Current & historic air quality: ozone & particulates

http://www.maine.gov/dep/air/ozone/currentdata.html

http://www.airnow.gov

More technical than AIR NOW, more kinds of data

http://www.epa.gov/airexplorer

Web cams placed to monitor visibility

http://www.vista.cira.colostate.edu/views

http://www.audubon.org/bird/cbc/index.html

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw/

http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/bbs.html

Protocols and data for observations of seasonal events (e.g. budbreak)

http://usanpn.org

http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/fia/spatial/index_ss.html

http://cdmo.baruch.sc.edu/

Summer monitoring of swimming beaches for bacteria

http:// www.MaineHealthyBeaches.org

Volunteer monitoring for bacteria at coastal swim beaches

http://www.geology.um.maine.edu/beach/

Buoy data include water temp, salinity, wind speed & direction, wave ht...etc.

http://www.gomoos.org

tides and currents data

http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov

Includes marine monitoring buoys worldwide

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

global ocean salinity maps & data

http://ourocean.jpl.nasa.gov:8080/AQUARIUS/

Precip amounts, pH, and anion/cation chem for seveal ME stations

http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/nadpdata/state.asp?state=ME

Mercury amts in precip for several ME stations

http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/mdn/

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastall.shtml

Weather forecasts, storm warnings, Daily min/max temps & precip for past week.

http://www.weather.gov/

Source for long-term weather data from all US NWS stations.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/stationlocator.html

Historic weather data compiled for many New Eng. stations (1912-2006).

http://neisa.unh.edu/Climate/index.html

Links to pollen, ice core, tree-ring data and other proxies for paleo climate.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/data.html

Gov't stats on energy use & production, national & state by state

http://www.eia.doe.gov/

Use this to calculate HDD or CDD for locations near you

http://www.degreedays.net

Data about lakes, streams, and other ecosystems in Maine

http://www.pearl.maine.edu

Real-time flow rates, volume, water & air temps

http://water.usgs.gov/me/nwis/rt

Downeast Salmon Federation data & links

http://www.mainesalmonrivers.org/

http://me.water.usgs.gov/iceout.html

http://groundwaterwatch.usgs.gov/StateMaps/ME.html

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt

highly technical access to air quality data

http://www.datafed.net

Directory to environmental monitoring in Maine. May be out-dated

http://www.memapindex.org