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Center for Hydrology and Ecology (CEH) is the UK Centre of Excellence for research in the terrestrial and freshwater environmental sciences.
Central European Environmental Data Request
(CEDAR) is
a service provided
by the International Society for Environmental Protection
(ISEP). CEDAR is
the designated Regional Service Centre for Europe, working
with the UNEP/INFOTERRA national focal points to support
environmental information dissemination, while also providing
the editorial board for the Thesaurus of the Environmental
Data Catalogue for the Austrian Federal Environment Agency.
Centre for Environmental Data and Recording (CEDaR) collects, stores, and disseminates flora and fauna distribution, and geological site information within Northern Ireland and its coastal waters. Databases currently hold more than one million species and site records. Whilst ensuring the confidentiality of sensitive records, these data are available in a number of formats for research, monitoring, conservation, education and commercial purposes.
Columbia Environmental Research Center (CERC)
provides leadership and scientific information for the U.S.
Geological Survey by addressing national and international
environmental contaminant issues, and assessing effects of
habitat alterations on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
The Center has a unique capability for conducting multidisciplinary
research that includes large-river floodplains, coastal habitats,
wetlands, and lakes.
Envirolink is a non-profit organization, a grassroots
online community that unites hundreds of organizations and
volunteers around the world with millions of people in more
than 150 countries. EnviroLink is dedicated to providing
comprehensive, up-to-date environmental information and
news.
Environmental Data Center (EDC) Geospatial Data Analysis
Laboratory is a Geographic Information
System (GIS) laboratory at the University of Rhode Island,
Department of Natural Resources Science, College of Environmental
and Life Sciences (CELS). Its mission is to support the
use of contemporary tools of spatial data processing in
the analysis of environmental data. It houses the Rhode
Island Geographic Information System (RIGIS) database, the
most comprehensive and detailed of any state in America
and contains information on almost all aspects of Rhode
Island's natural and cultural resources.
Environmental Data Registry (EDR) is a comprehensive,
authoritative reference for information about the definition,
source, and uses of environmental data. The EDR supports
the creation and implementation of data standards that are
designed to promote the efficient sharing of environmental
information among EPA, states, tribes, and other information
trading partners. The EDR also catalogs data elements in
application systems. The EDR does not contain environmental
data - it provides descriptive information to make the data
more meaningful.
Environmental Resource
Information Network (ERIN)
is a unit within Australia's Department of the Environment
and Heritage specializing in online data and information
management, and spatial data integration and analysis. ERIN
aims to improve environmental outcomes by developing and
managing a comprehensive, accurate and accessible information
base for environmental decisions.
European Directory of Marine Environmental Data
(EDMED)
was initiated in 1991 by the British Oceanographic Data
Centre within the EC-MAST framework and has established
itself as a de-facto European standard for indexing and
searching datasets relating to the marine environment. It
covers a wide range of disciplines and is a high-level inventory,
describing both datasets and data holding centres. EDMED
describes more than 2300 Datasets from over 500 Data Holding
Centres across Europe.
European Environmental
Agency (EEA) provides
decision-makers with the information needed for making sound
and effective policies to protect the environment and support
sustainable development. It provides a data service to access
acidification, agriculture, air, air quality, biodiversity
change, chemicals, climate change, economy, energy, fisheries,
households, human health, industry, natural resources, nature,
noise, ozone depletion, population, soil, waste, tourism,
transport, water datasets. The Agency also provides access
to the State of the Environment Reporting Information System
(SERIS), an inventory of national state of the environment
reports. The database contains publications for countries
included in the EEA's third assessment report, along with
the European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER), which is
the first European-wide register of industrial emissions
into air and water.
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Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) GeoNetwork provides search and retrieval of spatial data from several Z39.50 and OGC servers throughout the world. An interactive map viewer (InterMap) features web-mapping services for visualization and analysis of local and distributed data from numerous sources.
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ICES Environmental Data Centre
contains the largest
international databank on contaminants in marine media.
The databank contains data beginning in 1978 for contaminants,
mainly trace metals in finfish and shellfish.
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Marine Environmental Data Network contains descriptions of more than 600 datasets held by 90 UK laboratories. The datasets are catalogued irrespective of their format and cover a wide range of disciplines including marine meteorology, physical, chemical and biological oceanography, marine biology, geology and environmental quality monitoring.
Marine Environmental
Data Services (MEDS)
manages and archives ocean data collected by Canada's federal
Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) or acquired through
national and international programmes conducted in ocean
areas adjacent to Canada, and disseminates data, data products,
and services to the marine community in accordance with
the policies of the Department.
