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Citizen Science/Data
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Data Sources
Here's a list of open data sources. There are many more. Add any you know of!
Environmental Data
A bunch of data sources
Marine Geoscience Data System (MGDS) - A data portal, hosted at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (Columbia University), for a number of NSF-supported marine research programs
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) - Meteorology and paleoclimatology
National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)- World-wide marine environmental and ecosystem data
GEON- Portal for datasets and visualization tools
National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) - Cryospheric datasets from ground field research and satellites (Source: http://library.uoregon.edu/datamanagement/repositories.html )
British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC)
Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE)
Domain Data Collection Projects
http://mushroomobserver.org
http://projectnoah.org
http://www.galaxyzoo.org/
http://www.inaturalist.org/
iNaturalist.org API for plant and wildlife sightings
Open Data and APIs
http://healthdata.gov - health data
http://figshare.com/ - site for sharing all kinds of data
http://zenodo.org/ - site for sharing all kinds of data and papers in a citable format
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25500/ - api for entrez (pubmed)
http://www.wikidata.org/ - aggregating (and correcting) open data