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Environmental Information/Topics

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There is a wealth of information about environmental issues that can be accessed via Internet and the following listing is just a sample of what is now available.

Information about sources of digital geographic and environmental data and environmental organizations are maintained as separate lists.

Topics

• Directories
• Research Programs/Projects
• Environmental Computer Models
• Environmental Education Resources
• Newsletters, Journals and Magazines
• Environmental Law
• Air Pollution/Air Quality
• Ozone Depletion and Global Warming
• Biodiversity
• Paleoclimate Resources
• Special Topics

This list has been compiled for use by faculty members and students of the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research. Suggested additions and corrections to this list are welcome and can be sent to the CGRER webmaster.

Directories

• EarthRise Directory of Internet Resources
• Argus Environmental Clearinghouse
• Environmental Information Sources
• Best Environmental Directories
• Directory of Environmental Resources on the Internet
• ? Internet Resources for the Environmental Industry
• Global Change Online Resources
• The Global Change - Assisted Search for Knowledge (GC-ASK)
• ? Earth Pages - Earth Sciences Information and Resources
• Global Change Master Directory
• EnvironLink Library
• ? Environmental Web Resources
• Environmental RouteNet (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
• ? Environmental Resources on the Internet
• ? Environmental Sites on the Internet
• Directory of Oceanographic/Earth Science Data Services and Institutions
• Forestry Information Resources on the Internet
• Earth and Environmental Sciences Internet Resources
• Atmospheric Science Resources on the Internet
• NSF/Unidata Integrated Earth Information Server
• ? Environmental Resource Center
• Information Center for the Environment (at UC-Davis)
• Environment Australia Online
• EnviroLink
• Environmental Organization Web Directory
• Gaia Forest Archives
• Internet Green Pages (EPA AMES ETD Laboratory)
• Central European Environmental Data Request Facility
• Environmental Organization WebDirectory

Research Programs/Projects

• U.S. Global Change Research Program
• The International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Project
• ? Sequioa 2000 Project (Univ. of California)
• Land Use Change Analyis System (LUCAS)
• Forest Ecosystem Dynamics (FED) Project (NASA)
• Great Lakes Information Network
• GERMINAL Project (GIS and environmental management)
• MEDALUS II Project: The Effects of Desertification
• Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network
• TOGA COARE International Project Information: (Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment)
• Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program
• Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS)
• Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE)
• Brown's Campus Environmental Stewardship and Resource Conservation Program

Environmental Computer Models

• Forum on Global Change Modeling
• Climate Theory and Modeling
• Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI)
• A Model Data Needs Assessment Report (USDA Models)
• RAINS (Regional Air Pollution INformation and Simulation)
• European Acid Rain Deposition Model (in German)
• The River System Simulator (RSS)
• WATFLOOD: Distributed Hydrologic Model (University of Waterloo)
• The UCLA Earth System Model
• GATOR Atmospheric Chemistry Model (UC Berkeley)
• ASAD: Package for Integrating Chemical Schemes in Atmospheric Models
• ? Consortium for the Advanced Modeling of Regional Air Quality: Models Directory
• PSU/NCAR Mesoscale Modeling System
• NCAR Community Climate Models (CCM)
• Global Climate Modeling
• Atmospheric General Circulation Model (AGCM)
• Streamer: A Radiative Transfer Model (Boston University)
• GFDL Modular Ocean Model (MOM)
• Parallel Ocean Program (POP) Simulation
• Sea Ice Models and Modeling
• Distributed Hydrological Models
• ? Regional HydroEcological Simulation System (RHESSys)
• Register of Ecological Models
• Distributed Modular Spatial Ecosystem Modeling
• The Century Model (General Model of Plant-Soil Nutrient Cycling)
• ? BSIM: A Portable Package for Distributed Ecological Modelling
• U.S. EPA Center for Exposure Assessment Modeling (CEAM)
• ? Zelig++ Enhanced Generic Forest Gap Model
• NASA Carnegie Ames Stanford Approach (CASA) Biosphere model
• CLAWS: Coupled Hydro-Geomorphic Model
• Water Resources Software from the U.S. Geological Survey
• DESERT: Decision Support System for Evaluation of River Basin Strategies
• Department of Defense Groundwater Modeling System (GMS)
• U.S. EPA Center for Exposure Assessment Modeling (CEAM) PC-based Software
• Mountain Climate generator Hydrological modeling System (MCHS)

