Prairie Research Institute Library: News From the Library

New Tool: Metadata Access Tool for Climate and Health (MATCH)

The Metadata Access Tool for Climate and Health (MATCH)??is a publicly accessible, online tool for researchers that offers centralized access to metadata ??? standardized contextual information ??? about thousands of government-held datasets related to health, the environment, and climate-science. MATCH … Continue reading →

Draft Rule for Hydraulic Fracturing

The Department of Interior has released an updated draft rule for hydraulic fracturing on public and Indian lands.

The Energy Data Initiative

The Energy Data Initiative is a Federal effort to ???liberate??? government data and voluntarily contributed non-government data as fuel to spur entrepreneurship, create value, and create jobs in the transition to a clean energy economy. As part of this initiative, … Continue reading →

Greening Libraries Wins Award in the 2013 Green Books Festival

Via Library Juice Press. Laura Barnes, Prairie Research Institute Librarian and liaison to the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, authored a chapter in the book. The 2013 Green Book Festival awarded its top honor in the category of Best Business Book … Continue reading →

The Global Plants Initiative and JSTOR release online database for the study of plants

New York, NY – May 7, 2013 The Global Plants Initiative (GPI), a collaboration of more than 270 herbaria in 70 countries, and JSTOR released ???Global Plants,??? a new community-contributed online database for scientific researchers, conservationists and others engaged in … Continue reading →

FrackingSENSE: What We Know, What We Don???t Know, and What We Hope to Learn about Natural Gas Development

A lecture series on fracking sponsored by the Center of the American West begins today with a conversation with Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper. The programs will be archived and podcasts made available.

Pennsylvania Geological Survey Publications

The Pennsylvania Bureau of Topographic and Geological Survey has streamlined access to their publications and digital data, making them available from one easy link. In addition, most of the publications from the Fourth Series have been scanned as free-text searchable … Continue reading →

Patent awarded to ISTC researcher

Junhua Jiang is listed as co-inventor on a patent entitled ???Electrochemical process for the production of nitrogen-fertilizers???, which was issued patent number 8,398,842 on March 19, 2013, by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Patent abstract: The present invention … Continue reading →

Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON)

Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON) is a product of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Core Science Analytics and Synthesis Program. BISON is an information system that allows users to access, explore, and download U.S. species occurrence data from participating data … Continue reading →

SLAMMER: Seismic LAndslide Movement Modeled using Earthquake Records

The USGS recently released a new computer program to model seismic landslide movement called SLAMMER. This program is designed to facilitate conducting sliding-block analysis (also called permanent-deformation analysis) of slopes in order to estimate slope behavior during earthquakes. The program … Continue reading →