Geoinformatics Links
Use the menu at left to view KGS projects concerning Geoinformatics. The links below are from other agencies and organizations. There are a huge number of digital data site on the internet; these seem to go beyond data to some of the goals of informatics.
Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Research and Education (Acrobat PDF file, 292k)
- Report from a workshop held at the National Center for Atmospheric Research October 30-November 1, 2002
National Science Foundation Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel Report on Cyberinfrastructure (Revolutionizing Science and Engineering through Cyber-infrastructure)--http://www.communitytechnology.org/nsf_ci_report/
Canadian Geoscience Knowledge Network--http://cgkn.net
Chronos--Interactive Chronostratigraphy and Stratigraphic Databases--http://www.chronos.org/
CUAHSI--Consortium of Universities for Advancement of Hydrologic Science--http://www.cuahsi.org/
COMPRES--Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences--http://www.compres.stonybrook.edu/
CORE--Consortium for Ocean Leadership--http://www.oceanleadership.org/
Cornell University--Digital Earth--http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu/
Dept. of Energy Science Grid--http://www.doesciencegrid.org/
DLESE--Digital Library for Earth System Education--http://www.dlese.org/library/index.jsp
EarthChem--http://www.earthchem.org/
EarthRef--Earth Reference Data and Models--http://earthref.org/
Earth Science Photographic Archive from U.S.G.S.--http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/
EarthScope--http://www.earthscope.org/
Earth System Grid--http://www.earthsystemgrid.org/
European Union DataGrid--http://eu-datagrid.web.cern.ch/eu-datagrid/
FirstGov for Science--http://www.science.gov/
GEON--The GEOsciences Network--http://www.geongrid.org/
GeoInformatics--http://www.geoinformatics.vt.edu/
GERM--Geochemical Earth Reference Model--http://earthref.org/GERM/main.htm
GPlates--Open Source Plate Tectonics Modeling--http://www.gplates.org/
GridLab--http://www.gridlab.org/
IRIS--Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology--http://www.iris.washington.edu/
NCEAS--National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis--http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu//
NIH data sharing policy--http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/policy/data_sharing/
NEES--Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation--http://www.nees.org/
NAVDAT--North American Volcanic and Intrusive Rock Database--http://navdat.kgs.ku.edu/
OBIS--Ocean Biogeographic Information System--http://www.iobis.org/
OneGeology--an international initiative of the geological surveys of the world and a flagship project of the 'International Year of Planet Earth.'--http://onegeology.org/home.html
OPeNDAP--Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (was Distributed Oceanographic Data System)--http://www.opendap.org/
Paleobiology Database--http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl (not working June 2009)
PetDB--Petrologic Database of the Ocean Floor--http://www.petdb.org/
TeraGrid--http://www.teragrid.org/
Unavco--http://www.unavco.org/