Environmental and Energy Sciences Resources on the World Wide Web

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Environmental and Energy Sciences Resources on the World Wide Web

TABLE OF LINK CATEGORIES
This web site is organized into these clickable categories:
Web Search Engines
Gateways and General Information Sources
Government and Academic Sites
Associations
Electronic Journals (e-journals)
Electronic Magazines
Electronic Books or Hypertextbooks and Electronic Reports
Indexes and Abstracts
Reference Tools and Data Collections
Environmental Biology
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Environmental Chemistry
Energy
Agriculture
Air Pollution
Biotechnology
Local Environmental Info on the Web
Plants and Botany
Animals and Zoology
Philosophy and Ethics
Environmental Statistics
Local Biology Info on the Web

Table of Links
Web Search Engines

Scirus
http://www.scirus.com/
Scirus is a search engine that focuses on scientific information. Using its Advanced Search option enables specifying scientific disciplines, times periods, and other important factors in a search.

Table of Links
Gateways and General Information Sources

EE-Link: Environmental Education on the Internet
http://eelink.net/
EE-Link is a strong presence for Environmental Education (EE) on the Internet. Consistent with the Key Principles of Environmental Education, EE-Link develops and organizes Internet resources to support, enhance and extend effective environmental education in grades K-12. EE-Link contains links to Professional Resources, Grants & Jobs, Classroom Resources, Organizations & Projects, Environmental Facts & Data, and Search Pages.

EurekAlert!: Your Global Gateway to Science, Medicine, and Technology News
http://www.eurekalert.org/
Sponsored by Burroughs Wellcome Fund and Monsanto and published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), this site provides news releases; links to institutions, science media, peer-reviewed research journals, and journalism groups; and resources that include visuals and reference.

EnviroInfo: Environmental Information Sources
http://www.deb.uminho.pt/fontes/enviroinfo/
"EnviroInfo is a compilation of useful Internet resources to Environmental Science and Technology. This site maintains information on organizations, business, publications, online databases and software, research and education. The following environmental fields are considered: air pollution, biotechnology, chemistry, ecology, impact and risk assessment, laws, pollution, sustainable development, soil & wetlands, water & wastewater."

INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections--Biological, Agricultural & Medical Sciences
http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?bioag
"INFOMINE is intended for the introduction and use of Internet/Web resources of relevance to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It is being offered as a comprehensive showcase, virtual library and reference tool containing highly useful Internet/Web resources including databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, listservs, online library card catalogs, articles and directories of researchers, among many other types of information."

Science Niche (formerly High School Hub)
http://scienceniche.com/science/science.cfm
"The Science Niche (formerly BioChemNet and High School Hub) is a weekly-updated gateway to the best biology and chemistry educational resources on the Web. Resources are organized under the following major topics: General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, General Biology, Cell Biology, Microbiology, Botany, Zoology, Physiology, Immunology, Nutrition, Biochemistry, Proteins, Genetics, Biotechnology, News & Journals, Teaching Science, Lab Safety, Science Careers, and Free Science ClipArt."

Sheffield ChemDex
http://www.chemdex.org/
"Important aims for the Sheffield ChemdexTM are to increase the size of the ChemdexTM database, to add searching, and to provide critical site reviews for a significant proportion of the included sites...to Chemdexplus will become available shortly from through a licensing arrangement with ChemWeb.com...Sheffield ChemdexTM will always be here and that access to Chemdexplus will also be free."

Internet Scout Project
http://scout.wisc.edu/
"Surf smarter, not longer. Let the Internet Scout Project show you the way to the best resources on the Internet--then you can choose what's best for you. Librarians and educators do the filtering for you, reading hundreds of announcements each week looking for the online resources most valuable to the education community. However, everyone is welcome to use our services, and we encourage feedback and suggestions from the entire Internet community...The target audience of the new Scout Report for Science & Engineering is faculty, students, staff, and librarians in the life sciences, physical sciences, and engineering. Each biweekly issue offers a selective collection of Internet resources covering topics in the sciences, and related fields such as math and engineering, that have been chosen by librarians and content specialists in the given field of study."

Explore Science
http://www.explorelearning.com/
Gizmos, online simulations, used to teach K-12 science and mathematics. Free trial available. All Gizmos™ require the free Shockwave plugin linked from this website.

