Environmental

Aquatic Commons

graybeal — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:39:00 -0800

The Aquatic Commons is a thematic digital repository covering the natural marine, estuarine /brackish and fresh water environments . It includes all aspects of the science, technology, management and conservation of these environments, their organisms and resources, and the economic, sociological and legal aspects.

Earth System Curator

ngalbraith — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:32:59 -0700

The Earth System Curator team
is prototyping a software environment for assembling, running, and
archiving information about climate models. The idea is to make it
easier for scientists to perform modeling experiments, and to

Ecological Concepts Ontology

kwalz — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:55:00 -0800

From SPIRE web site: "A model of ecology viewed as the study of interactions between biotic entities and their environment". Ontology from the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab.

Existing: The item is available for public use, has been released or widely adopted, and is sponsored or maintained

EcoMundus

ngalbraith — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:41:00 -0800

Project Introduction

EcoMundus intends to bring about an infrastructure enabling access to international data and information resources.

GO-ESSP

ngalbraith — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:43:00 -0800

The Global Organization for Earth System Science Portal (GO-ESSP) is a collaboration designed to develop a new generation of software infrastructure that will provide distributed access to observed and simulated data from the climate and weather communities.

Hydroseek

kwalz — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:04:00 -0800

Integrated Ocean Observing Systems (IOOS)

luisBer — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:27:00 -0800

Description:

The Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) is a system of systems that routinely and continuously provides quality controlled data and information on current and future states of the oceans and Great Lakes from the global scale of ocean basins to local scales of coastal ecosystems. It is composed of a global and coastal components.

International Hydrographic Organization (IHO)

kwalz — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:42:00 -0800

The International Hydrographic Organization is an intergovernmental organization established in 1921 to promote the safety of marine navigation and the protection of the marine environment. Currently IHO has 74 maritime nations participating as members.

Their objectives (listed on the IHO web site) are to bring about:

International Polar Year Data and Information Service (IPYDIS)

graybeal — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:26:00 -0700

The International Polar Year Data and Information Service (IPYDIS) is a global partnership of data centers, archives, and networks working to ensure proper stewardship of IPY and related data. The International Polar Year is a massive international scientific programme focused on the Arctic and the Antarctic from March 2007 to March 2009.

NOAA's Coral Reef Information System (CoRIS)

haiying — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:03:00 -0800

NOAA's Coral Reef Information System (CoRIS) is designed to be a single point of access to NOAA coral reef information and data products, especially those derived from NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program.

Includes a glossary, references, etc.
Metadata examples for different data types:

Aerial Photography (pdf, 104 kb)

SEEK Initiative

kwalz — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:14:00 -0800

SEEK aims to help ecologists "efficiently capture, organize and search for data and analytical processes from their desk-top in a user friendly interface".