EES1200 and EES1201: Environmental Science Research Resources

On this page, you will find links to software tools, data sources, and educational resources that support research, data-driven inquiry and decision-making.

MDL provides access to a range of GIS software, statistical software and data visualization software. You can also get your own copy of Esri & NVivo software by requesting a license. If you're looking to learn how to use a new software program, have a look at our tutorials section. U of T users also have access to Esri Virtual Campus courses.

Provides access to various collections of numeric and geospatial data, maps, and atlases.

Land Information Ontario (LIO) helps public and private organizations and individuals find, access and share geographic data. Land Information Ontario also coordinates the collection of aerial photography for Ontario.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has a web map application that you can use to make a topographic map of any area of Ontario that interests you.

Here you will find thousands of datasets that are maintained by the Ontario Government.

Search open data that is relevant to Canadians, learn how to work with datasets, and see what people have done with open data across the country.

The CEOS IDN is an international effort developed to assist researchers in locating information on available datasets. The directory is sponsored as a service to the Earth science community.

All structures published in American Mineralogist, The Canadian Mineralogist, European Journal of Mineralogy and Physics, and Chemistry of Minerals.

Alphabetical list of minerals with formula, crystal system, pictures, rarity, type locality, etc.

Collaboration of GEOROC, NAVDAT and PetDB, listed below, whose relational databases of geochemical analyses share same basic data schema for ultimate integration.

Global geochemical database containing published chemical and isotopic data as well as extensive "metadata" for rocks, minerals, and melt/fluid inclusions.

Consortium of geochemical databases of chemical and isotope data of igneous rocks and minerals.

Data for sub-oceanic igneous and metamorphic rocks generated at mid-ocean ridges including back-arc basins, young seamounts, and old oceanic crust.

Data on individual species are linked to the mineral table by crystallography, X-Ray powder diffraction, chemical composition, physical and optical properties, Strunz classification, and mineral specimen images.

Geophysical data from the Sun to the Earth and Earth's sea floor and solid earth environment, including Earth observations from space.

Providing University of Toronto researchers with information and guidance on research data management.