SciCentral: Gateway to the Sciences
http://www.scicentral.com/

BiologyBrowser
http://www.biologybrowser.org/
BiologyBrowser, produced by Thomson Scientific, is a free web site offering resources for the life sciences information community. It brings together a unique set of opportunities for scientists:
--Exclusive information resources by THOMSON SCIENTIFIC (Zoological Record). Thomson Scientific provides resources - such as the Nomenclature Glossary for Zoology, the Zoological Record Thesaurus, and more - for free on BiologyBrowser.
--Find useful links to current science news stories, relevant web sites, and more.

Austin Community College Library Services
http://library.austincc.edu
Provides links to: the ACC Library Catalog, Articles and Reference Sources, Web Subject Links, Searching the Web tips, Other Library Catalogs, and Research Guides & Documentation, as well as Online Tutorials.

Table of Links
Government and Academic Sites

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/
"The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency is to protect human health and the environment. Since 1970, EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people." This site provides information on laws, regulations, current EPA projects, databases containng a wide-variety of environmental data, EPA reports, history, and more."

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is the lead environmental agency for the state.

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/
"The mission of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), as an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is to prevent exposure and adverse human health effects and diminished quality of life associated with exposure to hazardous substances from waste sites, unplanned releases, and other sources of pollution present in the environment."

CERCLA Priority List of Hazardous Substances
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/cercla/
"The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) section 104 (i), as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA), requires ATSDR and EPA to prepare a list, in order of priority, of substances that are most commonly found at facilities on the National Priorities List (NPL) and which are determined to pose the most significant potential threat to human health. CERCLA also requires this list to be revised periodically to reflect additional information on hazardous substances. This CERCLA priority list is revised and published on a 2-year basis, with a yearly informal review and revision..."

Environmental Health Policy Committee (EHPC)
http://web.health.gov/environment/
This site is archival only now. Originally the Environmental Health Policy Committee (EHPC) was established to coordinate policy development for environmental health activities related to the mission of the U.S. Public Health Service and its agencies. Clicking on "Member Organizations and Representatives" shows the hyperlinked list of agencies originally involved.

Cornell Center for the Environment (CfE)
http://environment.cornell.edu/action.php?resource_id=16
"The Cornell Center for the Environment (CfE) is committed to research, teaching, and outreach focused on environmental issues, with the goals of enhancing the quality of life, encouraging economic vitality, and promoting the conservation of natural resources for a sustainable future. Established in 1991, the Center is a shared program of Cornell's colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences; Architecture, Art and Planning; Arts and Sciences; Engineering; Human Ecology; and Veterinary Medicine; the schools of Hotel Administration; Industrial and Labor Relations; and the Johnson Graduate School of Management; the Division of Biological Sciences; the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research; the Agricultural Experiment Stations; and the Cornell Cooperative Extension and the Industrial and Labor Relations Extension systems. The Center encourages the development of new environmental courses and curricula at both the graduate and undergraduate levels; facilitates interdisciplinary environmental research; coordinates outreach programs that assist state, federal and local government, private organizations, businesses, and individuals in assessing and solving environmental problems; and disseminates environmental information."

Europa, the European Union's server
http://europa.eu/index_en.htm
Use the search engine on this site to find European official documents, legal texts, rules and regulations, publications, and databases relating to biotechnology, pollution, nutrition, chemicals, and other science and technology topics.

Table of Links
Associations

American Institute of Biological Sciences
http://www.aibs.org/core/index.html
"In 1947, the American Institute of Biological Sciences was federally chartered as a non-profit scientific organization to advance research and education in the biological, medical, environmental, and agricultural sciences. Today, more than 50 years later, AIBS remains the sole national umbrella society uniting biologists across the country....As an umbrella society for other biological organizations, it's our responsibility to provide a unified voice for diverse disciplines. Members' interests span all of biology -- basic to applied, from molecular to organismal, from agronomy to zoology. Today, AIBS has more than 50 member societies, and an aggregate membership of more than 125,000 biologists."

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
http://www.aaas.org/
"The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, pronounced Triple-A-S) is a nonprofit professional society dedicated to the advancement of scientific and technological excellence across all disciplines, and to the public's understanding of science and technology. AAAS is among the oldest societies in America, having been founded in Philadelphia in 1848. Many of today's most prestigious and influential scientific societies have their historical origins in AAAS. For example, groups such as the American Chemical Society (1886), the American Anthropological Association (1902), and the Botanical Society of America (1906), all grew out of informal gatherings at AAAS annual meetings or from established AAAS Sections."

