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En-ROADS Climate Change Solutions Simulator

MIT Sloan’s Sustainability Initiative Climate Interactive
This climate simulation tool makes it intuitive to see how changes in energy, land use, agriculture, and other policies will affect Earth's projected temperature. Users move sliders on various ...
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Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Tools, Datasets and Tools, Activities

Tsunamis Database

National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
The tsunamis database allows users to find and compare tsunamis that have struck across the world based on their location, date, intensity, and the number of lives they have claimed
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Hazards, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Coastal Hazards
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Tools

Earthquakes Database

National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
The NGDC database allow users to find and compare significant or major earthquakes by Magnitude, Year, Injuries, Death Count, and Damage.
Subject: Geoscience, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Tools

The Gapminder World 2006

Gapminder Foundation
Gapminder is a non-profit venture developing information technology for provision of free statistics in new visual and animated ways. Goal: enable you to make sense of the world by having fun with ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Human Population, Mathematics:Statistics:Data Presentation:Multivariate Quantitative Relationships:Correlation, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Mathematics:Statistics:Data Presentation, Data Presentation:Multivariate Categorical Relationships:Graphical Displays, Mathematics:Statistics, Environmental Science:Human Population:Developing/Developed Countries, Geography:Human/Cultural, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Maps, Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Tools, Audio/Visual:Animations/Video

EdGCM: Climate Modeling for Research and Education

M. Chandler, K. Mankoff, S. Richards, L. Sohl
The EdGCM Project develops and distributes a research-quality global climate model (GCM) with a user-friendly interface that runs on desktop computers. Anyone can explore the subject of climate ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Global change modeling, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climate Change:Global change modeling
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Tools, Computer Applications

Global Rivers Environmental Education Network

The GREEN program provides ideas and information related to creating a watershed-based educational project and is geared toward taking action to protect watersheds. There are exercises and action ...
Subject: Biology, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Geoscience:Hydrology, Environmental Science:Policy:Local Policy
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Collection, Datasets and Tools:Datasets, Activities

Global Rivers Environmental Education Network

The GREEN program provides ideas and information related to creating a watershed-based educational project and is geared toward taking action to protect watersheds. There are exercises and action ...
Subject: Biology, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Geoscience:Hydrology, Environmental Science:Policy:Local Policy
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Collection, Datasets and Tools:Datasets, Activities

NCAR Community Data Portal

Don Middleton, Luca Cinquini, Markus Stobbs, Dave Brown
The Community Data Portal (CDP) is a collection of earth science datasets and applications from NCAR, UCAR, UOP, and participating organizations in the following research areas: oceanic, atmospheric, ...
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Hydrology, Lunar and Planetary Science, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Biogeochemical cycling, Biology, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry
Resource Type: Scientific Resources, Collection, Datasets and Tools, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations, Datasets and Tools:Datasets

Hurricanes!

This data tip from Bridge, the Ocean Sciences Education Teacher Resource Center archive, includes a variety of educational sites to visit, and a data exercise on hurricanes. Topics covered are: ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather:Hurricanes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets

Mineral Resources On Line Spatial Data

Ths portal allows users to view or download spatial data on regional and global geology, geochemistry, geophysics, and mineral resources. The data can be accessed by using interactive map browsers of ...
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones, Geoscience:Geology:Mineralogy:Environmental Mineralogy, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry, Geochemistry:Organic and Biochemistry, Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Geophysics and Structural Geology, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Geochemistry, Environmental Science:Mineral Resources, Geoscience:Hydrology, Geology:Environmental Geology, Sedimentary Geology, Geophysics:Mineral Physics, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Igneous Processes
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets, Audio/Visual:Maps