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1. Open Metadata Registry [omr]
The Open Metadata Registry is a fundamental piece of technical infrastructure for the Semantic Web. While originally built to support the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), the Registry is available ...

2. Mesoamerican Visualization and Monitoring System (SERVIR) [SERVIR]   CHILD SERFs
SERVIR is a Regional Monitoring and Visualization System for Mesoamerica that intensively utilizes satellite imagery and other data sources for environmental management and disaster support. SERVIR ...

3. Atlas of Antarctic Research [USARC_Antarctic_Atlas]
The Antarctic Atlas is an open-source, OGC-compliant viewer that has been designed to promote greater geographic awareness of the continent and the digital geospatial data that describe ...

4. Fire Research And Management Exchange System (FRAMES) [FRAMES]
The Fire Research And Management Exchange System (FRAMES) is a collection and distribution of wildland fire tools. FRAMES is an ongoing project that will serve the information and tools needs of the ...

5. DSS Environment for Modeling of Atmospheric Nutrient Deposition [DEMAND]
DSS Environment for Modeling of Atmospheric Nutrient Deposition (DEMAND) is a NASA-funded project utilizes recent NASA Earth Science Research Results (NASA ESRR) to aid in decision making processes ...

6. EOS ClearingHOuse (ECHO) [EOSDIS-ECHO]
The NASA-developed Earth Observing System (EOS) Clearinghouse (ECHO) is a spatial and temporal metadata registry that enables the science community to more easily use and exchange NASA's data and ...

7. The Echinoids - An Educational Web Site about the phylum Echinodermata [Echinoids-01]
(Adapted from The Natural History Museum Echinoid Website) Echinoids are a major group of marine invertebrates with a long fossil record. If you know nothing about the group the obvious place to start ...

8. AGWEATHER - Weather for Agricultural Producers [AGWEATHER]
Agweather is a FREE online tool that keeps you ahead of Oklahoma's changing weather. It uses the Oklahoma Mesonet to deliver the latest weather data. You?ll have the info you need, when you need it ...

9. Ask An ARM Scientist: The ARM Global Warming, Radiation, Weather and Environment Virtual Help Desk [09-virtual_help-Scientist-00]
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program is an important part of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) strategy to understand global climate change. The ARM Program has established three ...

10. Aurora Forecast - University of Alaska [Aurora_Forecast-AK]
Predictions of auroral activity since 1994 have been based on the repetitive nature of solar disturbances during approximately four years of minimum solar activity. Solar activity began to increase ...

11. Desert Landscaping, Plants for a Water-Scare Environment, A Multimedia CD-ROM [01-Desert_Landscape-CD-00]
(Summary adapted from the Desert Landscaping web site) Desert Landscaping : Plants for a Water-Scarce Environment is a multimedia CD-ROM plant selector covering over 600 low water-use plants. Search ...

12. HAZUS99, the Earthquake Loss Estimation Program [01-HAZUS-99]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has released the new HAZUS99, the natural hazard loss estimation methodology software program. HAZUS99 is used for earthquake-related mitigation, emergency ...

13. Carbon Query and Evaluation Support Tools (CQUEST) [NASA_CASA_CQUEST]
The Carbon Query and Evaluation Support Tools (CQUEST) provides access to geographic data from NASA Ames Research Center, Ecosystem Science and Technology Branch for carbon sequestration ...

14. Group on Earth Observations and Global Earth Observation System of Systems [GEO-International]
Launched at the first Earth Observation Summit in Washington in July 2003, the intergovernmental ad hoc Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is tasked with developing a ten-year implementation plan for ...

15. Hazlit - Our Hazards Literature Database [Haz_Lit]   PARENT SERF
(Summary Adapted from Hazlit homepage) HazLit is the on-line library database of the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The library ...

16. NEPAssist: Web-Based Mapping Application for Environmental Assessments [EPA_NEPAssist]
NEPAssist is a GIS application that automates and web-enables the collection and coordination of information inherent in the environmental review process mandated by the National Environmental Policy ...

