EnergyFiles: Environmental Sciences, Safety, and Health
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Organizations and Agencies
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Agency within the Department of Health and Human Services responsible for promoting health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability
- Ecological Society of America - A nonpartisan, nonprofit organization of scientists founded in 1915 to promote ecological science by improving communication among ecologists, raise public awareness, and enhancing communication between the ecological community and policy-makers
- Environmental Protection Agency - The home page for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency which contains links to projects and programs, publications, databases and software, and laws and regulations.
- International Energy Agency (IEA) - Information on publications, technology and statistics from the IEA
- National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) - The Center conducts research on fundamental and applied problems in ecology and provides descriptions of its current projects at this site
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health - Agency within the Department of Health and Human Services responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related illnesses and injuries
- National Institutes of Health - Agency within the Department of Health and Human Services whose mission is to uncover new knowledge that will lead to better health
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration - Home page for the agency, contains selected full text publications and other materials
- US Department of Energy Office of Biological and Environmental Research - For over 50 years the Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program has been advancing environmental and biomedical knowledge that promotes national security through improved energy production, development, and use; international scientific leadership that underpins our Nation’s technological advances; and research that improves the quality of life for all Americans.
- US Department of Energy's Environment, Safety and Health (ES&H) Technical Information Services (TIS) - TIS is a collection of information services that provides safety and health professionals with reliable, accurate and current information to assist them in performing their jobs
- US Department of Energy's Environmental Management - This site provides public and regulatory information as well as coverage of waste management and environmental restoration
Reference Materials
- Clean Water Action Plan: Restoring and Protecting America's Waters - The EPA provides this site on the nation's Clean Water Action Plan
- Coastal Ocean Modeling at the USGS Woods Hole Science Center - Circulation movies of modeled coastal ecosystem processes including Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay, provided by USGS
- Dioxin and Related Compounds - Provided by the EPA, this site addresses dioxin contamination, exposure, risk, and dose response
- Division of Fishes - The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History's National Collection of fishes is the largest in the world, containing an estimated 7 to 8 million specimens in 512,000 lots, 47% of which have been catalogued in a searchable computer database
- DOE Operating Experience Weekly Summary - The Office of Environment, Safety and Health, through its Office of Nuclear and Facility Safety, publishes the Operating Experience Weekly Summary; which promotes safety throughout the Department of Energy complex by encouraging feedback of operating experience and information exchange among DOE facilities
- DOE Quarterly ES&H Performance Indicator Reports - The Department of Energy Quarterly Environment, Safety and Health Performance Indicator Reports serve as high-level measures of performance in achieving DOE's corporate strategic goals for ES&H
- Environmental Contaminants Encyclopedia - A National Park Service site which contains a searchable encyclopedia of over 100 environmental contaminants
- EPA Terms of Environment - Defines in non-technical language the more commonly used environmental terms appearing in EPA publications, news releases, and other Agency documents available to the general public, students, the media, and Agency employees
- Geostationary Satellite Data - Provided by NASA's Global Hydrology and Climate Center, this site provides real time images of the earth
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) - The Integrated Taxonomic Information System is a partnership of U.S., Canadian, and Mexican agencies, other organizations, and taxonomic specialists cooperating on the development of an on-line, scientifically credible, list of biological names focusing on the biota of North America
- Material Safety Data Sheets - Listing of sites that provide MSDS databases
- National Academies Press - The National Academies Press (NAP) was created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States. The NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health.
- Plant DNA C-values Database - A compilation of C-value data for land plants maintained by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK
- Surface Observed Global Land Precipitation Variations: 1850-1995 - Precipitation data from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies
- Sustainable Building Technical Manual: Green Building Design, Construction, and Operations - A new manual produced jointly by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Public Technology, Inc. (PTI), shows how to design, operate, and maintain environmentally friendly buildings.
- WINDandSEA: The Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Internet Locator - An atmospheric and oceanic sciences Internet Resource Locator provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Central Library
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