Wildfire Smoke: A Guide for Public Health Officials (open access)

Wildfire Smoke: A Guide for Public Health Officials

This report is designed to help local public health officials prepare for smoke events, to take measures to protect the public when smoke is present, and communicate with the public about wildfire smoke and health.
Date: May 2016
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Object Type: Report
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.
Object Type: Report
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
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chemical Safety ALERT (open access)

Chemical Safety ALERT

This publication is an alert by the EPA to notify possible hazards from carbon adsorption deodorizing systems.
Date: May 1997
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
2013 National Ocean Dumping Site Monitoring Assessment Report (open access)

2013 National Ocean Dumping Site Monitoring Assessment Report

This national report presents EPA's ocean dumping monitoring activities in fiscal year 2013. EPA conducted 13 surveys at 20 ocean disposal sites offshore from Puerto Rico, Virginia, South Carolina, Florida, Texas, Hawaii, and Oregon. This report summarizes each survey's objectives(s), activities, conclusions, and recommended environmental management actions.
Date: May 2016
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recommendations for Independent Science Review (open access)

Recommendations for Independent Science Review

A document pertaining to water resource development projects in the United States. These projects are complex and the Corps of Engineers must balance local and national goals with a limited budget used to manage river and coastal systems.
Date: May 13, 2004
Creator: Environmental Advisory Board
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Report of The President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing (open access)

Final Report of The President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing

This is a report on President Barack Obama's executive order that created the Task Force on 21st Century Policing.
Date: May 2015
Creator: President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regulatory Impact Analysis of the Final Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources (open access)

Regulatory Impact Analysis of the Final Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources

A report which analyzes an action which amends the new source performance standards (NSPS) for the oil and natural gas source category by setting standards for both methane and volatile organic compounds (VOC) for certain equipment, processes and activities across this source category.
Date: May 2016
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air and Radiation.
Object Type: Report
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.
Object Type: Report
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
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Competition and Performance in Oil and Gas Lease Sales and Development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, 1983-1999 (open access)

Competition and Performance in Oil and Gas Lease Sales and Development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, 1983-1999

This report details the petroleum lease sales and development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) through estimated physical and economic measures. Physical performance is measured in ways such as the prospectivity index, expeditious index, and development productivity. Economic performance is measured in ways such as a profitability index and internal rate of return.
Date: May 2007
Creator: Iledare, Omowumi O. & Kaiser, Mark
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Key Provisions that Take Effect Immediately (open access)

Key Provisions that Take Effect Immediately

A paper about affordable health care in the united states. It pertains to changes taking place for small businesses, seniors, the privately insured, and the uninsured.
Date: May 3, 2010
Creator: Pelosi, Nancy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Economic Impact in the U.S. of Deepwater Projects: A Survey of Five Projects (open access)

Economic Impact in the U.S. of Deepwater Projects: A Survey of Five Projects

This survey report discusses deepwater projects centered in the Gulf Coast. Their study is interested in vendors or contractors supplying the equipment used on the deck and process in extracting oil. The authors are also interested in the socioeconomic effects of the oil extracting on local communities.
Date: May 2004
Creator: Stiff, John J. & Singelmann, Joachim
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Strong Mid-Depth Currents and a Deep Cyclonic Gyre in the Gulf of Mexico (open access)

Strong Mid-Depth Currents and a Deep Cyclonic Gyre in the Gulf of Mexico

This report is about the exploration of the possibility that the deep flow around the edges of the Gulf circulates in a cyclonic, or counter-clockwise direction. The existence of this flow was purely theoretical but this study shows that such is observed reliably.
Date: May 2004
Creator: Sturges, Wilton; Chassignet, Eric & Ezer, Tal
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modeling the Structure and Performance of Integrated and Independent Producers in the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region (open access)

Modeling the Structure and Performance of Integrated and Independent Producers in the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region

