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Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Washington State Government (open access)

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Washington State Government

This report summarizes the total GHG emission from all state agencies for 2005, 2008, and 2009. It examines actions already taken by agencies to reduce emissions and outlines key next steps for agencies to take to develop emission reduction strategies.
Date: December 2010
Creator: Adelsman, Hedia & Ekrem, Joanna
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Floyd Beeghly, December 17, 2010 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Floyd Beeghly, December 17, 2010

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Floyd E. Beeghly. Beeghly joined the Navy in April 1943. He describes his basic training at Farragut, Idaho. Beeghly was sent to the USS Independence (CVL-22) and joined the C and R division. He describes flight operations, his damage control station, and what it was like when his ship was hit by a torpedo. Beeghly left the Navy in February 1946.
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: Beeghly, Floyd
System: The Portal to Texas History
Satellite Data Assimilation into Meteorological/Air Quality (open access)

Satellite Data Assimilation into Meteorological/Air Quality

A report directed at improving the specification of surface parameters such as insolation, soil moisture, and surface heat capacity.
Date: December 2010
Creator: Biazar, A. Pour; McNider, R. T. & Mackaro, S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ray Boone, December 7, 2010 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Ray Boone, December 7, 2010

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Ray Boone. Boone joined the Navy in 1937. He was assigned to the USS Blue (DD-387) and initially served in the deck division. Boone was also a pointer on one of the 5-inch guns. He eventually joined the engineering division and worked in the boiler room and details how the boiler room operated. Boone describes his experiences during the attack on Pearl Harbor. He witnessed the Utah capsize and the Arizona explode. Boone describes traveling to several areas of the ship and trying to access ammunition for the main guns as well as the efforts to get underway. He also mentions dropping depth charges on a Japanese submarine. The Blue traveled to Guadalcanal and rescued crewmembers of HMAS Canberra. Boone details his ship being critically damaged by a torpedo off Guadalcanal. He was sent back to the States on leave and then joined the USS McCook (DD-496), participating in convoy duty to North Africa and Sicily. Boone was then sent to Steam Turbine school and subsequently joined the crew of Auxiliary Rescue Tug 64 (ATR-64). He travelled to Mindanao, Philippines as his tug towed a drydock. Boone was …
Date: December 7, 2010
Creator: Boone, Ray
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional-Scale Climate Change: Observations and Model Simulations (open access)

Regional-Scale Climate Change: Observations and Model Simulations

This collaborative proposal addressed key issues in understanding the Earth’s climate system, as highlighted by the U.S. Climate Science Program. The research focused on documenting past climatic changes and on assessing future climatic changes based on suites of global and regional climate models. Geographically, our emphasis was on the mountainous regions of the world, with a particular focus on the Neotropics of Central America and the Hawaiian Islands. Mountain regions are zones where large variations in ecosystems occur due to the strong climate zonation forced by the topography. These areas are particularly susceptible to changes in critical ecological thresholds, and we conducted studies of changes in phonological indicators based on various climatic thresholds.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: Bradley, Raymond S. & Diaz, Henry F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Robert Campbell, December 19, 2010 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Robert Campbell, December 19, 2010

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Campbell. Campbell was born on 25 November 1920 in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1941, he was an engineering student at the University of Cincinnati and working at the Curtis Wright engine plant. On 12 July 1941, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps as an aviation cadet. After spending time at a junior college in Little Rock, Arkansas, Campbell was sent to the University of Iowa for cadet pre-flight training. Upon completion of the course he was sent to Hutchinson, Kansas Naval Air Station for preliminary flight training where he flew the N2S trainer. He then entered advance training at Pensacola, Florida where he flew the SNJ (training plane) and F4F (fighter). This was followed by carrier landing training on the Great Lakes. Following carrier training, he was sent to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania for training in aerial photography. In 1944 he joined VC-86 as a replacement aboard the USS Bismarck Sea (CVE-95). The squadron took part in the invasion of Leyte Gulf and Lingayen Gulf as well as Iwo Jima. During the invasion of Iwo Jima, the Bismarck Sea was struck by two kamikaze aircraft, which resulted in many …
Date: December 19, 2010
Creator: Campbell, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Project Summary: Direct Observations of Ocean Currents over the Western Slope in the Gulf of Mexico] (open access)

