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• - Research programs focus on water resources and air quality, global climate change and the physics of the earth's turbulent atmosphere, and humanity's historic struggle to adapt to harsh environments.
  
• - Monitors bird populations in an area in the middle of the Scandinavian mountain range.
  
• - Addresses the great issues of environment through scientific research and education and through applications of science in public affairs. Focus is on climate change and the warming of the earth, as well as global forests because of their controlling
  
• - Specializes in research and education in regional and global environmental prediction, particularly with reference to climate change modeling.
  
• - Promote and facilitates Northern research covering the physical environment, social issues and economic development, including sustainable resource development. Offers opportunities to study the northern lights, whales, arctic flora and fauna, polar bears
  
• - A nonprofit and nonpartisan think tank located in Washington, DC that conducts independent research - rooted primarily in economics and other social sciences - on environmental and natural resource issues.
  
• - Central liaison for energy and environmental research and education. Focuses on efficient and economical uses of energy and on ensuring a cleaner environment by developing ecologically sound energy related technologies.
  
• - University of Tennessee, Knoxville center conducts high-level, multidisciplinary research using the intellectual resources of the University and its regional partners. This research seeks to find real-world solutions to problems in the fields of energy, e
  
• - Research programs into the areas of environmental justice and sustainable development.
  
• - An interdisciplinary group established to study fundamental problems relating to the field of combustion and environmental protection.
  
• - Agricultural, Engineering, and Natural Science research centers.
  
• - The institure is dedicated to researching environmental challenges facing the state and reporting this research to policy makers and the public.
  
• - Promoting interdisciplinary environmental research that will enable Carnegie Mellon to continue its leadership in developing new knowledge.
  
• - Research on the short- and long-term effects of chemicals on human, animal and plant life.
  
• - Research and technology development in several environmental areas (including waste management, recycling, CFC destruction and replacement, CO2 fixation and utilization, bioreactors, soil remediation, more). Languages: English, Japanese.
  
• - Texas
  
• - The purpose of the center is to foster and support selected research programs in the energy fields, build an information database for teachers and students, and conduct policy related studies. Page includes mission statement, list of staff, research paper
  
• - Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
  
• - Independent, international organisation affiliated with the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, offering research and consultation in ecology, environmental chemistry, water resources, environmental informatics, and hydraulic structures, with particular
  
• - Field station for undergraduate field-based education and research by collecting, handling and field-analyzing samples of rock, soils, sediment, ground water, surface water and vegetation.
  
• - The (AGCI) summer programs provide a series of in-depth sessions for invited scientists from around the world to explore the latest understandings of the global environment and how human activities affect Earth systems.
  
• - The United States Salinity Laboratory, a National Laboratory for basic research on the chemistry, physics, biology, and assessment of salt-affected soil-plant-water systems. (Riverside CA USA)
  
• - CSERGE's core academic objectives are to undertake policy-relevant research on global environmental problems and to contribute to the ESRC's Global Environmental Change Research Programme.
  
• - Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Conducts basic and applied research and development to create scientific knowledge and technological solutions to restore and protect the environment.
  
• - Addressing Issues of Critcal National Concern through Environmental Education.
  
• - Does research on landscape and population ecology, coastal science, and global change, particularly within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
  
• - A consortium of five education and research institutions created in response to critical environmental concerns facing the Earth.
  
• - IUFRO is a non-profit, non-governmental international network of forest scientists. Its objectives are to promote international cooperation in forestry and forest products research.
  
• - Environmental research institute specializing in the science of coastal environments.
  
• - The (SMS) is a research center specializing in marine biodiversity and ecosystems of Florida. Research focuses on the Indian River Lagoon and the offshore waters of Florida's east central coast, with comparative studies throughout coastal Florida.
  
• - SDI seeks to heighten the environmental quality of economic development efforts through improvements in policy and practice. Its geographical concentration is on tropical forest regions and the Atlantic coast of Canada, the U.S., and the eastern Caribbean
  
• - Japanese organization focused on development of innovative environmental technologies and broadening the range of CO2 sinks. About the organization, its research activities and results, and funding opportunities.
  
• - International research, film production and development organization: finding solutions to environmental, health, population and development problems.
  
• - Research, training, and software for hydrologic engineering and water resources planning and management.
  
• - Multi-disciplinary research centre located on the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. Site has information about the centre, its research programmes, publications, and analytical services available.
  
• - Center of expertise in research and consultancy in the environment and natural resources sector, conducting research, development, and training to promote efficient management and use of renewable natural resources in support of sustainable livelihoods.
  
• - UK Natural Environment Research Council's thematic programme set up to integrate urban environmental research across the geological, ecological, freshwater and atmospheric sciences.
  
• - To promote and support, by any means, high quality basic, strategic and applied research, survey, long-term environmental monitoring and related postgraduate training in terrestrial, marine and freshwater biology.
  
• - A regional research group within the Sustainable Ecosystems division of CSIRO. Undertakes research into the ecology and management of the arid and semi-arid rangelands of Australia.
  
• - EWG is a nonprofit environmental research organization based in Washington, D.C. and a leading content provider for public interest groups and concerned citizens who are campaigning to protect the environment.
  
