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Resources
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BIODIVERSITY AND SPECIES PRESERVATION
- Fish and Wildlife Service. Dept. of Interior. U.S. Endangered Species
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- Taxonomic Databases Working Group
- National Audubon Society
- National Biological Information Infrastructure
- National Parks and Conservation Association
- National Wildlife Federation
- Species Survival Commission
- Taxonomic Databases Working Group
- Tree of Life Web Project, supported by the National Digital Library
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and Promote Biodiversity
- W. Alton Jones Foundation
- Watershed NatureWatch (USDA Forest Service)
- Wilderness Society
- World Resource Institute's Biodiversity Site
- World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION & GIS DATA SETS
Digital data for use in Geographic Information Systems is abundant on the Web. This guide will help you locate data at a regional and state level. Spatial data warehouses and GIS directories provide a broader range of sources.
- California Environmental Information Catalog
- California Environmental Resources Evaluation System
- California GIS Council
- California Geographical Survey
An FTP server run by California State University Northridge housing over 2,300 USGS 30 meter DEM, DLG, and other files for California.
- California Resources Agency
- California Spatial Information Library
- California Ocean and Coastal Environmental Access Network
COLLABORATIVE TOOLS
- Groove Virtual Office
- Personal Brain SW (manual, small scale apps)
- Plone Content Management
- Research Information Manager
- ThinkMap
- Thinkmap Application: Chesapeake Bay (NOAA)
- Think Map Case Studies
- TouchGraph LLC
- Zope Intranets
DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS AND INFORMATION
- Business Visualization (Advizor Solutions Inc.)
- Data Visualization for Decision Support (OmniViz)
- ESRI GIS and Mapping Software
- ESRI ArcGlobe
- Collaborative visualization (Teraburst Networks)
- Cross-referencing (Inxight Inc.)
- DecisionSite (Spotfire Inc.)
- Maya Design Group
- Scheduler (AEC Software)
- Spatio-temporal mapping (TimeMap)
- Information Retrieval White Paper (Ramana Rao)
DIGITAL GEO-SPATIAL DATA
- Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Clearinghouse
- Free Open Source GIS Tools(Free GIS)
- Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association
- GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System)
- Google: Keyhole
- Mapserver (University of Minnesota)
- MapTools (DM Solutions Group)
- NPACI: National Partnership for Computational Infrastructure
- NPACI: National Partnership for Computational Infrastructure: Envision Archives
- Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI)
- OKI Products
- Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
- OpenMap (BBN Technologies)
- Scientific Visualization Websites Catalog
- Search Engine News (SearchEngineWatch)
- TerraServer (Microsoft)
- TerraVision (SRI International)
EARTH SCIENCE INSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES
- American Geological Institute (AGI)
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
- Geotimes: Earth Science News
- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP), UC Santa Cruz
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
- National Geophysical Data Center
- NOAA Satellites and Information
- Scripps Institute of Oceanography
- Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
EDUCATION SITES
- The Earth Institute, Columbia University
- Earth Science Education at NASA
- Earthwatch Institute and Expeditions, Inc.
- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UC Santa Cruz
- The National Environmental Education and Training Foundation
ENERGY SITES
- Department of Energy Environment
- Centre for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology
- Fossil Energy Online U.S.Department of Energy
ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (non-governmental)
- Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University
- Conservation International
- Coral Reef Alliance
- Environmental Defense Fund
- Greenpeace
- National Resources Defense Counsel
- Nature Conservancy
- The Pacific Institute
- Sierra Club
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP Home)
- UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
- World Conservation Union (IUCN)
- World Resources Institute
- Worldwatch Institute
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- World Resources Institute
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
- Environmental Policy Weblinks
- Public Interest Research Groups
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) SITES
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Home
- BioIndicators
- Concerned Citizens
- Environmental Quality
- Environmental Website Database and Links
- Office of Air & Radiation
- Office of Water
- Superfund Cleanup Information
- Surf Your Watershed site
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
- Food and Agriculture Site of the United Nations
- International Food Policy Research Institute
- United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
FORESTS
- Forestry Food and Agriculture Site of the United Nations
- Last Frontier Forests: Ecosystems and Economies on the Edge, World Resource Institute
- Rain Forest Action Network
- U.S. Department of the Interior
- World Resources Institute: Forest, Grasslands, and Drylands
GAMING AND LEARNING IN EARTH SCIENCE
- Digital Libraries for Earth System Education
- EarthScope
- Geocaching
- Geoteaming
- World Game (o.s. Earth Inc.)