Environmental Education Resources

• USRA Earth System Science Education
• Global Change - USGS Learning Web
• ? Educational Resources for Hydrology and Earth Sciences (NASA)
• Educational Resources for Oceanography and Earth Sciences (NASA)
• Consortium for the Application of Space Data to Education (CASDE)
• Internet Resources - National Science Teachers's Association
• ? Global Change Course at Iowa State University
• ? 1995 Kids as Global Scientists Exchange (Univ. of Colorado at Boulder)
• ? Global Change and Canadians: Teacher's Guide
• EE-Link: Environmental Education on the Internet
• NCAR/Unidata's Links to Educational (K-12) Resources
• The Institute for Global Change Research and Education (IGCRE)
• GAIA: A Multi-Media Tool for Natural Resources Management and Environmental Education
• Earthwatch Global Classroom
• Earth Science Activities and Lesson Plans (NESEN)
• ? State and Regional Environmental Education Information
• Eastern Iowa Environmental Education
• Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education
• Center for Agriculture, Science and Environmental Education (CASEE) - Eastern Washington State
• Project Skymath (NSF/UCAR)
• Journey North: A Global Study of Wildlife Migration
• Monarch Watch (Department of Entomology, University of Kansas)
• The Wolf Studies Project
• Vanishing Species Curriculum
• Endangered Species Information and Classroom Activities (National Wildlife Federation)
• Birds: Our Environmental Indicators Curriculum Plan
• ? Rainforest Workshop for Teachers and Students
• A Children's View of the Earth's Drylands (UNEP)
• Water Ecosystem Activities for Teachers and Students (EPA)
• Air Quality Lesson Plans and Data (Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission)
• National Wildlife Federation Environmental Education
• Envirolink
• Earth System Science Community Curriculum Project
• The Observatorium Education Center, NASA-Sponsored Educational Earth and Space Science Products
• Earth - The Ever-Changing Planet (The Observatorium - NASA)
• CoVis: Learning Through Collaborative Visualization
• EarthView project (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
• Exploring Satellite Oceanography: Lesson Plans
• The Joint Education Initiative (JEI)
• The Climate Time Machine
• Public Use of Remote Sensing Data (NASA-Sponsored Projects)
• Image Processing for Teaching
• Athena - Curriculum Development, Implementation, and Support on the Internet
• The GLOBE Program (Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment)
• NASA Educational Services (Space Link)
• Using Computers in Environmental Education - Workshop Resource Material
• CIESIN Thematic Guides on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
• EarthVision Program
• Global Laboratory Project
• The Ozone Project (EnviroNet)
• NOAA 1994 National Environmental Watch
• Exploration in Education (ExInEd): Space Science Library of Electronic Picture Books
• Explorer - Educational Multimedia Resources
• Atmospheric Sciences Instructional Modules (Univ. of Illinois)
• The Weather Underground K-12 Weather Curriculum
• NASA SeaWiFS: Studying Ocean Color from Space
  Teacher's Guide with Activities
• NASA SIR-C Shuttle Spaceborne Imaging Radar Education Program
• The JASON Project - "Live" Exploration of the Earth
• Environmental Education - Nebraska
• Automated Weather Source - Nationwide School Weather Network
• Water Curriculum Project
• NASA's Partners in Education Program
• EarthRISE: Earth Remote Imagery for Science and Education
• Earthwatch Radio Scripts
• Salish Sea Discovery Center (Puget Sound, Washington)
• Teacher's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Stanford (University) Youth Environmental Science Program
• Louisiana Energy & Environmental Resource & Information Center (LEERIC)
• Dissemination of Atmospheric Sciences and Space Sciences Data and Information for K-12 and the Public: A Northwest Approach
• California Environmental Education Interagency Network (CEEIN)
• Center for Environmental and Conservation Education (Univ. of Tennessee at Martin)
• Tennessee Environmental Education Association
• John M. Judy Environmental Education Consortium (Tennessee)
• Texas Environmental Center
• National Geographic World Online - for Kids

