last updated 10/9/98

• Environmental organizations
• Government agencies
• General environmental resources
• Ecosystems (plants, animals, landforms)
• Air and water pollution
• Energy and recycling
• Global warming
• More links

Environmental organizations

Center for Conservation Biology

The Center offers a number of Conservation Biology areas for study. Their Virtual Library of Ecology, Biodiversity, and the Environment contains hundreds of great biology links in a user-friendly format.

Committee for the National Institute for the Environment

Links to data, journals, news and information about a wide variety of issues in the environmental community.

Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing

CGDM encourages multidisciplinary research and education on environmental management and pollution prevention issues in critical industries. Some of their research projects would make great AiS projects.

Defenders of Wildlife

Defenders of Wildlife is dedicated to the protection of all native wild animals and plants in their natural communities. Their focus is what scientists consider two of the most serious environmental threats to the planet: the accelerating rate of extinction of species and the associated loss of biological diversity, and habitat alteration and destruction.

Environmental Defense Fund

The official site for the EDF, which focuses on saving the environment by educating populations and by working with industries and governments to modify environmentally harmful practices. You can sign up for their weekly newsletter.

Rainforest Action Network

There's some good research information on rain forests here, and a lot of links.

Second Nature

Second Nature is a nonprofit organization working to help colleges and universities expand their efforts to make environmentally sustainable and just action a foundation of learning and practice. Visit Starfish (resources and databases) or participate in on-line discussion groups.

Sierra Club

The official site of the organization that works to save the environment by influencing public policy. One of the oldest and best known conservation organizations, with articles and news.

International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives

ICLEI is the international environmental agency for local governments. If you are interested in global environmental issues, check this page for projects and resources.

Governmental Agencies

Environmental Education at the BLM

The Bureau of Land Management oversees a lot of our nation's land resources. This page is targeted for students, and looks at some of the environmental issues facing these lands.

Environmental Protection Agency

The mission of the EPA is protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment. The main EPA page has both search and browse engines.

Fish and Wildlife Service

The mission of the USFWS is to conserve, protect, and enhance fish and wildlife and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. You will find information on wetlands, migratory birds, endangered species and habitats.

National Academy of Science

The National Academy of Science publishes a huge collection of research reports from the National Academy Press. Reports are available in html and pdf format (requires Acrobat reader).

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOAA's goal is to promote global environmental stewardship in order to conserve and wisely manage the nation's marine and coastal resources. Includes the National Weather Service.

United States Geological Service

The USGS provides the Nation with reliable, impartial information to describe and understand the Earth. Their Earth and Environmental Science site has lots of links to projects and organizations of environmental interest. USGS Water Science offers information on many aspects of water, along with pictures, data, maps, and an interactive center.

General environmental references

Amazing Environmental Organization WebDirectory

In addition to "Earth's Biggest Environment Search Engine," this site offers 30 subtopics from agriculture to wildlife, each with multiple links.

EE link

The mission of this site is to spread information and ideas to help users explore the environment and investigate current issues. Projects include a list of endangered species and an environmental facts sheet.

EnvironLink

An on-line environmental community with many links and projects.

Environmental primers

These tutorials from British petroleum include acid rain and renewable energy (click on "key texts"). There are also links to international issues (click on "useful links").

National Environmental Data Index

NEDI provides direct access to environmental data and information descriptions, and thereby, improves awareness of and facilitates access to data and information holdings.

Natural Resources Research Information Pages

Intended as "an Internet resource guide for natural resources," this site offers hundreds of Web resources categorized by type (institutions and organizations, government agencies, databases and literature, conferences and research news, and outdoor recreation research) and then by region and country of origin.

The Mining Company's Guide to the Environment

Prepared guides to many subjects of environmental interest, such as acid rain and ozone, with news and features.

Ecosystems: plants, animals and geological formations

Aquatic Ecology Page

Links to anything related to the water environment.

Explores!

Florida State University's online answer to the Weather Channel lets you know what weather's like in other areas. Provides lots of good information on weather statistics, patterns, and more.

EPA Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds

A searchable on-line database and a huge store of publicly available information about wetlands, waste water, etc., from the EPA. Maps are also available as part of this useful resource.

