BY ORGANIZATION

• Federal Government
  Agencies, Information Sources, Data

• State Governments
  State of New Mexico, Other States, Information

• Municipal/County Governments

• Tribal Governments and Information

• Trade and Non-Profit Organizations
  Professional Organizations, Trade Organizations, Non-Profits, Other Organizations

BY TOPIC

• Regulatory Information
  Regulatory Agencies, Regulations On Line, Policy

• Publications

• Environmental Assessment
  Air Topics, Water Topics, Maps and Geographic Information, Modeling Software, Organizations

• Risk Assessment
  Ecological Risk Assessment, Human Health Risk Assessment,

• Other Data

• Funding Opportunities

• Computer Stuff

• Science Reference

• General Reference
  Other Lists of Internet Resources, Writing Tools,

BY ORGANIZATION

Federal Government:

• The White House

• The House of Representatives

• The Senate
  
  
• Federal Government Agencies
  
  • BIA: Bureau of Indian Affairs

  • BLM: Bureau of Land Management

  • BUREC/USBR: Bureau of Reclamation

  • CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • U.S. Census Bureau

  • COE/USACE: Army Corps of Engineers

  • DNFSB: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board

  • DOE: Department of Energy
    • LANL Environmental Restoration Project

    • DOE's Center for Risk Excellence

    • DOE's CIAC: Computer Incident Advisory Capability
    • DOE EM:Office of Environmental Management

    • DOE's NEPA Web

    • DOE Orders and Directives

  • EPA: Environmental Protection Agency
    
    • EPA ORD's National Center for Environmental Assessment

    • EPA's Office of Water

    • EPA's Quality Assurance Division (Data Quality Objectives and Data Quality Assessment information)

    • EPA Surf Your Watershed

  • FERC: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

  • NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
    
    • NOAA Damage Assessment and Restoration

  • NPS: National Park Service

  • NRC: Nuclear Regulatory Commission

  • NSF: National Science Foundation

  • USDA: U.S. Department of Agriculture
    
    • USFS: U.S. Forest Service

    • NCRS: Natural Resources Conservation Service

  • USGS: U.S. Geological Survey
    
    • Water Use in the United States (USGS)

    • National Mapping Information (USGS)

    • Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative (USGS)

  • U.S. Treasury

  
  
• Government Information Sources
  
  • THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet

  • CFR: The Code of Federal Regulations

  • CNIE National Ligrary for the Environment

  • FR: The Federal Register

  • DOE Orders and Directives

  • Library of Congress

  • EPA: National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP) EPA publications for FREE!

  • NTIS: National Technical Information Service

  • OSTI: Office of Scientific and Technical Information

  • Fedworld Information Network

  • DOE's Federal Facility Compliance Act (FFCA) Bulletin Board

  • Integrated Data Base Report (by DOE)

  • GSA's FAR: General Services Administration - Federal Acquisition Regulations

  • GPO: Government Printing Office

  • West Law

  • West Group Environmental Database

  
  
• Government Data
  
  • U.S. Census Bureau

  • Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data for the U.S.

  • EOS: Earth Observing System (NASA)

  • EROS: Earth Resources Observation Systems (USGS)

  • NRCS: Technical Resources from the Natural Resources Conservation Service Lots of good stuff on soils, plants, National Resources Inventory, water and climate data, software, and publications

  • Geospatial Data Clearinghouse (from NRCS) and search
  • NGDC: National Geophysical Data Center

  • National Mapping Information (USGS)

  • Water Resources Data from USGS

  • Water Use in the United States (USGS)

  • EPA's Clean Air Act Database

  • EPA's Surf Your Watershed

  • USGS BEST Contaminant Exposures and Effects Database

State Governments:

• Council of State Governments

• NGA: National Governors' Association
  
  
• State of New Mexico
  
  • EMNRD: Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department

  • NMED: New Mexico Environment Department

  • RGIS: New Mexico Resource Geographic Information System Program

  • SEO: Office of the State Engineer / Interstate Stream Commission

  • SWQB: Surface Water Quality Bureau

  • Watershed Groups working in New Mexico
  
  
• Other States
  
  • State and Local Government on the Web (from PiperInfo)

  • State and Local Governments (from Library of Congress)

  • U.S. State and Local Gateway

  • California Environmental Protection Agency: Human and Ecological Risk Division

  
  
• State-Specific Information Sources
  
  • Florida Department of Environmental Protection

  • Idaho Geospatial Data Center

  • Kansas' GIS Initiative

  • Missouri Spatial Data Information Service

  • Montana Natural Resource Information System

  • Montana Water, Riparian, and Wetland Resources

  • Water Resources of Montana

  • Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

  • New Mexico links

  • Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access

  • Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC - pron. "train wreck")

