpose of the study is to develop standardized protocols for assessing cyanotoxins in recreational and drinking water. Only one aspect of this overall study is documented for this report; the...

On June 9, 1994, a 2-inch-diameter steel gas service line that had been exposed during excavation separated at a compression coupling about 5 feet from the wall of a retirement home in Allentown,...

About 11:54 p.m. eastern daylight time on June 26, 1996, a 36-inch-diameter Colonial Pipeline Company pipeline ruptured where a corroded section of the pipeline crossed the Reedy River at Fork...

On May 25-27, 1980, Long Valley caldera was rocked by four M = 6 earthquakes that heralded the onset of a wave of seismic activity within the caldera which has continued through the present. Unrest...

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) personnel have assessed trace-metal concentrations in sediments and sediment-dwelling species since 1977 at an intertidal site in the vicinity of the discharge of the...

A numerical transient model of the surficial and Floridan aquifer systems in east-central Florida was developed to (1) increase the understanding of water exchanges between the surficial and the...

The nature of program review/internal audit systems in the U.S. correctional agencies and facilities is addressed in this report. Findings have been applicability to all government organizations...

Evacuation calculations are increasingly becoming a part of performance-based analyses to assess the level of life safety provided in buildings. In some cases, engineers are using...

Many U.S. Government Information Technology (IT) systems need to employ strong cryptographic schemes to protect the integrity and confidentiality of the data that they process. Algorithms such as the...

This publication has been developed by NIST to further its statutory responsibilities under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), Public Law (P.L.) 107-347. NIST is responsible for...

IntroductionThis report contains a list of selected acronyms and abbreviations for system and network security terms with their generally accepted or preferred definitions. It is intended as a...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is improving its resource allocation process by doing "microstudies" of its research impacts on society. This report is one of a series of...

The GUI performs two distinct tasks: 1) It allows for designing and configuring simulated networks into projects that are used as inputs to the server program; 2) it processes the output files from...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies Extended Feature Sets (ELFT EFS) consists of multiple ongoing latent algorithm evaluations...

The need for very large fingerprint benchmarks to test the efficacy of emerging commercial technologies for fingerprint minutia detection, matching, compression, and retrieval is well recognized. It...

The Emporia 1:100,000-scale quadrangle straddles the Tidewater Fall Line in southern Virginia and includes a small part of northernmost North Carolina (fig. 1). Sediments of the coastal plain...

In this report, we compile summaries of the biology of nine very large constrictor species and consider what effects these species might have on the ecology, economy, and domestic tranquility of the...

The thirteenth biennial International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) Workshop on Geomagnetic Observatory Instruments, Data Acquisition and Processing was held in the United States...

CoalVal is a menu-driven Windows program that produces cost-of-mining analyses of mine-modeled coal resources. Geological modeling of the coal beds and some degree of mine planning, from basic...

Energy development of all types continues to grow in the Rocky Mountain Region of the western United States. Federal resource managers increasingly need to balance energy demands, effects on the...

As part of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Department of Defense Task Force for Business and Stability Operations (TFBSO) natural resources revitalization activities in Afghanistan (Peters and...

Time-domain electromagnetic (TEM) soundings were made in Miami-Dade and southern Broward Counties to aid in mapping the landward extent of saltwater in the Biscayne aquifer. A total of 79 soundings...

Reconstructions of Phanerozoic tectonic plates can be closely constrained by lithologic correlations across conjugate margins by paleontologic information, by correlation of orogenic belts, by...

Results reported herein include trace element concentrations in sediment and in the clam Macoma petalum (formerly reported as Macoma balthica (Cohen and Carlton, 1995)), clam reproductive activity,...

Aeromagnetic anomaly images are geophysical prospecting tools frequently used in the exploration of metalliferous minerals and hydrocarbons.Author: U. S. Department of InteriorPublisher: Createspace...

Spatio-temporal systems with heterogeneity in their structure and behavior have two major problems associated with them. The first one is that such complex real world systems extend over very large...

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) personnel have assessed trace-metal concentrations in sediments and sediment-dwelling species since 1977 at an intertidal site in the vicinity of the discharge of the...