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	* {{cite book \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XzEKlNhnUHUC&pg=PA41 \|chapter=Chapter 3: Ecological Informatics: Current Scope and Feature Areas \|title=Handbook of Ecological Modelling and Informatics \|author=Recknagel, F. \|editor=Jørgensen, S.E.; Chon, T.S. \|publisher=WIT Press \|year=2009 \|pages=41–47 \|isbn=9781845642075}}		* {{cite book \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XzEKlNhnUHUC&pg=PA41 \|chapter=Chapter 3: Ecological Informatics: Current Scope and Feature Areas \|title=Handbook of Ecological Modelling and Informatics \|author=Recknagel, F. \|editor=Jørgensen, S.E.; Chon, T.S. \|publisher=WIT Press \|year=2009 \|pages=41–47 \|isbn=9781845642075}}
	* {{cite journal \|url=https://former.iemss.org/pmwiki/fields/iemss2008/uploads/Main/S18-01-Voigt_et_al-IEMSS2008.pdf \|format=PDF \|journal=International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software \|series=Proceedings of the iEMSs Fourth Biennial Meeting. \|title=Environmental Informatics, Environmetrics, Chemoinformatics, Chemometrics: Integration or Separation!? \|author=Voigt, Kristina \|volume=3 \|date=July 2008 \|pages=1594–1601 \|isbn=9788476530740}}		* {{cite journal \|url=https://former.iemss.org/pmwiki/fields/iemss2008/uploads/Main/S18-01-Voigt_et_al-IEMSS2008.pdf \|format=PDF \|journal=International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software \|series=Proceedings of the iEMSs Fourth Biennial Meeting. \|title=Environmental Informatics, Environmetrics, Chemoinformatics, Chemometrics: Integration or Separation!? \|author=Voigt, Kristina \|volume=3 \|date=July 2008 \|pages=1594–1601 \|isbn=9788476530740}}

	==External links==		==External links==
	* [https://www.dataone.org/ Data Observation Network for Earth] (DataONE)		* [https://www.dataone.org/ Data Observation Network for Earth] (DataONE)

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	* "an emerging field centering around the development of standards and protocols, both technical and institutional, for sharing and integrating environmental data and information."<ref name="BDPArch">{{cite web \|url=http://dream.sims.berkeley.edu/biosphere/eimore.html \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041211010311/http://dream.sims.berkeley.edu/biosphere/eimore.html \|title=Biosphere Data Project - What is Environmental Informatics? \|author=Kada, K.; Lussier, S. \|publisher=University of California - Berkeley \|archivedate=11 December 2004 \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref> - ''Biosphere Data Project, University of California - Berkeley, 2004''		* "an emerging field centering around the development of standards and protocols, both technical and institutional, for sharing and integrating environmental data and information."<ref name="BDPArch">{{cite web \|url=http://dream.sims.berkeley.edu/biosphere/eimore.html \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041211010311/http://dream.sims.berkeley.edu/biosphere/eimore.html \|title=Biosphere Data Project - What is Environmental Informatics? \|author=Kada, K.; Lussier, S. \|publisher=University of California - Berkeley \|archivedate=11 December 2004 \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref> - ''Biosphere Data Project, University of California - Berkeley, 2004''

	* the application of "[r]esearch and system development focusing on the environmental sciences relating to the creation, collection, storage, processing, modelling, interpretation, display and dissemination of data and information."<ref name="NERCResearch">{{cite web \|url=https://nerc.ukri.org/funding/application/howtoapply/topics/ \|title=NERC - Research areas - Tools, ~~technolgoy~~ & methods \|publisher=Natural Environment Research Council \|accessdate=~~20 June 2020~~}}</ref> - ''Natural Environment Research Council, 2014''		* the application of "[r]esearch and system development focusing on the environmental sciences relating to the creation, collection, storage, processing, modelling, interpretation, display and dissemination of data and information."<ref name="NERCResearch">{{cite web \|url=https://nerc.ukri.org/funding/application/howtoapply/topics/ \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925122955/https://nerc.ukri.org/funding/application/howtoapply/topics/ \|title=NERC - Research areas - Tools, technology & methods \|publisher=Natural Environment Research Council \|archivedate=25 September 2020 \|accessdate=06 January 2021}}</ref> - ''Natural Environment Research Council, 2014''

