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About the CERES Websites

Environmental Education

http://ceres.ca.gov/education

CERES' on-line environmental education web outlines such diverse curricula areas as Natural and Social Sciences, English and Language Arts, Visual and Performing Arts, and Mathematics for students and teachers. Primary and secondary sources that focus on California environmental education present data, links to other webs, research, lessons plans, and virtual trips.

Land Use Planning Information Network(LUPIN)

http://ceres.ca.gov/planning

CERES' Land Use Planning Information Network (LUPIN) provides an aggregate view of California's land use and environmental planning information including county general plans, environmental assessment documents, and relate information. Its goal is to formulate and implement an information network to address the needs of land use planners. LUPIN seeks to facilitate better informed decisions about land use, resource conservation, and ecosystem management, and enables Californians to identify and assess the cumulative environmental impact of planning decisions.

LUPIN offers planners, local and regional governments, developers, conservationists, landowners, and others across California unprecedented access to essential land use planning information, providing planning documents, reports and publications, legal and regulatory information, and other essential data. LUPIN also designs individualized pages for each of California's 58 counties providing a single point of access to a library of information including county profiles as well as economic and demographic information, data about species, habitat and vegetation types, infrastructure, planning reports and publications from state and federal agencies, and environmental laws.

California Watershed Browser

http://cwp.resources.ca.gov/browser/

California Wetlands Information System

http://ceres.ca.gov/wetlands

The California Wetlands Information System was designed by the Resources Agency as part of the CERES program to provide comprehensive wetlands information to the general public, the educational community, and government agencies. It is a compilation of public and private sector information, including maps, environmental documents, agency roles in wetlands management, restoration and mitigation activities, regulatory permitting, and wetland policies. This addresses the Governor's wetlands policy which calls for increasing the quality and quantity of wetland habitats through cooperative partnerships with the public and private sector. The Wetlands Information System assists in this effort by providing mapping and resource information on wetlands for local planning efforts as well as providing detailed permitting information to effected land owners. In addition, this information system tracks the wetlands gains and losses along with providing details on restoration and mitigation projects that have been completed.

California Environmental Keyword Thesaurus

http://ceres.ca.gov/thesaurus

CERES, in partnership with the USGS National Biological Information Infrastructure, is developing a thematic thesaurus for use in cataloging and searching for environmental information. Browsing and searching software and a thesaurus-database networking specification are being developed which will make it possible to allow users to locate and utilize controlled vocabulary terms from mulitple networked thesaurus databases, including the USGS's Integrated Texanomic Information System of species names (ITIS). The CERES/BRD thesaurus, the software, and specifications for networking thesauri will be made available for use by other information cataloging and retrieval programs.

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