Table of Links
Electronic Journals (e-journals)

Nature: International weekly journal of science
http://www.nature.com/nature/
Regular features include the weekly tables of contents, summaries, supplementary information and the full-text news articles. The fully searchable, hypertext-linked news database includes all NPG's international news articles for about a decade. Nature's index to all contents remains in printable form, and articles, published in the printed Nature, contain additional data for which there was not space in the paper journal. These data are available here to download. Complete access to the full-text articles requires a subscription. However, ACC students, faculty, and staff can search for, read, and print articles from Nature for no additional charge by accessing through the ACC Library Catalog as Nature [electronic resource] or by using indexes such as Academic Search Premier from the library's homepage .

Science Online
http://www.sciencemag.org/
Science, the global weekly of research, is published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Scientific American
http://www.sciam.com/
Each month brings the best of the current issue with additional features and information linked. Some of the major articles are included in their entirety, with links that let you connect directly to the researchers and their work. Access to all the full-text articles and a number of features updated weekly is available only to readers of the Scientific American Online or Digital editions. Past issues with similar coverage are available from 1/93 on. Table of contents available for 1993 on. However, ACC students, faculty, and staff can search for, read, and print articles from Scientific American for no additional charge by using indexes such as Academic Search Premier from the library's homepage .

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
http://jama.ama-assn.org/
JAMA, which began publication in 1883, is the world's best-read medical journal. To access full text of articles from recent years at this website, you must purchase either a subscription or one-time access.

Lancet: The International Journal of Medical Science and Practice
http://www.thelancet.com/
Provides selected coverage of issues from recent years on plus additional information including links to other sites of biomedical interest on the World Wide Web. Access for complete access to the full-text articles requires a subscription. However, ACC students, faculty, and staff can search for, read, and print articles from Lancet for no additional charge by using indexes such as Health Source or Health Reference Center from the library's homepage .

The Scientist: The News Journal for the Life Sciences Professional
http://www.the-scientist.com/
"The Scientist is an international news magazine published in print and on the Web. It reports on and analyzes the issues and events that impact the world of life scientists. The Scientist provides a unifying forum for discussion of the topics -news, research, profession and technology - that drive scientific progress. Comprehensive and topical, it serves as an ally and a guide in today's exciting and competitive research environment"
Free online registration provides access to all issues back through the first in 1986

Emerging Infectious Diseases: A Peer-Reviewed Journal Published by the NIDC
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/
"Emerging Infectious Diseases is indexed in Index Medicus/Medline, Current Contents, and several other electronic databases. Emerging Infectious Diseases is part of CDC's plan for combatting emerging infectious diseases; the plan is outlined in a recently published document, Addressing Emerging Infectious Disease Threats--A Prevention Strategy for the United States. One of the main goals of CDC's plan is to enhance communication of public health information about emerging diseases so that prevention measures can be implemented without delay. Emerging Infectious Diseases is peer reviewed and will be providing information on emerging infections in three broad categories:
1) Perspectives, a section addressing factors that underlie disease emergence including microbial adaptation and change, human demographics and behavior, technology and industry, economic development and land use, international travel and commerce, and breakdown of public health measures;
2) Synopses, concise, state-of-the-art summaries of specific diseases or syndromes and related emerging infectious disease issues; 3) Dispatches, brief laboratory or epidemiologic reports with an international scope."

Electronic Green Journal
http://egj.lib.uidaho.edu/
"The Electronic Green Journal, published by the University of Idaho Library, is a professional, refereed publication devoted to disseminating information concerning sources on international environmental topics including: assessment, conservation, development, disposal, education, hazards, pollution, resources, technology, and treatment. We are academically sponsored; our focus, however, is to publish articles, bibliographies, reviews, and announcements for the educated generalist as well as the specialist. We welcome original contributions from authors on any of the above topics."

Scientific American: Ask the Experts
http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_directory.cfm
Ask science questions of experts selected by Scientific American and see the answers to previously asked questions.

New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/
Contains selected articles, sometimes excerpts, from recent issues and science links.

Table of Links
Electronic Magazines

American Scientist: The Magazine of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
http://www.amsci.org/amsci/
"This Web site is designed to provide a sample of our content for those unfamiliar with the magazine, and to enrich our readers' experience by facilitating exploration and discussion of themes treated in the magazine. American Scientist is an illustrated bimonthly magazine about science and technology. Each issue is filled with feature articles written by prominent scientists and engineers, reviewing important work in fields that range from molecular biology to computer engineering. The articles are carefully edited and accompanied by illustrations that are developed to enhance the reader's understanding and enjoyment."

Discover Magazine
http://discovermagazine.com/
Contains selected articles from 1992 to present issues of Discover Magazine.