	==History==		==History==
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	==Further reading==		==Further reading==

	* {{cite book \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XzEKlNhnUHUC&pg=PA41 \|chapter=Chapter 3: Ecological Informatics: Current Scope and Feature Areas \|title=Handbook of Ecological Modelling and Informatics \|author=Recknagel, F. \|editor=Jørgensen, S.E.; Chon, T.S. \|publisher=WIT Press \|year=2009 \|pages=41–47 \|isbn=9781845642075}}		* {{cite book \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XzEKlNhnUHUC&pg=PA41 \|chapter=Chapter 3: Ecological Informatics: Current Scope and Feature Areas \|title=Handbook of Ecological Modelling and Informatics \|author=Recknagel, F. \|editor=Jørgensen, S.E.; Chon, T.S. \|publisher=WIT Press \|year=2009 \|pages=41–47 \|isbn=9781845642075}}
			* {{cite journal \|url=https://former.iemss.org/pmwiki/fields/iemss2008/uploads/Main/S18-01-Voigt_et_al-IEMSS2008.pdf \|format=PDF \|journal=International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software \|series=Proceedings of the iEMSs Fourth Biennial Meeting. \|title=Environmental Informatics, Environmetrics, Chemoinformatics, Chemometrics: Integration or Separation!? \|author=Voigt, Kristina \|volume=3 \|date=July 2008 \|pages=1594–1601 \|isbn=9788476530740}}
	* {{cite journal \|url=~~http~~://former.iemss.org/pmwiki/fields/iemss2008//uploads/Main/S18-01-Voigt_et_al-IEMSS2008.pdf \|format=PDF \|journal=International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software \|series=Proceedings of the iEMSs Fourth Biennial Meeting. \|title=Environmental Informatics, Environmetrics, Chemoinformatics, Chemometrics: Integration or Separation!? \|author=Voigt, Kristina \|volume=3 \|date=July 2008 \|pages=1594–1601 \|isbn=9788476530740}}

	==External links==		==External links==
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	* [http://www.ecoinformatics.org ecoinformatics.org - Online Resource for Managing Ecological Data and Information]		* [http://www.ecoinformatics.org ecoinformatics.org - Online Resource for Managing Ecological Data and Information]
	* [https://ecologicaldata.org/ Ecological Data Wiki]		* [https://ecologicaldata.org/ Ecological Data Wiki]
	* [https://www.~~journals.elsevier~~.com/ecological-informatics/ ''Ecological Informatics'': An International Journal on Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology]		* [https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/ecological-informatics ''Ecological Informatics'': An International Journal on Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology]
	* [https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/all/sections/environmental-informatics-and-remote-sensing ''Frontiers in Environmental Informatics and Remote Sensing'']		* [https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/all/sections/environmental-informatics-and-remote-sensing ''Frontiers in Environmental Informatics and Remote Sensing'']
	* [http://enviroinfo.eu/ ''Informatik für Umweltschutz, nachhaltige Entwicklung und Risikomanagement''] (formerly ''Informatik im Umweltschutz'')		* [http://enviroinfo.eu/ ''Informatik für Umweltschutz, nachhaltige Entwicklung und Risikomanagement''] (formerly ''Informatik im Umweltschutz'')
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	==Notes==		==Notes==

	This article reuses a couple of elements from [~~http~~://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_informatics the Wikipedia article].		This article reuses a couple of elements from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_informatics the Wikipedia article].

