Environmental Science Resource Guide: Research

Part of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, CIESIN specializes in online data management, spacial data integration, and research related to human interactions in the environment. Provides full-text research publications and conference materials. Topics and data include agriculture, climate, biodiversity and ecosystems, environmental health, and land use.

Sponsored jointly by the University of Colorado and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and other institutions, CIRES' mission is to act as a national resource for research and education in environmental science. Its research themes are observation and modeling systems, climate system variability, geodynamics, planetary metabolism, regional processes, and integrating activities. The website provides full-text of current research and theme information.

The EWG is a non-profit, non-partisan team of scientists, engineers, policy experts, and lawyers who conduct research that exposes risks to human health and the environment. The website contains full-text research reports from 1995 to the current year.

Provides links to the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Natural History research centers and publications that deal with environmental issues. These websites generally include full-text publications, current data, and images.

SERC conducts long-term research studies examining ecosystems, especially those impacted by humans. The Center measures environmental change in four ecological levels: global change, landscape ecology, ecology of coastal ecosystems, and population and community ecology. This website includes full-text teacher guides, newsletters, brochures, and photos. Also includes searchable bibliography of publications.

A non-profit, independent research organization. Provides full-text research reports and policy analysis on climate change.

WRI is an environmental research and policy organization. Provides comprehensive data on environmental, economic, and social issues. Information is presented as tables or in a map format.

Brookings is an independent institution for policy analysis whose research areas include the energy and environment. This site includes full-text research reports, policy briefs, speeches, and news.

The Rand Corporation is a nonprofit policy research organization which operates in a wide variety of fields. The energy and environment division offers full-text research publications and reports.

Syracuse Research Corporation (SRC) maintains several databases that provide information on toxicity and biodegradation. Some are offered to the public. These include an Environmental Fate Database (which provides bibliographic and experimental values data files on environmental fate and physical/chemical properties) and a Physical Properties Database (which contains chemical structures, names and physical properties for over 25,000 compounds).