Earth Negotiations Bulletin
http://www.iisd.ca/
The Earth Negotiations Bulletin provides balanced, objective and informative summaries of environment and development negotiations...The Earth Negotiations Bulletin is an independent reporting service that provides daily coverage of negotiations on environment and development at the United Nations. It is published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) .

Table of Links
Electronic Books or Hypertextbooks and Electronic Reports

Center for Research in Water Resources
http://www.crwr.utexas.edu/online.shtml
CRWR Online Reports are technical reports whose original form is maintained in electronic format. This is a separate report series from the printed technical reports. Each report has the title page, abstract and table of contents presented in html for viewing using a normal world wide web browser, and linkages in the table of contents to Adobe PDF files for each report chapter or to the report as a whole so that the contents can be downloaded.

National Academy Press Reading Room--Agriculture
http://www.nap.edu/topics.php?topic=276
Contains thousands of full books, free for the reading, first page to last…They're available in a variety of versions, including scanned pages in image format, hypertext HTML books, and Adobe Acrobat PDF. Subjects covered include: Agricultural Sciences, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Sciences, Earth Sciences, Education, Energy Studies, Engineering, Environmental Issues, Food and Nutrition, General Interest, Industry and Economics, International Problems, Policies, and Issues, Marine and Maritime Studies, Mathematical Sciences and Statistics, Materials, Medical Sciences, Public Health and Health Care, Natural Resources, Research Issues and Scientific Leadership, Physical Sciences, Science and Ethics, Special Reports, Directories, and Bibliographies, Transportation, Urban Development. Hundreds of these books are also searchable and accessible through the ACC Library Catalog with some included in NetLibrary.

National Academy Press Reading Room--Earth Sciences
http://www.nap.edu/topics.php?topic=281
Contains thousands of full books, free for the reading, first page to last…They're available in a variety of versions, including scanned pages in image format, hypertext HTML books, and Adobe Acrobat PDF. Subjects covered include: Agricultural Sciences, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Sciences, Earth Sciences, Education, Energy Studies, Engineering, Environmental Issues, Food and Nutrition, General Interest, Industry and Economics, International Problems, Policies, and Issues, Marine and Maritime Studies, Mathematical Sciences and Statistics, Materials, Medical Sciences, Public Health and Health Care, Natural Resources, Research Issues and Scientific Leadership, Physical Sciences, Science and Ethics, Special Reports, Directories, and Bibliographies, Transportation, Urban Development. Hundreds of these books are also searchable and accessible through the ACC Library Catalog with some included in NetLibrary.

National Academy Press Reading Room--Energy Studies
http://www.nap.edu/topics.php?topic=283
Contains thousands of full books, free for the reading, first page to last…They're available in a variety of versions, including scanned pages in image format, hypertext HTML books, and Adobe Acrobat PDF. Subjects covered include: Agricultural Sciences, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Sciences, Earth Sciences, Education, Energy Studies, Engineering, Environmental Issues, Food and Nutrition, General Interest, Industry and Economics, International Problems, Policies, and Issues, Marine and Maritime Studies, Mathematical Sciences and Statistics, Materials, Medical Sciences, Public Health and Health Care, Natural Resources, Research Issues and Scientific Leadership, Physical Sciences, Science and Ethics, Special Reports, Directories, and Bibliographies, Transportation, Urban Development. Hundreds of these books are also searchable and accessible through the ACC Library Catalog with some included in NetLibrary.

National Academy Press Reading Room--Environmental Issues
http://www.nap.edu/topics.php?topic=285
Contains thousands of full books, free for the reading, first page to last…They're available in a variety of versions, including scanned pages in image format, hypertext HTML books, and Adobe Acrobat PDF. Subjects covered include: Agricultural Sciences, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Sciences, Earth Sciences, Education, Energy Studies, Engineering, Environmental Issues, Food and Nutrition, General Interest, Industry and Economics, International Problems, Policies, and Issues, Marine and Maritime Studies, Mathematical Sciences and Statistics, Materials, Medical Sciences, Public Health and Health Care, Natural Resources, Research Issues and Scientific Leadership, Physical Sciences, Science and Ethics, Special Reports, Directories, and Bibliographies, Transportation, Urban Development. Hundreds of these books are also searchable and accessible through the ACC Library Catalog with some included in NetLibrary.

Table of Links
Indexes and Abstracts

PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed
"PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources." Click on the Site Map to view the impressive range of information and databases available. These are world-class and provide reliable, current information."

TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network)
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
"Toxnet is a "cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas" sponsored by the National Library of Medicine's Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program."

