Mornin'
During my
coffee & surf wake up ritual I found interesting
community
data resources. I love these as they are data collection tools and
methodologies that can
empower citizens to
scientifically collect, document and share data about
issues of importance to them in their communities.
Environment Canada's Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network
(EMAN)
Resources to help groups
learn how to monitor
the environment. This means
that community groups could pick a topic of their choice, lets say
monitor the health of trees in urban areas or firefly counts and have a
list of methodological resources that includes data management,
quality, communication, access to scientists, protocols on how to
scientifically do so
(
http://www.eman-rese.ca/eman/ecotools/intro.html)! and my favorite - a
map of monitoring sites -
http://www.eman-rese.ca/cgi-bin/mapserver/sites/sites.phtml?language=english.
Emergent environmental monitoring!
Resources for Indicator and Reporting Practitioners
If ya wanna
build community based
indicators dev. then here is another fine resource - access
to tools, resources and contacts for all of us who work to develop and
present indicators and reports on environmental and other
sustainability issues.
http://www.ec.gc.ca/soer-ree/English/resource_network/default.cfm
National Pollutant Release Inventory Data
Includes: on substance, facility, year, type of industries and
location. Some data are a bit outdated! Hm! you only get what the
state funds. We need more grass roots coalitions of scientists to
collect this stuff!
http://www.ec.gc.ca/pdb/npri/npri_online_data_e.cfm
Geomatics Resources for Sustainable Development
Includes: Some digital elevation modeling for watershed
management, forests mngt, methods to manage and mark land boundaries,
Image Processing Standards for Earth Observation (EO) Data project and
so on!
http://gsdnr.nrcan.gc.ca/success/index_e.php
elearning metadata modules
So that the data collected by the
community
can be loaded into data portals and shared with others for
their research.
http://www.cise-scie.ca/english/e-learning/e_modules.cfm
National Air Pollution Surveillance Network
Includes: Mapping apps, data, smog overview, methodologies, etc.
http://www.etcentre.org/naps/index_e.html
Biodiversity Projects with Stakeholdes and CISE
Includes: Portals on
bird information
and
environmental assessment have
been constructed. A
national biodiversity network has been
supported to enable access to
species
information. CISE also sponsored
wetland
mapping.
http://www.cise-scie.ca/english/biodiversity/biodiversity.cfm
Have a fine day!
T
ps-I love geographers :)
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