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Environmental Agencies/Organizations

(last updated: )

A wide variety of organizations involved with environmental issues have provided information about themselves via Internet and the World Wide Web.

Topics

• Directories of Environmental Organizations/Institutions
• U.S. Federal Government Agencies/Programs
• U.S. State Government Agencies/Programs
• Foreign Government Agencies/Programs
• International Organizations
• Professional Societies
• Corporate and Nonprofit Organizations
• University-based Research Centers - United States
• University-based Research Centers - International

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 of Environmental Organizations

• Listing of Environmental Organizations On-Line
• The Environmental Organization Directory
• Oceanographic & Earth Science Institutions Directory
• Directory of Organizations and Institutes Active In Environmental Monitoring
• List of Environmental Studies and Environmental Science Programs

U.S. Federal Government Agencies/Programs

• Mission to Planet Earth (NASA)
• Data Assimilation Office (NASA-Goddard)
• The National Institute for Global Environmental Change
• Program for Climate Model Diagnosis & Intercomparison (PCMDI)
• NOAA Environmental Information Services
• EPA Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP)
• EPA Hazardous Substance Research Center
• U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research Network (LTER)
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
• USGS Global Change Research Program
• U.S. Department of Energy Global Change Research
• U.S. Department of Energy Biological and Environmental Research Program
• USDA-ARS National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory
• USDA-ARS Wind Erosion Reseach Unit
• U.S. National Park Service (NPS)
• U.S. National Biological Service (NBS)
• NBS Environmental Management Technical Center
• National Biological Service (NBS) University of Minnesota Cooperative Research Unit
• National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)
• National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
• NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)
• National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
• NCAR Atmospheric Technology Division (ATD)
• Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL) - Environmental Sciences Division
• Goddard Institute for Space Science (GISS)
• Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center
• Smithsonian Institution Center for Earth and Planetary Studies (CEPS)
• Index of U.S. Geological Survey Servers
• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
• USDA - Natural Resources Conservation Service
• NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories
• NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
• NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
• NASA Internet Connections
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• DOE AMES Laboratory - Environmental Technology Development
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
• Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR)

U.S. State Government Agencies/Programs

• Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation
• Arkansas Basin River Forecast Center (ABRFC) (NOAA/NWS)
• Arizona Salt River Project
• Califoria Environmental Protection Agency
• California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES)
• Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment/Office of Environment
• Delaware Department of Natural Resources
• Florida Department of Environmental Protection
• Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources
• Illinois Natural Resources Information Network
• Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
• Illinois Natural History Survey
• Indiana Department of Natural Resources
• Iowa Department of Natural Resources
• Kentucky Environmental Quality Commission
• Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality
• Maine Department of Environmental Protection
• Maryland Department of Natural Resources
• Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management
• Michigan Department of Natural Resources
• Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
• Missouri Department of Conservation
• Montana Natural Resource Information System
• Nebraska Natural Resources Commission
• New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
• New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
• North Carolina Division of Forest Resources
• Ohio Department of Natural Resources
• Ohio Environmental Proctection Agency
• Oregon Department of Forestry
• Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
• Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
• South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
• South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources
• Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission
• Utah Department of Environmental Quality
• Washington State Department of Ecology
• Washington State Department of Natural Resources
• Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
• Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation

Foreign Government Agencies/Programs

• Austrian Federal Environment Agency
• Natural Resources Canada
• Environment Canada
• Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
• SILMU - The Finnish Research Programme on Climate Change
• British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks
• Polish Institute of Environmental Protection
• Czech Ministry of Environment
• Danish Ministry of Environment and Energy
• The Alfred Wegener Institute - German National Center for Polar and Marine Research
• CSIRO Division of Water Resources (Australia)
• CSIRO Tropical Forest Research Centre (Australia)
• Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum - DKRZ (German Climate Computing Center)
• Communications Research Laboratory - Global Environmental Science (Japan)
• Mexican Agency for Environment, Natural Resources and Fisheries
• Institute of Ecology (Mexico)
• Belgian Federal Department of the Environment

International Organizations

• UNEP/GRID Home Page
• International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP-DIS)
• UNEP GRID-Arendal (Norway)
• Central European Environmental Data Request Facility (CEDAR)
• European Network for Research in Global Change (ENRICH)
• Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
• Center for International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO) - Oslo
• Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe
• Model Evaluation Consortium for Climate Assessment
• International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
• European Conservation Institutes Research Network
• Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (ITE)
• European Centre for Nature Conservation (ECNC)
• Stockholm Environment Institute
• International Organization for Plant Information
• Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH)
• The United Kingdom Environmental Change Network
• The International Arid Lands Consortium (IALC)
• Man and the Biosphere (MAB) - Biosphere Reserves
• International Arid Lands Consortium
• ECOLOGIA (ECOlogists Linked for Organizing Grassroots Initiatives and Action)
• International Institute for Sustainable Development
• Pan-American Center for Earth and Environmental Sciences
• SEAMEO Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (Asia)

