Lake & Watershed Management Resources
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Botany • Clean & Green • Environmental Data • Environmental Engineering • Environmental Organizations • Environmental Resources • Equipment Suppliers & Service Vendors • US EPA • GIS Resources & Data • Grants Info • Microbiology • Models & Software • NYS/Adirondacks • Weather • Webcams
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Botany
- Algae Home Page - Smithsonian
- AlgaeBase - info on marine macroalgae
- ANSP Algae Image Database website
- Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Foundation
- BGSU Center for Algal Microscopy - Algae Images
- Botanical Electronic News
- Botanical Field Techniques Manual
- British Phycological Society
- Centex Naturalist - Algae pics and much more
- Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants
- Chicago Botanical Garden
- FLORIN Databases
- Internet Directory for Botany
- Missouri Botanical Garden (MoBOT) - Research Links
- New York Botanical Garden -- Virtual Herbarium
- Northern Ontario Wildflowers
- Ohio U Algae Page
- Plant Hardiness Zone Maps
- PLANTS National Database
- Plant Net
- Plants Page
- Q'taxa - Plant Resources Information Library
- Scott's Botanical Link of the Day
- Scott's Botanical Subject Index
- Smithsonian Botany Page
- The World of Algae
- See Also
- Microbiology (cyanobacteria)
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Clean & Green
- Conservation Technology Information Center
- Clean Water Action Plan
- Directory of Volunteer Monitoring Programs
- Earth Island Institute
- Earthwatch
- EcoNet
- EE-LINK - Environmental Education Resources
- EnviroFacts
- Environmental News Network and ENN Daily News
- EPA's Monitoring Water Quality Site
- Field Guide for Collecting and Processing Stream Water Samples (USGS)
- Give Water A Hand - for young people taking action
- The GLOBE Program - Global Learning & Observations to Benefit the Environment
- Great American Secchi Dip-In
- Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network & Fund
- GREEN - Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
- Green Pages - The Global Directory for Environmental Technology
- International Rivers Network
- Know Your Watershed
- National Council for Science and the Environment
- National Environmental Directory
- National Parks and Conservation Association
- NEMO - Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials
- Save Our Streams & Save Our Stream Tools - Izaak Walton League
- SEEK - Sharing Environmental Education Knowledge
- Society of Environmental Journalists
- Stream Study - UVirginia, with online Key to Macroinvertebrates
- Water Quality Fact Sheets NH DES
- Watershed Academy (US EPA)
- See Also
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Environmental Engineering
- American Water Works Association
- Hydrologic Conversions - NOAA
- Hydrology/Hydraulic shareware
- National Small Flows Clearinghouse
- Technology Transfer Highlights
- US Water News On-Line
- Water Environment Federation
- Water Quality Association
- WaterWeb
- WaterWorld - water and wastewater technology
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Environmental Data
- Earth Resources Observation System (EROS) Data Center
- EPA's Index of Watershed Indicators
- Great Lakes Information Network
- National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)
- National Climatic Data Center
- National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse (USGS)
- National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- National Water Quality Standards Database
- National Wetland Inventory (NWI) Wetlands Maps
- USGS Data OnLine
- USGS NWIS-W Data Retrieval - Stream Flows
- The Adirondack Council
- Adirondack Research Consortium
- Amazing Environmental Organization WebDirectory
- American Fisheries Society
- American Society of Limnology & Oceanography (ASLO)
- Great Lakes Research Consortium
- GreenPeace
- Izaak Walton League
- LakeNET - a global network for the conservation and sustainable management of lakes
- Man And the Biosphere
- National Audubon Society
- National Institutes for Water Resources
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- The Nature Conservancy
- NYS Federation of Lake Associations
- New York State Water Resources Institute
- North American Lake Management Society
- Sierra Club
- Society for Conservation Biology
- Society for the Protection of NH Forests
- Terrene Institute
- Trout Unlimited
- World Wildlife Fund
- See Also
- Aquaculture Impacts on the Environment Bibliography
- Aquatic Ecology Page
- Clay.net® Environmental Professional's Home Page
- Conservation Ecology
- Conservation Technology Information Center
- Cornell Center for the Environment
- Cornell Theory Center Math & Science Gateway
- Ecoregions of the United States--USFS
- Ecological Subregions of the United States--USFS
- EDIS - Electronic Data Information Source
- Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA)
- Experimental Lakes Area - University of Manitoba
- Information Center for the Environment
- Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)
- Fisheries & Natural Resources Sites - American Fisheries Society
- Global Change Master Directory
- Integrated Pest & Crop Management
- Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network
- LTER: NORTH TEMPERATE LAKES
- National Atmospheric Deposition Program
- National Park Service
- National Response Center
- National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) (USFWS)
- Natural Resources Conservation Service
- NH DES Fact Sheets
- NOAA Network Information Center
- Nonpoint Source News-Notes
- SeaGrant nonindiginous Species Site
- Smithsonia Natural History Home Page
- Texas Environmental Center
- Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
- US ACOE - Waterways Experiment Station
- US Geologic Survey (USGS)Home Page
- Water Quality Information Center | Quick Bibliographies
- WWW Sites for Ecologists
- Watershed Atlas
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Equipment Suppliers & Service Vendors
Lake management and lake monitoring equipment, lake stewardship equipment (such as composting toilets)
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US EPA
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Home Page
- Acid Rain Program
- Clean Lakes Program
- Citizen's information
- EnviroFacts Query
- Enviro$ense -- ASK EPA
- National Center for Environmental Research - EPA Grants, RFPs, Etc.