17. Natural Hazards Center [Natur_Haz_Center]   CHILD SERFs
The Natural Hazards Center, located at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA, is a national and international clearinghouse for information on natural hazards and human adjustments to ...

18. Natural Hazards Data Resources Directory [Natural_Hazards_Directory]
The Natural Hazards Data Resources Directory is a resource for the Disaster and Hazard Management Community of Practitioners and Research Scholars and the general public. The Directory includes two ...

19. Hazards U.S. - Multi-Hazard (HAZUS-MH) [HAZUS-MH]
HAZUS-MH, is a nationally applicable standardized methodology and software program that contains models for estimating potential losses from earthquakes, floods, and hurricane winds. HAZUS-MH was ...

20. Montana Crucial Areas Planning System (CAPS) [Montana_CAPS]
The Crucial Areas Planning System (CAPS) (1) Provides an easy-to-use and understandable way to help plan for development, conserve land, and protect the character and quality of life of Montana's ...

21. Spatial Decision Support Knowledge Portal [INSTITUTE_REDLANDS_SDS]
The SDS Knowledge Portal is developed to help people involved in a spatial decision process (decision makers, practitioners, researchers) gain a holistic view of the spatial decision process and better ...

22. Emergency Operations Portal [USGS_EROS_EO]
The USGS EROS Emergency Operations Portal allows users to explore critical pre- and post-disaster images and datasets online for immediate viewing and downloading. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) ...

23. Hillsborough County Florida Hurricane Evacuation Assessment Tool (HEAT) [HCF_HEAT]
The Hurricane Evacuation Assessment Tool (HEAT) has been created to assist residents of Hillsborough County by providing evacuation and sheltering information in the event of a hurricane or other ...

24. Terrestrial Observation and Prediction System (TOPS) [NASA_ARC_TOPS]
The Terrestrial Observation and Prediction System (TOPS) modeling software system that brings together technologies in information technology, weather/climate forecasting, ecosystem modeling, and ...

25. NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) [NASA_NEX]
The NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) represents a new platform for the Earth science community that provides a mechanism for scientific collaboration and knowledge sharing. NEX combines state-of-the-art ...

26. ESIP Semantic Portal [ESIP_SEMANTIC_PORTAL]
The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners?s ESIP-Portal is a customized version of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology?s BioPortal application, and is used for accessing and sharing ...

27. Wind and Wildlife Landscape Assessment Tool (LAT) [AWWI_LAT]
The Wind and Wildlife Landscape Assessment Tool (LAT) is designed as a landscape-level planning tool to identify sensitive wildlife habitat and areas that are likely to have low wildlife risk where ...

28. The Encyclopedia of Earth [EOE]
The Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) is an electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of ...

29. Forages Decision Support Tool [psu_forages]
The forage industry is the major agricultural enterprise in Pennsylvania and in the northeastern United States. Nearly 60% ($1.9 billion) of the total cash receipts from the sale of agricultural products ...

30. The Climate TimeLine Information Tool: "Exploring Weather & Climate Change Through the Powers of 10" [NCDC_CLIMATE_TIMELINE]
"http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ctl/" Designed as an online tool allowing users to examine climate change and variability at different time scales, the Climate TimeLine has been developed through ...

31. Decision Support Tools Catalog and Community of Practice [DSTCCP]
The Decision Support Tools Catalog and Community of Practice project is intended to provide a forum to address these challenges by (a) providing a dynamic catalog of currently available decision tools, ...

32. Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering (HIVE) [HIVE]
Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering (HIVE) is an automatic metadata generation approach that dynamically integrates discipline-specific controlled vocabularies encoded with the Simple ...

33. Bibmaster-A Database Application for Nomenclature, Literature and Specimen Management [csic_rjb_bibmaster]
BIBMASTER is a database application to manage biodiversity projects. It's designed to make easier the compilation and management of taxa-level, specimen-level, nomenclatural and bibliographic information. ...

