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
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.
Watershed Information Technical System (WITS)
http://cwp.resources.ca.gov/browser/
The Watershed Information Technical System (WITS),
a component of CERES, was developed by the Resources
Agency in conjunction with the Department of Fish and
Game, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection,
and the State Water Resources Control Board. The goal
of WITS is to provide the information and tools to support
local watershed planning, restoration, monitoring, and
education. It provides environmental documents, basin
plans, visual materials, contacts with watershed groups,
and online map-making using Geographic Information System
(GIS) data layering.
WITS has two pilot watershed projects involving planning
for the Russian River watershed of Sonoma and Mendocino
counties and the cataloging of information for watersheds
on the Mendocino coast. Both projects are integrated
with the California Rivers Assessment program, a cooperative
program of the Resources Agency, the University of California
at Davis, and the University of California Berkeley
Digital Library. In addition, WITS is linked to the
California Watershed Projects Inventory, a listing of
watershed projects statewide.
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.
The California Environmental Information Catalog
http://ceres.ca.gov/catalog
CERES, in cooperation with the California Geographic
Information Association, has developed an online cataloging
service and browsable metadata database that is accessible
for input and editing by data owners. The web-based
form system allows a data owner to create a password-protected
catalog and easily develop descriptive records that
are compliant with federal standards. Catalog entries
describe data holdings from State resource agencies,
local governments and university research programs,
and outreach efforts are in progress to extend participation
and use. Further enhancements planned for the system
include posting for Government Information Locator Service
(GILS) searches and an Access version of the database
that can be used on a personal computer for in-house
catalog development.
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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