Major oil and gas companies are shifting to foreign exploration and production, which is leading to smaller companies ("independents") playing a larger role in domestic exploration and production. This report addresses concerns about independent companies producing oil and gas less aggressively and less efficiently to assess their productivity.
Date: May 1996
Creator: Pulsipher, Allan G.; Iledare, Omowumi O. & Baumann, Robert H.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Idle Iron in the Gulf of Mexico (open access)

Idle Iron in the Gulf of Mexico

Offshore structures are required to be removed within a year after production ceases and recently the Minerals Management Service has asked for removal of structures no longer "economically viable." This paper seeks to identify the amount of idle iron that exists in the Gulf of Mexico as well as describe the geographic distribution and ownership patterns.
Date: May 2007
Creator: Kaiser, Mark J. & Pulsipher, Allan G.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Degradation of Synthetic-Based Drilling Mud Base Fluids by Gulf of Mexico Sediments: Final Report (open access)

Degradation of Synthetic-Based Drilling Mud Base Fluids by Gulf of Mexico Sediments: Final Report

Report on a predictor model that determines the degradation rate of Synthetic-based fluids (SBF) from deep-sea drilling and assesses the impact of SBFs on the sediment microbial ecology in the Gulf of Mexico.
Date: May 2006
Creator: Roberts, Deborah J. & Nguyen, Alan H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Long-Term Oil and Gas Structure Installation and Removal Forecasting in the Gulf of Mexico:  A Decision- and Resource-Based Approach (open access)

Long-Term Oil and Gas Structure Installation and Removal Forecasting in the Gulf of Mexico: A Decision- and Resource-Based Approach

This report is to formalize the REA/MMS forecast models used in the Gulf Coast. With these models they forecast GOM infrastructure like number of exploratory wells and number of development wells.
Date: May 2004
Creator: Kaiser, Mark J.; Mesyanzhinov, Dmitry V. & Pulsipher, Allan G.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Potential for Accelerated Bioremediation and Restoration of Oil-Impacted Marshes through the Selection of Superior Oil-Tolerant Vegetation (open access)

Potential for Accelerated Bioremediation and Restoration of Oil-Impacted Marshes through the Selection of Superior Oil-Tolerant Vegetation

Report describing a study of the genotypes two plants (Spartina Patens and Spartina Alterniflora) that are tolerant to oil spills that have occurred in the coastal marshes of Louisiana. The research was to determine if these two plants could utilized for restoration and bioremediation of areas effected by oil spills. A plants tolerance to oil is determined by three factors: growth response and plant production, superior vegetative regrowth in soil effected by oil, and superior oil degradation potential.
Date: May 2000
Creator: Hester, Mark W.; Lin, Quixan; Mendellsohn, Irving A. & DesRoches, Dennis, J.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cooperative Research to Study Dive Patterns of Sperm Whales in the Atlantic Ocean (open access)

Cooperative Research to Study Dive Patterns of Sperm Whales in the Atlantic Ocean

This report is based on the needs of the National Marine Fisheries Service and Minerals Management Service to gain data about the Sperm Whale population, comparing the population in the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Twelve whales were tagged and observed to gather various types of data about their population and environment.
Date: May 2007
Creator: Palka, Debra & Johnson, Mark
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
2016 Paid Leave Analysis Grant Program Frequently Asked Questions (open access)

2016 Paid Leave Analysis Grant Program Frequently Asked Questions

This document is a FAQ for the 2016 paid leave analysis grant program.
Date: May 5, 2016
Creator: United States. Women's Bureau.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, 2011-12 (open access)

Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, 2011-12

This is the 2011-12 report on sexual victimization in prisons and jails.
Date: May 2013
Creator: Beck, Allen J.; Berzofsky, Marcus & Casper, Rachel
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change, Health, and Environmental Justice (open access)

Climate Change, Health, and Environmental Justice

This fact sheet defines climate change and how it relates to health factors.
Date: May 2016
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Examples of Policies and Emerging Practices for Supporting Transgender Students (open access)

Examples of Policies and Emerging Practices for Supporting Transgender Students

This document covers the U.S. Department of Education efforts to protect transgender students.
Date: May 2016
Creator: United States. Department of Education. Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. Office of Safe and Healthy Students.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library