Master Environmental Library (MEL) provides
direct and timely access to natural environment information,
data, and products, wherever they reside. This includes
non-geospatial data such as models, algorithms, and documents,
as well as basic environmental data. MEL is currently focused
on DoD modeling and simulation users, but is accessible
to other DoD, federal, commercial, and academic communities
as well. Its goal is to become the "One-Stop Environment
Shop", where all DoD, and non-DoD, users can remotely
access and request environmental resources to satisfy their
diverse individual needs.
National Biological Information Infrastructure
(NBII) is
a broad, collaborative program to provide increased access
to data and information on U.S. biological resources. The
NBII links diverse, high-quality biological databases, information
products, and analytical tools maintained by NBII partners
and other contributors in government agencies, academic
institutions, non-government organizations, and private
industry. NBII partners and collaborators also work on new
standards, tools, and technologies that make it easier to
find, integrate, and apply biological resources information.
Resource managers, scientists, educators, and the general
public use the NBII to answer a wide range of questions
related to the management, use, orconservation of U.S.
biological resources.
National Coastal Data
Development Center (NCDDC) supports
ecosystem stewardship by providing access to U.S. coastal
data resources. NCDDC achieves this capability through the
integration of diverse coastal data distributed in multiple
repositories and provides these data by maintaining a searchable
metadata catalog of coastal data, developing gateways to
data repositories and using middleware technology that provides
data in user specified formats.
National Environment Research Council (NERC)
provides independent research
and training in the environmental sciences. Its mission
is to gather and apply knowledge, improve understanding
and predict the behavior of the natural environment and
its resources.
National Environmental Data Index (NEDI) provides
direct access to environmental data and information. The
overall goal of NEDI is to facilitate the use of the widest
possible range of environmental data and information to
support our ability to protect human health, safety, and
welfare; to maintain and restore ecological integrity; and
to sustain economic stability and growth. NEDI will be a
focus for identifying environmental data and information
holdings within the United States and ultimately, internationally.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) was established
in 1943 to carry out a single, well-defined mission: the
pilot-scale production and separation of plutonium for the
World War II Manhattan Project. From this foundation, the
Laboratory has evolved into a unique resource for addressing
important national and global energy and environmental issues.
Today, ORNL pioneers the development of new energy sources,
technologies, and materials and the advancement of knowledge
in the biological, chemical, computational, engineering,
environmental, physical, and social sciences.
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is a public data
library for science aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing
georeferenced data with special emphasis on environmental,
marine and geological basic research. Data can be retrieved
by the "PangaVista" search engine or through links
on web pages. The Advanced Retrieval Tool (ART) is designed
for data mining, retrieving and downloading individually
configured datasets. Most of the data are freely available
and can be used by referencing the related publication.
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STORET (STOrage
and RETrieval) is a repository for water quality, biological,
and physical data and is used by state environmental agencies,
EPA and other federal agencies, universities, private citizens,
and many others.
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The George Washington (GW) University Institute for
the Environment
began as a grassroots movement to implement sustainable
practices into all aspects of life at GW. In December 1994,
GW and the EPA formed a unique public-private partnership
around the Green University Initiative. Their partnership
with the EPA provided guiding principles to work towards
ecosystem protection, incorporate environmental justice
into daily activities and decisions, practice, promote and
provide leadership in pollution prevention, develop decisions
based on string science and data, create partnerships with
others who share our goals to reinvent our environmental
management and operations; and emphasize environmental accountability
and responsible behavior.
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U.S. Geological Survey
(USGS) serves the U.S. by providing
reliable scientific information to describe and understand
the Earth; minimize loss of life and property from natural
disasters; manage water, biological, energy, and mineral
resources; and enhance and protect the quality of life.
USGS offers an extensive array of products including maps,
mapping services, datasets, publications, and software.
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World Data Centre for
Greenhouse Gases (WDCGG) is established
under the Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) programme to collect,
archive and provide data for greenhouse (CO2, CH4, CFCs,
N2O, etc.) and related (CO, NOx, SO2, VOC, etc.) gases and
surface ozone in the atmosphere and ocean, measured under
GAW and other programmes.
World Data Center (WDC) for Human Interactions in the Environment
provides access to global-scale data sets addressing the human dimensions of global environmental change. Access data by browsing the list of WDC holdings (SEDAC-approved data, global in scale); by using the Geonetwork search tool to search the WDC and distributed catalogs; or by browsing through the thematic portals.
World Resources Institute
EarthTrends is an online collection
of information regarding the environmental, social, and
economic trends that shape the world. Committed to the principle
that accurate information drives responsible decisions by
governments and individuals, EarthTrends offers the public
a large breadth of statistical, graphic, and analytical
data in easily accessible formats.
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