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EnviroAtlas: Incorporation of EnviroAtlas as a Major Component of EcoInforma
Citation:
Neale, A., L. Jackson, M. Mehaffey, AND R. Moore. EnviroAtlas: Incorporation of EnviroAtlas as a Major Component of EcoInforma. U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, 2015.
Impact/Purpose:
Incorporation of EnviroAtlas into EcoInforma Website
Description:
EnviroAtlas is a collection of interactive tools and resources that help inform decision-making and allow users to explore the many benefits people receive from nature, often referred to as ecosystem services. EnviroAtlas was publicly released in May 2014. Ecoinformatics-based Open Resources and Machine Accessibility (EcoINFORMA) is an initiative recommended by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) in their 2011 report to the President on Sustaining Environmental Capital: Protecting Society and the Economy. This initiative is aimed at sustainably expanding the availability and interoperability of Federal and non-Federal biodiversity, ecosystems, and ecosystem services information for use by researchers, the public, and government decision-makers. EcoINFORMA implementation is proceeding under the guidance of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems (BioEco) Informatics Working Group, a working group of the Subcommittee on Ecological Systems (SES) under the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Committee on Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability (CENRS). The EnviroAtlas Team worked with BioEco to ensure EnviroAtlas resources would be compatible with EcoINFORMA.