Proceedings of the 2014 NOAA Economics of Protected Resources Workshop, September 9-11, 2014, La Jolla, California (open access)

Proceedings of the 2014 NOAA Economics of Protected Resources Workshop, September 9-11, 2014, La Jolla, California

The following document provides the results of a three-day workshop held in September of 2014 by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). This workshop was the first NMFS workshop focused exclusively on the economics of PR. The primary goal was to initiate the process of identifying national PR social science research needs and best practices.
Date: September 2015
Creator: Bisack, Kathryn D.; Squires, Dale E.; Lipton, Douglas W.; Hilger, James R.; Holland, Daniel S.; Johnson, Denise H. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Pacific Marine Mammal Stock Assessment: 2012 (open access)

U.S. Pacific Marine Mammal Stock Assessment: 2012

This is an assessment report based on the population of marine mammals along the Pacific coastline in the year 2012. It is a working document that will continue to be updated as data changes.
Date: January 2013
Creator: Carretta, James V.; Oleson, Erin; Weller, David W.; Lang, Aimee R.; Forney, Karin A.; Baker, Jason et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Pacific Marine Mammal Stock Assessments: 2011 (open access)

U.S. Pacific Marine Mammal Stock Assessments: 2011

This is an assessment report on the population of marine mammals along the U.S. Pacific coastline. These reports are ever-growing and subject to change annually.
Date: December 15, 2011
Creator: Caretta, James V.; Forney, Karin A.; Oleson, Erin; Martien, Karen; Muto, Marcia M.; Lowry, Mark S. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Response Plan for Volcano Hazards in the Long Valley Caldera and Mono Craters Region, California (open access)

Response Plan for Volcano Hazards in the Long Valley Caldera and Mono Craters Region, California

A report about volcano response plans. It discusses a four-level color code with successive conditions. For instance, green means no risk while red means an eruption is occurring.
Date: September 24, 2001
Creator: Hill, David P.
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
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
[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
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
High-Temperature Cyanide Leaching of Platinum-Group Metals from Automobile Catalysts--Pilot Plant Study (open access)

High-Temperature Cyanide Leaching of Platinum-Group Metals from Automobile Catalysts--Pilot Plant Study

From abstract: The U.S. Bureau of Mines Reno Research Center investigated, developed, and patented a high temperature cyanide leaching process for recovering platinum-group metals (PGM) from automobile catalysts. A batch pilot plant was constructed at the center and operated to demonstrate this technology to industry.
Date: 1995
Creator: Kuczynski, R. J.; Atkinson, G. B. & Dolinar, W. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tertiary Stratigraphy of Highly Extended Terranes, California, Arizona, and Nevada (open access)

Tertiary Stratigraphy of Highly Extended Terranes, California, Arizona, and Nevada

Proceedings of a workshop held in February 1990 called "Tertiary Stratigraphy of Highly Extended Terranes, Southern Basin and Range" at the Desert Research Center of the California State University System, Soda Springs, near Baker, California. This volume is a collection of stratigraphic data and interpretation.
Date: 1993
Creator: Sherrod, David R. & Nielson, Jane E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
State of the Coast Report, San Diego Region: Volume 1 -- Main Report (open access)

State of the Coast Report, San Diego Region: Volume 1 -- Main Report

From introduction: The major objectives of the study are to collect new data to quantify sediment sources, sinks, and transport characteristics, review historical data to quantify and interpret past shoreline changes, perform computer modelling of coastal processes, and provide public coordination and data management.
Date: September 1991
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Los Angeles District.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Ecology of Stream and Riparian Habitats of the Great Basin Region (open access)

The Ecology of Stream and Riparian Habitats of the Great Basin Region

"The purpose of this profile is to summarize the ecological information available for and relevant to stream and riparian habitats of the Great Basin. The Great Basin comprises the northern half of the Basin and Range physiographic province and covers most of Nevada and western Utah and portions of California, Oregon, and Idaho. The entire basin actually consists of numerous subbasins and mountain ranges which present an extremely diverse physical setting" (p. iii).
Date: September 1989
Creator: Minshall, G. Wayne; Jensen, Sherman E. & Platts, William S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fourier Grain-Shape and Mineralogic Analyses of Coastal and Inner Shelf Sand Samples: Dana Point to the United-States-Mexico Border (open access)

Fourier Grain-Shape and Mineralogic Analyses of Coastal and Inner Shelf Sand Samples: Dana Point to the United-States-Mexico Border

From introduction: The principal purpose of this report is to determine the local sediment sources of beach sand samples from the Oceanside, Mission Beach, and Silver Strand littoral cells.
Date: May 1989
Creator: Osborne, Robert H.; Ahlschwede, Kelly S.; Broadhead, Sean D.; Cho, Kyung H.; Compton, Eleanor A. & Yeh, Chia-Chen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tectonically Controlled Fan Delta and Submarine Fan Sedimentation of Late Miocene Age, Southern Temblor Range, California (open access)

Tectonically Controlled Fan Delta and Submarine Fan Sedimentation of Late Miocene Age, Southern Temblor Range, California

From introduction: The objectives of this report are to (1) document the stratigraphic framework of the Santa Margarita Formation and part of the Monterey Shale in the southern Temblor Range, (2) interpret the environments of deposition and depositional processes of the above units, and (3) evaluate the influence of tectonism on Santa Margarita sedimentation, with special attention given to testing the hypothesis of Berry and others (1968).
Date: 1989
Creator: Ryder, Robert T. & Thomson, Alan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coastal Cliff Sediments, San Diego Region, Dana Point to the Mexican Border (1887 to 1947) (open access)