Database of U.S. Department of Education Publications in ERIC
http://www.ed.gov/about/pubs/intro/index.html
Find any publication produced or funded by the U.S. Department of Education since its creation in 1980 which appears in ERIC, the world's largest bibliographic database of education literature. The database currently lists 22,456 publications entered into the ERIC database through [the previous month] (note that publications released in the last few months may not yet be in the database).

Table of Links
Reference Tools and Data Collections

ChemFinder
http://chemfinder.cambridgesoft.com/
ChemFinder Database (marked Free) is searchable by chemical name(s) and properties. Retrieve information about structure, chemical properties, as well as, RTECS, DOT, and EPA codes. Links to key, reliable websites.

USEPA/OPP Chemical Ingredients Database Query
http://ppis.ceris.purdue.edu/htbin/epachem.com
"Search for a chemical with (part of) a chemical name, synonym, or trade name."

Table of Links
Environmental Biology

Yahoo! Science:Biology:Biodiversity
http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Biology/Biodiversity/
This well-organized and thorough site offers biodiversity sites as well as allowing searching through the dialog box for sites within biodiversity itself.

Yahoo! Science:Biology:Ecology
http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Ecology/
This well-organized and thorough site offers sites on ecology as well as allowing searching through the dialog box for sites within the topic of ecology.

United States Fish and Wildlife Service
http://www.fws.gov/
"The mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish and wildlife and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people."

Earth Island Institute
http://www.earthisland.org/
"This site provides in-depth information and resources from our [EII] Projects, award-winning journalism from Earth Island Journal and tools to directly impact the environmental challenges we face...Earth Island Institute (EII), founded in 1982 by veteran environmentalist David Brower, fosters the efforts of creative individuals by providing organizational support in developing projects for the conservation, preservation, and restoration of the global environment. EII provides activists the freedom to develop program ideas, supported by services to help them pursue those ideas, with a minimum of bureaucracy. Earth Island's Project Network consists of more than 30 projects worldwide. Through innovative education and activist campaigns, we are addressing many of the most pressing social and environmental issues:
--Protecting rainforests, marine mammals, sea turtles, and indigenous lands
--Promoting organic and sustainable agriculture, ecological paper alternatives, and the emerging Russian environmental movement
--Pursuing community-based habitat restoration, reduction of marine pollution, and development of urban multicultural environmental leadership."

Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CCE - CCA - CEC)
http://www.cec.org/home/index.cfm?varlan=english
"The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is an international organization created by Canada, Mexico and the United States under the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC). The CEC was established to address regional environmental concerns, help prevent potential trade and environmental conflicts, and to promote the effective enforcement of environmental law. The Agreement complements the environmental provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)." Site contains many complete publications available for free and links to other information resources.

Water Quality Information Center
http://www.nal.usda.gov/wqic/index.shtml
"The Water Quality Information Center at the National Agricultural Library (NAL) is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service. The center was established in 1990 to support USDA's coordinated plan to address water quality concerns. As the focal point of NAL's water quality efforts, the center collects, organizes, and communicates the scientific findings, educational methodologies, and public policy issues related to water quality and agriculture. The center's activities involve three areas: communications, library resources, and special projects.
Communications includes water quality information available electronically include bibliographies, announcements of upcoming meetings and a listing of Internet discussion groups covering water issues, water-related databases as well as annotated links to other Internet sites providing information on topics such as precision agriculture, Cryptosporidium, and water quality models. "

EnviroLink
http://www.envirolink.org/
"EnviroLink, the largest online environmental information resource on the planet...is a non-profit organization...a grassroots online community that unites hundreds of organizations and volunteers around the world with millions of people in over 130 countries. All of us at EnviroLink are dedicated to providing you with the most comprehensive, up-to-date environmental resources available."

Alternative Fuels & Advanced Vehicle Data Center Information Resources
http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/publications.html
There are more than 3,000 publications in this comprehensive collection of alternative fuels and advanced transportation publications that include program-specific documents from the U.S. Department of Energy and other federal agencies, technical reports from both government and private sources, industry data, and citation information for copyrighted documents. Its list of new documents shows the publications most recently added to the database. You may also view the Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center's Technology Bulletins or Newsletters listing. To find a publication, search by "Quick Pick" category below or you may go further down the page to search by keyword, title, author, and more. Once a selection is made, click "Search."

Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
http://www.ciesin.org/
"The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) is a center within the Earth Institute at Columbia University. CIESIN works at the intersection of the social, natural, and information sciences, and specializes in on-line data and information management, spatial data integration and training, and interdisciplinary research related to human interactions in the environment." CIESIN provides access to publications, educational resources, metadata, discussion lists, the GIS Service Center, and much more. It can also be searched or browsed by subject.