  • West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection

  • Wyoming Geographic Information Advisory Council

Municipal/County Governments:

• Albuquerque, NM

• Los Alamos, NM

• Santa Fe, NM

• see also Other states

Tribal Governments and Information:

• Native Web

• A Line in the Sand

• Pueblo of Santa Ana, NM

Trade and Non-Profit Organizations:

• Professional Organizations
  
  • A&WMA: Air and Waste Management Association

  • AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of Science

  • AAPG: American Association of Petroleum Geologists

  • ACS: American Chemical Society

  • AGU: American Geophysical Union

  • APS: American Physical Society

  • APWA: American Public Works Association

  • ASCE: American Society of Civil Engineers

  • American Statistical Association

  • AWWA: American Water Works Association

  • Community of Science

  • Ecological Society of America

  • Federation of American Scientists

  • GSA: Geological Society of America

  • IAIA: International Association for Impact Assessment

  • International Society for Ecological Modelling

  • MAA: Mathematical Association of America

  • Society for Conservation Biology

  • Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

  • Society for Risk Analysis

  
  
• Trade Organizations
  
  • ANSI: American National Standards Institute

  • ASTM: American Society for Testing and Materials

  • EPRI: Electric Power Research Institute

  • GRI: Gas Research Institute

  • Mining USA Home Page

  • Pollution Online

  
  
• Non-Profit Organizations
  
  • CIESIN: Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network

  • River Network
  • UCS: Union of Concerned Scientists

  • Watershed Groups working in New Mexico
  • TERA: Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment

  
  
• Other Organizations
  
  • EPA/ORD - National Center for Environmental Assessment

  • Association for the Environmental Health of Soils

  • CEEA: Center for Energy and Environmental Assessment (at ORNL)

  • World Nuclear Association

  • Nuclear Energy Agency

BY TOPIC

Regulatory Information:

• Regulatory Agencies
  
  • DOE: Department of Energy
  • EPA: Environmental Protection Agency
  • NRC: Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  
  
• Regulations On Line
  
  • THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet

  • The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)

  • The Federal Register

  • DOE Orders and Directives

  
  
• Policy
  
  • PolicyWorks

  • DOE's Data Quality Objectives Home Page (Data Quality Objectives and Data Quality Assessment information)

  • DOE's NEPA Web

  • DOI Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance

Environmental Assessment:

• EPA SAB Integrated Environmental Decision-Making in the 21^st Century

• EPA/ORD - National Center for Environmental Assessment

• CEEA: Center for Energy and Environmental Assessment (at ORNL)

• LANL Environmental Restoration Project

• DAAC: Distributed Active Archive Centers for NASA's Earth Observing System Data Information System ( EOSDIS):
  • DAAC for Biogeochemical Dynamics (at ORNL)

  • DAAC for Land Processes (at USGS)

  • Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (at CIESIN)

  
  
• Air Topics
  
  
• Water Topics
  
  • Agricultural research Service (USDA) Water Management Research Laboratory

  • EPA Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds

  • EPA Surf Your Watershed

  • Water Resources of the United States (by USGS)

  • Water Use in the United States (USGS)

  • Hydrologic Information Center (by NOAA)

  • Hydrology Web (by PNNL)

  • River Network

  
  
• Maps and Geographic Information
  
  • USGS Digital Raster Graphics (DRG) maps available on line! Many of the nation's 1:24,000 scale USGS quadrangle maps (and 1:100,000 scale) are available in a scanned format for free!
    Including New Mexico:

  • USGS Topo maps for New Mexico at all scales

  • USGS National Mapping Information

  • Global Gazeteer

  • U.S. Gazeteer

  • National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA, formerly the Defense Mapping Agency)

  • GIS Data Depot

  • Geospatial Data Clearinghouse (from NRCS) and search
  • Yahoo Maps

  • 5-Minute Gridded Elevation Data for the World (by NGDC)

  • Great Globe Gallery

  • EPA Maps On Demand

  
  
• Environmental Modeling Software (mostly free)
  
  • Argus Open Numerical Environments

  • CALPUFF air quality modeling software

  • CalTOX, A Multimedia Total Exposure Model For Hazardous Waste Sites. Also available from the NTIS.

  • Trent University's Environmental Modelling Centre

  • EPA's CSMOS: Center for Subsurface Modeling Support

  • Federal Computer Products Center

  • Geostatistical Software for the PC

  • Groundwater Shareware Database and FTP Site (University of Manitoba)

  • Graphics and Data Analysis Software

  • Ground Water for Windows

  • HEC: Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center for HEC-1, HEC-2. HEC-6, HEC-RAS, etc.

