Environmental informatics
Environmental informatics is the science of information applied to environmental science. As such, it provides the information processing and communication infrastructure to the interdisciplinary field of environmental sciences[1] aiming at data, information and knowledge integration, the application of computational intelligence to environmental data as well as the identification of environmental impacts of information technology. The UK Natural Environment Research Council defines environmental informatics as the "research and system development focusing on the environmental sciences relating to the creation, collection, storage, processing, modelling, interpretation, display and dissemination of data and information".[2]
Environmental informatics emerged in early 1990 in Central Europe.[3]
Current initiatives to effectively manage, share, and reuse environmental and ecological data are indicative of the increasing importance of fields like environmental informatics and Ecoinformatics to develop the foundations for effectively managing ecological information. Examples of these initiatives are National Science Foundation Datanet projects, DataONE and Data Conservancy.
External links
- Lancaster Environment Center: Centre for environmental informatics
- Masaryk University: Division of environmental informatics and modeling
- NUI Galway: Environmental informatics
- RISSAC: Department of environmental informatics, research institute for soil science and agricultural chemistry, Hungarian academy of sciences
- Stanford University: Sustainable development & environmental informatics
- TU Graz: Research focus area in environmental informatics
- University of California, Irvine: Bren school environmental informatics research
- University of Dayton: Center of excellence for strategic energy and environmental informatics
- University of Eastern Finland: Division of environmental informatics within the department of environmental science at Kuopio Campus
- University of Hamburg: Research in environmental informatics
- University of Las Vegas, Nevada: Environmental informatics undergraduate program
- University of Michigan: Environmental informatics GIS and modeling graduate program
- University of Oldenburg: Division of environmental informatics
- University of Sunderland: Centre for environmental informatics
- DataONE
- Data Conserancy
Notes
This article heavily reuses content from the Wikipedia article.
References
- ↑ L.M. Hilty, B. Page, F.J. Radermacher and W.-F. Riekert. Environmental Informatics as a new discipline of applied computer science. N.M. Avouris and B. Page (eds.), Environmental Informatics (1995), pp. 1-11. Kluwer Academic Publishers. The Netherlands. ISBN 0-7923-3445-0
- ↑ http://www.nerc.ac.uk/funding/application/topics.asp
- ↑ B. Page, V. Wohlgemuth. Advances in Environmental Informatics: Integration of Discrete Event Simulation Methodology with ecological Material Flow Analysis for Modelling eco-efficient Systems, Procedia Environmental Sciences, Volume 2, International Conference on Ecological Informatics and Ecosystem Conservation (ISEIS 2010), 2010, Pages 696-705, ISSN 1878-0296, DOI: 10.1016/j.proenv.2010.10.079
