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Information science and technology developments within the National Biological Information Infrastructure
Whether your vantage point is that of an office window or a national park, your view undoubtedly encompasses a rich diversity of life forms, all carefully studied or managed by some scientist, resource manager, or planner. A few simple calculations-the number of species, their interrelationships, and the many researchers studying them-and you can easily see the tremendous challenges that the resul
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Mike Frame, Gladys Cotter, Lisa Zolly, Janice Little
Evaluation of the location and recency of faulting near prospective surface facilities in Midway Valley, Nye County, Nevada
Evaluation of surface faulting that may pose a hazard to prospective surface facilities is an important element of the tectonic studies for the potential Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste repository in southwestern Nevada. For this purpose, a program of detailed geologic mapping and trenching was done to obtain surface and near-surface geologic data that are essential for determining the
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F. H. Swan, J. R. Wesling, M. M. Angell, A. P. Thomas, J. W. Whitney, J. D. Gibson
Access to bird population data
Access to bird population data is critical for effective conservation planning and implementation. Although a tremendous volume of baseline data exists, it is often diffusely distributed and inaccessible to the resource manager and decision maker. A mechanism that facilitates assembly, documentation and delivery of avian data in a user-friendly manner is needed in order to integrate bird-related
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E. Martin, B.G. Peterjohn, M.D. Koneff
Records and history of the United States Geological Survey
This publication contains two presentations in Portable Document Format (PDF). The first is Renee M. Jaussaud's inventory of the documents accessioned by the end of 1997 into Record Group 57 (Geological Survey) at the National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA) Archives II facility in College Park, Md., but not the materials in NARA's regional archives. The second is Mary C. Rabbitt's 'T
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Clifford M. Nelson
U.S. Geological Survey Library classification system
The U.S. Geological Survey Library classification system has been designed for earth science libraries. It is a tool for assigning call numbers to earth science and allied pure science materials in order to collect these materials into related subject groups on the library shelves and arrange them alphabetically by author and title. The classification can be used as a retrieval system to access ma
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R. Scott Sasscer
The National Biological Information Infrastructure: Coming of age
Coordinated by the US Geological Survey, the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) is a Web-based system that provides increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources. The NBII can be viewed from a variety of perspectives. This article - an individual case study and not a broad survey with extensive references to the literature - addresses the structur
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Gladys Cotter, Mike Frame, Ron Sepic, Lisa Zolly
Information technology developments within the national biological information infrastructure
Looking out an office window or exploring a community park, one can easily see the tremendous challenges that biological information presents the computer science community. Biological information varies in format and content depending whether or not it is information pertaining to a particular species (i.e. Brown Tree Snake), or a specific ecosystem, which often includes multiple species, land us
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Gladys Cotter, Mike Frame
Land and federal mineral ownership coverage for southern Wyoming
This Arc/Info coverage contains land status and Federal mineral ownership for approximately 37,800 square miles in southern Wyoming. The polygon coverage (which is also provided here as a shapefile) contains two attributes of ownership information for each polygon. One attribute indicates where the surface is State owned, privately owned, or, if Federally owned, which Federal agency manages the la
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L. H. Biewick, T.J. Mercier, T.T. Saber, S.R. Urbanowski, Larry Neasloney
Assessing environmental contaminant threats to lands and biota managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
The Contaminant Assessment Process (CAP) is a standardized approach for documenting and assessing threats posed by environmental contaminants to lands and biota managed by the Department of the Interior (DOI). The Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends (BEST) Program of the U.S. Geological Survey Biological Resources Division (USGS/BRD) developed the CAP cooperatively with the U.S. Fish
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James Coyle, Craig Moore, R. Sky Bristol, Mary G. Henry, Tim Hall, Tim Kubiak