I. Organizations

See list on Environment and Environmental Organizations see also Geoscience Sources - Modeling, and Visualisation - Cybernetics - EELink List of Organizations - Environmental Organization Directory - START (SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training ) Links - General ESS Links (Earth System Science)

• AAG  Association of American Geographers - home
• AGCI - Aspen Global Change Institute - home
• AGCI - Atlantic Global Change Institute
• APN - Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research
• Audubon Society - home
• Australia - Environmental Resources Information Network - ERIN
• BAHC - Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle - home
• BNS - Center for the Study of Biology of Natural Systems
• BPRC - Byrd Polar Research Center
• Brooks/Cole Publishing - Earth Science Information Center
• CARRE - Central Asia Research and Remediation Exchange - San Diego State University
• CAR/RCU - Caribbean Environment Programme (UNEP) - Home Page
• CAST - Council for Agricultural Science and Technology -.
• CDIAC - Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
• CEPS - Center for Earth and Planetary Studies - Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
• CGER - Center for Global Environmental Research - JAPAN
• CGRER - Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research - University of Iowa
• CIAS - Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems - Sustainable Agriculture - Wisconsin
• CIESIN  - Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
• CINDI: Center for Integration of Natural Disaster Information - Disaster Atlas on Hurricane Mitch in Central America
• CIRA - Center for Integrated Regional Assessment - Penn State University
• CGIAR  - Consultative Group in International Agricultural Research
• Climate Action Network Online
• DLESE - Digital Library for Earth System Education
• DESIP - Demographic, Environmental and Security Project - University of  Toronto
• Destination Earth - NASA
• DIVERSITAS - International Programme of Biodiversity Science
• EartCast - Maryland
• Earth Council - Earth Network for Sustainable Development, San Jose, Costa Rica
• Earthwatch International.- home
• ECO - Environmental Careers Organization
• ENRICH - European Network for Research on Global Change
• ENTRI - Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators Service
• EOSDIS - Earth Observing System - home
• ESIG - Environmental & Societal Impacts Group - NCAR
• ESRC - Global Environmental Change Programme - Economic and Social Research Council - UK
• ESSE - Earth System Science Education Online - ESSE 21 Project - USRA Project
• ESSC - Earth System Science Center - Penn State University
• ETFRN - European Tropical Forestry Network
• FAO- Global Watch 2002 - home
• FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency - home
• FGI - Futures Group International - consulting firm
• FocusWeb - home
• GCDIS - data on global change access site
• GCRIO - US Global Change Research Information Office Home Page and its Guide to Research Institutions
• GCTE - Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems - home
• GDN - Geography Discipline Network - home
• GECHS - Global Environmental Change and Human Security
• GEF - Global Environmental Facility - World Bank
• GEIC - Global Environment Information Centre - UNU (Japan)
• GIDEON - Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Network
• GISS - Goddard Institute on Space Science - Institute on Climate and Planets - home
• GLIN - Great Lakes Information Network - home
• Global Health Network - University of Pittsburg
• GLOBE - International Hands-on Science
• GLOBEC - Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC) - home
• GOOS - Global Ocean Observing System - UNESCO - home
• GPMI - George Perkins Marsh Institute - Clark University
• GREEN - Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
• HDGC-AAG Project - Human Dimensions of Global Change - "Hands-On" Educational Modules - AAG
• HungerWeb - Brown University
• IAI - Interamerican Institute of Global Change Research - home
• ICE - Information Center for the Environment - University of California, Davis
• ICESS - Institute for Computation Earth Systems Science - University of California, St. Barbara
• ICSU - International Council of Scientific Unions
• IDGEC - Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change project
• IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
• IGAC - International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project - home
• IGBP - International Geosphere-Biosphere Program
• IGCC - Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation - University of California, San Diego
• IGES - Institute for Global Environmental Strateties - EarthRise!
• IHDP - International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change
• IHDP - IT - Industrial Transformation & Global Environmental Change Programme
• IHPO - International Health Program Office - CDC
• IISD - International Institute for Sustainable Development
• INFOTERRA: United Nations Environment Programme
• IPCC - Home
• ISPE - Institute for the Study of Planet Earth - University of Arizona
• ISA - International Studies Association
• ISA/ESS - Environmental Studies Section
