Mapping Area of Hard Bottom and Other Important Bottom Types: Outer Continental Shelf and Upper Continental Slope (open access)

Mapping Area of Hard Bottom and Other Important Bottom Types: Outer Continental Shelf and Upper Continental Slope

This final report summarizes the procedures and the results of the mapping efforts of a project on continental shelves.
Date: December 2005
Creator: Roberts, Harry H.; Coleman, James M. & Peele, R. Hampton
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Form CJ-7, Annual Parole Survey: 2005 (open access)

Form CJ-7, Annual Parole Survey: 2005

Blank parole data survey containing a series of questions related to the parole population in a particular location, with instructions for filling out the survey.
Date: November 9, 2005
Creator: United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Form CJ-8, Annual Probation Survey: 2005 (open access)

Form CJ-8, Annual Probation Survey: 2005

Blank probation data survey containing a series of questions related to the probationary population in a particular location, with instructions for filling out the survey.
Date: November 9, 2005
Creator: United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Air Status and Trends Network Annual Report: 2004 (open access)

Clean Air Status and Trends Network Annual Report: 2004

Annual report of the Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNET) describing the program and data collection. It also presents information on air quality and recorded concentrations of pollutants such as ozone, sulfur, gases, and other elements of concern.
Date: November 2005
Creator: MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessment of the Greenhouse Gas Emission Benefits of Heavy Duty Natural Gas Vehicles in the United States: Final Report (open access)

Assessment of the Greenhouse Gas Emission Benefits of Heavy Duty Natural Gas Vehicles in the United States: Final Report

A paper which presents a review of existing literature on emission factors, emission data collection techniques, and analytical approaches. It presents the results of SAIC's analysis of available CO2 and CH4 GHG emission data from chassis dynamometer tests of heavy-duty vehicle exhaust.
Date: September 22, 2005
Creator: Davies, Christina; Findsen, Jette & Pedraza, Lindolfo
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone - Chapter 213 Rules. TSMS Version (open access)

Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone - Chapter 213 Rules. TSMS Version

This report amends and updates the geographic areas that are regulated under the Edwards Aquifer Protection Program in Texas. Using Digital Geospatial Metadata, a GIS layer is added to reflect the changes in land boundaries and the re-designation of areas as transition zones, contributing zones, and recharge zones; the result will serve as a replacement for hard copy maps of the area.
Date: September 1, 2005
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Feasibility of Using Remote-Sensing Techniques for Shoreline Delineation and Coastal Habitat Classification for Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) Mapping (open access)

Feasibility of Using Remote-Sensing Techniques for Shoreline Delineation and Coastal Habitat Classification for Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) Mapping

Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) provides shoreline classification and a sensitivity ranking that is important for oil spill planning. This system has not been used in Louisiana due to the rapid changes of the shoreline, which is a potential threat due to high risk of oil spill in that region. This research paper's goal is to develop remote sensing classification procedures to create an ESI map for Louisiana and other areas that present similar issues.
Date: August 2005
Creator: Born-Phillips, Katherine; Locke, Chris; Michel, Jacqueline & Braud, DeWitt
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
EPA Toxicological Review of Zinc and Compounds (open access)

EPA Toxicological Review of Zinc and Compounds

A peer-reviewed research report supporting the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) summary of the hazards related to chronic exposure to zinc and zinc compounds.
Date: July 2005
Creator: Choudbury, Harlal; Stedeford, Todd; Donohue, Joyce; Ingerman, Lisa; Osier, Mark; Fransen, Margaret et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aspects of the Louisiana Coastal Current (open access)

Aspects of the Louisiana Coastal Current

This report is about the status of existing reduced dimensional models of the dynamics of the Louisiana Coastal Current. Local, wind-driven models reproduce credibly the flow variability during the winter season.
Date: June 2005
Creator: United States. Coastal Marine Institute.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterization of Algal-Invertebrate Mats at CMI Study Platforms: Developing Survey Design and Quality Assurance for Artificial Substrate Studies (open access)

Characterization of Algal-Invertebrate Mats at CMI Study Platforms: Developing Survey Design and Quality Assurance for Artificial Substrate Studies

Report summary that investigated and analyzed algal fouling of three offshore drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico in order to develop efficient and effective guidelines for future, wider area, long-term studies of algal fouling.
Date: June 2005
Creator: Carney, Robert S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climatology of Ocean Features in the Gulf of Mexico (open access)

