LibGuides: Earth Science Writing: Data Sources

What is Data Literacy?

Data literacy encompasses the ways to find, interpret, understand, and evaluate numeric information. Data literacy involves context and perspective as well as reliability, reputation, proper citation, and other evaluative techniques that you might also use for web and other communication

Data Sources

Arctic Institute of North America
Coastal Data Information Program
Coastal environmental data from the University of California, San Diego.
EarthChem
This site serves as a resource and data library for geochemical, geochronological, and petrological data.
IEDA
Integrated Earth Data Applications includes the marine Geoscience Data System that can be used to search for or store your data. It is a community based organization for observational Geoscience data from the Ocean, Earth, and Polar Science.
IRIS
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology archives and distributes data. This is a non profit organization.
Marine Geology and Geophysics Educational Resources Page
National Climate Data Center
NOAA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association Climate data by map search or topic. Metadata and documentation are included.
National Oceanic Society
NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center
Paleooceanography Data
USGS Publications

International Data Sources

European Union Eurostat
Access to the public European Union data access page.
International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange
UNESCO's international data exchange portal for marine research including both national affiliated data centers and reliable advocacy data centers.
PANGAEA
PANGAEA is an open access archive for earth system research data. The journal Earth System Science Data (ESSD), a European journal dedicated to sharing research data in the environmental sciences, is the basis for this project.
United Nations Data
The United Nations data access page, organized by topic.

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