GEOGRAPHY DATA SOURCES
- Geography Network (ESRI)
ESRI-run directory of geographic data sources from around the world.
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
- Desert Research Institute
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UNEP)
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- United Nations World Meteorological Organization
- World Resources Institute Climate Change site
HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION & USER INTERFACE RESEARCH
- Human Computer Interaction at Stanford
- Human Computer Interaction Lab (University of Maryland)
- Information Interfaces Research Group (Georgia Tech)
- User Interface research @ PARC
INFORMATION VISUALIZATION FOR EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS
- DEVise (University of Wisconsin)
- Information Visualization Journal
- Interactive Visualization of Large Graphs and Networks (Munzer)
- Olive (Online Library of Information Visualization Environments) University of Maryland
- Mathematica (Wolfram Research)
- Mathworks
- Pacific Northwest National Labs
- Program Visualizer (IBM Watson Research Laboratory)
- n-Vision (Columbia University)
- Tree Juxtaposer (University of British Columbia, Munzer et al.)
LAKE TAHOE BASIN REGION
- California Tahoe Conservancy
- Carson City
- Center for Collaborative Policy
- City of South Lake Tahoe
- Desert Research Institute
- Lahontan Region Water Quality Control Board
- League to Save Lake Tahoe: keep Tahoe blue
- Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering University of Nevada, Reno
- Northwest Research Obsidian Studies Laboratory Tahoe Region Basalt Sources
- Pathway 2007 A Vision for Tahoes Future
- Sierra Club California
- Sierra Club Toiyabe Chapter
- Sierra Nevada College
- Tahoe Bathymetry Studies (USGS)
- Tahoe Data Clearinghouse (USGS)
- Tahoe Digital Raster Graphic (DRG) USGS
- Tahoe Environmental Research Center (UC Davis)
- Tahoe National Forest
- Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
- Tahoe Resource Conservation District
- Tahoe Rim Trail Association
- Tahoe Tourism and Recreation
- Tahoe Watershed Information Sharing Project
- USDA Forest Service Tahoe Basin Management
- Virtual Tahoe Tourism Planning
- The Washoe Tribe
MANAGEMENT OF DISTRIBUTED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
- GE Smallworld
- Geo-community
- Geon
- Geography Network
- Geo-spatial Decision Support
- WorldBoard
- WorldBoard Concept Paper (J. Spohrer)
MODELING TOOLS
- Ecopath (Ecosim modeling)
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) EARTH SCIENCE
- Earth Observatory
- Earth Observing System (EOS) NASA Goddard
- Federation of Earth Science Information Partners
- Finding NASA Earth Science Data
- Global Change Master Directory - NASA Goddard
- NASA Earth Science Enterprise (ESE)
- NASA's Earth Science Data Centers
- NASA Earth Science Data Terminology and Formats
- NASA Earth Science Tools and Websites
- NASA FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) Format & Analysis Tools
NASA EARTH IMAGES FROM SPACE
- Digital Library of NASA Visual and Audio Resources for Educational product developers
- Earth From Space - Aerial Views of the Home Planet
- Gateway to Astronaut Photography
- GReat Images in NASA (GRIN)
- JSC Imagery Services - Digital Image Collection
- Landsat 7
- Goddard Landsat "Earth as Art"
- NASA Image Exchange
- Multimedia Gallery
- USGS Landsat
- Visible Earth Project Searchable Directory of NASA Earth Science Images
PUBLISHERS
- Island Press and Eco-Compass, Publishers
SOCIAL NETWORKS FOR ECOSYSTEM COLLABORATIVES
- PlaNetwork
- Surf Your Watershed
SUSTAINABILITY
- Education for Sustainability
- Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability (Harvard College)
- International Institute for Sustainable Development
- QuestVis Visualizing Environmental Sustainability Futures (UBC Munzer et al.)
- Resources for the Future
- Rocky Mountain Institute
USGS (U.S. Geological Survey)
- Earth Explorer EROS (Earth Resources Observation Systems) Data Center
- Marine Realms Information Bank (MRIB)
- National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse, USGS Node
- National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive
- US GeoData
USGS FTP data files downloadable by state. Data includes Digital Elevation Models (1:250,000-scale and 7.5-minute), Digital Line Graphs (1:2,000,000-scale, 1:100,000-scale and Large Scale), and Land Use and Land Cover (1:250,000-scale and 1:100,000-scale). Examples of and user guides for each type of data are provided.
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