Current & historic air quality: ozone & particulates

http://www.maine.gov/dep/air/ozone/currentdata.html

http://www.airnow.gov

More technical than AIR NOW, more kinds of data

http://www.epa.gov/airexplorer

Web cams placed to monitor visibility

http://www.vista.cira.colostate.edu/views

CO, lead, SO4, particulates (historic data)

http://www.epa.gov/airtrends/

Data for atmospheric emissions by state

http://www.epa.gov/triexplorer/

http://www.audubon.org/bird/cbc/index.html

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw/

http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/bbs.html

Protocols and data for observations of seasonal events (e.g. budbreak)

http://usanpn.org

http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/fia/spatial/index_ss.html

Vegetation maps for Acadia National Park (mapped ca. 2000 by Rooney, Webber et al.)

http://biology.usgs.gov/npsveg/acad/

Annual counts of loons in Maine (citizen science) starting in 2003

http://www.maineaudubon.org/conserve/loon/

Real-time online birding checklist, launched 2002

http://ebird.org/

Macroinvertebrate and other sampling data for Maine streams. (Began 1083)

http://www.maine.gov/dep/blwq/docmonitoring/biomonitoring/data.htm

http://cdmo.baruch.sc.edu/

Summer monitoring of swimming beaches for bacteria

http:// www.MaineHealthyBeaches.org

Volunteer monitoring for bacteria at coastal swim beaches

http://www.geology.um.maine.edu/beach/

Buoy data include water temp, salinity, wind speed & direction, wave ht...etc.

http://www.gomoos.org

tides and currents data

http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov

Includes marine monitoring buoys worldwide

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

global ocean salinity maps & data

http://ourocean.jpl.nasa.gov:8080/AQUARIUS/

Precip amounts, pH, and anion/cation chem for seveal ME stations

http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/nadpdata/state.asp?state=ME

Mercury amts in precip for several ME stations

http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/mdn/

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastall.shtml

Weather forecasts, storm warnings, Daily min/max temps & precip for past week.

http://www.weather.gov/

Measures of rain, hail and snow, volunteer network. Started in 1998.

http://www.cocorahs.org/

Provides comprehensive snow observations, analyses, data sets, and maps (North America). (Starts ca. 2002)

http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/

Source for long-term weather data from all US NWS stations.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/stationlocator.html

Historic weather data compiled for many New Eng. stations (1912-2006).

http://neisa.unh.edu/Climate/index.html

Links to pollen, ice core, tree-ring data and other proxies for paleo climate.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/data.html

http://maine.gov/rfac/rfac_snow.shtml

Gov't stats on energy use & production, national & state by state

http://www.eia.doe.gov/

Use this to calculate HDD or CDD for locations near you

http://www.degreedays.net

Data about lakes, streams, and other ecosystems in the Gulf of Maine watershed. (Replaces PEARL.)

http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/2.0/search.html

Real-time flow rates, volume, water & air temps

http://water.usgs.gov/me/nwis/rt

Downeast Salmon Federation data & links

http://www.mainesalmonrivers.org/

http://me.water.usgs.gov/iceout.html

http://groundwaterwatch.usgs.gov/StateMaps/ME.html

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt

links to many kinds of data collected by Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection

http://www.maine.gov/dep/gis/datamaps/

highly technical access to air quality data

http://www.datafed.net

Directory to environmental monitoring in Maine. May be out-dated

http://www.memapindex.org