Using the SASP Sample Archive Database Search Form

The SASP Sample Archive Database Search Form, located in the upper frame, is used to search the SASP database for samples currently archived at EML. All of the Search Form selection options are linked to this instructional frame. Please select your search criteria and submit the Form. After submitting the Form, your search will be executed and the search results will appear in this frame, replacing these instructions.

Please be patient and only click submit *once*.

You can move the window separator up or down to show the results better or execute another search from the Form.

The time taken to execute your query depends on the number of records returned. If you do not set limits on the records sought above, your query will return approximately 20,000 records and will take several minutes to process, which may lead to a timeout error. Limiting your query to one site or to a range of dates is highly recommended. More limited queries should be much faster, and very specifc queries should execute almost instantly. You can also reduce this delay by selecting fewer records to be displayed at one time. Once you click the submit button, there will be a pause while the query is executed on our database; then the data will begin downloading. Depending upon your web browser, you may or may not receive a visual indication of activity after clicking the submit button but the query *is* working.

Please be patient and only click submit *once*.

Selecting sites: Select your site from the pull-down menu. You can choose to search across all the sites or just one of them. The search results table reports sites by their site identification number (Site No.). The table listed below presents the Site No., Site Name, Latitude, Longitude, Altitude, and current operational status (COS) of the sites. The current operational status indicates Y if the site is currently operational or N if the site is no longer in operation.

Here is a table of the locations of the various sites:

COS	Site Name	Latitude	Longitude	Altitude (m)
N	Antarctica:Base Presidente Frei	64°49' S	62° 52' W	10
Y	Antarctica:Marsh Station	62°11' S	58° 59' W	5
Y	Antarctica:Mawson	67°36' S	62° 53' E	30
Y	Antarctica:Palmer Station	64°46' S	64° 4' W	30
Y	Antarctica:South Pole Station	90°0' S	0° 0' W	2800
Y	Australia:Norfolk Island	29°2' S	167° 57' E	10
Y	Australia:Perth	31°58' S	115° 49' E	100
N	Australia:Tasmania:Cape Grim	40°44' S	144° 46' E	10
N	Bahamas:Bimini	25°46' N	79° 22' W	3
Y	Bolivia:Chacaltaya	16°21' S	68° 7' W	5220
N	Bravo Ocean Station (Data Only)	56°30' N	51° 0' W	10
Y	Canada:Ontario:Moosonee	51°16' N	80° 30' W	10
N	Charlie Ocean Station (Data Only)	52°45' N	35° 30' W	10
Y	Chile:Antofagasta	23°37' S	70° 16' W	31
Y	Chile:Easter Island (Isla de Pascua)	27°10' S	109° 26' W	41
N	Chile:Portillo (Data Only)	32°50' S	70° 8' W	2850
Y	Chile:Puerto Montt	41°27' S	72° 57' W	7
Y	Chile:Punta Arenas	53°8' S	70° 53' W	35
Y	Chile:Santiago	33°28' S	70° 42' W	520
N	Chile:Selkirk Island	33°40' S	79° 0' W
Y	China:Hong Kong	22°30' N	114° 0' E
N	Delta Ocean Station (Data Only)	44°0' N	41° 0' W	10
N	Echo Ocean Station (Data Only)	35°0' N	48° 0' W	10
Y	Ecuador: Guayaquil	2°10' S	79° 52' W	7
Y	France:Reunion Island	21°6' S	55° 48' E
N	Greenland:Constable Point	70°45' N	22° 36' W
N	Greenland:Kap Tobin	70°25' N	21° 59' W	22
N	Greenland:Nord	80°40' N	17° 0' W	250
Y	Greenland:Thule	76°36' N	68° 35' W	259
N	Iceland:Keflavik (Data Only)	63°58' N	22° 36' W	5
N	New Zealand: Lower Hutt	41°12' S	174° 54' E	10
Y	New Zealand:Chatham Island	43°56' S	176° 0' W	100
Y	New Zealand:Invercargill	46°26' S	168° 21' E	10
Y	Norway:Tromso	69°50' N	19° 0' E
N	Panama:Balboa	8°53' N	79° 34' W	23
N	Panama:Miraflores (Data Only)	9°0' N	79° 35' W	10
Y	Peru:Lima	12°1' S	77° 8' W	13
Y	Singapore	1°30' N	104° 0' E
Y	South Africa:Cape Point	34°22' S	18° 30' E	274
Y	South Africa:Marion Island	46°55' S	37° 45' E	10
Y	South Africa:Pretoria	25°45' S	28° 12' E
N	Turkmenistan:Geyokcha	37°55' N	58° 7' E	635
Y	United Kingdom:Falkland Islands	51°49' S	58° 27' W	68
Y	United Kingdom:Gibraltar	36°0' N	5° 30' E
Y	Uruguay:Durazno	33°21' S	56° 28' W	84
Y	USA: American Samoa: Tutuila	14°15' S	170° 34' W	77
Y	USA:Alabama:Montgomery	32°23' N	86° 19' W	51
Y	USA:Alaska:Barrow	71°10' N	156° 30' W	4
N	USA:California:Livermore	37°39' N	121° 32' W	392
N	USA:California:Palo Alto (Data Only)	37°30' N	122° 23' W	19
N	USA:California:Richmond	37°56' N	122° 20' W	20
N	USA:Colorado:Rocky Flats #1	40°0' N	105° 11' W	1830
N	USA:Colorado:Rocky Flats #2	40°0' N	105° 11' W	1738
N	USA:Colorado:Rocky Flats #3	40°0' N	105° 11' W	2013
N	USA:Colorado:Rocky Flats #4	40°0' N	105° 11' W	1814
N	USA:Florida:Miami	25°49' N	80° 17' W	7
Y	USA:Florida:Miami:Univ. of Miami	25°41' N	80° 9' W	7
Y	USA:Hawaii:Mauna Loa	19°28' N	155° 36' W	3401
N	USA:Hawaii:Mauna Loa (downslope)	19°28' N	155° 36' W
N	USA:Hawaii:Mauna Loa (upslope)	19°28' N	155° 36' W
Y	USA:Idaho:Rexburg	43°48' N	111° 50' W	1502
N	USA:Illinois:Argonne	41°41' N	87° 58' W	160
N	USA:Massachusetts:Woods Hole	41°32' N	70° 35' W	11
N	USA:Montana:Helena	46°36' N	112° 0' W	1187
N	USA:New Jersey:Chester	40°48' N	74° 40' W	268
N	USA:New Jersey:Westwood (Data Only)	41°0' N	74° 1' W	38
N	USA:New York:Flushing	40°44' N	73° 49' W	40
N	USA:New York:Lloyd	41°17' N	73° 55' W
Y	USA:New York:New York City	40°44' N	74° 0' W	56
N	USA:New York:New York City (BP)	40°44' N	74° 0' W	56
N	USA:Oklahoma:Midwest City (Data Only)	35°25' N	97° 30' W	364
N	USA:Oklahoma:Norman (Data Only)	35°25' N	97° 30' W	364
Y	USA:Oregon:Beaverton	45°32' N	122° 53' W	64
N	USA:Puerto Rico:San Juan	18°26' N	66° 0' W	10
N	USA:Tennessee:Chattanooga (Data Only)	35°3' N	85° 20' W	206
N	USA:Utah:Salt Lake City	40°46' N	110° 49' W	1516
N	USA:Virginia:Sterling	38°58' N	77° 25' W	76
N	USA:Washington:Seattle (Data Only)	46°36' N	122° 33' W	3
N	USA:Wisconsin:Appleton (Data Only)	44°15' N	88° 25' W	229
N	USA:Wyoming:Pinedale	42°52' N	109° 52' W
N	Venezuela:La Aguada	8°35' N	71° 9' W	3450
N	Venezuela:Merida	8°36' N	71° 10' W	1570
N	Venezuela:Pico Espejo	8°35' N	71° 10' W	4767