[Project Summary: Direct Observations of Ocean Currents over the Western Slope in the Gulf of Mexico]

Summary describing the work completed at Centro de Investigación Cientifica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE) for 'Direct Observations of Ocean Currents over the Western Slope in the Gulf of Mexico.' It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.
Date: December 2010
Creator: Centro de Investigación Cientifica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Harry Dallison, December 1, 2010 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Harry Dallison, December 1, 2010

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Harry Dallison. Dallison joined the Navy in 1944 and attended radio school at the University of Wisconsin. Upon completion, he went to submarine school in New London. He received radar training in Groton and went to sound school in San Diego. During his studies, he came down with a fever. By the time he recovered, the war had ended, so Dallison never made a war patrol. He was assigned for three months to USS Pintado (SS-387) and was discharged in April 1946. In his retirement he was an active ham radio enthusiast.
Date: December 1, 2010
Creator: Dallison, Harry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Von Dixon, December 17, 2010 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Von Dixon, December 17, 2010

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Von Dixon. Dixon was born 30 April 1924 in La Junta, Colorado. Upon enlisting in the US Army Air Forces, he went to Randolph Field, Texas for preflight training. He tells of various phases of training at a series of airfields and the type of planes used in the training. Upon graduating and being commissioned in 1943, he was sent to Thomasville, Georgia for training in the P-39 (fighter). After three months training he was sent to New Guinea where he joined the 35th Fighter Group. After flying the P-39 on ground support missions for a period of time, the group received new P-47s. Dixon recalls an accident that occurred during take-off that resulted in him being seriously burned. He tells of the treatment he received and the various hospitals in which he was a patient for five months of recovery. Following his recovery he was sent to Ephrata Army Air Field, Washington as a pilot instructor, flying the P-63 (fighter) for five months. Dixon recounts his experience of successfully bailing out of a disabled P-63. He was sent to Bell Aircraft, the headquarters of the manufacturer, to …
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: Dixon, Von
System: The Portal to Texas History
Correctional Populations in the United States, 2009 (open access)

Correctional Populations in the United States, 2009

A report providing summary data on the correctional population of those on probation or parole, and those incarcerated in prison during the year 2009.
Date: December 2010
Creator: Glaze, Lauren E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Lottery Commission (open access)

Texas Lottery Commission

A security study performed by Grant Thornton LLP for the Texas Lottery Commission to evaluate security measures established by management to support the integrity and security of the Texas Lottery's operations, gaming services and instant and on-line ticket productions.
Date: December 28, 2010
Creator: Grant Thornton LLP
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James Hastings, December 6, 2010 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James Hastings, December 6, 2010

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James Hastings. Hastings was drafted into the Army in March 1941. He was sent to radar school and was promoted to an officer in the Signal Corps. Hastings was sent to New Guinea in 1943 and led an autonomous unit that operated on a radio boat disguised as a native fishing boat. He tells of an encounter with head hunters. Hastings was then sent to the 310th Bombardment Wing of the 5th Air Force in the Philippines where he maintained radio equipment. He describes a bombing mission that he joined over China. Hastings helped liberate civilian POWs from Santo Tomas and describes their treatment and condition. He then traveled to Osaka for occupation duty. Hastings talks about his time there as well as flying over Hiroshima. He describes what he saw and discusses his conflicted feelings on the use of the bomb. Hastings stayed in the Reserve and was recalled for the Korean War where he served in Alaska.
Date: December 6, 2010
Creator: Hastings, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Thomas Hendrix, December 17, 2010 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Thomas Hendrix, December 17, 2010