• ISF - Island Resources Foundation: Environmental Planning for Island Development by Bruce Potter
• ISRIC - International Soil Reference and Information Centre
• ISSC - International Social Science Council
• IUCN - International Union for the Conservation of Nature
• JGOFS - Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) - home
• JPL - Jet Propulsion Lab - Education
• League of Conservation Voters (scorecard)
• LUCC - Land Use Land Cover Change - IHDP - home
• LRC - Limnological Research Center
• MAB - Man and the Biosphere - home
• MEDIAS - regional center for global change research in Africa and Mediterranean Basin
• MRC - Mountain Research Center - (Big Sky Institute) - Montana State University
• NAS - National Academy of Sciences - Division of Earth and Life Studies - Coordinating Committee on Global Change
• NASA - Earth Science Enterprise - home
• NASA Observatorium - home
• National Geographic Society - Earth Pulse journal page
• Natural Hazards Center - University of Colorado
• Nature Conservancy - home
• Nature Serve - formerly: National Heritage network - servers and resources on biodiversity
• Nautilus Institute - Asia Pacific Regional Environment Network Home
• NBII - National Biological Information Infrastructure - NBS
• NCGIA - National Center for Geographical Information Analysis
• NCSE - National Council for Science and the Environment - home
• NET - National Environmental Trust - many issues covered.
• Netherlands Global Change Research Programme - Rijksinstitut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieuhygiene (RIVM)
• NGDC - National Geophysical Data Center - NOAA
• NHMG - Natural Hazards Mitigation Group at UniGE - Univ of Geneva
• NIED - National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention -- Japanese Govt
• NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency / Dept of Commerce
• NOAA - Office of Global Programs - Paleoclimatology Program - home
• NRCS - Natural Resources Conservation Service - online
• NRDC - Natural Resources Defense Council - home
• NSF - Environmental and Global Change - links and descriptions of research
• NSSL - National Severe Storms Laboratory - NOAA / University of Oklahoma
• Ocean Planet - Smithsonian Exhibit
• ODI - Overseas Development Institute
• OPR - Office of Population Research - Princeton University
• ORLS - Office of Arid Lands Studies - University of Arizona
• Outdoor Action - Princeton University
• PAGES  - Past Global Environmental Changes - IGBP
• Panos Institute - home
• Population Reference Bureau - home
• Potsdam Institute - Climate Impact Research
• PROCLIM - Swiss Climate and Global Change programme
• Program for the Human Environment - Rockefeller University
• Project 2061 - AAAS
• PSC - Population Studies Center - University of Michigan
• RAWOO - Advisory Council for Research on Development Problems - Nuffic - The Hague
• REGIS - Research Program in Environmental Planning and GIS / Berkeley
• ReliefWeb - home
• REM - Radiological Environmental Monitoring
• Resources for the Future - home
• SCOR - Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research
• SEA-SPAN - Southeast Asian Science Policy Advisory Network in Global Change
• SEI - Stockholm Environmental Institute
• SEMARNAP -Secretaría de Medio Ambiente, Recursos Naturales y Pesca - México
• Sierra Club - home
• Social and Behavioral Dimensions of Global Environmental Change - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
• SSRC - Social Science Research Council - home
• Solstice - Sustainable Development and Energy Online START (SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training ) Links
• TED - Trade and Environment Database (case studies) project
• UNCBD - Convention on Biodiversity - home
• UNCCD - Desertification Convention - home
• UNEP CAR/RCU - Caribbean Environment Programme - Home
• UNEP's Global Environmental Outlook 2000- home
• UNEP Global Resource Information Database
• UNEP-North America - EROS data center
• UNFCCC - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• UNU Environment and Sustainable Development Programme - United Nations University
• USAID - US Agency for International Development
• USDA/Disaster Assistance - home
• U.S. Federal Government Agencies - access site
• USGCRP - US Global Change Research Program - main page
• U.S. - Global Ocean Observing System - US Committee - home
• USGS - US Geological Survey - home
• USGS - Global Change Research Office - Assessing the Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on the Nation's Resources - Index of Environmental Themes / projects
• USGS - National Seismic Hazard Mapping Project
• US State Department - Global Affairs
• VAM - Vulnerability Assessment Mapping of the World Food Programme
• Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands
• WCMD -World Conservation Monitoring Centre - home
• WCRP - World Climate Research Programme
• Woodrow Wilson Foundation - Environmental Science Institutes
• WDC -World Data Center - NOAA home
• WDC-A - Human Interactions in the Environment
• World Food Programme - home
• World Hunger Program - Brown University
• World Meteorological Organization - The Official WMO Home Page - Geneva Switzerland
• World Resources Institute - home
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - home
• World Watch Institute - resources
• WWF -The Living Planet Campaign

