EdCommunity
EdCommunity – Geographic Information Systems are a major potential source of ecological and environmental spatial data. These days it is essential that students know how they work and what can be done with them (as well as being a major career option!). One of the world’s biggest companies – ESRI – has a range of resources to help students and teachers learn more about the systems. Use this site as a starting point.
Scalgo
Scalgo Interactive is an interesting site showing the power of interactive mapping. It puts a layer on maps showing impact of sea level change on waterways.
Earth Governance System
Earth Governance System – from their website: “The Earth System Governance Project is the largest social science research network in the area of governance and global environmental change. Our international research programme takes up the challenge of exploring political solutions and novel, more effective governance systems to cope with the current transitions in the biogeochemical systems of our planet. The normative context of our research is sustainable development: We see earth system governance not only as a question of governance […]
Wildlife and Countryside Link
Wildlife and Countryside Link is an umbrella organisation for 42 conservation groups. Founded over 30 years ago it seeks to put forward a more united voice for wildlife conservation. It’s recent report is 2013 Nature Check which describes, using a simple traffic light system, the advances, or not, in conservation over the year. Of most interest is its inclusion into the BES Blog for the month
Global Carbon Project
Global Carbon Project – is an international project to provide accurate data about the carbon cycle. From its website: ” The scientific goal of the Global Carbon Project is to develop a complete picture of the global carbon cycle, including both its biophysical and human dimensions together with the interactions and feedbacks between them. This will be: Patterns and Variability: What are the current geographical and temporal distributions of the major pools and fluxes in the global carbon cycle? Processes […]
Environment Online
Environment Online – from their website: “Environment Online – ENO is a global virtual school and network for sustainable development. Environmental themes are studied throughout the school year and campaigns arranged simultaneously around the world”
Global Forest Map
Global Forest Map – just a single webpage but an excellent map showing, in some detail according to the scale chosen, forest loss and gain since 2000. This was part of a project published in Science.
Ocean Health Index
Ocean Health Index – This is a project run by a large group of very well-known US scientists attempting to put a simple data set together to show how the oceans are faring.
Artic Sea Ice
Arctic Sea Ice News is just one page from the US snow data site. Given the arguments surrounding the extent of ice in 2013, it’s useful to have a place where you can get some reliable data.
Discovering Geology
Discovering Geology – one of the great offerings from the British Geological Survey. Their Make-a-Map is superb for class use. Check out the British Geology Viewer. A bit clunky as it goes from small scale to large scale without intermediates but another excellent resource.