	==References==		==References==

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	[[File:SSTm.png\|thumb\|460px\|right\|Publicly available data sets and informatics tools like SAGA GIS enable the creation of environmental models and images such as this.]]		[[File:SSTm.png\|thumb\|460px\|right\|Publicly available data sets and informatics tools like open-source [http://saga-gis.org/en/index.html SAGA GIS] enable the creation of environmental models and images such as this.]]
	'''Environmental informatics''' ('''EI''') is a developing field of science that applies [[information]] processing, management, and sharing strategies to the interdisciplinary field of environmental science.<ref name="HiltyEI">{{cite book \|url=http://www.springer.com/environment/environmental+management/book/978-0-7923-3445-3 \|chapter=Chapter 1: Environmental Informatics as a New Discipline of Applied Computer Science \|title=Environmental Informatics \|author=Hilty, L. M.; Page, B.; Radermacher, F. J.; Riekert, W. F.; Avouris, N. M. (ed.) \|publisher=Springer \|year=1995 \|pages=1–11 \|isbn=9789048145386 \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref> Applications include the integration of information and knowledge, the application of computational intelligence to environmental data, and the identification of the environmental impacts of information technology. EI helps scientists define information processing requirements, analyze real-world problems, and solve those problems using informatics methodologies and tools.<ref name="PageAdvances">{{cite journal \|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187802961000112X \|journal=Procedia Environmental Sciences \|title=Advances in Environmental Informatics: Integration of Discrete Event Simulation Methodology with ecological Material Flow Analysis for Modelling eco-efficient Systems \|author=Page, B.; Wohlgemuth, V. \|volume=2 \|year=2010 \|pages=696–705 \|doi=10.1016/j.proenv.2010.10.079 \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref>		'''Environmental informatics''' ('''EI''') is a developing field of science that applies [[information]] processing, management, and sharing strategies to the interdisciplinary field of environmental science.<ref name="HiltyEI">{{cite book \|url=http://www.springer.com/environment/environmental+management/book/978-0-7923-3445-3 \|chapter=Chapter 1: Environmental Informatics as a New Discipline of Applied Computer Science \|title=Environmental Informatics \|author=Hilty, L. M.; Page, B.; Radermacher, F. J.; Riekert, W. F.; Avouris, N. M. (ed.) \|publisher=Springer \|year=1995 \|pages=1–11 \|isbn=9789048145386 \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref> Applications include the integration of information and knowledge, the application of computational intelligence to environmental data, and the identification of the environmental impacts of information technology. EI helps scientists define information processing requirements, analyze real-world problems, and solve those problems using informatics methodologies and tools.<ref name="PageAdvances">{{cite journal \|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187802961000112X \|journal=Procedia Environmental Sciences \|title=Advances in Environmental Informatics: Integration of Discrete Event Simulation Methodology with ecological Material Flow Analysis for Modelling eco-efficient Systems \|author=Page, B.; Wohlgemuth, V. \|volume=2 \|year=2010 \|pages=696–705 \|doi=10.1016/j.proenv.2010.10.079 \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref>

