U.S. Pacific Marine Mammal Stock Assessments: 1999 (open access)

U.S. Pacific Marine Mammal Stock Assessments: 1999

The following document provides stock assessments that are required to record all stocks of marine mammals within the U.S. waters. This report will be updated as new information becomes available and as changes to marine mammal stocks and fisheries occur.
Date: December 1999
Creator: Forney, Karin A.; Muto, Marcia M. & Baker, Jason
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hawaiian Monk Seal Epidemiology Plan: Health Assessment and Disease Status Studies (open access)

Hawaiian Monk Seal Epidemiology Plan: Health Assessment and Disease Status Studies

The following document provides a framework for incorporation of health and information to enhance recovery of the Hawaiian monk seal.
Date: October 1999
Creator: Aguirre, A. Alonso; Reif, John S. & Antonelis, George A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Kewalo Research Facility: on the Forefront for More than 40 Years (open access)

The Kewalo Research Facility: on the Forefront for More than 40 Years

The following report provides extensive information on the Kewalo Research Facility of Oahu Island. The Kewalo Research Facility sits on Kewalo Basin and is the center for ongoing research programs designed to examine the most important environmental parameters on the behavior and physiology of tunas. Along with tuna the Kewalo Research facility is also a primary location to stage research activities associated with the studies and preservation of the Hawaiian monk seals, it also provides an important laboratory where research on and resuscitation of several threatened and endangered species of sea turtles found in the Pacific Ocean can be carried out.
Date: October 1999
Creator: Brill, Richard W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Hawaiian Monk Seal in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, 1997 (open access)

The Hawaiian Monk Seal in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, 1997

The following document provides the findings on the field studies over the endangered Hawaiian monk seal in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands during 1997. The information covered evaluates the status and trends of monk seal populations, natural history traits (survival, reproduction, growth, behavior, and feeding habits), and the success of various activities designed to facilitate population growths.
Date: June 1999
Creator: Johanos, Thea C. & Ragen, Timothy J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Model Study of Marmet Lock Filling and Emptying System, Kanawha River, West Virginia: Hydraulic Model Investigation (open access)

Model Study of Marmet Lock Filling and Emptying System, Kanawha River, West Virginia: Hydraulic Model Investigation

From abstract: This report documents the laboratory model investigation of the lock filling and emptying system for lock addition planned for the Marmet Navigation Project.
Date: May 1999
Creator: Hite, John E., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Hawaiian Monk Seal in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, 1996 (open access)

The Hawaiian Monk Seal in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, 1996

This document describes field studies of the endangered Hawaiian monk seal in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in 1996. The studies provide information on the status and trends of monk seal populations, natural history traits (survival, reproduction, growth, behavior, and feeding habits), and the success of various activities designed to facilitate population growth.
Date: March 1999
Creator: Johanos, Thea C. & Ragen, Timothy J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Distribution of Benthic Foraminifers (>125 µm) in the Surface Sediments of the Arctic Ocean (open access)

Distribution of Benthic Foraminifers (>125 µm) in the Surface Sediments of the Arctic Ocean

A report which discusses the distribution of benthic foraminifers in surface sediment samples from 49 box cores collected by the U.S. Geological Survey.
Date: 1999
Creator: Osterman, Lisa E.; Poore, Richard Z. & Foley, Kevin M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Evolution of Sedimentary Basins/Onshore Oil and Gas Investigations--Santa Maria Province: Chapters Y and Z] (open access)

[Evolution of Sedimentary Basins/Onshore Oil and Gas Investigations--Santa Maria Province: Chapters Y and Z]