34. AQUATOX: A Simulation Model for Aquatic Ecosystems [EPA-AQUATOX]
AQUATOX is a freshwater ecosystem simulation model. It predicts the fate of various pollutants, such as nutrients and organic toxicants, and their effects on the ecosystem, ...

35. Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology [SWEET-Ontology]
This project provides a common semantic framework for various Earth science initiatives. The semantic web is a transformation of the existing web that will enable software programs, applications, ...

36. CIESIN - Southeast Asian Tsunami - December 2004 [SEDAC_Tsunami-2004]
The Southeast Asian Tsunami - December 2004 page provides data and maps on the population affected by the December 26, 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia as well as links to articles written by CIESIN ...

37. CIESIN Thematic Guides: A Guide to Global Population Projections [CIESIN_SEDAC_TG_GLOBPOP_PROJ]
The Guide to Global Population Projections discusses who makes projections and how, and the key assumptions upon which they are based, drawing on new practices and new thinking on uncertainty, methodology, ...

38. Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) [ESI]
The Environmental Performance Measurement Project aims to shift environmental decision-making to firmer analytic foundations using environmental indicators and statistics. In collaboration with the ...

39. Indicators of Rural Sustainability [CIAT_INDICATORS]
Users of the Indicators of Rural Sustainability CD-ROM, a geographical information tool, can select, visualize, and analyze the sustainability indices and indicators developed for Central America. ...

40. PAG Services - Spectrum [USDA_FS_PAG_SPECTRUM]
Spectrum is a modeling system designed to assist decision makers explore and evaluate resource management choices. Models constructed with Spectrum apply management actions to landscapes through time ...

41. Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) Map Client [CIESIN_SEDAC_MAP_CLIENT]
Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) Map Client is a web-based mapping tool that allows flexible interaction with spatial data from CIESIN?s SEDAC and other sources. The map client may ...

42. Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) Guide for Citing Data, Applications and Web Resources [CIESIN_SEDAC_CITATIONS]
The Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) Guide for Citing Data, Applications and Web Resources provides guidelines on citing SEDAC resources. The site also include an index of publications ...

43. BayFish Models [BayFish]
The BayFish Models are decision-support tools that show, and predict, the impact of land use and water management options on water-dependant food production. They allow users to see all the dimensions ...

44. International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific (ICG/ITSU) [IOC_ICG_ITSU]
The International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific (ICG/ITSU) was formed in 1968. See "http://itic.ioc-unesco.org/index.php". Tsunami-related products, services, and ...

45. New Zealand Antarctic Bibliography [New_Zealand_Antarctic_Bibliography]
Antarctica New Zealand has compiled a bibliography comprising publications by authors supported by New Zealand in Antarctica. The bibliography includes scientific publications, publications resulting ...

46. Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Thesaurus [Fire_Ecology_Thesaurus]
The Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Thesaurus is available as a guide for doing keyword searches in the Fire Ecology Database. Notes in the thesaurus define how a particular term is used in the database. ...

47. The World Factbook [CIA_World_Factbook]
The U.S. government's complete geographical handbook, featuring 267 full-color maps and flags of all nations and geographical entities. Each country profile tracks such demographics as population, ...

48. OpenCarto: Tools and Data to Support a Variety of User Communities in Project Planning and Decision Support [SWERA_OpenCarto]
OpenCarto houses the SWERA web based GIS application and provides the tools and data to support a variety of user communities in both small and large project planning, feasibility assessment, policy ...

49. AWIS Weather Services [AWIS_Weather_Service]
[Summary adapted from AWIS homepage.] AWIS provides specialized Ag products to Ag producers and those who serve them. They do this through Ag Web Subscription Service and Freeze/Frost Forecasting ...

50. Dryad - An International Repository of Data Underlying Peer-Reviewed Articles in the Basic and Applied Biosciences [Dryad]
The Dryad Repository is a NSF funded project and a collaboration between the Metadata Research Center (MRC) and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent). The goal of the project is to ...

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