Florida Center for Environmental Studies
Information about the Florida Center for Environmental Studies and its projects, as well as an annotated directory of environmental web sites.
National Library for the Environment
General access point for government and web resources in all matters relating to the environment and environmental studies. Includes environmental news resources, professional resources for careers in environmental studies, and a directory of institutions, agencies, and organizations in the field of the environment.
Contaminated Land in the UK Information on Contaminated Land in the UK, for all working in the
field, whether involved in buying, selling, assessing, advising, remediating
or even just ingesting...
Water Online "The water and wastewater industry (Water Online's scope) can best
be defined as the supply, treatment, and distribution of drinking water;
and the collection, treatment and disposal of wastewater. [The purpose
of the site is to] become the preeminent source for product, technology,
regulatory, and management information for the water and wastewater industy."
EROS Data Center Home
Page -- EROS (Earth Resources Observation Systems)
"The Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center (EDC) is a data management,
systems development, and research field center for the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS)
National Mapping Division. Organizationally, the USGS is a bureau of the U.S. Department
of the Interior. The EDC opened in the early 1970's with a handful of employees and the
largest mainframe computer in the State of South Dakota. Today the EDC has approximately
600 government and contractor employees, including employees at its Alaska Field Office
in Anchorage, Alaska, and employees at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field,
California. And now the EDC houses one of the largest computer complexes in the Department
of the Interior. ." Source:
About
the EROS Data Center
Land Processes Distributed
Active Archive Center (DAAC) "The NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) is one of NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Data Centers. The NASA data centers process, archive, document, and distribute data from NASA's past and current Earth Observing System (EOS) satellites and field measurement programs."
Envirolink - the Online Environmental Community "The EnviroLink Network is a non-profit organization which has been providing access
to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991." (Envirolink)
Project GLOBE started by Vice-President
Gore Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)
is a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together
to study and understand the global environment.
United States global change program overview Organized in 1989, the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP),
comprising 18 departments and agencies of the Federal Government, has been
working to better understand and to deal with natural and human-induced
changes in the Earth's environment.
Environmental Working Group Environmental Working Group (EWG) is a progressive not-for-profit,
computer-powered environmental research organization that gives concerned
citizens the information they need to protect their homes, communities
and Planet Earth.
Friends of the Earth Friends of the Earth U.S. is a tax-exempt environmental advocacy organization
founded in 1969 and headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Green Scissors
Campaign is part of Friends of the Earth's "Economics for the Earth" program,
which promotes economic reform to protect the planet and its people.
Greenpeace Greenpeace is an independent, campaigning organisation which uses non-violent,
creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to
force the solutions which are essential to a green and peaceful future.
Environmental Education
in the BLM (Bureau of Land Management)
Teacher resources on topics such as Great Basin ecosystems, gold mining,
and fire ecology.
River
of Words - An International Art & Poetry Program for Youth
"River of Words is an environmental art and poetry program created to promote
watershed awareness, literacy, and the arts. Through our annual art and poetry contest
and our educator's tools, River of Words helps communities begin exploring the natural
and cultural history of their own homegrounds."
A Self-contained
Atmospheric chemistry coDe "ASAD is a software package developed for creating and integrating
chemistry schemes in atmospheric models without the need to write any FORTRAN
code to solve the chemical rate equations." Source: Dr.
Glenn Carver & Dr. Paul Brown, Centre for Atmospheric Science,
Cambridge University, UK
Indexes
EnviroLink "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."