Newsletters, Journals and Magazines

• CGRER IOWATCH Newsletters
• List of Environmental Newsletters (RouteNet)
• Australian Environmental Newsletters
• Climate-Related Impacts Network Newsletter (UNEP/ESIG)
• Clean Cities Drive Newsletters
• CNN Environmental News
• CONSEQUENCES: The Nature and Implications of Environmental Change
• Global Change: A Review of Climate Change and Ozone Depletion
• Science Now (joint newsletter of SIRS, Inc. and UCAR)
• Greenhouse Issues (International Energy Association)
• EcoLink Journal
• The Environmental Technologist
• Tiempo - Global Change and the Third World
• Environmental Watch - Western Europe
• Newsletter - European Environment Agency
• c2e2 News - Newsletter of the UNEP Collaborating Centre on Energy and Environment
• United Nations Climate Change Bulletins
• ECO: Climate Action Network Newsletters
• Stockhom Environmental Institute International Environmental Bulletin
• The Bulletin of the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC)
• U.S. EPA Newsletters and Journals
• Biodiversity Network News (The Nature Conservancy)
• Biolinks - Biodiversity Newsletter (Australia)
• Environment News/NESDA Newsletter - World Bank
• DELTA (Canadian Global Change Program)
• Degrees of Change (Integrated Climate Change Research at Carnegie Mellon)
• Environmental News Network Briefings (Univ. of Idaho)
• LTER Newsletters and Bulletins
• The Arid Lands Newsletter
• Green Beat! Profiles and Perspectives in Environmental Endeavors
• Cities for Climate Protection Newsletter (ICLEI)
• Our Environment (Hawaii)
• Between the Issues (Magazine of the Ecology Action Centre - Canada)
• GREENWAY: Newsletter of Central and East European Environmental NGOs
• The Biological Conservation Newsletter (Smithsonian Institution)
• Conservation Ecology Journal
• The Green Drummer (New York State Environmental Congress)
• E, The Environmental Magazine
• EARTH Magazine
• Science and the Environment
• The Planet (Sierra Club)
• GreenClips Environmental Journal
• U.N. Earth Negotiations Bulletin
• KLIMAFORUM Bulletin
• Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly
• Earth First! Journal
• The South Florida Environmental Reader
• Great Lakes Environmental Wire
• Canadian Ecological Science Centers Newsletter (ESC NEWS)
• Natural Areas Journal
• AI Applications: Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environmental Science

Environmental Law

• Environmental Law Journals
• Enviromental Law Material
• Environmental Law WWW References
• EnviroText On-line Searchable Library
• U.S. Federal Environmental Law, Regulation, and Policy
• Environmental Law Around the World (EcoNet)
• Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
• Links to Environmental and Regulatory Information (APPA)
• West Coast Environmental Legal Information Base (ELIB)
• California Environmental Law, Regulation, and Policy (CERES)
• The Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (University of Melbourne)
• Environmental Law and Related Documents (Indiana University)
• Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
• Environmental Law References
• U.S. Environmental Regulations
• U.S. Wildlife Protection Law Summaries
• International Legal Instruments (Conventions/Protocols)
• ENTRI - Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators (CIESIN/SEDAC) Global Environmental Change
• List of Environmental Law Publications
• The Clean Air Act Information Network
• The Plain English Guide To The Clean Air Act (EPA)
• U.S. Clean Air Act (United States Code Title 42 Chapter 85)
• U.S. Clean Air Act Amendments (1990)
• U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library Code of Federal Regulations
• Environmental Legislation and Regulations in Pennsylvania
• Great Lakes Agreements, Laws and Policies
• Environmental Legislative Watch (Natural Resources Defense Council)
• Environmental Issues in Litigation
• Iowa Environmental and Natural Resources Law
• List of Iowa Environmental Law Resources

