U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's water programs and their counterparts in states and pollution control agencies are increasingly emphasizing watershed and water quality-based assessment and integrated analysis of point and nonpoint sources. Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources (BASINS) is a system developed to meet the needs of such agencies. It integrates a geographic information system (GIS), national watershed data, and state-of-the-art environmental assessment and modeling tools into one convenient package.
Envirofacts WarehouseThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created the Envirofacts Warehouse to provide the public with direct access to the wealth of information contained in its databases. The Envirofacts Warehouse allows you to retrieve environmental information from EPA databases on Air, Chemicals, Facility Information, Grants/Funding, Hazardous Waste, Risk Management Plans, Superfund, Toxic Releases, and Water Permits, Drinking Water, Drinking Water Contaminant Occurrence, and Drinking Water Microbial and Disinfection Byproduct Information (Information Collection Rule [ICR]). You may retrieve information from several databases at once, or from one database at a time. Online queries allow you to retrieve data from these sources and create reports, or you may generate maps of environmental information by selecting from several mapping applications available through EPA's Maps On Demand.
NOAA Environmental Services Data DirectoryNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
The NOAA Environmental Services Data Directory is a forms-based tool that allows users to search for publicly available environmental data held by public and private sources throughout the world. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Environmental Information Services division provides this service in partial fulfillment of NOAA's responsibility to archive and document environmental data. Data sources include descriptions related to climatology, meteorology, ecology, pollution, geology, oceanography, and remote sensing satellites. The wide variety of data and data sources described in the NOAA Environmental Services Data Directory makes it a valuable multidisciplinary research tool for the scientist, the educator, researcher, or any member of the general public.
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Compiled by Mary W. Scott, Geology Librarian, Orton Memorial Library of Geology
Designed by Michael C. Veres, Student Library Assistant
Page updated: April 18, 2007