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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

Google Earth Blog: Great collection of resources for the Fukushima power plant

Valery Hronusov
This Google Earth blog entry features a single network link from Valery Hronusov devoted to the Fukushima power plant. The file is packed with information about the plant -- photo overlays, 3D ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Energy:Nuclear Energy, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards
Resource Type: Audio/Visual, Datasets and Tools

Nuclear Fission Simulation

A PhET simulation showing nuclear fission. Companion activities are linked from the simulation page.
Subject: Environmental Science:Energy:Nuclear Energy, Physics:Modern Physics:Nuclear Physics
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities, Audio/Visual:Animations/Video, Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Tools

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

Representational Tools to Support Understanding of Complex Biological Systems

Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver, Lei Liu
This resource includes a hypermedia on aquarium ecosystems organized around structures, behaviors, and functions as well as NetLogo simulations of macro and microlevel processes. The macrolevel model ...
Subject: Biology:Ecology, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Ecology, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity
Resource Type: Computer Applications, Pedagogic Resources, Datasets and Tools:Tools

NYC DOITT - Services: GIS

The mission of Citywide GIS is to develop, support and host an accurate digital map and geo-referenced data along with associated tools and applications that allow all City agencies to use the ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Tools

BYTES of the BIG APPLE

BYTES of the BIG APPLE is a family of software, data and geographic base map files for the City of New York.
Subject: Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning
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