Environmental Engineering

This is a guide to finding selected Environmental Engineering resources. For in-depth assistance, please contact the subject specialist, or Ask a Librarian.

Subject Specialist:
Charles Uth
email: uth@iit.edu
phone: 312.567.5319

Environmental Engineering

IIT Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Information about degree programs, research areas, department contacts, course schedules, and more.

National Counsel for Science and the Environment
A national, non-profit organization working to improve the scientific basis for making decisions on environmental issues through creation of a new, non-regulatory environmental science and education entity, the National Institute for the Environment (NIE).

Congressional Research Service
The Congressional Research Service (CRS), part of the Library of Congress, prepares its reports for the U.S. Congress. CRS products undergo review for accuracy and objectivity and contain nontechnical information that can be very useful to people interested in environmental policy. CNIE is obtaining copies of the CRS reports, converting them to an Internet-compatible format and placing them online. As new or updated CRS reports related to environmental or resource issues become available, CNIE will add them to this library.

E-print Network
The E-print Network is a set of powerful tools that facilitate access to and use of scientific and technical e-prints communicating the results of a wide range of research activities of interest to the Department of Energy.

Energy Efficiency And Renewable Energy Database
This bibliographic database is a subset of the Energy Science and Technology Database (EDB) created and maintained by the Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). The database contains all unlimited, unclassified scientific and technical information relating to energy efficiency and renewable energy topics processed at OSTI that is DOE sponsored or published in the United States. Additional information is acquired from, but is not limited to, interagency agreements with the National Technical Information Service, the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Division, and the Defense Technical Information Center. This subset contains records with EDB entry dates beginning January 1, 1994 and continuing through the present.

Environmental Protection Agency
The major source of governmental and regulatory information on the environment.

EPA Science Inventory
This resource is a searchable, Agency-wide catalog of more than 4,000 science activities such as research, technical assistance and assessments. The database contains more than 19,000 records in the archives including project descriptions, products produced, types of peer review, links to related work and contacts for additional information. Users can conduct keyword searches or search within nine cross-cutting science topics.

Environmental Sciences Database Search Form
Allows searching of abstracts from all programs supported by the Department of Energy in FY 1995, and from a subset of programs supported in FY 1994.

Household Products Database
A database with hazardous chemical data on household products.

INFOTERRA
INFOTERRA is an international environmental referral and research network made up of about 170 countries coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi, Kenya. The services offered by INFOTERRA/USA include responding to requests from the international community for environmental information through document delivery, database searching, bibliographic products, purchasing information, and referrals to experts. Additionally, INFOTERRA/USA will assist U.S. esidents in identifying sources of international environmental information.

Internet Resources for Water
A great list of links to water web sites, associations, and discussion groups composed by the UCSB library staff.

Linkages
Linkages is provided by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), publishers of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin. It is an electronic clearing-house for information on past and upcoming international meetings related to environment and development.

USGS Water Resources
Collection of links to information on water quality, including the following resources: Real-time Water Data; National Water Information System; Water-Quality; The USGS Node of the National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse; Water Use Maps and data by county and watershed; Acid Rain National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP); NAWDEX -- National Water Data Exchange.

Yearbook of International Cooperation on Environment and Development
The web pages contain key information on the most important international agreements on environment and development, IGOs and NGOs working in this area, and environmental data and performance records of OECD countries.