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Thomas Hendrix. Hendrix joined the Naval Reserve in 1940 and was commissioned in 1941. He started as an intelligence officer for the 11th Naval District at San Diego until he requested sea duty. Hendrix served on the USS Harris (APA-2) and was at sea during the attack on Pearl Harbor. He describes the damage he saw when his ship returned to Pearl Harbor. Hendrix was then assigned to CINCPAC as a coding officer. He discusses the arrival of Nimitz and his words to the staff. Hendrix describes the demeanor of Nimitz and how he treated the staff. He also talks about how Admiral Spruance interacted with the staff. Hendrix covers the nature of his work as a coder. He requested sea duty again and was transferred to the USS Mitchell (DE-43). Hendrix served as Navigation Officer as his ship escorted oil tankers as part of the At-Sea Logistics Support Group for the remainder of the year. He discusses how the mixed-race crew got along well. The Mitchell was decommissioned in December 1945 and Hendrix left the service in March 1946.
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: Hendrix, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
ARM CLASIC ER2 CRS/EDOP (open access)

ARM CLASIC ER2 CRS/EDOP

Data was taken with the NASA ER-2 aircraft with the Cloud Radar System and other instruments in conjunction with the DOE ARM CLASIC field campaign. The flights were near the SGP site in north Central Oklahoma and targeted small developing convection. The CRS is a 94 GHz nadir pointing Doppler radar. Also on board the ER-2 was the Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL). Seven science flights were conducted but the weather conditions did not cooperate in that there was neither developing convection, or there was heavy rain.
Date: December 20, 2010
Creator: Heymsfield, Gerald
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Daniel Jackson, December 15, 2010 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Daniel Jackson, December 15, 2010

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Dr. Daniel Jackson. Jackson grew up in Pennsylvania, went to medical school and was doing his internship when the war started. He completed his internship then joined the Army Medical Corps in June, 1942. His first assignment was as a medical officer at Elgin Air Force Base. Then he joined a unit that was forming (the 102nd Station Hospital) to go overseas. Jackson arrived on New Guinea at Lae in 1944. He did not treat casualties wounded in battle. Instead, he treated medical patients, those suffering from scrub typhus, malaria, dengue fever, etc. Out of boredom, Jackson decided to join the Alamo Scouts prior to the invasion of the Philippines. In his stint in the Army, Jackson served as a dermatologist and an anesthesiologist. Jackson also was stationed i nJapan after the war ended. He recalls attempting to drive up Mt. Fuji i na weapons carrier. He describes his return home on the train from Portland through Los Angeles and San Antonio to New Orleans. He was discharged in February, 1946.
Date: December 15, 2010
Creator: Jackson, Daniel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James Keeffe, December 14, 2010 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James Keeffe, December 14, 2010

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James Keeffe. Keeffe joined the Army Air Forces as an aviation cadet in July 1942. He describes his flight training and the planes he flew. Keeffe was then sent to England to become a co-pilot on a B-24. He discusses in detail how he was forced to bail out on his fourth mission over Germany. Keeffe managed to elude capture with the help of the Dutch underground for over four months. He was eventually captured by German counter-intelligence and sent to Stalag Luft III. Keeffe describes how he and his fellow POWs were forced to evacuate due to the Soviet advance and his eventual release and repatriation. He left the service after the war, but soon returned and retired from the Air Force in 1966.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: Keeffe, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Hal La Vine, December 6, 2010 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Hal La Vine, December 6, 2010

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Hal La Vine. La Vine was drafted into the Army in February of 1942. He was assigned to the 45th Division, 445th Combat Group. He graduated as an officer from cadet navigation school. He served as an instructor in Monroe, Louisiana. In November of 1942 his unit was assigned to a base in Hethel, England. La Vine served as a navigator aboard B-24s. They served as a lead crew, flying missions out of England in 1943. He describes life at the base in Hethel. They completed 30 missions. He describes some of their more involved missions including Berlin and Stuttgart, Germany. Upon completing his missions, he was sent to Ireland to serve again as a navigation instructor for incoming navigators.
Date: December 6, 2010
Creator: La Vine, Hal
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with David Lynch, December 1, 2010 (open access)

