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Environmental Sciences @ UTSC

Atmosphere and climate

Global Change Master Directory
Comprehensive directory of descriptions of data sets of relevance to global change. Topics include aerosols, air quality, altitude, atmospheric chemistry, electricity, phenomena, pressure, radiation, temperature, and wind/clouds/precipitation.

Hydrology

Global Change Master Directory. Hydrosphere Data Sets (NASA)
Comprehensive directory of descriptions of data sets of relevance to global change. Topics include glaciers/ice sheets, groundwater, snow/ice, surface water, and water quality/water chemistry.

Environmental science data resources

Petrology and mineralogy

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database
All structures published in American Mineralogist, The Canadian Mineralogist, European Journal of Mineralogy and Physics, and Chemistry of Minerals.
Athena Mineralogy
Alphabetical list of minerals with formula, crystal system, pictures, rarity, type locality, etc.
EarthChem
Collaboration of GEOROC, NAVDAT and PetDB, listed below, whose relational databases of geochemical analyses share same basic data schema for ultimate integration.
GEOROC:Geochemistry of Rocks of the Oceans and Continents
(Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie in Mainz, Germany) Global geochemical database containing published chemical and isotopic data as well as extensive "metadata" for rocks, minerals, and melt/fluid inclusions.
NAVDAT: Western North American Volcanic and Intrusive Rock Database
Consortium of geochemical databases of chemical and isotope data of igneous rocks and minerals.
PETDB: Petrological Database of the Ocean Floor
Data for sub-oceanic igneous and metamorphic rocks generated at mid-ocean ridges including back-arc basins, young seamounts, and old oceanic crust.
Mineralogy Database
Data on individual species are linked to the mineral table by crustallography, X-Ray powder diffraction, chemical composition, physical and optical properties, Strunz classification, and mineral specimen images.
National Geophysical Data Center
Geophysical data from the Sun to the Earth and Earth's sea floor and solid earth environment, including Earth observations from space.