RTK NET - The Right-to-Know Network
http://www.rtknet.org/
"RTK NET is a network providing free access to numerous databases, text files, and conferences on the environment, housing, and sustainable development. With the information available on RTK NET, you can identify specific factories and their environmental effects; analyze reinvestment by banks in their communities; and assess people and communities affected."

Envirofacts Warehouse
http://www.epa.gov/enviro/index.html
U.S. EPA's one-stop source for environmental information.

Envirofacts Master Chemical Integrator (EMCI) Chemical References
http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/emci/chemref/index.html
Links and search form available to restrict your search to the full text of information offered from the EMCI Chemical References Web Pages. Searchable by chemical name, CAS Registry Number, keyword, and synonyms.

The 1996 Baseline Environmental Management Report (DOE/EM-0290) Site
http://www.em.doe.gov/bemr96/
"The 1996 Baseline Environmental Management Report (DOE/EM-0290) was prepared in response to the requirements of the 1995 National Defense Authorization Act features four volumes: The Executive Summary, Volume I - The 1996 Baseline Environmental Management Report, Volume II - Site Summaries for the 1996 Baseline Environmental Management Report: Alaska - New Jersey, and Volume III - Site Summaries for the 1996 Baseline Environmental Management Report: New Mexico - Wyoming. This document estimates the life-cycle cost and schedule to cleanup the former nuclear weapons complex."

Texas Natural History Collections
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/tnhc/
"...TNHC offers public access to its databases through this Internet connection, but asks that users be cognizant of the nature of the data, and that they abide by the following policy for database utilization...Texas Natural History Collection (TNHC) specimen databases are defined as records derived from field catalogs, field notes, specimen labels, card files, catalogs and ledgers. These databases include electronic storage media and/or data files or data products in a variety of formats including electronic and printed. They are an integral part of the collections and function not only as a resource for researchers world-wide, but also are used internally for tracking specimen use and collection activities. In spite of the important role played by specimen databases, they ARE NOT to be considered primary data."

Texas Speleological Survey
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/tnhc/.www/tss/
"The Texas Speleological Survey was founded in 1961 by James R. Reddell, William H. Russell, Ruben (Bud) M. Frank, and A. Richard Smith. TSS was formed to support speleology (the study of caves) in Texas, to collect information on Texas caves, and to publish that information for cave explorers and interested scientists."

U.S. Department of Energy's Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center (AFDC)
http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/
"The Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center (AFDC, formerly known as the Alternative Fuels Data Center) provides a wide range of information and resources to enable the use of alternative fuels (as defined by the Energy Policy Act of 1992), in addition to other petroleum reduction options such as advanced vehicles, fuel blends, idle reduction, and fuel economy. This site is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's Clean Cities initiative."

USEPA/OPP Chemical Ingredients Database Query
http://ppis.ceris.purdue.edu/htbin/epachem.com
"Search for a chemical with (part of) a chemical name, synonym, or trade name."

US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Air and Radiation Site
http://www.epa.gov/oar/
"Air pollution, clean air, and air quality information is provided by the U.S. EPA's Office of Air and Radiation (OAR). OAR develops national programs, technical policies, and regulations for controlling air pollution and radiation exposure. OAR is concerned with pollution prevention, indoor and outdoor air quality, industrial air pollution, pollution from vehicles and engines, radon, acid rain, stratospheric ozone depletion, and radiation protection."

Wetland Indicator Status (Formerly Wetlands Report)
http://plants.usda.gov/wetland.html

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Ecology WWW Page: Search List of WWW Sites of Interest to Ecologists
http://www.botany.net/cgi-bin/query/
As a service to students, teachers, researchers, and WWW surfers interested in ecology, this list was compiled by Anthony R. Brach (Missouri Botanical Garden & Harvard University Herbaria, U.S.A.). It was originally posted on ECOLOG-L in March 1995. HTML format is created and maintained by Jean Thioulouse (University of Lyon, France).

Wetlands
http://www.nal.usda.gov/wqic/wetl.shtml
Links from the National Agricultural Library to a variety of wetland sites.

Table of Links
Environmental Chemistry

Horticulture and Crop Science in Virtual Perspective
http://plantfacts.ohio-state.edu/
"Search the Internet for information related to horticulture and crop science from 46 different colleges, universities, and institutions across the United States and Canada. Over 20,000 pages of information are frequently updated in order to provide the most concentrated source of plant-related information available for answering your questions, assisting you in gaining an education, or helping you teach others about plants."

