From the ICE House Jump Station, which can also be reached by following the link “Other Items of Interest on the Internet,” users can access over 25 servers under the biology category alone. Other categories include: “Environmental Politics,” “Dictionaries, Glossaries, and Thesauri,” and “Bibliographies”
The World Wide Web (WWW) is a method for making information available on the Internet, using an interactive, hypertext-hypermedia approach. Hypertext is a text document in which certain words or phrases are highlighted as “links.” When selected, they allow the user to “jump” from one document to another. Hypermedia is a multi-media extension to hypertext: the highlighted link may also be an in-lined image. The other end of the link can be a picture, sound, movie, PostScript file or scientific data, as well as another hypertext document.
The number of information servers on the WWW, several of particular interest to ecologists, is growing rapidly. Below is a sampler of items currently on-line. All of these—and more—are available at the ICE House, the on-line information service of the Information Center for the Environment, operated by Harvey Chinn at the University of California-Davis. The Center is a cooperative effort of an interdepartmental team of environmental scientists at Davis and collaborators at over 30 private, state, federal and international environmental organizations. Harvey Chinn developed and maintains the on-line LTER Bibliographic Catalog and is working with Caroline Bledsoe (LTER Research Coordinator) Jordan Hastings (McMurdo LTER) and Rudolf Nottrott (Network Office) and others on technology tracking and producing integrated software to support ecological science and synthesis.
Information Center for the Environment
(To access via Mosaic, use URL: http://ice.ucdavis.edu/)
The Information Center for the Environment (ICE) is supported by and presents on-line information for California Rivers Assessment, the Center for Ecological Health Research, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Division of Wildlife and Vegetation (U.S. National Park Service, Inventory and Monitoring Directorate (National Biological Survey), LTER, and the Man and the Biosphere Program (UNESCO).
Biodiversity software for DOS PCs under development at UC Davis includes:
- U.S. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (NPS)
NPS Fauna and Observe - MAN AND THE BIOSPHERE (MAB)
On-line species lists for selected MAB Biosphere Reserves MAB Fauna - CA STATE DEPT. OF PARKS and RECREATION
CT Fauna and Observe - JOHN MUIR EXHIBIT
A collection of materials on the life and legacy of John Muir