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Our Changing Planet: U.S. Climate Change Science Program Annual Report, 2009 (open access)

Our Changing Planet: U.S. Climate Change Science Program Annual Report, 2009

Annual report of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program documenting activities and research, goals for the upcoming year, proposed budget considerations, and other information about the organization for fiscal year 2009.
Date: 2008
Creator: Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congressional Defense Committees (open access)

Annual Report to the Congressional Defense Committees

2008 Annual Report measuring and updating the accomplishments and priorities of the Department of Defense (DoD) in regards to business transformation and the Military Health System. The report offers extensive documentation of the DoD Business Enterprise Priorities, reporting on milestones, modernization, property accountability, and visibility in regards to personnel, acquisitions, and finances.
Date: March 15, 2008
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Implementation Report for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (open access)

Final Implementation Report for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008

This report on the implementation of National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2008, section 904 "Management of the Department of Defense," presents the consensus recommendations of the Department's senior management team on the assignment of duties for the Chief Management Office (CMO), the Deputy Chief Management Office, and the Military Department CMO's, as well as summarizing the Department's inaugural Strategic Management Plan.
Date: July 25, 2008
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Building an Americanization Movement for the Twenty-first Century (open access)

Building an Americanization Movement for the Twenty-first Century

A document detailing the Task Force on New Americans impact and constitution. It details information about immigration and diversity.
Date: 2008
Creator: United States. Department of Homeland Security.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Viosca Knoll Wreck: Discovery and Investigation of an Early Nineteenth-Century Wooden Sailing Vessel in 2,000 Feet of Water (open access)

Viosca Knoll Wreck: Discovery and Investigation of an Early Nineteenth-Century Wooden Sailing Vessel in 2,000 Feet of Water

Report of the initial investigation of a shipwreck discovered in 2,000 feet of water during a 2003 deeptow survey for a pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico.
Date: April 2008
Creator: Church, Robert A. & Warren, Daniel J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Air Status and Trends Network Annual Report: 2007 (open access)

Clean Air Status and Trends Network Annual Report: 2007

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: December 2008
Creator: MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Good Neighbor Environmental Board Annual Report: 2008 (open access)

Good Neighbor Environmental Board Annual Report: 2008

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 the environmental effects of natural disasters that occur along the border.
Date: March 2008
Creator: United States. Good Neighbor Environmental Board.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Milford Wind Corridor Project Millard and Beaver Counties, Utah (open access)

Milford Wind Corridor Project Millard and Beaver Counties, Utah

A report which analyses the environmental consequences of the Milford Wind Corridor Project. The information inside the paper assists the Bureau of Land Management in evaluating whether to grant a right-of-way (ROW) on public lands.
Date: October 15, 2008
Creator: United States. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management.
System: The UNT Digital Library
National Coastal Condition Report III (open access)

National Coastal Condition Report III

A report which assess the condition of the nation's estuaries and coastal embayments, including the coastal waters of Hawaii and Southcentral Alaska, based mainly on the EPA's National Coastal Assessment (NCA) data collected primarily in 2001 and 2002.
Date: December 2008
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water and Office of Research and Development.
System: The UNT Digital Library
USAID Health-Related Research and Development Progress Report: 2008 (open access)

USAID Health-Related Research and Development Progress Report: 2008

Annual progress report describing programs and funding for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) health-related research and development.
Date: September 2008
Creator: United States. Agency for International Development.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sperm Whale Seismic Study in the Gulf of Mexico: Synthesis Report (open access)

Sperm Whale Seismic Study in the Gulf of Mexico: Synthesis Report

This study is designed to ensure oil and gas resource activities on the Outer Continental Shelf conducts the appropriate environmental protection and impact mitigation of Sperm whales and other marine mammals.
Date: April 2008
Creator: Jochens, A.; Biggs, D.; Benoit-Bird; Engelhardt, D.; Gordon, J.; Hu, C. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. International Food Assistance Report 2008 (open access)