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II. Selected Research Projects

See also Environment and Environmental Organizations - Geoscience Sources - Modeling, and Visualisation - Cybernetics - EELink List of Organizations - Environmental Organization Directory - START (SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training ) Links - General ESS Links (Earth System Science)

• Alexandria Project - digital library project
• BAHC - Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle
• CERES: California Environmental Resources Evaluation System
• CERES S'COOL Project - home - NASA Langley Research Center
• CLUE - Conversion of Land Use and its Effects
• Critical Ecoregions Program - Sierra Club
• CRYSYS - Global Change Site on the Cryosphere - Canada
• Dutch Research Project on Global Air Pollution and Climate Change
• EAPEI - East Asian and Pacific Environmental Initiative
• EOLSS - Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems Project (UK)
• FED  - Forest Ecosystem Dynamics - US Forest Service
• GAP Analysis - home
• GECHS - Global Environmental Change and Human Security project
• Global Analysis, Interpretation, & Modelling (GAIM)
• Global Change in Local Places (NSF Project with AAG)
• Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems - Stanford University
• GLOBEC - Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics
• Human Dimensions of Global Change - "Hands-On" Educational Modules - AAG
• IDGEC - Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change project
• IGAC - International Global Atmospheric Chemistry
• INBIO - Pagina Principal de INBio - biodiversity research, Costa Rica
• Jason Project - ocean studies
• JERS-1 Global Rainforest Mapping - GRFM Project - Amazon
• LOICZ - Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone
• LBA - LARGE SCALE BIOSPHERE-ATMOSPHERE Experiment in Amazonia
• LUCC - Land Use Land Cover Change - IHDP - home
• MBARI - Biogeochemical cycles - Monterey Bay California
• NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - home
• Project on Environment, Population and Security: Conflict, Sustainable Development - University of Toronto
• Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project - SNEP
• Tree of Life - Phylogeny and Biodiversity Research - University of Arizona
• UMESC - Long Term Resourse Monitoring Program - Water Elevation and Discharge Data - Mississippi River system
• USCP - US Country Studies Program (data / document support for climate change research)
• U.S. JGOFS Home Page - US Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
• U. S. Long-Term Ecological Research Network

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III. Research Aides

See also: Population-Demography and Statistics-Data as well as Economy-Trade-Commerce and Development Studies and  Resources for Economists on the Internet -  a WONDERFUL site!

