Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that the new website for EPA's Global Change
Research Program is now publicly accessible. The website address is:
http://www.epa.gov/globalresearch.
This website is designed to provide a portal through which scientists,
resource managers, and the public can access information about our
program and our partners. Our goal is to make our program completely
transparent to the public, and to make products and data produced by the
program readily accessible, including products from EPA researchers in
our laboratories and centers, as well as from our grantees and
collaborators.
Through this website, the public can access:
- data
- documents
- project descriptions and updates
- workshop announcements and proceedings
- presentations
- analytic tools
This website will evolve and grow over time. The focus will continue to
be on data analysis and application. The website uses the Environmental
Information Management System (EIMS), which allows scientists working
inside and outside the agency to directly enter metadata descriptions of
their own data sets and research findings. Our long-term goal is to
provide interactive tools and models at this website to support the
decision and analytic needs of planners, resource managers, and other
data users.
Special thanks go to Robert Shepanek and Jeff Frithsen for their
invaluable assistance developing this website.
The initial design of this website benefited greatly from the advice
provided by many individuals. Special thanks go to the participants in a
design workshop held in February 2000: Ken Colburn, Gary Collins, Ann
Fisher, Joan Novak, Jonathan Patz, Bernice Smith, and Richard Zepp.
We welcome your comments on the website and hope that it will become a
valuable resource to the global change research community.
Sincerely,
Joel D. Scheraga, Ph.D.
National Program Director
Global Change Research Program
Office of Research and Development
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Phone: 202/564-3385
Fax: 202/565-0066
Global Change Research News is a vehicle for sharing information about
EPA's Global Change Research Program on a periodic basis via email.