Science Links

Agriculture

• CGIAR (Global, sustainable agriculture research)
• FAO (UN Food and Agriculture Organization)

Biogeochemistry

• Fluxnet (Global, boundary layer carbon flux data)
• CDIAC (Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center, Oak Ridge TN)

Climate Science and Climate Data

• Ecological Climatology (Gordon Bonan’s textbook, first edition)
• GISTEMP (NASA Goddard gridded climate data)
• NCDC (Vast archive of climatic data of all types)
• AGW Observer (Weekly summaries of newly published climate change science)

Conservation and Conservation Biology

• CIFOR (Center for International Forestry)
• UN MEA (UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005)
• IUCN (Highly important conservation organization)

Ecology and Evolution

• Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate (U of Copenhagen)

Exploration and Discovery

• Early Encounters in North America (Tremendous resource of primary materials related to early contacts between Native Americans and non-natives)
• Pacific Railroad Survey Reports, CPRR
• Pacific Railroad Survey Reports, Univ. of Michigan

Genetics

Land Use, Land Cover, Vegetation

• Global Land Cover Characterization
• National Land Cover Database (Continental USA only)
• USFS FIA (Massive forest inventory data set, USA)
• USGS Land Cover Institute

Quantification (Math and Statistics)

Sustainability and Sustainability Science

• Ecology and Society (Scientific journal)
• ICIMOD (Mountain development in the Himalaya region)
• Resilience Alliance (Studying the dynamics of social-ecological systems)