Climatology of Ocean Features in the Gulf of Mexico

Summary report on a project that used twelve different statistics to develop a climatology of currents in the Gulf of Mexico. The results are advantageous for planning future programs, providing information for environmental impact statements, furthering additional studies, and guiding oil and gas exploration.
Date: June 2005
Creator: Vukovich, Fred M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climatology of Ocean Features in the Gulf of Mexico, Final Report (open access)

Climatology of Ocean Features in the Gulf of Mexico, Final Report

Final research report project that used twelve different statistics to develop a climatology of currents in the Gulf of Mexico. The results are advantageous for planning future programs, providing information for environmental impact statements, furthering additional studies, and guiding oil and gas exploration.
Date: June 2005
Creator: Vukovich, Fred M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modeling Structure Removal Processes in the Gulf of Mexico (open access)

Modeling Structure Removal Processes in the Gulf of Mexico

This report summary describes the objective of the research is to examine how offshore structures producing and processing hydrocarbons are removed from the Gulf of Mexico. Using this research, they developed a model to forecast the removal of offshore structures.
Date: June 2005
Creator: Kaiser, M.J.; Mesyanzhinov, D.V. & Pulsipher, A.G.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relative Contribution of Produced Water Discharge Oxygen Demand in the Development of Hypoxia (open access)

Relative Contribution of Produced Water Discharge Oxygen Demand in the Development of Hypoxia

This summary report on anthropogenic coastal hypoxia compares the contribution of organic carbon water discharge from The Mississippi River system with the products of oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf.
Date: April 2005
Creator: Rabalais, Nancy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interactions Between Migrating birds and Offshore Oil and Gas Structures Off the Louisiana Coast (open access)

Interactions Between Migrating birds and Offshore Oil and Gas Structures Off the Louisiana Coast

Technical summary report of the influence of oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico on the spring and fall migration of birds.
Date: March 2005
Creator: Russell, Robert W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Visibility and Atmospheric Dispersion Capability over the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Estimations and Observations of Boundary Layer Parameters (open access)

Visibility and Atmospheric Dispersion Capability over the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Estimations and Observations of Boundary Layer Parameters

Final report of the causes of atmospheric pollutants resulting in reduced visibility of coastal National Parks and Wilderness Areas of the Gulf of Mexico.
Date: March 2005
Creator: Hsu, S. A. & Blanchard, B. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Community-Based Watershed Management: Lessons from the National Estuary Program (open access)

Community-Based Watershed Management: Lessons from the National Estuary Program

This document reports on approaches to watershed management undertaken by the 28 National Estuary Programs (NEPs), organizations dedicated to restoring and protecting coastal watersheds.
Date: February 2005
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determining Overwater Visibility and Mixing Height Using Satellite and In-situ Measurements Over the Gulf of Mexico (open access)

Determining Overwater Visibility and Mixing Height Using Satellite and In-situ Measurements Over the Gulf of Mexico

Technical summary report of the causes of atmospheric pollutants resulting in reduced visibility in coastal National Parks and Wilderness Areas in the Gulf of Mexico.
Date: February 2005
Creator: Hsu, S. A. & Huh, O. K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Florida's Wetlands: An Update on Status and Trends 1985 to 1996 (open access)

Florida's Wetlands: An Update on Status and Trends 1985 to 1996

This publication discusses the history, uses of, preservation of, and claiming of Florida's wetlands.
Date: February 2005
Creator: Dahl, Thomas E.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Good Neighbor Environmental Board Annual Report: 2005 (open access)

Good Neighbor Environmental Board Annual Report: 2005

Annual report of the U.S. Good Neighbor Environmental Board describing the organization's activities, goals, and recommendations for further development along the U.S.-Mexico border region. This report focuses on management of the U.S.-Mexico border's water resources.
Date: February 2005
Creator: United States. Good Neighbor Environmental Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interactions Between Migrating Birds and Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Final Report (open access)

Interactions Between Migrating Birds and Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Final Report

Report of the influence of oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico on the spring and fall migration of birds.
Date: February 2005
Creator: Russell, Robert W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Surgeon General Releases National Health Advisory on Radon (open access)

Surgeon General Releases National Health Advisory on Radon

A report about the dangers and issues with breathing Radon. It describes what Radon is.
Date: January 13, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Health and Human Services.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (open access)

Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage

This report provides information for policymakers, scientists and engineers in the field of climate change and reductions of CO2 emissions.
Date: 2005
Creator: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Military Power of the People's Republic of China (open access)

The Military Power of the People's Republic of China

A report outlining China's national and military strategies, progress and trends in its military modernization, and their implications for regional security and stability.
Date: 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library