- National Water Program Strategic Plan 2004 - 2008 and National Program Guidance for 2005
- Nonpoint Source Program & Grant Guidance
- Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds
- Region II
- Software & Databases
- State Water Quality Assessments
- Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies
- CGRER Geodata Information Sources
- EPA Data Systems & Software: GIS
- EPA Node: National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
- ESRI ArcData Online
- EarthExplorer: satellite images, aerial photographs, and cartographic products from USGS
- GIS WWW Resource List - extensive list
- Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center
- NYS GIS Clearinghouse
- Space physics Interactive Data Resource
- TerraServe - aerial photo server
- Vermont Center for Geographic Info
- See also
- Catalog of Federal Funding Sources for Watershed Protection
- Council on Foundations
- Foundation Center
- Funding Sources For Community Based Conservation
- Funding Sources for Water Quality
- Internet NonProfit Center
- National Science Foundation
- American Society for Microbiology
- BST - Bacterial Source Tracking
- Buckman's Photomicrographs
- Cells Alive! - pictures & movies
- Center for Disease Control
- Cryptosporidium page
- Cyanosite - a webserver for cyanobacterial research
- CYANO-TOX - Toxic Cyanobacteria Home Page
- FDA Bad Bug Book
- Microbes.info - The Microbiology Information Portal
- Tree of Life Bacteria Lineage
- U Berkeley Intro to Bacteria
- U Berkeley Intro to Cyanobacteria
- U Berkeley Intro to Spirochetes
- Wim van Egmond's Micro Page: 3D, drawings & more
- BASINS: EPA's Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources
- CEAM - Center for Environmental Exposure Modeling
- Environmental/Water Resources Computer Model Library
- EPA Data Systems & Software
- Adirondack Journal List of Organizations protecting the Ad'ks
- Adirondack Park Agency
- Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program
- Adirondack Photos (Historic)
- Adirondack Research Consortium
- Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks
- Biodiversity Research Institute - NYS
- Environmental Conservation Rules and Regulations - 6 NYCRR
- Lake Champlain Basin Atlas
- Lake Champlain Basin Program
- Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
- Holmes & Associates - Adirondack socio-economic research findings
- NYS Department of Health
- NYS Environmental Conservation (Albany)
- NYS Environmental Conservation (Region 5)
- NYS Environmental Notice Bulletin
- NYS Federation of Lake Associations
- New York State -- Official Home Page
- New York State Museum
- NYS Water Resources Institute
- Olympic Regional Development Authority(ORDA)
- Residents Committee to Protect the Adirondacks
- See also
- Cedar Eden Environmental Local Weather Page
- Adirondack Regional Airport Current Conditions (2.3 miles west of Cedar Eden)
- New York State Forecast - Weather Underground
- Northeast Doppler Radar - Weather Channel
- NWS Snow Analysis
- Saranac Lake 10 DayForecast - Intellicast
- Saranac Lake Forecast - Weather Channel
- Saranac Lake Forecast - Weather Underground
- Saranac Lake Radar Loop
- Weathering Heights - Roger Hill's Weather Forecasting and Data Services
- Cedar Eden Environmental WebCam
- New York State WEBCAMS
- Roger Hill's Regional Webcam collection page - very neat!
- WeatherMatrix Weathercams
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