• - CIIT is a not-for-profit toxicology research institute dedicated to providing an improved scientific basis for understanding and assessing the potential adverse effects of chemica
  
• - NCEDR focus is on needs of subnational (state, regional, tribal, local) environmental decision makers. It engages environmental decisionmakers with researchers to develop and communicate processes and information that help solve or avoid problems associa
  
• - Contract research centre on energy-related topics e,g. advanced power cycles, renewable energy, refrigeration, biomass, heat pumps, clean coal technology, CFC replacements.
  
• - Columbia University environmental research activities and education programs in the Arizona "living laboratory" originally built for an experiment to test the feasibility of humans living in a closed ecosystem.
  
• - The Center conducts a broad range of research studies emphasizing the application of policy analysis and other analytical tools to the study of the management of ocean and coastal areas on regional, national, and global scales.
  
• - Field research station of Southeastern Louisiana University's College of Arts and Sciences. Its predominate use is by faculty and students in the biology department.
  
• - An association of more than 200 field stations and professionals concerned with field facilities for biological research and education, primarily in North America and Central America. This site provides links to OBFS member stations.
  
• - an internationally recognized, independent research and education center that advances environmental protection by improving law, policy, and management. (U.S.-based)
  
• - At the Smithsonian Institution's mandate their mission is to advance conservation of biological diversity. The CRC increases knowledge through investigations of threatened species, habitats, and communities, and disseminates knowledge through advan
  
• - European Institute's concern has been focused on protecting man and his environment and on the quality of life and goods in Europe.
  
• - To improve the understanding of global environmental processes.
  
• - United Kingdom body for research, survey, monitoring and training in the terrestrial and freshwater sciences. Provides independent research and advice to inform government policy on natural resource management and environmental p
  
• - Education and research focused on cross-disciplinary analysis of long-term environmental problems.
  
• - The only research facility in the lowland tropics of Australia, Cape Tribulation Tropical Research Station operated by the Australian Tropical Research Foundation (AUSTROP), and the home of the Daintree Rainforest Taskforce.
  
• - Created to develop the science of conservation biology, including its application to solutions for critical conservation problems. In particular, the CCB conducts objective scientific and policy research that is building a sound basis for the conservatio
  
• - Studies climate change and related issues.
  
• - Part of the Marine Biology Lab, with focus on environmental research and education. Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
  
• - Group takes part in the preservation of parks, rivers, and natural lands, maintaining clean air and safe water, and development and maintenance of urban and wilderness trails.
  
• - conducts basic research on environmental health and environment-related diseases. Links to information on programs, grants, research, events, contracts, employment, training, outreach events, public information.
  
• - Leadership to promote health & quality of life by preventing or controlling those diseases, birth defects, or disabilities resulting from interaction between people and the environment.
  
• - Australian research center studying wastewater treatment and reuse, solid waste management, waste minimisation, contaminated site remediation, and hazardous waste treatment.
  
• - The mission of the Institute is to bring together faculty and students in the life, earth, physical, and social sciences to form a focused, interdisciplinary program of environmental research at the university.
  
• - At NCEAS, scientists conduct collaborative research on major fundamental and applied problems in ecology. The Center facilitates integrative research aimed at synthesizing existing data and information, and subsequently making these data available in acco
  
• - "Infrastructure Co-operation Network" of 17 research stations engaged in multidisciplinary environmental research in Northern Europe. Includes information on cooperative projects.
  
• - Nonprofit research and educational foundation aiming to foster efficient and sustainable use of resources. Founded by Amory and Hunter Lovins. Research areas are energy, transportation, green development, climate change, water, economic renewal, corporate
  
• - US DOE scientific user facility with experimental, theoretical, and computational capabilities for solving environmental problems. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington.
  
• - ORNL's environmental sciences R&D portfolio includes work in biogeochemistry, environmental biotechnology, environmental chemistry, ecosystem studies, geosciences, hydrology, microbiology, and environmental assessment.
  
• - One of the world's leading centers for basic research on the ecology, behavior and evolution of tropical organisms.
  
• - Conducts interdisciplinary research on political, cultural, economic, technical and ecological questions related to development and global sustainability.
  
• - Performs research into climate and health, as well as other climatological issues that affect humans and other organisms around the world..
  
• - advancing science and engineering technologies for ecosystem management. Research staff includes government and contract researchers from environmental disciplines.
  
• - University of Paisley in Scotland investigates contaminants in air, land, inland waters and river estuaries. Details given about projects, publications and the people who work on them.
  
• - Conducts research and policy analysis in the areas of environment, sustainable development, and international security.
  
• - All research teams, research projects(5000) and expertises of K.U.Leuven researchers.
  
• - Co-operation network of northern Finnish environmental researchers. Includes information about member institutions and upcoming conferences.
  
• - committed to change for a sustainable world - believes that change in human behavior is urgently needed to halt the accelerating rate of environmental deterioration. Site has resources on climate change, forest resources, international environmental econo
  
• - An Australian non-profit-making research institution, established in 1994 to research the effects on people of interaction with dolphins, and to pursue conservation and rights for marine mammals in general.
  
• - (MCEER) is a national center of excellence that develops and applies knowledge and advanced technologies to reduce earthquake losses.