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Employment and Training: Labor's Green Jobs Efforts Highlight Challenges of Targeted Training Programs for Emerging Industries (open access)

Employment and Training: Labor's Green Jobs Efforts Highlight Challenges of Targeted Training Programs for Emerging Industries

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Of the $595 million identified by Labor as having been appropriated or allocated specifically for green jobs activities since 2009, approximately $501 million went toward efforts with training and support services as their primary objective, with much of that funding provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). Because the Recovery Act directed federal agencies to spend funds quickly and prudently, Labor implemented a number of high-investment green jobs efforts simultaneously. As a result, in some cases, Recovery Act training programs were initiated prior to a full assessment of the demand for green jobs, which presented challenges for grantees. While Labor's internal agencies initially communicated with each other and with other federal agencies after the Recovery Act was passed, most Recovery Act grants have ended or are winding down."
Date: June 19, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Our Changing Planet: U.S. Climate Change Science Program Annual Report, 2013 (open access)

Our Changing Planet: U.S. Climate Change Science Program Annual Report, 2013

Annual report of the U.S. Global Change Research Program documenting activities and research, goals for the upcoming year, proposed budget considerations, and other information about the organization for fiscal year 2013.
Date: 2013
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program (2009-2013)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arctic Ocean Acidification Assessment: Summary for Policymakers (open access)

Arctic Ocean Acidification Assessment: Summary for Policymakers

Executive summary of the 2013 Arctic Ocean Acidification Assessment, including an update on the state of ocean acidification in the Arctic and how that acidification is impacting on the Arctic marine environment. It outlines each of the ten key findings in from the main report as well as the three recommendations to the Arctic Council.
Date: 2013
Creator: Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme
System: The UNT Digital Library
The New Mexico Pay Equity Initiative: A Template for Narrowing the Gender Pay Gap (open access)

The New Mexico Pay Equity Initiative: A Template for Narrowing the Gender Pay Gap

A paper describes the New Mexico Pay Equity Initiative. The Initiative built on recommendations from an Equal Pay Task Force created by the New Mexico State legislature in 2003.
Date: October 2013
Creator: Burk, Martha
System: The UNT Digital Library
Budget Estimates Fiscal Year 2013 (open access)

Budget Estimates Fiscal Year 2013

Budget submitted to congress for FY2013 by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Date: 2013
Creator: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (U.S)
System: The UNT Digital Library
MAG-Plan 2012 Economic Impact Model for the Gulf of Mexico-Updated and Revised Data (open access)

MAG-Plan 2012 Economic Impact Model for the Gulf of Mexico-Updated and Revised Data

This study is to update data that reflects new development in technology, add new costs, add onshore distribution data from offshore oil and gas activities, and methodology to estimate the different level of granularity.
Date: March 2013
Creator: Kaplan, Maureen F.; Kauffman, Sara & Marsden, Christina
System: The UNT Digital Library
The President's Malaria Initiative: Seventh Annual Report to Congress (open access)

The President's Malaria Initiative: Seventh Annual Report to Congress

A report about combating malaria in Africa. It offers statistics and methods used for fighting malaria.
Date: May 2013
Creator: United State. Agency for International Development.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Short-term Movement, Home Range, and Behavior of Red Snapper around Petroleum Platforms in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, as Determined by High Resolution Acoustic Telemetry (open access)

Short-term Movement, Home Range, and Behavior of Red Snapper around Petroleum Platforms in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, as Determined by High Resolution Acoustic Telemetry

This is a study on the movements and possible management of red snapper around and among oil and gas well of the coast.
Date: October 2013
Creator: McDonough, Mike & Cowan, James, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. (open access)

Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis.

This report presents clear and robust conclusions in a global assessment of climate change science. The report confirms that warming in the climate system is unequivocal, with many of the observed changes unprecedented over decades to millennia.
Date: 2013
Creator: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tracking Adaptation Efforts (open access)

Tracking Adaptation Efforts

A presentation about global warming and implementing changes to mitigate climate change.
Date: May 1, 2013
Creator: Burgess, Scott
System: The UNT Digital Library
The DEA Postion on Marijuana (open access)

The DEA Postion on Marijuana

Explains DEA's position on the campaign to legitimize medical marijuana
Date: April 2013
Creator: United States. Drug Enforcement Administration
System: The UNT Digital Library
US EPA Regional Laboratory Network: Annual Report 2012 (open access)

US EPA Regional Laboratory Network: Annual Report 2012

This report serves as an Annual Report for the Regional Laboratory Network for the Environmental Protection Agency. It discusses the highlights of the ten regional laboratory networks and includes appendices detailing the regional laboratories core capabilities, unique capabilities, and methods in development.
Date: September 2013
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of Communication in Ensuring Sustained Behavior Change (open access)

