Agriculture
Chicago Climate Exchange - U.S. voluntary pilot program for 'trading' of greenhouse gases
National Agricultural Statistics Service - wide range of subjects, from traditional crops, such as corn and wheat, to specialties, such as mushrooms and flowers; from calves born to hogs slaughtered; from agricultural prices to land in farms (USDA)
National Soil Survey Center - "Helping People Understand Soils" (USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Prog)
Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation - provides support for farm families through legislative representation, public relations, leadership development and economic services
Wisconsin Farm Service Agency - (USDA)
Biodiversity
Biodiversity Project - communication tools and strategies to inform the public about biodiversity (non-profit, Madison, WI)
BIOMAPS - Biodiversity Mapping for Protection and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources (University of Bonn)
Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network - collaborative effort involving more than 1100 scientists and students investigating ecological processes over long temporal and broad spatial scales
Centre for Population Biology (Imperial College, UK)
Convention on Biological Diversity (United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP)
DIVERSITAS - international global environmental change research programme consortium
Flora of North America - names, taxonomic relationships, continent-wide distributions, and morphological characteristics of plants native and naturalized found in North America north of Mexico (Harvard)
Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems, Biodiversity & Ecosystem Functioning (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, IGBP)
Missouri Botanical Garden - A wealth of botanical information
National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) - info and data on U.S. biological resources
The Resilience Alliance - consortium of institutions that seeks novel ways to integrate science and policy in order to discover foundations for sustainability
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - the famed gardens of the United Kingdom
Data Sources
Ameriflux - longterm CO2, water, and energy exchange measurements from a variety of ecosystems (US Global Change Research Progrom)
Earth System Science Online - repository for Earth System Science education and research resources
Global Change Master Directory - descriptions of Earth science data sets and services relevant to global change research: agriculture, atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, oceans, snow, ice, geology, geophysics, paleoclimatology, and human dimensions of global change
Land and Water Development Divison of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
IPCC Data Distribution Centre - research results from seven climate modelling centres (Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum, Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Geophysical Fluids Dynamics Laboratory, the Commonwealth and Scientific Industrial Research Organisation, the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Centre for Climate System Research)
EOS -Webster - digital library of customized Earth Science data (Univ of New Hampshire)
National Climatic Data Center - archive of weather data
National Geophysical Data Center - global environmental data from satellites and other sources (NOAA)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DACC) - biogeochemical and ecological data for studying environmental processes; data collected on the ground, from aircraft, by satellite, or have been generated by computer models; extent of data ranges from site-specific to global, and durations range from days to years
Regional and Global Data for Global Change Research from ORNL DAAC -Comprehensive metadata database of data and models on the biogeochemical dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems. Metadata contain links to data and models held by other data centers
SAGE Datasets - IBIS and HYDRA model code, Croplands Datasets, Vegetation Dataset, LBA Datasets
USGS EROS Data Center - Distributed Active Archive Center (EDC DAAC) - satellite land-related data
Federal Research Agencies and Programs
Destination Earth - NASA Earth Science Enterprise, dedicated to understanding the total Earth system and the effects of natural and human-induced changes on the global environment
US Global Change Research Program - research and related activities that advance fundamental understanding of dynamic physical, biological, and socioeconomic systems and interactions among those systems
Fieldwork
Campbell Scientific Instruments
Li-Cor Instrumentation
UW Soil & Forage Analysis Lab
UW Soil & Plant Analysis Lab
Image Sources
UCAR Digital Image Library Professional images ideal for magazines and journals. Fast searches and immediate downloads with minimal licensing fees. Free for educational use with proper attribution
Earth Science Image Studio and Multimedia Library of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise
NASA Earth Observatory - site geared toward public media and educators; all materials freely available for re-publication or re-use, except where indicated
NASA Image eXchange - meta-search engine links to and searches imagery in NASA databases
Earth Explorer - Query and order satellite images, aerial photographs, and cartographic products through the U.S. Geological Survey
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Journals
Agronomy Journal
Ambio
Am. J Tropical Medicine & Hygiene
Australian J Plant Physiology
BioScience Magazine
Canadian J Forest Research