Chemical Safety/Toxicology/Hazards
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/chem/safety1.html
Links to a variety of chemical safety, hazards, and toxicology sites with multiple links to Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS).

Cyberbotanica
http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/botany/
"...Cyberbotanica, [is] a free online botany education resource produced as a part of Indiana University's BioTech Project. This site will probably always be under construction; for now, it contains a mini-chapter on plants and chemotherapy (also still under construction), but other chapters are in the works: plants used in bioremediation, fungi which produce antibiotics, and genetically engineered fruits and vegetables."

Envirofacts Warehouse
http://www.epa.gov/enviro/index.html
U.S. EPA's one-stop source for environmental information.

USEPA/OPP Chemical Ingredients Database Query
http://ppis.ceris.purdue.edu/htbin/epachem.com
"Search for a chemical with (part of) a chemical name, synonym, or trade name."

Chemical Industry Home Page - Environmental Resources
http://www.neis.com/db/category/cat608.asp
Governmental and private resources for the environmental manager.

Table of Links
Energy

Biofuels Research Program USDA-ARS
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ttic/biofuels.htm
"The Agricultural Research Service Biofuels Research Program is an investment in an alternative future for United States Agriculture where there is increased use of renewable agricultural resources as biofuels and value-added bioproducts, reduced dependence on foreign oil, and reduced environmental pollution." Includes links to other biofuels sites."

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EREE)
http://www.eere.energy.gov/
The U.S. Dept. of Energy's EREE offers information and technical assistance to a broad audience-consumers, educators, experts, businesses, utilities, industry, and government-on a wide range of topics: alternative fuels, photovoltaics, wind energy, solar heating and cooling, buildings, and weatherization. EREC provides publications, research in response to your technical and business questions, and referrals to energy organizations.

Statistical Resources on the Web: Energy
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stenergy.html

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Agriculture

Agriculture Network Information Center: AgDB
http://www.agnic.org/
"AgDB is a database directory of quality agriculture-related databases, datasets, and information systems. It describes and links to more than 1,000 information resources. Carefully crafted resource descriptions guide users directly to relevant, quality information resources ranging from technical to practical. Its uncomplicated user-interface makes it suitable for Internet-novice and -veteran, alike. All the AgDB metadata records may be viewed through the alphabetical list, arranged by resource name. The full text of all metadata records is searchable through a keyword index. As part of this function, one can search by AGRICOLA Subject Category Code, permitting the user to apply a broad level, human-indexed screening to a rough keyword search. To see which metadata records have most recently been added to AgDB, consult the What's New? page."

Statistical Resources on the Web: Agriculture
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stag.html

Information Systems for Biotechnology
http://gophisb.biochem.vt.edu/
"Information Systems for Biotechnology (ISB) provides information resources to support the environmentally responsible use of agricultural biotechnology products. Here you will find documents and searchable databases pertaining to the development, testing and regulatory review of genetically modified plants, animals and microorganisms within the US and abroad...Other than funding from USDA/CSREES, there is no ongoing financial relationship with any other agency or industry institution. This is intentional so that we will remain an independent source of information, under no influence from other parties...
Featured Items include: Monthly News Report, Databases of US and International Field Tests of GMOs, Listings of US and International Commercialized Crops, ISB Publications including the Greenhouse Manual, GMO Risk Assessment, Performance Standards, Upcoming Meetings, and Links to Agbiotech Web Sites."

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Air Pollution

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Biotechnology

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Local Environmental Info on the Web

Gardening Launch Pad
http://gardeninglaunchpad.com/
Jim Parra, horticulturist at Zilker Botanical Gardens, provides abundant information for the Central Texas gardener. Dozens of topics are covered including: local groups, composting, organic gardening, poisonous plants, and xeriscape.

Biospeleology: The Biology of Caves, Karst, and Groundwater
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/tnhc/.www/biospeleology/
"The Biospeleology web site is sponsored by the Texas Memorial Museum at The University of Texas at Austin. This site is dedicated to exploring the world of cave biology (biospeleology), ranging from completely cave-adapted species (troglobites) of fishes, salamanders, and invertebrates, to troglophiles (animals that may be somewhat adapted to caves, but which may be found in similar habitats), and trogloxenes (animals that roost in caves, such as bats and cave crickets). You also will find information on cave microbes here. Cave biology is an interdisciplinary science that is related to cave exploration, geology, hydrology, ecology, and conservation. Cave biology and geology are two of the backbone sciences within speleology, the study of caves."

