Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program, from the Dept. of Energy. "A
multi-laboratory, interagency program to resolve scientific uncertainties
about global climate change with a specific focus on improving the performance
of general circulation models used for climate research and prediction."
An electronic journal that explores interactions between the lithosphere,
hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere in the context of global issues or global
change.
Administered by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, this site includes
an overview of the program, laws and policies, consultations, grants, and
international activities.
The Earth Observing System (EOS) is the centerpiece of NASA's Earth Science
Enterprise (ESE). It is composed of a series of satellites, a science component,
and a data system supporting a coordinated series of polar-orbiting and low
inclination satellites for long-term global observations of the land surface,
biosphere, solid Earth, atmosphere, and oceans.
The EPA leads the nation's environmental science, research, education and
assessment efforts. The agency works to develop and enforce regulations that
implement environmental laws, provides grants to grants to state environmental
programs, and performs environmental research.
EPA is responsible for enforcing and assuring compliance with environmental
regulations and may delegate this responsibility to state and tribal
governments.The site includes links to programs, policy, regulations
and statutes, citizen involvement, individual and government sectors,
environmental justice, federal facilities and activities, international,
models, training, and news.
The Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances evaluates
pesticides and chemicals to safeguard all Americans, including children
and other vulnerable members of the population, as well as the most
threatened species and ecosystems from environmental harm.This site
provides information for concerned citizens and kids, news, right
to know, laws and regulations, international activities, test methods
and guidelines.
This site provides information about the science of ozone depletion,
information about the regulatory approach to protecting the ozone
layer, and information on alternatives to ozone-depleting substances,
as well as information on a number of other topics.
The Office of Research and Development (ORD) is the scientific research
arm of EPA. The site includes grants, programs, labs, databases,
technology transfer highlights, publications, and news.
EPA site for information on chemicals and other hazardous and non-hazardous
wastes, federal facilities, technology innovations, oil spill program,
superfund and brownfields programs, underground storage tanks, etc.
Includes water topics, index of watershed indicators, American Heritage
Rivers, publications, laws and regulations, databases and software,
policy, events, information for concerned citizens.
EREN (Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy Network)
The Department of Energy's gateway to hundreds of web sites and thousands
of online documents on energy efficiency and renewable energy. Topics include
consumer information, solar energy, energy savers, transportation, industry
and utility technologies, sustainable development.
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. Activitiesinclude dealing with
remote sensing, land cover characterization, resource management, archives,
publications and more.
GCRIO (Global Change
Research Information Research Office)
The US Global Change Research Information Office (GCRIO) provides access
to data and information on climate change research, adaptation/mitigation
strategies and technologies, and global change-related educational resources
on behalf of the various US Federal Agencies that are involved in the US Global
Change Research Program
The NASA Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center
(DISC) is the home of the GES Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC). DAAC
offers Earth science data, information, and services to research scientists,
applications scientists, applications users, and students.
This site provides a guide to help find selected key documents and data
sets vital to understanding the use of satellite remote sensing to study the
human dimensions of global environmental change.
A UNCG resource page with links to the Basel Convention, Commission for
Environmental Cooperation (CEC), Commodity Index, Convention on International
Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), Country Analysis Briefs, Earthwatch,
United Nations Environment Program, The World Conservation Union (IUCN), and
the World Resources Institute (WRI).
STI (scientific and technical information) is the collected set of facts,
analyses, and conclusions resulting from scientific, technical, and related
engineering research and development efforts, both basic and applied. The
site provides access to over 3 million aerospace and related publications,
with procedures, factsheets, guidelines.
NAL is one of the world's largest and most accessible agricultural research
libraries. It includes an online publication catalog and journal article citation
database as well as access to other agricultural and related information.
The central library has an extensive collection of historical Coast and
Geodetic Survey materials (from 1807) and Weather Bureau materials (from the
1830's), including foreign meteorological data. Subject areas include oceanography,
ocean engineering, marine resources, ecosystems, coastal studies, atmospheric
sciences (climatology and meteorology), geodesy, geophysics, cartography,
mathematics, and statistics.
The Environmental Services Data and Information Management (ESDIM) Program
coordinates and oversees NOAA-wide activities to improve data and information
management. It provides access to data centers, products, images, databases,
weather, etc.
As a part of the N.C. Air Awareness Program, the Ozone Forcast Center provides
ozone warnings for Charlotte, the Triad and the Triangle, an ozone map,a nd
ozone action tips.
NOAA Paleoclimatology operates the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology
and the Applied Research Center for Paleoclimatology, with the goal to provide
data and information scientists need to understand natural climate variability
as well as future climate change. The site includesinformation on drought,
climate change, datasets, education/outreach, data, software and more.
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission is a joint mission between NASA
and the Japan Aerospace Exploration. Agency (JAXA) designed to monitor and
study the Earth's climate via rainfall and associated energy release data-gathering.
The EPA's collection of technical Web sites containing information about
many areas of air pollution science, technology, regulation, measurement,
and prevention.
The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) supports research on the
interactions of natural and human-induced changes in the global environment
and their implications for society.
This is a UNCG resource page with weather-related links to data, climatology,
historical weather, forcasts, hurricane information, and weather related publications.
Scorecard is the web's most popular resource for information about pollution
problems and toxic chemicals.
Maintained by the Environmental Defense Fund, the site includes asearchable
database for determining the location of polluters and what they are releasing
into the environment.
CIESIN (Consortium for International
Earth Science Information Network)
The Center for International Earth Science Information Network is a center
within the Earth Institute at Columbia University. CIESIN specializes in on-line
data and information management, spatial data integration and training, and
interdisciplinary research related to human interactions in the environment.
the site contains national, international and global data stores on climate
and environmental change.
