"agencies and citizen groups, make their data
bases available to the public free of charge
and without any usage requirements, such
as membership. Here are a few of the
organizations and data-typ
es that are available:
*
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) stream
flow and breeding bird survey data
(
http://waterdata.us
gs.gov/me/nwis/rt
;
http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/
)
*
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad
ministration (NOAA) real-time and
archived buoy data (
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
;
http://www.gomoos.org/
)
*
National Audubon Society Christmas bird count data
(
http://www.audubon.org/
bird/cbc/index.html
)
*
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology citizen science data
(
http://www.birds.cornell.
edu/LabPrograms/CitSci/
)
*
National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) data
(
http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/
)
*
Maine Office of GIS data (
http://apollo.ogis.state.me.us/
)
*
University of Maine's PEARL database
of flora, fauna, and water quality data
(
http://www.pearl.maine.edu/
)."