The Edwards Aquifer Home Page
http://www.edwardsaquifer.net/
"This site is prepared by Gregg A. Eckhardt. Gregg A. Eckhardt is a Registered Environmental Professional and has been working in the water resource field since 1990. He has been studying the Edwards Aquifer and issues surrounding it since 1972. He has undergraduate degrees in Geography and English, and a Master of Science degree in Natural Resources from the University of Texas."

Texas Environmental Center (TEC)
http://www.tec.org/
"The Texas Environmental Center (TEC) is a non-profit organization extending environmental information through modern technologies. TEC has been a pioneer in the use of the Internet since 1991, when we developed one of the first electronic environmental libraries in the nation in a partnership with Rice University. TEC now maintains several Web-based projects." Note: TEC has moved to Colorado and will be undergoing a name change.

Texas Environmental Almanac [web version]
http://www.texascenter.org/almanac/TXENVALMANAC.HTML
"The Texas Environmental Almanac provides current and historical facts, explanatory figures, and legislative information on the current condition of Texas water, land, and air, as well as the status of the state's energy use and waste generation. This information has been compiled from mandated reports and studies conducted by Texas governmental agencies. Special sections focus on the status of Texas parkland and coastal wetlands,Texas flora and fauna, pesticide use and the relationship between the state's environmental health and public health. The Almanac is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to make educated decisions about issues which influence the environment in his or her daily life." The 95 edition is online. Print 2000 edition is at all 6 ACC Libraries (REF GE155.T4 S36 2000)."

Barton Springs Interactive
http://www.tec.org/bartonsprings/index.html
Covers topics including: Intro with Bill Moyers, Earth Day at Barton Creek, Barton Creek as Classroom, The Eel, Creatures of Barton Creek, Joe Nick Patowski on Swimming, Life in Barton Creek, The Salamander, The Aquifer Game, Water Quality Monitoring, Social Integration at the Springs, Springs as Community, City Water Protection, Barton Springs Circa 1910, Baptism in the Springs.

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Plants and Botany

National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution: Virtual Exhibits
http://www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/virtual.html
Formerly called Online Exhibits, this Virtual Exhibits site is part of the National Museum of Natural History within the Smithsonian Institution. Exhibits vary and disciplines covered may include botany, entomology, invertebrate zoology, paleobiology, and zoology and coverage of some interdisciplinary topics such as global warming.

National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution: Research & Collections
http://www.mnh.si.edu/rc/
This Research and Collections site is part of the National Museum of Natural History within the Smithsonian Institution. Disciplines include botany, entomology, invertebrate zoology, paleobiology, and zoology and coverage of some interdisciplinary topics such as global warming is included. There are image collections, taxonomies of a wide variety of organisms, and links to others sites as well information about the research and staff conducted within the NMNH.

World Economic Plants in GRIN (Agric. Handb. 505) (revised)
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxecon.pl
Taxonomic guide to economic plants

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Animals and Zoology

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Philosophy and Ethics

Online Ethics Center for Engineering at the National Academy of Engineering
http://www.onlineethics.org/
"The WWW Ethics Center for Engineering and Science was established in the fall of 1995 under a grant (#SBR-9511862) from the National Science Foundation. The mission of the Ethics Center is to provide engineers, scientists, science and engineering students with resources useful for understanding and addressing ethically significant problems that arise in their work life. The Center is also intended to serve teachers of engineering and science students who want to include discussion of ethical problems closely related to technical subject as a part of science and engineering courses, or in free-standing subjects in professional ethics or in research ethics for such students."

Environmental Ethics Resources on WWW
http://www.ethicsweb.ca/resources/environmental/index.html
"Contains lists of WWW sites which may be of interest to people doing research in the various branches of applied ethics. Note that these lists are not limited to sites about applied ethics."

Environmental Ethics
http://www.cep.unt.edu/
Website provides access to Internet resources throughout the world pertaining to or focusing on environmental ethics and environmental philosophy. It is authored by the Center for Environmental Philosophy, University of North Texas.

Professional Society Ethics Group
http://www.aaas.org/spp/sfrl/committees/pseg/
"The Professional Society Ethics Group (PSEG) is sponsored by the Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. PSEG includes almost seventy participants, representing professional societies, academic institutions and government agencies. The primary function of PSEG is to serve as a forum for the inter-professional exchange of information and ideas relating to professional ethics....PSEG is a co-publisher of the Professional Ethics Report, a quarterly newsletter that reports on news and events, programs and activities, and resources, and includes commentary and analysis of ethical issues in research and practice."

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Environmental Statistics

Statistical Resources on the Web: Environment
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stenv.html

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Local Biology Info on the Web

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