From abstract: A complex Neogene history characterizes the offshore Santa Maria basin and the northwest margin of the western Transverse Ranges, California. This history includes the transition from subduction to a transtensional and then transpressional plate boundary, including about 900 of clockwise rotation of the western Transverse Ranges. This report uses seismic reflection data to document the geometry of structures that accommodated this deformation and offshore well data to date and correlate the sediments which were affected by the different tectonic episodes.
Date: 1999
Creator: Sorlien, Christopher C.; Nicholson, Craig; Luyendyk, Bruce P.; Miller, Kate C. & Meltzer, Anne S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Postglacial Lahars and Potential Hazards in the White Salmon River System on the Southwest Flank of Mount Adams, Washington (open access)

Postglacial Lahars and Potential Hazards in the White Salmon River System on the Southwest Flank of Mount Adams, Washington

From introduction: This report describes the results of a study assessing volcanic hazards at Mount Adams Volcano.
Date: 1999
Creator: Vallance, James W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimation of Sea Turtle Take and Mortality in the Hawai'i-Based Longline Fishery, 1994-96 (open access)

Estimation of Sea Turtle Take and Mortality in the Hawai'i-Based Longline Fishery, 1994-96

The following report provides documents of estimates of provided annual reports concerning sea turtle morality takes in the Hawai'i-based longline fishery, between the years 1994 to 1996.
Date: October 1998
Creator: Skillman, Robert A. & Kleiber, Pierre
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Issues and Options in Designing and Implementing Limited Access Programs in Marine Fisheries (open access)

Issues and Options in Designing and Implementing Limited Access Programs in Marine Fisheries

The following report was prepared after a series of workshops held by the ad hoc NMFS Limited Access Working Group (LAWG) in the period 1994-97. This report discusses the basics of limited access programs to be developed and implemented in NMFS fisheries, design and scoping considerations, limited access alternatives, nature of the fishing right, coordination and equity, implementation--including eligibility, monitoring, and evaluations, and evaluation.
Date: May 1998
Creator: Pooley, Samuel G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recommended Recovery Actions for the Hawaiian Monk Seal Population at Midway Island (open access)

Recommended Recovery Actions for the Hawaiian Monk Seal Population at Midway Island

The following document was made as part of a workshop for members of the Hawaiian Monk Seal Recovery Team to develop recommendations for recovery actions of the Hawaiian monk seal. The document provides extensive background knowledge on observational studies done in the past years over their endangerment and the causes of it.
Date: May 1998
Creator: Gilmartin, William G. & Antonelis, George A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Guadalupe River and Bypass Culvert, San Jose, California: Hydraulic Model Investigation (open access)

Guadalupe River and Bypass Culvert, San Jose, California: Hydraulic Model Investigation

From abstract: The ultimate goal of numerous experiments is to develop the desired flow split for the design discharge of 14,600 cfs while maintaining acceptable water-surface elevations in the upstream channel.
Date: February 1998
Creator: Hite, John E., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bedrock Geology of the Paducah 1°x2° CUSMAP Quadrangle, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Missouri (open access)

Bedrock Geology of the Paducah 1°x2° CUSMAP Quadrangle, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Missouri

The following report interprets the geologic history of the Paducah quadrangle, focusing on depositional and tectonic evolution, particularly tectonic events that influenced sedimentation.
Date: 1998
Creator: Nelson, W. John
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Colorado Yule Marble—Building Stone of the Lincoln Memorial (open access)

Colorado Yule Marble—Building Stone of the Lincoln Memorial

A report about the quality and consistency of the Colorado Yule marble mined in Marble, Colorado.
Date: 1998
Creator: McGee, Elaine S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engineering Geology Applied to the Design and Operation of Underground Coal Mines (open access)

Engineering Geology Applied to the Design and Operation of Underground Coal Mines

A report which discusses in detail how the disciplines of geology and geotechnology, also known as engineering geology, apply to exploration, design, and operation of underground coal mines.
Date: 1998
Creator: Dunrud, Richard C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Evolution of Sedimentary Basins/Onshore Oil and Gas Investigations--Santa Maria Province: Chapters W and X] (open access)

[Evolution of Sedimentary Basins/Onshore Oil and Gas Investigations--Santa Maria Province: Chapters W and X]