Coastal Cliff Sediments, San Diego Region, Dana Point to the Mexican Border (1887 to 1947)

From Summary: These studies document the temporally episodic and areally site-specific character of subaerial erosion, which is shown to be directly related to prevailing meteorologic conditions.
Date: December 1988
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
River Sediment Discharge Study, San Diego Region (open access)

River Sediment Discharge Study, San Diego Region

The purpose of this study is to estimate the sediment delivery to the coast from streams and watersheds draining to the California Coast in the San Diego Region.
Date: August 1988
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sand Thickness Survey Report, October - November, 1987, San Diego Region (open access)

Sand Thickness Survey Report, October - November, 1987, San Diego Region

From introduction: This report documents the methodologies and results of a near-shore sand thickness survey.
Date: August 1988
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sweetwater River Channel Improvement Project, San Diego County, California: Hydraulic Model Investigation (open access)

Sweetwater River Channel Improvement Project, San Diego County, California: Hydraulic Model Investigation

From abstract: A study of the proposed channel alignment project was conducted using a fixed-bed model constructed at a scale of 1:40 to study the effect of downstream waves and disturbances caused by the curvilinear flow conditions.
Date: February 1988
Creator: Turner, Herman O., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bitumen-Bearing Deposits of the United States (open access)

Bitumen-Bearing Deposits of the United States

The following report summarizes the locations, resources, and petrophysical data of known bitumen-bearing deposits located primarily in Alabama, California, Kentucky, Texas, and Utah.
Date: 1988
Creator: Crysdale, Bonnie L. & Schenk, Christopher J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mineral Resources of the Turtle Mountains Wilderness Study Area, San Bernardino County, California (open access)

Mineral Resources of the Turtle Mountains Wilderness Study Area, San Bernardino County, California

From abstract: At the request of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, approximately 105,200 acres of the Turtle Mountains Wilderness Study Area (CDCA-307) were evaluated for mineral resources (known) and resource potential (undiscovered). In this report, the area studied is referred to as "the wilderness study area" or simply "the study area"; any reference to the Turtle Mountain Wilderness Study Area refers only to that part of the wilderness study area for which a mineral survey was requested by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. The wilderness study area is in southeastern San Bernardino County, Calif. Gold, silver, copper, and lead have been mined within and adjacent to the study area.
Date: 1988
Creator: Howard, Keith A.; Nielson, Jane E.; Simpson, Robert W.; Hazlett, Richard W.; Alminas, Henry V.; Nakata, John K. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mineral Resources of the Whipple Mountains and Whipple Mountains Addition Wilderness Study Areas, San Bernardino County, California (open access)

Mineral Resources of the Whipple Mountains and Whipple Mountains Addition Wilderness Study Areas, San Bernardino County, California

From abstract: At the request of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, approximately 85,100 acres of the Whipple Mountains Wilderness Study Area (CDCA-312) and 1,380 acres of the Whipple Mountains Addition Wilderness Study Area (AZ-050-010) were evaluated for identified mineral resources (known) and mineral resource potential (undiscovered). In this report, the Whipple Mountains and Whipple Mountains Addition Wilderness Study Areas are referred to as simply "the study area."
Date: 1988
Creator: Marsh, Sherman P.; Raines, Gary L.; Diggles, Michael F.; Howard, Keith A.; Simpson, Robert W.; Hoover, Donald B. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Isabella Dam Spillway, Kern River, California: Hydraulic Model Investigation (open access)

Isabella Dam Spillway, Kern River, California: Hydraulic Model Investigation

Abstract: "Tests were conducted on a 1:50-scale model of Isabella Dam Spillway to determine the adequacy of proposed spillway, dam, and channel improvements. The model reproduced an area of the reservoir 800 ft wide by 1,100 ft long, the spillway, and the entire length of the exit channel. Unsatisfactory flow conditions were observed in the vicinity of the spillway crest due to approach conditions to the spillway. Large cross waves, present in the exit channel just downstream of the spillway, resulted in occasional overtopping of the right wall. A grouted rock dike that provided satisfactory flow conditions at the spillway and downstream throughout the exit channel was placed adjacent to the existing spillway approach wall."
Date: August 1987
Creator: Davis, W. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coastal Cliff Sediments, San Diego Region, Dana Point to the Mexican Border (open access)

Coastal Cliff Sediments, San Diego Region, Dana Point to the Mexican Border

From Summary: This study documents the temporally episodic cliff and bluff erosion occurs; namely, at San Onofre State Park, Camp Joseph Pendleton Marine Reservation, and Torrey Pines City and State Parks.
Date: June 1987
Creator: Inman, D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mineral Resources of the Fort Piute Wilderness Study Area, San Bernardino County, California (open access)

Mineral Resources of the Fort Piute Wilderness Study Area, San Bernardino County, California

From abstract: The Fort Piute Wilderness Study Area (CDCA-267) is in northeastern San Bernardino County, California, near the boundary between California and Nevada. Mineral surveys were requested for 31,371 acres of the Fort Piute Wilderness Study Area. In this report the area studied is referred to as "the study area". Examination of mines and prospects in the area was accomplished by the U.S. Bureau of Mines in 1981 and 1982. Field investigations of the area were carried out by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1983 and 1985. No mines or prospects, few mining claims, and no identified resources are located within the wilderness study area. Moderate and low potential for gold resources appears limited to outcrops of gneiss and granite exposed along the eastern side of the Piute Range. Available information indicates that there is no potential for energy resources, including oil and gas, uranium, or geothermal, in the study area.
Date: 1987
Creator: Nielson, Jane E.; Frisken, James G.; Jachens, Robert C. & McDonnell, John R., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library