Professional Societies

• Air & Waste Management Association
• American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM)
• American Geological Institute
• American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS)
• American Meteorological Society
• Association of American Geographer
• Ecological Society of America
• Geological Society of America
• Hawaii Association of Environmental Professionals (HEAP)
• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
• International Association of Hydrogeologists
• International Society of Biometeorology
• International Society for Ecological Modelling - North-American Chapter (ISEM-NA)
• National Association of Environmental Professionals (NAEP)
• Soil and Water Conservation Society
• International Society for Environmental Ethics

Corporate and Nonprofit Organizations

• Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
• The Directory of Progressive Organizations and Resources
• Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST)
• The Global Network of Environment & Technology (GNET)
• The Center for the Study of the Environment (CSE)
• Environmental Working Group (EWP)
• International Energy Association (IEA) Greenhouse Gas Research & Development Programme
• Institute of Ecosystem Studies (IES)
• Greenbelt Aliance (San Francisco Bay Area)
• Ecotrust (Pacific Northwest)
• The North American Institute (NAMI)
• The 2050 Project
• The East-West Center Program on Environment/The Asia Foundation
• Institute for Ground Water Research (IGWR)
• Resource Renewal Institute
• American Wind Energy Association
• The Alternative Fuels Data Center
• International Institute for Sustainable Development
• The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
• International Association for Solar Energy Education
• Tellus Institute for Resource and Environmental Strategies
• Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
• Global Research Network on Sustainable Development
• National Parks and Conservation Association
• National Wildlife Federation
• World Widelife Fund for Nature (WWF)
• The Nature Conservancy
• The Trust for Public Land
• The Wilderness Society
• The Sierra Club
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• Environmental Defense Fund
• Green Parties of North America
• National Institute for the Environment (NIE)
• Green Rivers Environmental Education Network (GREEN)
• Forever Wild Tree Conservancy
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre
• Students for Environmental and Ecological Develepment (SEED)
• Student Environmental Action Coalition
• Rocky Mountain Institute
• Friends of the Earth
• Greenpeace International
• Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
• Earth Pledge Foundation
• The National Institute for Environmental Renewal (NIER)
• International Solar Energy Society
• Earthwatch
• Friends of the Environment Foundation (Canada)
• Northwest Ecosystem Alliance
• Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC)
• Palouse- Clearwater Environmental Institute
• Washington Environmental Industry Association
• Co-op America

University-based Research Centers - United States

• Center for Ecological Health Research
• Center for Environmental Ethics (Univ. of North Texas)
• Desert Research Institute (Univ. and College System of Nevada)
• Princeton Environmental Institute
• Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) - University of Colorado at Boulder
• Institute for the Study of Planet Earth (University of Arizona)
• Institute for Environmental Studies (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Institute for Global Change Research and Education (IGCRE)
• Integrated Climate Change Research at Carnegie Mellon University
• Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington
• Universities Water Information Network (UWIN)
• Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (Univ. of Oklahoma)
• University of Iowa Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CGRER)
• Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI)
• Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group - University of Montana
• International Center for Tropical Ecology - University of Missouri at St. Louis
• University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC)
• REGIS: Environmental Planning & GIS - Univ. of California at Berkeley
• University of Maryland Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
• Multiscale Experiment Ecosystem Research Center (MEERC)
• Maryland International Institute for Ecological Economics (MIIEE)
• Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis - Rutgers University
• Ohio State Center for Mapping
• The National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA)
• Center For Advanced Spatial Technology (CAST)
  - Univ. Of Arkansas at Fayetteville
• The Earth System Science Center (Penn State)
• Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (Columbia Univ.)
• Univ. of Hawaii School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology
• Center for Air Sea Technology (Mississippi State University)
• National Institutes for Water Resources (Clemson University)
• Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Boston University
• Wyoming Water Resources Center (Univ. of Wyoming)
• Purdue Mesoscale Modeling Laboratory
• MIT Earth Resources Laboratory
• MIT Weather Radar Laboratory
• Land, Air, and Water Resources - Univ. of California at Davis
• Environmental Science and Engineering Department, Oregon Graduate Institute
• Cornell University Center for the Environment
• Center for Coastal and Land-Margin Research
• Center for the Study of Global Change - Yale University
• Consortium for Global Change and Regional Impacts (UCLA)
• The Environmental Research Institute of Michigan
• Texas Institute for Applied Environmental Research (TIAER)
• Institute for Technology Development/Space Remote Sensing Center
• Center for Clean Technology (UCLA)
• Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research (University of Arizona)
• Ocean Pollution Research Center (University of Miami)

University-based Research Centers - International

• International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics - Lund University, Sweden
• University of Toronto Centre for Landscape Research
• McGill University Centre for Climate and Global Change Research (CCGCR)
• UK Universities Global Atmospheric Modelling Programme
• Centre for Atmospheric Science - University of Cambridge, UK
• Climate Research Unit - University of East Anglia
• School of Earth Sciences at Macquarie University
• Climate Impact Centre - Macquarie University, Australia
• The Applied Climate Research Unit - University of Queensland, Australia
• Center for Ecological Sciences, India Institute of Science
• Institute of Environmental and Landscape Management - Godollo University (Hungary)
• Interduct - Delft University Clean Technology Institute

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

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