The Role of Communication in Ensuring Sustained Behavior Change

A presentation that discusses the importance of communication with other agencies pertaining to the EPA.
Date: December 11, 2013
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment: Fifth Report to Congress (open access)

Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment: Fifth Report to Congress

This report is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) fifth national assessment of public water system infrastructure needs that shows a total twenty-year capital improvement need of $384.2 billion.
Date: April 2013
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water. Drinking Water Protection Division.
System: The UNT Digital Library
User's Guide and Metadata for WestuRe: U.S. Pacific Coast Estuary/Watershed Data and R Tools (open access)

User's Guide and Metadata for WestuRe: U.S. Pacific Coast Estuary/Watershed Data and R Tools

A report about the WestuRe Project. The goal of this project is to create a framework to make general descriptive data for estuaries and their watersheds more accessible. It also aims to provide tools to make analyzing and visualizing this data easier.
Date: May 2013
Creator: Frazier, D.A.; Ruesser, D. A.; Lee II, H.; McCoy, L. M.; Brown, C. & Nelson, W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)/EJ Resource Compendium (open access)

Federal Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)/EJ Resource Compendium

This document gathers into one place the publicly available NEPA- and EJ-related documents from Federal agencies (e.g., regulations, guidance, and circulars), providing hyperlinks to each document for quick access.
Date: October 29, 2013
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Compliance Assurance
System: The UNT Digital Library
Water-Smart Landscapes start with WaterSense (open access)

Water-Smart Landscapes start with WaterSense

Report discussing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) WaterSense program that concerns water conservation and use.
Date: July 2013
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Integrating Adaptation in Hazard Mitigation Planning Efforts (open access)

Integrating Adaptation in Hazard Mitigation Planning Efforts

A presentation that discusses the NHMA, hazard mitigation, challenges of mitigation, examples of hazard prevention, and funding that can be used.
Date: May 1, 2013
Creator: Klima, Kelly & Jerolleman, Alessandra
System: The UNT Digital Library
Archaeological Analysis of Submerged Sites on the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (open access)

Archaeological Analysis of Submerged Sites on the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf

This is a study on the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's (BOEM's) investigation of six shipwrecks on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) of the Gulf of Mexico in order to verify the shipwrecks existed and provide information on them.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Evans, Amanda M.; Keith, Matthew E.; Voisin, Erin E.; Hesp, Patrick A.; Cook, Gregory D.; Allison, Mead A. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Meteorological and Wave Measurements for Improving Meteorological and Air Quality Modeling (open access)

Meteorological and Wave Measurements for Improving Meteorological and Air Quality Modeling

This is a report on the developed atmospheric boundary layer environmental observations program on offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. The report provides information on the project objectives, deployment of instruments, data availability, data processing, data formats, preliminary data analyses, and recommendations.
Date: July 2013
Creator: MacDonald, Clinton P.; Ray, Alison E.; Roberts, Paul T.; Knoderer, Charley A.; Bariteau, Ludovic & Fairall, Chris W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Corals on Oil and Gas Platforms Near the Flower Garden Banks: Population Characteristics, Recruitment, and Genetic Affinity. (open access)

Corals on Oil and Gas Platforms Near the Flower Garden Banks: Population Characteristics, Recruitment, and Genetic Affinity.

This is a study of adult coral communities, molecular genetics and coral settlements.
Date: December 2013
Creator: Sammarco, Paul W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Offshore Drilling Industry and Rig Construction Market in the Gulf of Mexico (open access)

Offshore Drilling Industry and Rig Construction Market in the Gulf of Mexico

Report on the purpose of mobile offshore drilling units (MODUs) and the economic impacts of rig construction in the United States.
Date: March 2013
Creator: Kaiser, Mark J.; Snyder, Brian & Pulsipher, Allan G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Agency for International Development, Annual Progress Report: 2013 (open access)

U.S. Agency for International Development, Annual Progress Report: 2013

Annual progress report pertaining to mortality regarding children who are under 5 years of age. The focus of the report is on sub-Sahara Africa and Southeast Asia. Other emphasis is placed on AIDS and other infectious diseases.
Date: 2013
Creator: United States. Agency for International Development.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Platform Recruited Reef Fish Phase 2: Do Platforms Provide Habitat that Increases the Survival of Reef Fishes? (open access)

Platform Recruited Reef Fish Phase 2: Do Platforms Provide Habitat that Increases the Survival of Reef Fishes?

This is a study to find out if offshore platforms provide habitat for overfished species such as Red Snapper.
Date: November 2013
Creator: Sluis, Michelle Zapp & Cowan, James H., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library