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Promising Practices in Graduate Education: Urban Ecology IGERT
Urban Ecology Reserach Lab, University of Washington
National Science Foundation IGERT program
College of Forest Resources, University of Washington
Sites doing research and applications of potential interest to Urban Ecologists:
CAP-LTER - Central Arizona-Phoenix Long Term Ecological Research with a focus on the built environment
Baltimore LTER - another LTER site focused on Urban Ecology
Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology
Ecological Cities Project - interdisciplinary approaches to greenspace creation and management at UMASS, Amherst
Collaborative Spatial Decision Making at the University of Washington - Tim Nyerges
Gelogical Remote Sensing Lab at Arizona State University, Land Cover Classification of Phoenix
Clark University Land Use and Land Cover Modeling page
Urban Change - Integrated Modeling Environment at UC Santa Barabara
The Society for Conservation GIS
Ecosystem Management Initiative at the School of Natural Resources @ U of Michigan
Gund Institute for Ecological Economics - Robert Costanza, Director, UVM
Everglades landscape modeling project
LEAM - land use evolution and impact assessment model
URGE - Development of Urban Green Spaces to improve the quality of live in cities and urban regions
Early Washington Maps: A Digital Collection
What is an EcoCity? Paul F Downton, Urban Ecology Australia
Other NSF IGERT programs with similar emphases as ours
Phd Program in Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Production in tropical and temperate fragmented landscapes - another IGERT program
Sites with information on Brainstorming
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/triton/Guides/Brainstorming.html
http://www.rider.edu/~suler/brainstorm.html
http://www.mindtools.com/brainstm.html
http://www.brainstorming.co.uk/tutorials/preparingforbrainstorming.html
http://www.jpb.com/creative/brainstorming.php
http://www.graphic.org/brainst.html
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/authoring/studio/guidebook/brain.html
http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/PBLGuide/Activities/brainstorm.html
Office of Minority Affairs, University of Washington
Sites containing spatial data
The GIS Guide to Good Practice - advice on conducting GIS analysis
WAGDA - Washington State Geospatial Data Archive
Washington State Geospatial Clearinghouse
In-house (UW Urban Ecology) data - list of data we have inhouse to support our student's research projects
King County Natural Resource Maps
Washington Department of Ecology GIS data
Seattle Urban Nature Project
Washington Department of Natural Resources
Sites containing census data
Center for Social Science Computation and Research (CSSCR) at UW
Sites containing imagery
Landsat TM portal
The Earth Observing System Home Page and Data Services and Data Gateway
Terra portal (NASA) and Terra fly through (commercial)
Space Imaging - IKONOS imagery and more
Landsat 7 Science Data Users Handbook - the ins and outs of working with Landsat 7 data
Sites containing interesting software to support spatial analysis
Fragstats - the newest version of Fragstats, freeware, freestanding program for running fragmentation metrics
Patch Analyst - extension to ArcView to conduct several landscape metrics
Cellular Automata page under GIGAPOLIS at USGS
What if? - Community Analysis and Planning Systems, Inc. GIS-Planning software
WEST - Western Ecosystems Technology, field ecology and statistics consulting
SME - Spatial Modeling Environment
Urban Growth Modeling sites
USGS Urban Dynamics Research Program
Conferences of potential interest
2004 Hawaii International Conference on Science
Journals of potential interest
Urban Habitats - e-journal of the biology of urban areas around the world
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