ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Reference Sources
- Environmental Trends: from World Resources Institute
http://earthtrends.wri.org
Ecology and Biodiversity
- Biological Research Division of the US Geological Survey
http://biology.usgs.gov/ - Status and Trends of the Nation's Biological Resources: a major
assessment of U.S. biodiversity.
http://biology.usgs.gov/status_trends/ - Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: a major assessment
of the ability of the global ecosystem to support human activity.
http://www.millenniumassessment.org/en/index.aspx
Rivers and Wetlands
- Surf your watershed, at the EPA.
http://www.epa.gov/surf/
- Locate your Watershed on Surf your watershed
http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/locate/index.cfm
- Locate your Watershed on Surf your watershed
- Minnesota Assoc. of Watershed Districts
http://www.mnwatershed.org/ - The River Network
http://www.rivernetwork.org/ - Waterlaws.com
A Minnesota Law firm that has online legal information regarding water issues.
http://www.waterlaws.com/ - (U.S.) National Wetlands Inventory from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
http://www.nwi.fws.gov/ - Navigational Information Connection from the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Rock Island District.
Including the Upper Mississippi River Navigational Charts
http://www2.mvr.usace.army.mil/NIC2/default.cfm - More Links to the U.S. Department of the Interior: Including USGS digital maps, and related sites.
Animals
- Insects
Entomology Index of Internet Resources. Iowa State.
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/List/ - Fish
FishBase: comprehensive database on fish species
http://www.fishbase.org/home.htm - Frogs (deformed)
Deformed Frogs in Minnesota
http://www.pca.state.mn.us/hot/frogs.html - North American Reporting Center for Amphibian Malformations
http://frogweb.nbii.gov/narcam/ - Wolves
- International Wolf Center
http://www.wolf.org/ - North American Mammals
http://www.mnh2.si.edu/education/mna/main.cfm
- International Wolf Center
- Birds
Audubon Watchlist: a guide to American birds
http://www.audubon.org/bird/watch/ - The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota
http://www.raptor.cvm.umn.edu/ - Primates
Primate Info Net: comprehensive information about primatology. Maintained by UW Madison, it has both original content and a literature database.
http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/index.html
Plants
- Plants Database from the USDA
http://plants.usda.gov/
Population Growth
- Population Reference Bureau
http://www.prb.org - UN Population Information Network
http://www.un.org/popin
Climate Change
- Global Climate Change Student Information Guide:
from Manchester Metropolitan University, England.
http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/Resources/gcc/index.html - UN Climate Change Site:from the United Nations Environment Programme
http://climatechange.unep.net