Research Guides: Data & Statistics: Environmental Science Data

US Ecological and Environmental Science Data Sources

Envirofacts
EPA data portal.
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Portal to data from the National Oceanic & Atmosphere Administration
US Energy Information Agency
Statistics and datasets on historical and contemporary energy use and production.
US NPS IRMA Portal
US National Park Service (NPS) Integrated Resource Management Applications (IRMA) Portal for access to NPS data and reports
PRISM Climate Group
User friendly source of contemporary and historical climate data for the US.
USA National Phenology Network
Data and maps on effect of climate on plant and animal biological cycles.
US Geological Survey (USGS) Data
Wide range of natural science data, not limited to geology.

Earthdata
Open access Earth observation data from NASA.
Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
Out of Columbia University with focus on human-environment interaction data.
FAOSTAT
Open data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization with a significant quantity of environmental data.
UNEP Environmental Data Explorer
It's not been updated recently but has some useful older data.
DataONE
Portal to numerous collections and sets of environmental data.
Dryad
Primarily science data linked to journal articles.
Australian Institute of Marine Science Data Center
Large quantity of high quality tropical marine data.
data.gov.au
Main data portal for large amount of Australian data.
PLOS (Public Library of Science) One
Online open-access peer-reviewed journals often with article datasets.