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The Early Detection and Distributtion Mapping System (EDDMapS) is a web-based mapping system for documenting invasive species and pest distribution. It is fast, easy to use, and doesn't require Geographic Information Systems experience. THe system currently covers all of the SUA and Canada. EDDMapS aggregates data from other databases and organizations as well as volunteer observations to create a national network of invasive species and pest distribution data that is shared with educators, land managers, conservation biologists, and beyond. Both a destktop and mobile application, EDDMapS allows easy, real time tracking of invasive species, both plant and animal. Through EDDMapS, participants can submit their observations or view results through interactive queries into the EDDMapS database. Participants can maintain their personal records and visualize data with interactive maps. All data is reviewed by verifiers prior to appearing on maps and in data queries to ensure all data is accurate. The data is made freely available to everyone, including scientists, researchers, land managers, land owners, educators, conservationists, ecologists, farmers, foresters, state and national parks, etc.

My RAINge Log is an easy-to-use tool to help track actual rainfall and facilitate better land management. The platrofm brings together cutting edge web technology, climate data, and visualization tools focused on collecting and analyzing cumulative precipitation from remote, unattended rain gauges. My RAINge Log is specifically designed around the type of infrequent, cumulative precipitation observations often collected at remote, rangeland sites. It adds unique ‘climate context’ and near-real time precipitation alerts based on gridded climate estimates. These features help managers put data in context (“Does this precipitation observation indicate drought or not?”) helps to quickly interpret data, and supports management decisions. See a CCAST Case Study that used my RAINge Log here: https://arcg.is/1zaaz81 and webinar here: https://youtu.be/nIGerxDY4ms?t=974

The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit helps users document climate hazards that could harm the things they care about, decide which situations they most want to avoid, and come up with workable solutions to reduce climate-related risks. It also allows users to search through a database of Case Studies to explore how others are using the Climate Resilience Toolkit and increasing their resilience to climate change. It also contains a list of over 500 digital tools to help users take steps to build resilience and develop climate action plans. Connect with climate experts, access climate reports, sign up for training courses, and view climate summaries through the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit website.

Data catalog of publicly available earth system raster datasets from Google.

EEFlux (Earth Engine Evapotranspiration Flux) is a version of METRIC (Mapping Evapotranspiration at high Resolution with Internalized Calibration) that operates on the Google Earth Engine system. EEFlux has been developed by the consortium of University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Desert Research Institute and University of Idaho with funding support by Google. EEFlux processes individual Landsat scenes from any period from 1984 through present and for nearly every land area on the Globe to produce values of evapotranspiration. Users can specify start and stop dates and a specific area of interest to find evapotranspiration rates. EEFlux searches the Google archive for Landsat images and provide a list of images for the location and permit the user to select one image to process. Once an image has been selected, EEFlux will present a list of data layers that can be displayed in the map window. The ETrF and ET-actual images can be downloaded as geo-tiff files using the hot links on the EEFlux site.

The North American Bird Conseration Initiative's (NABCI) Resource Directory is a searchable database of resources related to bird conservation. Search by keyword or category to find relevant resources to help with conservation of North American bird populations.

A collaborative enterprise with hundreds of partner organizations, thousands of regional experts, and hundreds of thousands of users, eBird is managed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. eBird is a desktop and mobile app and database that hosts data documenting bird distribution, abundance, habitat use, and trends through checklist data collected within a simple, scientific framework. eBird is among the world’s largest biodiversity-related science projects, with more than 100 million bird sightings contributed annually. Birders enter when, where, and how they went birding, and then fill out a checklist of all the birds seen and heard during the outing. eBird’s free mobile app allows offline data collection anywhere in the world, and the website provides many ways to explore and summarize your data and other observations from the global eBird community.

The Partners in Flight (PIF) Population Estimates Database is intended to: provide access to the latest USA/Canada landbird population estimates at a variety of geographic scales (global, continental, national, Bird Conservation Region, state and province), provide transparency on the methods, assumptions, data sources, and species-specific correction factors used by PIF to create these estimates. The PIF population estimates have been updated to incorporate measures of uncertainty as described by Stanton et al. 2019. Estimates for any species or region of interest can be viewed online or downloaded as Excel files from each page. Downloadable files include all pertinent information behind these estimates, including data sources, correction factors, and ranges of uncertainty, as described in the revised Handbook to the Population Estimates Database.

The Avian Conservation Assessment Database (ACAD) contains biological information used and generated by the Partners In Flight (PIF) Species Assessment Process, a peer-reviewed, scientific methodology for evaluating information related to the conservation of birds. The PIF Population Estimates Database provides breeding population estimates for all landbird species in the continental USA and Canada at various spatial scales (e.g., global, regional, state/provincial). ACAD uses Bird Conservation Regions (BCRs) as the geographic scale for regional assessments in the U.S. and Canada, but other regions are used in Mexico and countries are used in Central America. The vast majority of these estimates are derived from the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS). The Population Estimates Database and corresponding Handbook are products of the PIF International Science Committee and are intended to serve as a companion to the Partners in Flight Landbird Conservation Plan (Rosenberg 2016). The assessment scores can be viewed online, or downloaded with additional information.

The Rocky Mountain Avian Data Center serves as the portal for avian information collected by the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies and our collaborators in the Rocky Mountains, Great Plains, and Intermountain West. This map-based interfface allows users to view, query, and download data about density, occupancy, species counts for bird species of interest.