The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) views the area of Archive Management, as comprising three components: Information Technology Infrastructure, Customer Service, and Scientific Stewardship. This last component, Scientific Stewardship, can be characterized as the long-term preservation of the scien...

The purpose of this study was to determine the environmental stability and life expectancies of magnetic media used with certain high density, digital recording tape systems, specifically the IBM 3590 and both Quantum’s Digital Linear Tape (DLT) and Super DLT products. The goal of the study was to compare the tape stabilities and life expectancies of the corresponding tape media and tape storag...

fication Corrosion monitoring by resistivity measurement was used to assess the environmental conditions in cultural heritage institutions, with the aim to provide advice on the preservation conditions in museums, showcases or storage areas. Changes in corrosion depth of thin copper sensors were followed during a year. The results of studies in 13 museums, libraries and archives are presented. ...

Palaeoecology is an important branch of ecology that uses the subfossil remains of organisms preserved in lake, ocean and bog sediments to inform on changes in ecosystems and the environment through time. The analogue package contains functions to perform modern analogue technique (MAT) transfer functions, which can be used to predict past changes in the environment, such as climate or lake-wat...

Many States are moving away from a very active role in the supervision of aviation activities. The reasons for this include the large number of inspectors required to perform this function, confusion over safety responsibilities and the need for a large enforcement organization, factors are assumed to contradict the safety culture that is promoted as being an important factor in safety manageme...

The quantity of by-products from food processing has doubled over the last three decades in Japan. Using these by-products for animal feed would achieve a decrease in environmental pollution, as well as a reduction of the cost of animal production. By-products now constitute about 30% of the total feed consumed in Japan, and are used especially on dairy farms. Some by-products are beneficial in...

A long-term goal of our sediment transport and accumulation investigations is to link sedimenttransport processes to the formation and preservation of event beds in sediment deposits. The general aim of this project is to investigate how forcing processes affect the sediment-transport dynamics that act to import or export fine-grained sediment in intertidal regions. We strive to understand how ...