Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Database of vegetation plots, plant community and species data operated by Ecological Society of America’s Panel on Vegetation Classification.

The Nature Conservancy’s central portal for geospatial content. This includes web maps, apps, a map gallery, local initiative portals, conservation data, and other resources.

Provides access to a map library of over 100 high-resolution vector and raster layers. Environmental and natural resources data. Choose your area of interest, browse and select data, customize the format, then review and download.

Mapping tool that helps identify California communities affected by pollution. Uses environmental, health, and socioeconomic information to produce scores for every census tract in the state.

The Global Resource Information Database - Geneva (GRID-Geneva), is a partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) and the University of Geneva (UniGe). With a team of 20 Environment Data Scientist, GRID-Geneva main role is to transform data into information and knowledge to support the decision making process related to environmental issues.

These maps are based on the new nClimDiv (New Climate Division) dataset which uses daily observations of temperature and precipitation from over 10,000 stations in the U.S. NCEI scientists are using new methodologies to quality control the daily data, summarize the daily data into monthly values, and creating maps to visualize the information.