Oral History Interview with David Lynch, December 1, 2010

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with David Lynch. Lynch joined the Marine Corps just after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and received basic training at Parris Island. He received further training at Camp Lejeune with the 1st Marine Division. Upon completion, he was sent to Guadalcanal, where he fought for five months and contracted malaria, despite taking Atabrine daily. He recalls that all the Marines were cheering for the Americans during an air fight at Henderson Field as though it were a football game. He then went to Cape Gloucester and Pavuvu. When securing Peleliu, he ran out of grenades and resorted to throwing rocks at the Japanese. He describes how challenging the Japanese style of combat was at Peleliu. On his way to Bloody Nose Ridge, his helmet was shot. Lynch fell to the ground and was knocked unconscious. He awoke two days later, on a hospital ship, and received medical treatment at a field hospital in the Admiralties. Lynch returned home and was discharged in 1945.
Date: December 1, 2010
Creator: Lynch, David
System: The Portal to Texas History
DART and TRE's Christmas and New Year's Holiday Schedule (open access)

DART and TRE's Christmas and New Year's Holiday Schedule

News release about DART's reduced service schedule in observance of the Christmas and New Year's holidays.
Date: December 16, 2010
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
Green Line complete, new connections on track (open access)

Green Line complete, new connections on track

News release about the opening of DART's Green Line and plans for future expansions of public transit.
Date: December 6, 2010
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
Northwestern and Texas Tech DART to inaugural Ticket City Bowl (open access)

Northwestern and Texas Tech DART to inaugural Ticket City Bowl

News release about DART's Green Line service to the 2011 Cotton Bowl football game.
Date: December 21, 2010
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with George S. Mixell, December 21, 2010 (open access)

Oral History Interview with George S. Mixell, December 21, 2010

Transcript of an oral interview with George S. Mixell. Mixell dropped out of high school and joined the Army in November, 1940 at York, Pennsylvania. He was assigned to a heavy weapons company in the 158th Infantry Regiment (Bushmasters) in Panama. Mixell shares several anecdotes about jungle training in Panama, quelling a riot in Panama City, and patrolling around the canal. He was in Panama one year before shipping out to Australia. From Australia, Mixell and the Bushmasters went to New Guinea. He worked along the Kokoda Trail in the Owen Stanley Mountains training with horses. He mentions listening to Tokyo Rose on the radio and being entertained by her. Mixell's job in New Guinea was to provide security for the officers in the Headquarters Company and he located seven Japanese snipers. He had a brief encounter with General MacArthur. Mixell also mentions he spent time in the hospital suffering with malaria and jungle rot. Finally, he shares a few incidents about his life after he was discharged from the service.
Date: December 21, 2010
Creator: Mixell, George S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Morrison, December 8, 2010 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Robert Morrison, December 8, 2010

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Morrison. Morrison joined the Army Air Forces in December 1942 and was sent to Chicago to train with aviation cadets. He received further training in Santa Ana, Tucson, and Phoenix. His night-flying was done in the B-25, guided by a radar operator. The casualty rate was extremely high from crashing into unseen objects. Upon completion of his training, Morrison became an instructor in flying the BT-13 and the AT-6. He was then sent for training on the Northrop P-61 Black Widow. In preparation for the dropping of the atomic bomb, Morrison participated in experiments for radar-guided bombing in overcast conditions. His flying career ended when the atomic bomb was dropped. Morrison returned home and became a dentist. One of his longtime patients had manned a navigational hut in Arizona that Morrison routinely flew over during his training. When Morrison realized the connection during an appointment, he gave his old call signal, which caught the patient quite by surprise. Morrison went on to travel extensively and met Paul Tibbets and pilots from the Doolittle Raid, whom he describes as a rough bunch.
Date: December 8, 2010
Creator: Morrison, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Project Summary: Long-Term Monitoring at the East and West Flower Garden Banks] (open access)

[Project Summary: Long-Term Monitoring at the East and West Flower Garden Banks]

Summary describing the work completed at PBS&J for 'Long-Term Monitoring at the East and West Flower Garden Banks'. It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.
Date: December 2010
Creator: PBS&J
System: The UNT Digital Library