Climatic Change
Climate Dynamics
Climate Research
Crop Science
Ecohealth
Ecological Applications
Ecological Restoration
Earth Interactions
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Environmental Health Perspectives
EOS
Freshwater Biology
Geophysical Research Letters
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Global Change Biology
Global Ecology and Biogeography
Hydrological Processes
International J Climatology
J Animal Ecology
J Atmospheric Science
J Biogeography
J Climate
J Experimental Botany
J Geophysical Research
J Hydrology
J Physical Oceanography (AMS)
J Soil & Water Conservation
The Lancet
Land Economics
Landscape Journal
Limnology and Oceanography
Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
Monthly Weather Review
Nature
Oecologia
Paleoceanography
Plant Cell and Environment
Plant Ecology (formerly Vegetatio)
Quart J Royal Meteorological Society
Science
Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy
Tellus
Theoretical & Applied Climatology
Tree Physiology
Water, Air, & Soil Pollution
Water Resources Research
Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - lead U.S. federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people, providing info to enhance health decisions
Medscape -clinical info aimed at a broad medical audience
ProMED - Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases
World Health Organization (WHO)
Weekly Epidemiological Record (WHO)
Land Use
The Library of Congress Country Studies - descriptive history and geography of countries
Organizations
Aldo Leopold Leadership Program - for environmental scientists who want to be more effective communicators of scientific information
American Geophysical Union (AGU) - focus on the organization and dissemination of scientific info in geophysical sciences: atmospheric and ocean, solid-Earth, hydrologic, and space sciences
The Balaton Group - international nonprofit network working to train, link and support people in promoting global sustainability
Ecological Society of America (ESA) - nonprofit org of scientists working to improve communication among ecologists, raise public awareness of ecological issues, increase resources for ecological science, and enhance commuication between ecologists and policy-makers
The Nature Conservancy - working to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive through "Conservation By Design"
The Prairie enthusiasts - grassroots, volunteer based org concerned with the maintenance and recovery of the tallgrass prairie and oak savanna ecosystems of Wisconsin and northern Illinois
Resources for the Future - nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that conducts independent research rooted primarily in economics and other social sciences on environmental and natural resource issues
Woods Hole Research Center - research program specializing in global forests; policy program focuses on ways to safeguard the health of the planet; education program trains scientists in Brazil, Russia and the U.S.
World Resources Institute - environmental think tank that aims to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve people's lives
Earth Trends - environmental information portal site of the World Resources Institute
Sustainability
WorldChanging Weblog - links to and analysis of models, tools, and ideas for building a better future
Smart Communities Network - resources, tools, links to articles and publications, and community success stories on a variety of topics from Community Energy, to Green Development, to Sustainable Business.
Global Footprint Network - The Mission of the Ecological Footprint Network is to make sustainability specific by transforming the Ecological Footprint into a vocal and rigorous measure of human demand on nature.
Eco-Earth - an environmental sustainability portal
Environmental News Network
Forum on Science and Technology for Sustainability at Harvard University
Int'l Institute for Sustainable Development
National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) serving economically disadvantaged people by providing information and access to appropriate sustainable technologies to help improve their lives (projects have range from low-tech to high-tech, addressing complex issues of housing, economics, and environmental quality, weatherizing houses, training farmers, monitoring energy use, demonstrating renewable energy technology, testing new products and providing information on building construction)
Rocky Mountain Institute - nonprofit org working with businesses, communities, individuals, and governments to protect and enhance natural and human resources
Renewable Energy Policy Project - renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainability
Sustain Dane - Madison area grassroots org promoting sustainability locally
Sustainability Institute - think tank dedicated to sustainable resource use, economics, and community
Union of Concerned Scientists - nonprofit partnership of scientists and citizens combining scientific analysis, policy development, and citizen advocay to achieve practical environmental solutions
U.S. Census Bureau - world population information
World Resources Institute (WRI) - environmental think tank seeking practical ways to protect the earth and improve people's lives
UW-Madison
Arboretum
CHANGE-IGERT
Center for Climatic Research
Dept of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS)
Dept of Soil Science
Energy Institute
Environmental Remote Sensing Center (ERSC)
Dept of Forest Ecology and Management
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC)
Sustainability Courses at the UW Business School
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