Globe Program

Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment is a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment. GLOBE students make environmental observations at or near their schools and report their data through the Internet. Scientists use GLOBE data in their research and provide feedback to the students. You must register to be involved in this program, but you will probably find a ready source of data for an environmental project.

Man and the Biosphere Species Database

The MAB Program is developing worldwide databases of vascular plant and vertebrate animal occurrences within MAB Biosphere Reserves. Currently, the databases contain data from 273 Biosphere Reserves in 76 countries.

Population Ecology Home Page

The purpose of this home page is to integrate information on quantitative population studies on the Web. It helps to find population models and data that can be used in research and educational projects. Lecture courses and electronic publications address major problems in population ecology.

Water Quality of San Francisco Bay

This site details the water quality component of efforts by the U.S. Geological Survey to research the coastal ecosystems of the Bay area and how they are impacted by human disturbances. It's interesting reading and well presented, with an excellent glossary to help with technical terms.

Water Resource Management, Inc.

Water Resource Management is a company whose product is modeling and simulation tools for the environmental community. The page includes examples, software and Java-enabled simulations on water management.

Air and Water Pollution

Air Pollution

This site is part of a physical chemistry class, but is still very informative even if you're not in the class itself. Lots of "slides" on causes, effects, and remediation for air pollution.

Envirofacts Warehouse

EPA's public access to data on chemical usage, pollutant discharge and toxic waste sites. There is a searchable geographic database and you can even produce a maps of demographics by block. Way cool!

Environmental Research Software

Environmental Research Software is dedicated to developing and publishing scientific and engineering software for environmental topics. Available software includes MINEQL+ (for chemical equilibrium), ALCHEMI (for modeling aluminum in water), and GRiDS (for modeling transport of chemicals in rivers).

NCSC Environmental Programs

This group's mission is to model and predict environmental impact. You will find a wide variety of projects listed, as well as modeling tools and methods.

Radon in Earth, Air and water

A primer with links to the origin and problems associated with terrestrial radon.

Energy and the environment

Country Analysis Briefs

This page gives extensive energy production and usage data on a country-by-country basis.

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network

This Department of Energy site offers lots of information on a variety of topics related to all forms of renewable energy. It also includes data such as fuel efficiency for automobiles and advice for making buildings more energy efficient.

Garbage

This online exhibit looks at creating sustainable environments that reduce a community's garbage. Includes information on hazardous and solid waste.

Renewable Energy

A good source of information for environmental issues related to energy: global warming, air pollution, biomass, etc.

Residential Energy Efficiency Database

This is a great site for information and encouragement in being energy efficient. Of a dozen categories, Residential Indoor Air Quality alone has dozens of subtopics. There's also an extensive glossary of housing terms and data topics such as insulation and solar influx.

Solstice

Solstice is "your online source for sustainable energy information" and its very impressive. Among the many gems here: interactive multimedia CD-ROMs like The Greening of the White House, The Suns Joules multimedia encyclopedia on renewable energy, School Energy Doctor software, tons more.

Wind Resource Database

Knowing where a high wind resource may exist is valuable to a wind energy project. The National Wind technology Center identifies and gathers data for wind resource maps of the United States and foreign countries.

Global warming

EPA Global Warming Site

This site has information about the source of the problem, greenhouse gas releases, impacts, and what is being done. Includes slide shows.

Stratospheric Ozone and Human Health Project

The Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center's home page for the Stratospheric Ozone and Human Health Project. Stratospheric ozone protects the Earth's surface from high levels of biologically damaging ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The purpose of this site is to provide data and resources in the areas of ultraviolet (UV) radiation, ozone, and human health impacts of UV exposure.

US Global Change Data

GCDIS is a collection of information systems operated by government agencies involved in global change research. It provides global change information to scientific and government agencies, which includes multidisciplinary data from atmospheric science, ecology, oceanography, as well as economics and sociology.

US Global Change Research Information Office

Provides access to data and information on global change research, adaptation/mitigation strategies and technologies, and global change-related educational resources on behalf of the US Global Change Research Program and its participating Federal Agencies and Organizations.

More links

Yahoo! environmental links

The definitive Internet index.

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