ES-90 - ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH METHODS
STATISTICS & DATA RESOURCES
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RESOURCE

GENERAL RESOURCES

  • Statistical Resources on the Web
  • Statistical Resources on the Web: Environment
  • NatureServe Explorer
  • Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
  • from the Earth Institute at Columbia University
  • "... specializes in on-line data and information management, spatial data integration and training, and interdisciplinary research related to human interactions in the environment."
  • http://www.ciesin.org/
  • Environmental Law: Databases and Statistics

FEDERAL

  • FedStats
  • US Census Bureau
  • Environmental Quality Statistics
  • Statistical tables from"Part III. Environmental Data and Trends" of Environmental Quality, the annual report of the Council on Environmental Quality.
  • http://ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/reports/statistics/
  • Municipal Solid Wastes Data - by State
  • NBII Metadata Clearinghouse
  • Searchable database of "metadata-based descriptions of biological data sets and information products from many different sources." From the National Biological Information Infrastructure, part of the USGS Center for Biological Informatics
  • http://metadata.nbii.gov/
  • Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)
  • from NASA - "Earth science data sets and services relevant to the global change and Earth science research."
  • http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/

CALIFORNIA

  • Rand California
  • "RAND California is a subscription-based service on California and U.S. public policy issues with an emphasis on statistics."
  • Available through some public and academic libraries.
  • http://ca.rand.org/cgi-bin/homepage.cgi

SEDAC, the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center Datasets

  • Environmental Sustainability Index
  • Last of the Wild & Human Footprint datasets
  • Gridded Population of the World
  • Population, Landscape, and Climate Estimates
  • Global Ambient Population, 2000