The following works contain the databases, field notebooks, unit and profile drawings, photographs, photo descriptions, radiocarbon dates, and geophysical survey data related to the Kodër Boks settlement excavation.
CU (survey) database – The full CU (Collection Unit, i.e. “tract”) database, which includes all tract-survey data from all teams together in one place. This file is a .CSV export from FileMaker. Each entry includes data about each tract surveyed (see data dictionary). Tract locations are available via accompanying GIS shape files. NOTE: some tract database entries lack complete location data, e.g., a UTM Northing is present but not the Easting. These are available via the spatial data files work: https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/data/concern/data_sets/k0698807d?locale=en. and CU (survey) database, by team – A copy of each team’s (A-K) Collection Unit (CU; i.e. “tract”) database is also included. These files are .CSV exports from the original FileMaker database.
GIS shape files for each tract along with additional, generic spatial data, including files for tract visibility, vegetation, overall pottery density, and overall tile density. The latter two are not chronologically specific; they include all pottery and tile counts by tract, regardless of age.
Each tract has a photo, a few have associated feature photos. Each photo is labelled with the date it was taken, and a consecutive number: ex. “A-150610-001”. Photos are in folders by team, and by date: Team A (362 megs), Team B (963 megs), Team C (638 megs), Team D (1.45 GB), Team E ( 1.41 GB), Team F (619 megs), Team G (461 megs), Team H (233 megs), Team I (817 megs), Team J (903 megs), and Team K (226 megs). Each folder is accompanied by an Excel photo log, exported to CSV, that provides captions.
PDFs of the reports written by survey team leaders at the end of the season, including the report as submitted and a final edited version. There are two reports for each team. [NOTE: in some cases, only the final edited version of a report is included.]
All databases, field notebooks, paper maps, GIS files, photographs, and photo descriptions related to the intensive survey, of tracts and tumuli, and the collection of sites have been made available in PASH Deep Blue Data Realm 1. The data are broadly organized by team (A-K). The surveyed land was divided up into “tracts”. Tracts are labeled with team letter and a consecutive number: e.g., A-001, A-002, B-003, C-122, D-035.
This work is composed of PDFs of scans of miscellaneous documents related to a particular site, including maps, wall drawings, original notes, etc. For those sites that were systematically surface collected (Sites 001, 002, 003, and 011), scans of the site collection grid and raw counts of collected artifacts (on a “Site Collection Form”) are also included.
Fossil energy production, processing, flaring, and transmission all can harm climate and air quality by emitting greenhouse gases and air pollutants. Studies now show that onshore oil and gas production emit much more methane than what is inventoried, and that local air quality impacts can be significant, however, natural gas flaring and offshore systems have been largely overlooked.
The F3UEL (Flaring & Fossil Fuels: Uncovering Emissions & Losses) project aims to address these gaps by improving our understanding of offshore emissions, characterizing how flares behave in the real world, identifying what portion of the offshore system is responsible for emissions, and determining how such systems can be monitored.
Spanning three years (2020-2022), the project employed an aircraft platform to measure including both greenhouse gas and air quality measurements. To sample the largest regions of current and potential future offshore production and flaring, airborne measurements targeted the Gulf of Mexico, offshore California and Alaska, the Bakken Formation (North Dakota) and the Permian and Eagle Ford Basins (Texas).
Data provided here includes the airborne measurements collected using Scientific Aviation’s Mooney aircraft platform, equipped with spectroscopic instrumentation to measure methane, carbon dioxide, water vapor, nitrous oxide, and nitrogen oxide, in addition to meteorological variables such as wind speed and direction. Data products from our analysis of these airborne measurements are also provided, including estimated flare destruction removal efficiency for the Bakken, Eagle Ford, and Permian basins.
Each data file is in .csv format and is accompanied by a readme file with further information and descriptors of the variables included. All users should cite the papers and datasets provided in the readme files for each individual dataset.
Website: https://graham.umich.edu/f3uel
This project is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with additional support from the Environmental Defense Fund, Scientific Aviation, and University of Michigan (College of Engineering, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering; Graham Sustainability Institute).