Useful websites

El Siglo

Alright folks!

Thought I'd add a few useful (more or less) websites, feel free to add I'm only adding a few that I know of at the moment.

Academic
TCD
UCD
NUIG
UCC
DCU
DIT
UL
UU
QUB*

*The problem with a lot of universities and colleges is that Environmental Science is done, but not in a specific department (e.g. I was once between the Department of Geography and Geology at TCD and I'm currently in Geography at QUB even though I'm an Environmental Scientist (sort of!):D). But if you do keep an eye out on some of the; Geology, Geography, Earth Sciences, Civil/Environmental Engineering departments of universities, especially in the UK and North America you should find some interesting stuff.

US Army Corp of Engineers.
NOAA
IPCC
EPA
The blog of a former lecturer of mine (the man's a legend).
The Water Technology Research Group at TCD.
CORINE landcover shape files for ArcGIS.

That's all I can think of at 2am, please feel free to add.:)

boru05

Hey Gang,

I'd completely forgotten about this forum - fair play to you El Sig, persistence pays off!

Here are a few links that people might find useful in addition to what's posted above:

Jobs and Careers
In addition to the usual job sites - here are a couple of places that focus on env. sc. careers.

www.greenjobs.ie - mainly UK and EU jobs but occasionally has Irish jobs as well

www.edie.net/jobs/index.asp - mainly UK and international positions

www.endsdirectory.com - not a job site per se, but is an excellent info hub for most of the major env. consultancies in Ire, UK and abroad

www.evergreen.org.uk - mainly UK and multinational jobs but a good site nonetheless

http://environment-analyst.com/jobs - mainly UK and multinational jobs

www.enviro-solutions.com/recruitment.htm - env. jobs mainly in Ireland but elsewhere too

www.teagasc.ie/careers/ - Teagasc jobs mainly focusing on agri-food industries


Environmental News & Info
www.edie.net - hands down one of the best env. news sites around, excellent newsletters etc. (check out http://edie.net/ireland/ for their Irish site)

www.endsreport.com - excellent comprehensive news site

http://www.enviro-solutions.com/news.htm - good focus on Irish env. news


Organisations, Professional Bodies and Associations
www.epa.ie - Environmental Protection Agency Ireland

www.environ.ie - Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government

www.teagasc.ie - Teagasc

www.esaiweb.org - Environmental Sciences Association of Ireland, cannot recommend them enough - join now!

www.ciwem.org - Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (has an Irish branch)

www.iela.ie - Irish Environmental Law Association

www.seai.ie - Sustainable Energy Association of Ireland

www.iei.ie - Engineers Ireland

www.iema.net - Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment

www.igi.ie - Institute of Geologists Ireland


Useful Links
http://www.epa.ie/whatwedo/licensing/files/ - really useful for searching for IPPC licences etc

http://www.pleanala.ie/search/index.php - for searching for planning apps, EIS's etc

Each Local Authority (e.g. county and city councils) should have a site where you can look for local planning apps (e.g. http://www.dublincity.ie/swiftlg/apas/run/wphappcriteria.display is Dublin City's one)


Twitter Feeds
@digg_enviro - Digg env. Twitter feed

@the_ecologist - UK magazine covering env. issues

@EES_journal - Energy and Environmental Science journal

@KJMurrayCEng - if you want to fully understand the management of the water services industry in Ireland from an impartial and unbiased view then follow him - can't recommend him highly enough!

http://sciencepond.com/environment - aggregate Twitter feed of some env. scientists

@guardianeco - Guardian Environment Twitter feed

@wiseonwater - Natasha Wiseman, editor of Water and Wastewater Treatment Magazine


Water and Wastewater (my area of interest)
www.waterandwastewater.com - interesting US site with a good forum

www.web4water.org - excellent UK-based site concerning water and sanitation (www.web4water.co.uk/library - is an excellent digitised version of Water and Wastewater Treatment magazine plus a few others)

www.wateraid.org - a global NGO aimed at providing safe potable water and sanitation to all

www.iwahq.org - International Water Association

www.iwapublishing.com - IWA publications - excellent site

www.tpomag.com - Online version of Treatment Plant Operator, a magazine that deals with operator-level issues and is excellent for case-studies and technology implementation


That's only a small selection (esp. the Twitter feeds) but I was just trying to focus on stuff mainly to do with env. sc.

maddragon

Have a look at www.askaboutenergy.com and www.solarwithoutfrontiers.com

El Siglo

EPA, Parameters of Water Quality: Interpretation and Standards.

MOSSAD

Probably the best website for books is the following
http://www.abebooks.co.uk

Searches for any book anywhere by ISBN # or country, keyword, author. Have managed to get some out of print stuff I used to use in college and a lot more besides.

macrosoft

great search engine for research for college and surfing the web

http://www.carbonvirgin.com/

its a dual search engine so you can switch between multiple searches by clicking the red arrow, saves loads of time. - also they invest profit in buying rainforest!
- also does auto video search, so say you search something it will also give video results on the side, really timesaving... exams start saturday... Yes im procrastinating!