• Acronyms & Abreviations in global change - LUCC page
• Acronyms - US Climate Change Research program
• Acronyms and Abreviations in Global Change and Documents and Publications Online (GCRIO)
• Amazing Environmental Organization Directory
• Calendar of Events - IHDP
• Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center Glossary
• Compendium of Information Sources on Global Change - GCRIO
• Degrees of Change Newsletter (Carnegie Mellon University) - Center for Study of HDGC
• Destination Earth - NASA
• Earth Explorer - USGS/EDC
• Earth Times - magazine
• Earth today - Daily updates of major events
• Earth Trends portal to environmental information
• Earthweek - Diary of the Planet (events in the last week)
• ECO - Environmental Careers Organization
• EE-Link Resources on the Internet (Environmental Education)
• EES - Earth's Environment and Society  (Virtual Geography Department)
• ELDIS - Electronic Development and Environment Library
• Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators Service - SEDAC/CIESIN
• Environmental Video Resources - Video Project
• EOSDIS GLOSSARY OF TERMS - home
• ESRI  - Resources for GIS/RS
• ETE (Exploring the Environment) -  COTF (NASA Classroom of the Future) Earth Science Modules
• Explorations - Cornell Theory Center
• FAO - Global Watch - State of Food and Agriculture and other resources
• Frank Potter's Science Gems - UCI / Science Education Office (Univ of California, Irvine)
• GeoData Information Sources - Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, University of Iowa
• GCDIS - data on global change access site
• Global Change Master Directory
• Global Information Locator Service - home
• Global SchoolNet's Internet Projects Registry
• GLOBE - International Hands-on Science
• Glossary of Global Change
• IHDP - News
• Mailing Lists on the Environment and Related Topics
• National Science Education Standards - home
• NGDC - Images and Data
• Our Changing Planet (external links to the Global Change Research Information Office) - Fiscal Year 2003 [PDF]
• POSTIX Visualizations - University of Maryland
• Register of Ecological Models (REM) - home
• Resources for Economists on the Internet
• Science in the Headlines - National Academy of Sciences
• Solar System Live - home
• Terranova: Planet of the Day - home
• UNEP/GRID Sioux Falls : Population & Environment Links
• Virtual Library - ecology, biodiversity, and environment
• Why Files - Science Behind the News
• World Resources Institute: 
  • 1996-97 Table of Contents and 1998-99 Edition - World Resources Database
  • World Resources 2000-2001: People and Ecosystems: The Fraying Web of Life (PDF)
  • World Resources 2002-2004: Decisions for the Earth: Balance, Voice, and Power (PDF)
  • Earth Trends portal to environmental information
  • Global Forest Watch
  • Sustainable Development Information Service - WRI

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IV. Data Sources

See also: Population-Demography and Statistics-Data as well as Economy-Trade-Commerce and Development Studies and  Resources for Economists on the Internet - GIS/RS Sources - Geography an Mapping and GPS Sources - General Environmenta Studies - Biosphere Resources - Cybernetics

