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Environmental open GIS data for the Caribbean countries
the nature conservancy has some gis datasets with global coverage, roughly in the areas that you want:
http://maps.tnc.org/gis_data.html
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Groundwater Basins
Global Water Forum lists a number of water related tools and resources, including datasets. A couple of these may be of use to you:
http://www.globalwaterforum.org/resources/data/
One in particular,...
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Groundwater Basins
I don't believe these are 100% on target, but they look pretty promising.
Freshwater Ecoregions of the World (Data Basin Dataset)
Food and Agriculture Organization's AQUASTAT database
I can't post ...
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Air quality in all cities in the USA
The Environmental Protection Agency monitors this in many places and have much of this data available for free, as well as extensive documentation: https://www.epa.gov/outdoor-air-quality-data
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Overfishing dataset
There are a bunch of sources here. Look down below in the Sources section.
A PDF from FAO, part of the UN.
Status of fish stocks from UN FAO.
State of the Ocean report for 2013 from the International ...
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Drill Core Stratigraphic Data
IHS has several systems that have the information you need, but most of them are targeted to large corporate customers.
You can access many of them through your school, as I know they have agreements ...
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API for German Air Quality Data
Although it's not documented, when clicking on a link for a CSV, I noticed that you can use the endpoint as your own API.
https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/api/air_data/v2/airquality/csv?date_from=2020-...
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Seeking carbon geospatial data
It doesn't seem like there is very geograpically detailed data easily available, but at the country level, Our World In Data has sources listed here: https://github.com/owid/co2-data
There are also ...
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Machine-readable way to determine if plant species is native to Australia
I don't know when this came along, but the Atlas of Living Australia now has an API which can (maybe) answer the question.
This query asks for every member of the plant kingdom for which there is a ...
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Up-to-date Global Lake Information and Data
I did a little searching around and came across another dataset that's relatively new (2014) and might be forthcoming soon:
GLOWABO - Global Water Bodies database
The study used remote sensing and ...
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Climate change projections for Europe/Germany
If you're looking specifically for a small region in the European interior, you're going to need model simulations at the regional scale. For that I'd suggest checking out the CCAFS Downscaled Climate ...
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Drill Core Stratigraphic Data
To get links to csv-files containing lithologies quickly, try
https://pangaea.de/?q=lithology
These datasets are small, and they stem from academic projects.
You can also get an impression on how ...
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Overfishing dataset
If you don't find data directly related to overfishing, you can look for 1) volume of catches 2) estimated stocks
This report is market oriented and provided numbers about fishing
Stock Assessment of ...
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Global/European soil properties database
From USDA you can get data for different soil types. While their map does not represent the true colours, with the names you could associate colours with the soil types.
I also found soil organic ...
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Elevation data by latitude and longitude for the Grand Canyon
You can get digital elevation models (DEMs) from the ASTER GDEM project using the USGS Earth Explorer tool: http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/
Select the region you want by clicking on the map. Under '...
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Invasive Plant Species Data
EDDMapS (Early Detection and Distribution Mapping System) has reports of invasive species in the United States. This website is developed and maintained by the University of Georgia. It's very ...
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Invasive Plant Species Data
The R package originr interfaces with the Global Invasive Species Database and many other databases that include lists of invasive species. It provides results for a given species that include ...
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Allergy/Pollen Count Data Set by US city/county/census tract
Pollen data
In the United States, the National Allergy Bureau is the primary source of pollen measurements. Their network is comprised of approximately 80 monitoring stations which collect 24-hour ...
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Data set of particulate matter concentrations in Graz, Austria
I suppose the link has become broken after the Wiley Online Library redesign and restructuring.
Now this link should be the Please click here to access the full dataset archive link from this page. ...
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Seeking shapefile of forest cover in Paraguay?
USGS Land Cover Institute's datasets for South America
World Wildlife Fund's Eco-Regions Data
Global Forest Watch Search Results for "Paraguay"
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Nesting zones in Canada
North American Breeding Bird Survey is what you'll most likely find useful; BBS has two data options.
Migratory Bird Data Center has some more data too.
USFWS Migratory Bird Data Center
Breeding Bird ...
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Invasive Plant Species Data
data.gov has nearly 1000 datasets listed: Search data.gov for "invasive species", some of the datasets have gis data, some are just PDFs. You'll have to do the picking.
There's more reference material ...
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Comprehensive open data on energy resource statistics?
This doesn't have everything you ask for, but it certainly has consumption and price data broken down by fuel type: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/
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Free real-time source for satellite image
After looking through a few NASA repositories, I stumbled upon the EUMETSAT Website.
This site is a source for near-real-time climate and environmental images from orbit. They offer a WMS service as ...
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Global/European soil properties database
There are very nice high-resolution (30 seconds (~1km) and 5 minutes (~10km)) datasets available from the Land-Atmosphere Interaction Research Group at Sun Yat-sen University. It covers several of ...
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Drill Core Stratigraphic Data
The British Geological Survey provides free online access (through a web GIS) to scans of over a million borehole records.
Borehole records are produced from a geologist's or surveyor's ...
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US Radiation measurements
Since January 18, 2018, near-real-time data are available for download on this page in CSV format.
I suppose this FAQ answer is applicable to CSV files too:
RadNet near-real-time air data are ...
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Diesel exhaust data, road vs. test lab
The German Umweltbundesamt
(Environment Agency) collects hourly data on NOx, ozone etc.
at several hundred places in Germany.
It seems that their web query GUI can export only one-hour .csv s,
but the ...
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Elevation data by latitude and longitude for the Grand Canyon
Google Elevation API has worked for me a couple of times in a pinch: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/elevation/start
You could also check out the county for whichever part of the ...
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