U.S. International Food Assistance Report 2008

A report about the U.S. providing foreign aid. A focus is placed on U.S. food assistance allocated by legislative authority for FY 2008.
Date: 2008
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Post-Hurricane Assessment at the East Flower Garden Bank Long-Term Monitoring Site: November 2005 (open access)

Post-Hurricane Assessment at the East Flower Garden Bank Long-Term Monitoring Site: November 2005

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Date: June 2008
Creator: Precht, William F.; Aronson, Richard B.; Deslarzes, Kenneth J. P.; Robbart, Martha L.; Zimmer, Beth & Duncan, Leslie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Desastres Naturales Y El Medio Ambiente EN LA Frontera Mexico (open access)

Desastres Naturales Y El Medio Ambiente EN LA Frontera Mexico

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.
Date: March 2008
Creator: United States. Good Neighbor Environmental Board.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Report in Response to America COMPETES Act: SEC. 7022 (open access)

Report in Response to America COMPETES Act: SEC. 7022

This report is written in response to the America COMPETES Act request that the NSF Director report on the NSF broader impact merit review criterion. This report includes background on the NSF implementation of the broader impact criterion and responds to each of the five specific requests made in the COMPETES Act Sec 7022.
Date: 2008
Creator: National Science Foundation (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Review of Adaptation Options for Climate-Sensitive Ecosystems and Resources (open access)

Preliminary Review of Adaptation Options for Climate-Sensitive Ecosystems and Resources

A report which focuses on federally managed lands and waters to provide a "Preliminary Review of Adaption Options for Climate-Sensitive Ecosystems and Resources."
Date: June 2008
Creator: Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems (open access)

Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems

This report focuses on the impacts of global climate change, especially impacts on three bread dimensions of the human condition: human health, human settlements, and human welfare.
Date: September 2008
Creator: Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate (open access)

Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate

A report which discusses extreme weather and how their impacts are changing due to human pollution and global warming.
Date: June 2008
Creator: Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
North American Continental Margins : a Synthesis and Planning Workshop : Report of the North American Continental Margins Working Group for the U.S. Carbon Cycle Scientific Steering Group and Interagency Working Group (open access)

North American Continental Margins : a Synthesis and Planning Workshop : Report of the North American Continental Margins Working Group for the U.S. Carbon Cycle Scientific Steering Group and Interagency Working Group

Report of the findings and recommendations of the North American Continental Margins workshop held in Boulder Colorado in September of 2005 to assess the state of carbon cycle science in the margins surrounding North America.
Date: 2008
Creator: United States Carbon Cycle Science Program
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States (open access)

Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States

This report not only addresses climate change, but also other change in the global environment, including water resources, oceans, atmospheric chemistry, land productivity, and ecological systems that may alter the capacity of Earth to sustain life.
Date: May 2008
Creator: Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Preschool Curriculum Programs on School Readiness (open access)

Effects of Preschool Curriculum Programs on School Readiness

This report discusses preschool curricula and the effects of these curricula on children's school readiness.
Date: July 2008
Creator: Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research Consortium
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water resources, and Biodiversity in the United States (open access)

The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water resources, and Biodiversity in the United States

A report which provides an assessment of the effects of climate change on U.S. agriculture, land resources, water resources, and biodiversity.
Date: May 2008
Creator: Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Abrupt Climate Change (open access)

Abrupt Climate Change

This is an excerpt of a report series produced by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) aimed at providing current assessments of climate change science to inform public debate, policy, and operational decisions. The document contains a list of team members and authors, a memo to Congress, a table of contents, acknowledgements, recommended citations, a synopsis of the full report, and a preface.
Date: December 2008
Creator: Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Transportation Systems and Infrastructure: Gulf Coast Study, Phase I (open access)

Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Transportation Systems and Infrastructure: Gulf Coast Study, Phase I

A report assessing climate change and its potential impacts on transportation systems located in the Central Gulf Coast between Galveston, Texas and Mobile, Alabama.
Date: March 2008
Creator: Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library