Air Pollution/Air Quality

• Air Pollution Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Internet Resources for Air Quality and Related Information
• NOAA Air Resources Laboratory
• U.S. EPA Office of Air and Radiation
• U.S. EPA Region 5 (IL,IN,MI,MN,OH,WI) Air and Radiation Division
• Ambient Air Quality in the Central Midwest - EPA Region 7
• U.S. EPA Atmospheric Pollution Prevention Division
• U.S. EPA Acid Rain Program
• Air Quality Trends - 1994: U.S. EPA Office of Air and Radiation
• U.S. EPA/OSHA Most Requested Air Emissions Documents
• Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Division of Air Pollution Control
• Missouri Air Pollution Control Program
• National Park Service Air Resources
• Center for Air Pollution Impact and Trend Analysis (CAPITA) at Washington University
• The Smog Watch Program
• Pesticides in the Atmosphere (USGS Pesticide National Synthesis Project)
• Air Pollution and Physical Chemistry Instructional Material (UCSD - The Senses Bureau)
• Air Quality in Berlin, Germany
• The Austrian Ozone Monitoring Network
• Urban and Regional Air Pollution in Australia
• Air Pollution in the Republic of Georgia
• Environmental Canada National Pollutant Release Inventory
• Environment Canada: Air Quality Research Branch (AQRB)
• New Brunswick (Canada) Department of the Environment Air Quality Section
• New Brunswick (Canada) Acid Rain Precipitation Monitoring Program
• Greater Vancouver (Canada) Regional District Air Quality Index Report
• Colorado Air Pollution Control Division
• Colorado Northern Front Range Air Quality Study (NFRAQS)
• Louisiana Office of Air Quality & Radiation Protection
• Ground-Level Ozone Pollution Information (Maryland Department of the Environment)
• Mapping Ozone Air Pollution in Maryland
• Pennsylvania Bureau of Air Quality
• Santa Barbara Air Pollution Control District
• South Coast (California) Air Quality Management District
• Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission Office of Air Quality
• Northwest Air Pollution Authority (Washington State)
• Oregon Air Quality Modeling
• Utah Air Quality Modeling
• Emissions of Air Pollutants - Norway
• Acid Rain: State of the Environment - Norway
• Joint EMEP/CORINAIR Atmospheric Emission Inventory Guidebook - Europe
• Norwegian Institute for Air Research
• Measurement of Air Pollution from Satellites (MAPS)
• RAINS Project (Regional Air Pollution INformation and Simulation)
• The Industrial Pollution Projection System Project (World Bank)
• U.S. Clean Air Act Amendments (1990)
• National Center for Vehicle Emissions Control and Safety (NCVECS)
• Air Quality Lesson Plans and Data (Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission)
• Advanced Air Quality Modeling - Quarterly Newsletter (MCNC)

Ozone Depletion and Global Warming

• WMO/UNEP Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 1994
• 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Paul Crutzen, Mario Molina and Sherwood Rowland
• Introduction to the Ozone Layer and Ozone Hole
• Stratospheric Ozone (EPA)
• Stratospheric Ozone Law, Information, and Science (SOLIS)
• A Primer on Ozone Depletion
• Canada National Environmental Indicator Series: Stratospheric Ozone Depletion
• Environment Canada: Stratospheric Ozone/Arctic Ozone Depletion
• Environment Canada: Climate Change Issues
• Global Warming Update (NCDC/NOAA)
• Understanding Climate Change (Union of Concerned Scientists)
• Stratospheric Ozone Information
• Ozone Hole Information
• WMO Antarctic Ozone Bulletins
• SBUV-2 Total Ozone Maps - Northern and Southern Hemispheres
• Visualization of 2-D and 3-D Ozone Data
• ESA Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME)
• Total Column Ozone Data Maps from GOME-sensor on ERS-2 Satellite
• Measuring Tropospheric Ozone (TERC Global Laboratory/Smog Watch)
• Space Shuttle-based Ozone Measurements
• Ozone Soundings at Neumayer Antarctic Research Station
• European Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Experiment (EASOE)
• North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone (NARSTO)
• Ozone Depletion and Global Environmental Change (CIESIN)
• Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) Information
• Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) Data Set Information
• NASA Airborne Ozone Research
• Ozonesonde/Surface Ozone/Water Vapor Group Data Archive
• Ozone Transport Assessment Group (OTAG) TuT Database
• Non-urban Ozone Trends over the Eastern United States (NOAA)
• Low Total Ozone in the 1992-1993 Northern Hemisphere (NOAA)
• UV Radiation and the Ozone Layer
• Summaries of stratospheric climate (NOAA)
• International Energy Association (IEA) Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme
• State of Maine Tropospheric Ozone Monitoring Sites
• The Ozone Layer: State of the Environment - Norway
• Greenhouse Gases Emissions Report Quiz
• Ozone Action! Activities for Grades K-5 (Weather Underground)
• Understanding Ozone Depletion (Union of Concerned Scientists)
• Greenpeace: Ozone Crisis