  • HSSM: Hydrocarbon Spill Screening Model

  • Richard B. Winston's Home Page

  • GoldSim - Integrated Probabilistic Simulator for Environmental Systems

  • Neptune and Co.'s GoldSim Pages

  • RiverTools: for DEM (Digital Elevation Model) and river network analysis

  • ShowFlow Groundwater Modeling Software

  • SWMM: EPA's Storm Water Management Model

  • USGS Water Resources Software

  • Water Resources Consulting Services' Freeware Page

  • Argonne's RESRAD page

  
  
• Environmental Organizations
  
  • Environmental Organization Web Directory

  • also see Non-Profits

Publications On-Line:

• Chemical and Engineering News

• Electronic News Stand

• Nature

• Science

• New Waves (from Texas A&M University's Texas Water Research Institute)

• Watermarks (from University of Texas at Austin's Center for Research in Water Resources)

Risk Assessment:

• RiskWorld

• Electronic Handbook Publishers, Inc. (EHP), Publishes computerized databases and hypertext documents for human health and ecological risk assessment. EHP also publishes federal and state risk assessment guidance documents.

• Mark C. Mummert Environmental Consulting, Inc., Located in Harrisburg, PA, they focus exclusively on risk-based closures.

• Cal/EPA DTSC Human and Ecological Risk Division
  
• DOE Center for Risk Excellence

• DOE Risk Guidance Documents

• Preliminary Remediation Goals (PRGs) from EPA Region 9

• EPA's Office of Technical Services

• http://www.risk-analysis-center.com/
  
• Ecological Risk Assessment
  
  • Herptox Env Canada

  • Rattner et al.: Biological and Ecotoxicological Characteristics of Terrestrial Vertebrate Species Residing in Estuaries

  • The Wildlife Exposure Factors Handbook

  • EPA Ecotox Database

  • Cal/EPA Exposure Factor and Ecotoxicology Database
    
  • Cal/Ecotox, a unique online database containing exposure factor and toxicity information for 62 California mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians. From the California Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA).

• Human Health Risk Assessment
  
  • TERA: Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment

  • TOXNET Web Search

  • EPA's Superfund Risk Assessment page

  • EPA Region III Risk-Based Concentration Table

  • EPA NCEA Guidance on Human Health Assessment of Contaminant Mixtures

  • Argonne's RESRAD page

Other Data:

• CIESIN: Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network

Funding Opportunities:

• DOE EMSP: Environmental Management Science Program

• Community of Science Funding Opportunities Database

• National Science Foundation grants and awards

• Centers for Disease Control funding opportunities

Computer Stuff:

• DOE's Computer Incident Advisory Capability, with timely information on viruses, hoaxes, etc.

Science Reference:

• Astronomy
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day

  • Satellite Tracking with NASA's J-Track

  • Mars Pathfinder

• Biology
  • National Biological Service (now part of USGS)

• Chemistry
  • Finding Physical and Chemical Properties thanks to Vanderbilt University's Science and Engineering Library

  • Molecular Structure Center of Indiana University

  • Periodic Table of the Elements (at LANL)

  • UC Berkeley's Chemistry Resources on the Internet

  • UCLA's Chemistry Resources on the Internet

  • Virtual Chemistry

• Earth Science
  • The Mineral Gallery

  • Cascades Volcano Observatory

  • Earth and Moon Viewer

  • Ocean Drilling Program

  • Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

  • National Undersea Research Program

• Geometry
  • The Geometry Center

  • Fractint fractal generation software

  • Pavillion of Polyhedreality

• Hydrology
  • Experimental Lakes Area

  • USGS Office of Water Data Coordination

  • Hydrologic Unit Maps

  • Information for The Rio Grande Region: Hydrologic Region 13

  • Watersheds of the Oak Ridge Reservation

• Materials Science
  • The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Failure

• Medicine
  • MedLine

  • The Visible Human Project

• Meterology
  • The Weather Page (by NOAA)

• Nuclear Sciences
  • Integrated Data Base Report (by DOE)

  • Bomb Test Photos

  • Fusion Energy Education Site

  • The Environmental and Ethical Basis of Geological Disposal of Radioactive Wastes

• Visualization
  • EPA's Scientific Visualization Center

General Reference:

• Index of College and University Home Pages (BrainTrack)

• Lists of Internet Resources
  
  • International Association of Impact Assessment list of links

  
  
• Writing Tools
  
  • Project Bartleby (by Columbia University)

  • The Elements of Style (Strunk and White)

  • Webster's Hypertext Dictionary from UCSD