Publicly-Available Data Sources

Looking for a data set to use in your course? Check out the community-sourced collection of publicly available data sources that span environmental related disciplines such as ecology, earth sciences, oceanography, atmospheric sciences, climatology, seismology, hydrology, soil science, and other related fields.

Atmosphere | Biodiversity | Climate and Environmental Change | Data Analysis Platforms | Environmental | Geodetic | Hydrology | Mineralogy | Monitoring Stations | NASA | NOAA | Oceanography | Paleobiology | Sedimentology and Stratigraphy | Seismic | Soil Science | Structural Geology and Tectonics | USGS

• DataONE is a community driven project providing access to data across multiple member repositories, supporting enhanced search and discovery of Earth and environmental data. See list of their [link https://www.dataone.org/current-member-nodes#uploads member repositories']
• ESS-DIVE - The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Environmental Systems Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE) is a new data archive for Earth and environmental science data.

Atmosphere

• AirNow
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Air Quality

Biodiversity

• EDDMapS Real time invasive species maps
• GBIF Global Biodiversity Information Facility
• iDigbio Portal
• NatureServe Explorer from NatureServe

Climate and Environmental Change

• PRISM Climate Group
• PAGES - Past Global Changes - lists other Data compilation efforts
• WorldClim Global Climate Data
• Paleoclim high-resolution paleoclimate data for use in biological modeling and GIS

Data Analysis Platforms

• Data Basin - access to thousands of scientifically-grounded, biological, physical, and socio-economic datasets
• CSDMS (Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System) - upper level student for integration of climate + sediments + hydrology + landforms

Environmental

• EPA Superfund Sites
• EPA Wetlands Inventory

Geodetic

• UNAVCO geodesy data
  University-Governed Consortium Facilities, Geoscience Research and Education Using Geodesy
• Geoprisms Geodynamic Processes at Rifting and Subducting Margins

Hydrology

• WaterIsotopes.org
• wikiwatershed - NGSS NAGT Webinar
• CUAHSI Universities Allied for Water Research

Mineralogy

• MinDat Information on all minerals

Monitoring Stations

• Using LTER data Long-term Ecological Research
• National Research Reserve System
• NEON National Ecological Observation Network

NASA

• NASA
  • MyNASAData, includes the Earth System Data Explorer, where users can explore and visualize a large array of data, including datasets related to the atmosphere, biodiversity, climate and environmental change, ocean, sedimentology and stratigraphy, soil science, and more.
  • Data.nasa.gov is NASA's clearinghouse site for open-data provided to the public.

NOAA

• NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  • Tides and Currents Products
  • Climate Data
  • Dataset Gallery
  • NOAA Shoreline Data - Various data sets on US shorelines, Mostly geographical data
  • NOAA Gravity Data - One of many geophysics datasets available; Maps and downloadable data available
  • National Hurricane Center - Real time and historical hurricane data
  • National Data Bouy Center-

Oceanography

• International tide data
• Sea Level Station Monitoring IOC
• OOI data-portal Ocean Observatory Initiative
• Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network

Paleobiology

• Paleobiology Database
• Neotoma Paleoecology Database - Paleoecology and Paleoenvironment data
• Data Nuggets (good for paper and pencil graphing)

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

• Macrostrat - Data packages of stratigraphic units from the US and abroad

Seismic

• IRIS Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
• IRIS Earthquake Browser

Soil Science

• SoilWeb
• Web Soil Survey
  • UC Davis Version

Structural Geology and Tectonics

• Strabospot - Structural Geology and Tectonics data

USGS

• USGS data catalog U.S. Geological Survey
  • USGS Earthquake Hazards Program Real time data on earthquakes
  • USGS Water Data - Surface water data of all sorts, mostly from the US, Groundwater data from the US
  • USGS Volcano Data - Real time and Historic volcano data
  • USGS Geochemical Data: Rocks - Geochemistry of US rock samples
  • USGS Geologic Hazards - Links to all kinds of hazard data, Earthquakes, landslides, and more!
  • StreamStat
  • USGS - EDNA
• CZO Critical Zone Observatory