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Environmental
Engineering Web Sites
This is a guide to
finding selected Environmental Engineering resources in the
Galvin Library. For more in-depth assistance,
please contact Charles Uth, or
consult a Reference
Librarian.
Recommend a website
in this area through our online form
National Counsel
for Science and the Environment
http://www.cnie.org/
Review: A national, non-profit
organization working to improve the scientific basis for making
decisions on environmental issues through creation of a new, non-regulatory
environmental science and education entity, the National Institute
for the Environment (NIE).
Congressional Research Service
http://www.cnie.org/NLE/CRS/
Review:The
Congressional Research Service (CRS), part of the Library of Congress,
prepares its reports for the U.S. Congress. CRS products undergo review
for accuracy and objectivity and contain nontechnical information
that can be very useful to people interested in environmental policy.
CNIE is obtaining copies of the CRS reports, converting them to an
Internet-compatible format and placing them online. As new or updated
CRS reports related to environmental or resource issues become available,
CNIE will add them to this library.
E-print
Network
http://www.osti.gov/eprints/
The E-print Network is a set of
powerful tools that facilitate access to and use of scientific and
technical e-prints communicating the results of a wide range of
research activities of interest to the Department of Energy.
The Energy Efficiency
And Renewable Energy Database
http://www.eren.doe.gov/
Review: This bibliographic database
is a subset of the Energy Science and Technology Database (EDB)
created and maintained by the Department of Energy, Office of Scientific
and Technical Information (OSTI). The database contains all unlimited,
unclassified scientific and technical information relating to energy
efficiency and renewable energy topics processed at OSTI that is
DOE sponsored or published in the United States. Additional information
is acquired from, but is not limited to, interagency agreements
with the National Technical Information Service, the NASA Scientific
and Technical Information Division, and the Defense Technical Information
Center. This subset contains records with EDB entry dates beginning
January 1, 1994 and continuing through the present.
Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/
Review: The
major source of governmental and regulatory information on the environment.EPA
Science Inventory
http://cfpub.epa.gov/si/
Review: This resource is a
searchable, Agency-wide catalog of more than 4,000 science
activities such as research, technical assistance and assessments.
The database contains more than 19,000 records in the archives
including project descriptions, products produced, types of peer
review, links to related work and contacts for additional
information. Users can conduct keyword searches or search within
nine cross-cutting science topics.
Environmental Sciences
Database Search Form
http://www.energy.gov/
Review: Allows searching of
abstracts from all programs supported by the Department of Energy
in FY 1995, and from a subset of programs supported in FY 1994.
Household
Products Database
http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/index.htm
A database with
hazardous chemical data on household products.
INFOTERRA
http://www.epa.gov/earlink1/INFOTERRA/index.html
Review: INFOTERRA is an international
environmental referral and research network made up of about 170
countries coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP) in Nairobi, Kenya. The services offered by INFOTERRA/USA
include responding to requests from the international community
for environmental information through document delivery, database
searching, bibliographic products, purchasing information, and referrals
to experts. Additionally, INFOTERRA/USA will assist U.S. esidents
in identifying sources of international environmental information.
Internet Resources
for Water
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/97-summer/internet1.html
Review: A great list of links
to water web sites, associations, and discussion groups composed
by the UCSB library staff.
Linkages
http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/
Review: Linkages is provided
by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD),
publishers of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin. It is an electronic
clearing-house for information on past and upcoming international
meetings related to environment and development.
USGS Water Resources
http://water.usgs.gov/
Review: Collection of links
to information on water quality, including the following resources:
Real-time Water Data; National Water Information System; Water-Quality;
The USGS Node of the National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse; Water
Use Maps and data by county and watershed; Acid Rain National Atmospheric
Deposition Program (NADP); NAWDEX -- National Water Data Exchange.
Yearbook of International Cooperation
on Environment and Development
http://www.ngo.grida.no/ggynet/
Review: The
web pages contain key information on the most important international
agreements on environment and development, IGOs and NGOs working in
this area, and environmental data and performance records of OECD
countries.
Associations
Environmental Engineering
Air and Waste
Management Association (AWMA)
http://www.awma.org/
National Association
of Environmental Professionals
http://168.143.147.75/
General Engineering
Organizations
National Academy
of Engineering (NAE)
http://www.nae.edu/
National Society
of Black Engineers (NSBE)
http://www.nsbe.org
IIT Chapter
of NSBE
http://www.iit.edu/~nsbe/index.html
National Society
of Professional Engineers (NSPE)
http://www.nspe.org
Society of
Women Engineers (SWE)
http://www.swe.org
General Scientific Organizations
The American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS)
http://www.aaas.org
National Academy
of Sciences (NAS)
http://www.nas.edu/
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