• Agricultural Related Resources - FAO
• ADDS - Africa Data Dissemination Service
• Asia Population Database Documentation
• ATLAS OF PALEO-VEGETATION
• Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations - Mona Loa Observatory
• Biodiversity Resources - WRI
• Biological Information Infrastructure - USGS
• Business/Economic Information & Data on the Internet - Stat-USA
• California's Natural Resources - home
• California Rivers Assessment (CARA) Information Center for the Environment (ICE)
• Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)
• CCP - Population, Communications, Health - John's Hopkins University
• Census Bureau - Data Access Tools (Tiger files, gazetteer, etc.)
• Country Commercial Guides - US State Department
• CEDAR - Central European Environmental Data Request Facility
• CIESIN - Gateway
• Coastal Information Directory Information Page - NOAA
• Current Marine Data and Observations - OceanWeather.com
• DLESE - Digital Library of Earth System Education
• Demographic Data Viewer - SEDAC/CIESIN
• Earth Explorer - USGS/EDC
• Economic Data on the Internet - Penn World Tables
• EE-Link Resources on the Internet (Environmental Education)
• Endangered Species - EE-Link
• Environmental and Sustainability Indicators Project - CIAT/UNEP - Latin America/Caribbean
• Environmental Information Resources - GEIC - Japan
• EnviroLink - home
• Environmental Security Library & Database
• FAO FOCUS: Plant Genetic Resources
• FAO Global Watch Archive site
• FAOSTAT - databases of several types
• FEWS - Famine Early Warning System
• FireNet Information Network
• Flood Observatory - Dartmouth College (FLOOD disasters, etc)
• GCDIS - data on global change access site
• GEIC: Environment resources - Global Environment Information Centre
• Geoindicators - Tools for Assessing Rapid Environmental Changes
• George Perkins Marsh Institute - Clark University
• GIEWS - FAO - Global Information and Early Warning System
• Global Biogeochemical Dynamics - Oak Ridge DAAC
• Global Change Master Directory - resources
• Global Data Sets- UNEP / GRID
• Global Development Gateway - World Bank
• Global Drainage Basins Database - USGS
• Global Forest Watch - WRI
• Global Information Locator Service - home
• Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program - GTSPP Database
• GPO Access on the Web - Government Publications Office
• Great Lakes Information Network
• GHIE  - Greater Horn of Africa Information Exchange
• International Data Base (IDB) - US Census Bureau
• International Soil Maps/Biophysical Indices - ISRIC
• ISRIC - International Soil Reference and Information Centre
• Keys to the US Soil Taxonomy - NRCS
• National Resources Inventory - NRCS
• National Science Digital Library - contact point
• National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse - USGS
• Nature Serve - formerly: National Heritage network - servers and resources on biodiversity
• NESDIS- Nat. Envir. Satellite Data and Information Service
• NGDC - National Geophysical Data Center - home
• NOAAServer: Data and Information Details
• NRCS - Natural Resources Conservation Service
• NRCS Soil Survey Division Soil Photo Gallery
• NRCS - National Soil Data
• Office of Population Research - Princeton University
• PLANTS National Database - USDA
• PRAXIS - Resources for Social and Economic Development
• Policy Instruments Database - CIESIN/SEDAC
• POPLINE - home
• POPNET - world Population data sources
• Population and the environment - Union of Concerned Scientists
• Population Index - home
• PRB World Population Data Sheet
• Penn World Tables Database
• Resources for Economists on the Internet -  WONDERFUL site!
• Rates of Rainforest Destruction - Rainforest Action Network
• SEDAC/CIESIN - Information Gateway - Socioeconomic and Data Applications Center - Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN
• Social Science Information Gateway - SOSIG
• SOFA - State of Food and Agriculture - FAO - Global Watch - State of Food and Agriculture and other resources
• SRDIS - Sustainable Rural Development Information System - CIESIN
• Statistical Resources on the Web - ICPSR - University of Michigan
• Sustainable Development Information Service - WRI
• Trends in Developing Economies - CIESIN
• UNEP - Global Resource Information Database
• UNICEF - DATA - Progress of Nations 1996: and 1998 - and State of the World's Children-1998 and SOWC-2000 - home
• Unidata: Software and Weather Data for Universities - UCAR/NCAR
• University of Iowa CGRER Home Page - Center for Global Research....
• USAID Famine Early Warning System - Sahel / Africa
• USCP - US Country Studies Program (data / document support for climate change research)
• USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service -- NRCS
• USGS GEOMET Data Extraction Form - USGS Desert Winds Project at Gold Spring, Great Basin
  Desert, northeastern Arizona, 1979 - 1992
• VAM - Vulnerability Assessment Mapping of the World Food Programme
• Virtual Library on International Development
• World Bank - home
• World Bank - countries and regions - English
• World Bank Data and Statistics - home
• World Soil Resources - NRCS
• WDC -World Data Center - NOAA home
• WDC-A - Human Interactions in the Environment
• World Data Center A, Oceanography
• World Factbook 2003 - CIA
• World Population - Online clock & digital counter
• World Tables - Dataset Description Guide by CIESIN
• WRI:Global Trends in Environment and Development
• World Resources Institute : 
  • 1996-97 Table of Contents and 1998-99 Edition - World Resources Database
  • World Resources 2000-2001: People and Ecosystems: The Fraying Web of Life (PDF)
  • World Resources 2002-2004: Decisions for the Earth: Balance, Voice, and Power (PDF)
  • Earth Trends portal to environmental information
    

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