Biodiversity

• Biodiversity: An Overview
• Biodiversity and Ecosystems Information (BENE)
• Biodiversity and Biological Collections WWW Server
• General Index of Biodiversity Resources
• Biodiversity Sites from Around the World
• Biodiversity Information Network/Agenda 21 (BIN21)
• Biodiversity References (Brazilian site)
• Biodiversity and Ecosystems NEtwork (BENE)
• The Association for Biodiversity Information
• California Executive Council on Biodiversity
• Montana Natural Heritage Program (MTNHP)
• Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory
• Virginia Natural Heritage Program
• Illinois Bioregion Information Bank
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• University of Alberta Devonian Botanic Garden
• Connecticut College Herbarium
• University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS)
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln Botanical Garden and Arboretum
• The Intermountain Herbarium
• U.S. Interagency Taxonomic Information System
• USDA/NRCS National Plant Data Center
• USDA National Plant Data Collection Center
• The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England
• U.S. National Herbarium (Smithsonian Institute)
• Vertebrates and Vascular Plants in U.S. National Parks
• Texas A&M University Plant Biodiversity Information Center
• Plant Resources Center - The University of Texas Herbarium
• Canadian Botanical Conservation Network (CBCN)
• Flora of North America
• Flora of Australia (ERIN)
• Flora of China
• California Flora Database
• Atlas of the Vascular Plants of Utah
• Andean Botanical Information System
• Pacific Rim Biodiversity Catalog
• Q'TAXA - Plant Resources Information Laboratory (University of California - Riverside)
• Biodiversity Map Library (World Conservation Monitoring Centre)
• Endangered Species (EE-Link)
• Division of Mammals - Natural History Museum, University of Kansas
• Convention on Biological Diversity - A Guide
• Great Lakes Information Network - Biodiversity
• Biodiversity and its value (DEST Biodiversity Series Paper No. 1)
• Biodiversity and Vietnam
• Biodiversity Information Network in Finland
• Canadian Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network
• Biodiversity: State of the Environment - Norway
• Biolinks - Biodiversity Newsletter (Australia)
• Understanding Biodiversity (Union of Concerned Scientists)
• EcoNews Africa

Paleoclimate Resources

• Palynology & Palaeoclimatology Index
• IGBP PAGES (Past Global Changes) Project
• NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
• Paleomagnetic Archive Site
• Radiocarbon Home Page (Univ. of Arizona)
• Paleolimnology Diatom Home Page
• International Organisation of Palaeobotany
• PKDB - Internationale PaläoKlima-DatenBank (International Paleoclimate Database)

Special Topics

• Texas Environmental Almanac
• Monitoring Glacier Changes from Space (NASA)
• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - Second Assessment Report (1995)
• Climate Change and Rice Production in Asia
• Natural Resources Defense Council Online: State of Nature
• Digital Environmental Atlas for Berlin
• The Industrial Pollution Projection System (World Bank)
• U.S. EPA Acid Rain Program
• Environmental & Societal Impacts Group (NCAR)
• El Nino Theme Page (NOAA/PMEL)
• Nonpoint Source Information Exchange (EPA Office of Water)
• Climate Processes Over the Oceans
• Numerical Ocean Modeling Experiments (NOAA/OAR/ERL/PMEL)
• Precipitable Water and Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies
• Volcanoes and Global Climate Change
• The Climate of the Next Century (DKRZ)
• Climatic Extremes and Hazards in Enhanced Greenhouse Conditions
• Monitoring of Desertification Using GIS Methods and Satellite Imagery
• Arid Region Remote Monitoring of Degradation (Caltech)
• Gap Analysis: A Geographic Approach to Protection of Biological Diversity
• Assessment of the Potential Distribution of Natural Vegetation as a Function of Simulated Climate as a Way of Comparing GCM Results
• Analysing Impacts of Floods and Droughts
• USDA Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP)
• Dam and Reservoir Impact and Information Archive
• Global warming and Vietnam
• Measurement of Air Pollution from Satellites (MAPS)
• Biofuels Information Network (U.S. Department of Energy)
• The Environment and Coal Use
• Mesoscale Atmospheric Models (ISU)
• California Cooperative Snow Surveys Home Page
• FireNet: Landscape Fire Information
• Simulating Fire Patterns in Heterogeneous Landscapes
• Monitoring Biomass Burning From Space
• The Fate of Nutrients in Streams
• Tropical Data Base - Brazil (slow)
• Human Health and Global Environment Change (CIESIN)
• NASA's Global Monitoring and Human Health (GMHH) Program
• World Hunger Project (Brown University)
• U.N. International Conference on Population and Development
• Global Recyling Network
• Clean Air Act Amendments
• National Environmental Scorecard (League of Conservation Voters)

Compiled by Mark MacLennan
University of Iowa Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research

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