Puget Sound Green Pages

Ecology and Conservation

Last updated: June 24, 2003


 


PUGET SOUND AREA

Earthshare of Washington

 

A federation of 67 environmental nonprofits working to conserve and protect the environment internationally, nationally, and locally here in Washington State. Our primary mission is to raise money for our member organizations through workplace giving campaigns conducted in public and private sector businesses throughout the State of Washington.

King County Earth Legacy Initiative

 

quality in our region.

List of Birding and Ecological Websites in Cascadia Bioregion

Northwest Ecosystem Alliance

 

Protects and restores wildlands in the Pacific Northwest and supports such efforts in British Columbia. The alliance bridges science and advocacy, working with activists, policymakers, and the public to conserve our natural heritage.

Northwest Environment Watch

 

A wholly independent not-for-profit research center based in Seattle. Its mission: to foster a sustainable economy and way of life in the Pacific Northwest.

Olympic Park Institute

 

OPI serves schools and communities from the Pacific Northwest (the majority are from greater Puget Sound) with residential field science programs, Elderhostels, youth summer adventures, teacher training, conference space, and field seminars about natural sciences, the arts, and outdoor skills.

Washington Gap Analysis Project

 

A proactive research project designed to prioritize areas of importance for preservation of biodiversity.

Washington Native Plant Society

 

Dedicated to the appreciation and conservation of the native plants of Washington state.

 

 

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL

Biological, Agricultural, and Medical Resources (U.C. Riverside)

Center for Ecological Health Research

 

The central goal of the Center is to understand how multiple stresses affect biological processes in aquatic and terrestrial systems. Within five to ten years, research in this area should provide improved indicators of ecological change from multiple stressors as well as techniques to predict and manage at least population-level changes in impacted species.

Centre for Computer Based Learning in Land Use and Environmental Sciences

 

Provides support for lecturers who wish to effectively implement computer-assisted learning (CAL) for courses in agriculture, environmental science, soil science, forestry, horticulture, the applied biological sciences, rural economics, rural business management and rural land use planning.

CSIRO Tropical Forest Research Centre

EarthDay Network

 

 

Ecological Modelling (University of Kassel)

 

Provides easy access to available information about ecological modelling (simulation models, descriptions of these models, simulation-software, persons and literature). It is also thought for modellers who want to make their models easily available. Additional this WWW-Server integrates an interface to ECOBAS (Documentation of mathematical formulation of ecological processes).

Ecology and Biodiversity - Virtual Library

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Conservatory and Gardens

Ecology WWW page

 

List of WWW Sites of Interest to Ecologists provided as a service to students, teachers, researchers, and others interested in the science of ecology.

Friends of the Earth: USA

 

A national, non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the planet from environmental degradation; preserving biological, cultural, and ethnic diversity; and empowering citizens to have an influential voice in decisions affecting the quality of their environment -- and their lives.

Gaia Trust

 

a Danish charitable entity founded in 1987 with the objective of promoting a global consciousness that experiences the whole planet as a living organism and Mankind as part of that whole

Global Entomology Agricultural Research Server

Great Lakes Information Network

IUCN: World Conservation Union

 

(International Union for the Conservation of Wildlife) Our Mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.

United Nations World Conservation Monitoring Centre

 

Provides information services on conservation and sustainable use of the world's living resources, and helps others to develop information systems of their own.

University of Maine Department of Wildlife Ecology

 

research interests, available positions, directions to the campus and to the department, and connections to World Wide Web sites of interest to biologists.

US Fish and Wildlife Service

 

Our mission, working with others, is to conserve, protect, and enhance fish and wildlife and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. Our major responsibilities are: migratory birds, endangered species, certain marine mammals, freshwater and anadromous fish, the National Wildlife Refuge System, wetlands, conserving habitat and environmental contaminants.

US Long-term Ecological Research Network

 

Collaborative effort involving more than 1100 scientists and students investigating ecological processes operating at long time scales and over broad spatial scales.

WWW Virtual Library

 

List of topics

 


Return to Home Page

Site suggestions and comments to: greenway@wolfenet.com