Data Sources for Synthesis

General Data Sources

• Environmental Data Initiative EDI: Very wide variety of data (mostly research).
• Data Portal: A list of open data portals. This is a very wide variety of datasets (includes socioeconomic and other datasets in addition to environmental).
• National Forest Service: Datasets for silviculture and biodiversity.
• US EPA: air quality, environmental chemistry (Soil, Groundwater, and Freshwaters).
• EPA Enterprise Data Catalog: Another set of data maintained by EPA.
• data.world: General repository of data.
• Resource Watch
• NOAA One Stop: Data from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
• UNEP Pollution Data: United National Environmental Program (UNEP) pollution data.

Specific Projects

• NEON (National Environmental Observation Network): Wide variety of data from more than 3 dozen sites across North America.

Animal Movement

• Movebank: Dataset of animal tracking data using GPS/location trackers.

Camera Traps

• Labeled Information Library of Alexandria: Biology and Conservation: Trail camera images for a variety of wildlife and habitats worldwide.
• CaltechCameraTraps: Hundreds of thousands of images from a variety of projects.
• Wildlife Insights
• Florida Wildlife Camera Trap Dataset: https://www.crcv.ucf.edu/research/projects/florida-wildlife-camera-trap-dataset/.

Biodiversity

• Nature Serve

Vegetation

• Veg Bank

Geospatial (GIS) Data

• Google Earth Engine: Wide variety of satellite geospatial data.
• Soil Grids: Global dataset of soil properties.
• ESRI Data

Air Quality/Climate

• Purple Air Network: Air quality sensor network run by communities.
• US EPA Air Quality: Air quality data synthesis (includes Purple Air data for some datasets).
• Climate Trace: Greenhouse gas data (global).
• Data Hub: Archive of climate data.
• NCAR Data: Atmospheric data from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

Water Quality & Hydrology

• StreamPulse: Water chemistry sensor data from a national and global network.
• US Geological Survey National Water Information System: National dataset of hydrology and water quality for lakes, rivers, streams, and groundwater.

Policy

• International Environmental Agreements Database Project: Includes a lot of policy/government information.
• Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Environmental Data