Selecting dates: You can select a beginning and ending month to limit your search, or you can search through all samples collected. EML has significant archives dating from 1969, with a few filters from earlier. Selecting just a year will include all samples from that year and later/earlier. Selecting both a month and year will return all samples from that month and later/earlier. Selecting a month without a corresponding year is not meaningful, and if your start date is after your end date, your results set will be quite small.

Displaying records: This box allows you to select how many records will display on screen at one time. Extremely large HTML tables can cause problems with your web browser when it attempts to parse and display them and can increase the time needed to download the information over a slow internet connection. Choosing a large number of records at a time can create tables large enough to crash your web browser. You have been warned. On the other hand, the query is executed again for each page displayed, which can be time-consuming if the query is complex. This choice is only meaningful for the hyperlinked display and is ignored for the comma-delimited format.

Types of samples: There are six types of samples. The Sample Archive Database Search will show you what samples of each type EML possesses for the date(s) and location(s) you specified. "Individual" samples represent one (or a piece of one) air filter, which was sampled for (usually) one week. "Composite" samples represent multiple filters which span a period of approximately one month. A typical individual filter might have a small part removed and compressed into a pellet, which was then counted; and a circle removed and pressed flat which was then counted; and approximately half removed to be put into a monthly composite planchet; and sometimes there were composite circles created as well. Samples called "composite filters" are typically 4 or so individual filters whose individual identity (which week they were sampled during the month) has been lost. Thus the six types of samples are: individual filter, individual pellet, individual circle, composite filter, composite planchet, and composite circle. These names are abbreviated in the display.

Standard display: To display the search results on your screen, click the Submit button. All records which meet your criteria will be displayed, along with any appropriate columns of information according to your selections. Sample ID's are linked to a pop-up display of collection information about that sample for your convenience. The second icon links to a display of isotope measurement data about that sample. You will need to have Javascript enabled on your web browser to be able to click on them, and you can just close the pop-up window when you are done looking at the extra information. On newer web browsers, this window should pop to the front of your screen whenever you click on a new link to view. On older browsers however, it may stay hidden behind other windows. If you are using Windows, you can type (alt + tab) to bring the detailed information window to the front again.

Comma-delimited display: Comma-delimited format is useful to allow people to download sections of the SASP database and import them into spreadsheet or database applications. The format parallels the hyperlinked display - it should provide exactly the same records and fields as the hyperlinked display. You can thus refine your query with the web display and then download a file suitable for data manipulation. After clicking on the button, your web browser will ask if you want to save the file to disk - you should answer yes and give it a name ending in .txt because it is a plain-text file. When importing into other applications, you should treat all fields (or at least the sample ID fields) as "text" and not as "general" or "numeric" because many of the sample ID numbers have leading zeros which will be eliminated if they are treated as numbers. One further note: due to a bug in the Netscape browser, this file will be downloaded with DOS line endings (CR/LF). If you are using a Unix or Macintosh system, you may need to convert the file to the appropriate line endings for your operating system.

The EML Sample Archives makes available environmental radiological data collected for programs funded through the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the U. S. Energy Research and Development Administration and the U. S. Department of Energy. All of these programs have been terminated. The databases were last updated in 1999. No additional data will be added to these databases. Any inquiries about these programs should be made to webmaster@eml.st.dhs.gov.