From abstract: Bulletin W is about the deformation of the Mesozoic Franciscan Complex of the Eastern Santa Maria basin in California. Bulletin X is about the regional thermal maturity of the surface rocks of the mentioned basin as well as the Santa Barbara-Ventura basin area in California.
Date: 1998
Creator: Wahl, Arthur D.; Naeser, Nancy D.; Isaacs, Caroline M. & Keller, Margaret A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Laccolith Complexes of Southeastern Utah: Time of Emplacement and Tectonic Setting - Workshop Proceedings (open access)

Laccolith Complexes of Southeastern Utah: Time of Emplacement and Tectonic Setting - Workshop Proceedings

This report summarizes much of the materials presented at the workshop and provides an extensive list of selected references pertaining to geochronology and tectonics of the Colorado Plateau to facilitate further research.
Date: 1998
Creator: Friedman, Jules D. & Huffman, A. Curtis, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lateral Ramps in the Folded Appalachians and in Overthrust Belts Worldwide—A Fundamental Element of Thrust-Belt Architecture (open access)

Lateral Ramps in the Folded Appalachians and in Overthrust Belts Worldwide—A Fundamental Element of Thrust-Belt Architecture

A report about lateral ramps which are zones where décollements change stratigraphic level along a strike. This report suggests that many cross-strike features may be underlain by lateral ramps that serve to transfer décollements from one stratigraphic level to another in the same manner as frontal ramp, but in a direction normal to the strike of the fold belt.
Date: 1998
Creator: Pohn, Howard A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Hawaiian Monk Seal in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, 1995 (open access)

The Hawaiian Monk Seal in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, 1995

The following report is based on findings from the observational studies on the Hawaiian monk seal in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands during 1995. The objectives of this research were to conduct beach counts (censuses), tag weaned pups and immature seals for permanent identification, identify other seals by previously applied tags and by natural or applied markings, monitor reproduction, survival, injuries, entanglements, interatoll movements, disappearances, and deaths, perform necropsies, collect tissue samples for DNA analysis, and inventory, sample, and destroy debris capable of entangling wildlife.
Date: July 1997
Creator: Johanos, Thea C. & Ragen, Timothy J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Changing Oceans and Changing Fisheries: Environmental Data for Fisheries Research and Management (open access)

Changing Oceans and Changing Fisheries: Environmental Data for Fisheries Research and Management

The following report is the proceedings of a workshop convened at NOAA's Pacific Fisheries Environmental Group in Pacific Grove, California, on July 16-18 1996, to examine the uses of environmental data for fisheries.
Date: April 1997
Creator: Boehlert, George W. & Schumacher, James D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Burns Harbor, Indiana, Monitoring Study, Volume 1: Overview of Approach and Results (open access)

Burns Harbor, Indiana, Monitoring Study, Volume 1: Overview of Approach and Results

From introduction: The program's objective is to acquire information through intensive monitoring of coastal projects in an effort to improve project purpose and attainment, design procedures, construction methods, and operation and maintenance techniques.
Date: March 1997
Creator: McGehee, David D.; Prickett, Terri; Shirley, Janean & Moritz, Heidi
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Chemical Analysis of Argonne Premium Coal Samples (open access)

The Chemical Analysis of Argonne Premium Coal Samples

A report about methods used to determine concentrations of 67 elements in 8 argonne premium coal samples.
Date: 1997
Creator: Palmer, Curtis A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geologic Controls of Deep Natural Gas Resources in the United States (open access)

Geologic Controls of Deep Natural Gas Resources in the United States

A report about the natural gas drilling frontier in deep sedimentary basins. Papers presented here are intended to introduce the petroleum community to a set of geologic tools that may be used to predict deep undiscovered natural gas accumulations.
Date: 1997
Creator: Dyman, T. S.; Rice, D. D. & Westcott, P. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library