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	'''Environmental informatics''' ('''EI''') is a developing field of science that applies [[information]] processing, management, and sharing strategies to the interdisciplinary field of environmental science.<ref name="HiltyEI">{{cite book \|url=http://www.springer.com/environment/environmental+management/book/978-0-7923-3445-3 \|chapter=Chapter 1: Environmental Informatics as a New Discipline of Applied Computer Science \|title=Environmental Informatics \|author=Hilty, L. M.; Page, B.; Radermacher, F. J.; Riekert, W. F.; Avouris, N. M. (ed.) \|publisher=Springer \|year=1995 \|pages=1–11 \|isbn=9789048145386 \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref> Applications include the integration of information and knowledge, the application of computational intelligence to environmental data, and the identification of the environmental impacts of information technology. EI helps scientists define information processing requirements, analyze real-world problems, and solve those problems using informatics methodologies and tools.<ref name="PageAdvances">{{cite journal \|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187802961000112X \|journal=Procedia Environmental Sciences \|title=Advances in Environmental Informatics: Integration of Discrete Event Simulation Methodology with ecological Material Flow Analysis for Modelling eco-efficient Systems \|author=Page, B.; Wohlgemuth, V. \|volume=2 \|year=2010 \|pages=696–705 \|doi=10.1016/j.proenv.2010.10.079 \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref>		'''Environmental informatics''' ('''EI''') is a developing field of science that applies [[information]] processing, management, and sharing strategies to the interdisciplinary field of environmental science.<ref name="HiltyEI">{{cite book \|url=http://www.springer.com/environment/environmental+management/book/978-0-7923-3445-3 \|chapter=Chapter 1: Environmental Informatics as a New Discipline of Applied Computer Science \|title=Environmental Informatics \|author=Hilty, L. M.; Page, B.; Radermacher, F. J.; Riekert, W. F.; Avouris, N. M. (ed.) \|publisher=Springer \|year=1995 \|pages=1–11 \|isbn=9789048145386 \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref> Applications include the integration of information and knowledge, the application of computational intelligence to environmental data, and the identification of the environmental impacts of information technology. EI helps scientists define information processing requirements, analyze real-world problems, and solve those problems using informatics methodologies and tools.<ref name="PageAdvances">{{cite journal \|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187802961000112X \|journal=Procedia Environmental Sciences \|title=Advances in Environmental Informatics: Integration of Discrete Event Simulation Methodology with ecological Material Flow Analysis for Modelling eco-efficient Systems \|author=Page, B.; Wohlgemuth, V. \|volume=2 \|year=2010 \|pages=696–705 \|doi=10.1016/j.proenv.2010.10.079 \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref>

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	===Ecoinformatics===		===Ecoinformatics===
	Closely related to EI is the concept of ecological informatics or "ecoinformatics," which essentially takes environmental informatics and adds the consideration of anthropogenic activity trends. Ecoinformatics aims to facilitate environmental research and management by developing ways to access, manage, and integrate databases of environmental information and develop new algorithms enabling different environmental datasets to be combined to test ecological hypotheses.<ref name="CracknellGlobal">{{cite book \|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=k2aVFcrCi90C&pg=PA449 \|title=Global Climatology and Ecodynamics: Anthropogenic Changes to Planet Earth \|author=Cracknell, Arthur Philip; Krapivin, Vladimir F. \|publisher=Springer \|year=2008 \|page=449 \|isbn=9783540782094 \|accessdate=04 June 2014}}</ref><ref name="KondratyevGlobal">{{cite book \|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=n04HU6f5FDYC&pg=PA27 \|chapter=Chapter 2: The Basic Principles of Global Ecoinformatics \|title=Global Environmental Change: Modelling and Monitoring \|author=Kondratyev, Kirill Ya.; Krapivin, Vladimir F.; Phillipe, Gary W. \|publisher=Springer \|year=2002 \|pages=27–62 \|isbn=9783540433736 \|accessdate=04 June 2014}}</ref>		Closely related to EI is the concept of ecological informatics or "ecoinformatics," which essentially takes environmental informatics and adds the consideration of anthropogenic activity trends. Ecoinformatics aims to facilitate environmental research and management by developing ways to access, manage, and integrate databases of environmental information and develop new algorithms enabling different environmental datasets to be combined to test ecological hypotheses.<ref name="CracknellGlobal">{{cite book \|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=k2aVFcrCi90C&pg=PA449 \|title=Global Climatology and Ecodynamics: Anthropogenic Changes to Planet Earth \|author=Cracknell, Arthur Philip; Krapivin, Vladimir F. \|publisher=Springer \|year=2008 \|page=449 \|isbn=9783540782094 \|accessdate=04 June 2014}}</ref><ref name="KondratyevGlobal">{{cite book \|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=n04HU6f5FDYC&pg=PA27 \|chapter=Chapter 2: The Basic Principles of Global Ecoinformatics \|title=Global Environmental Change: Modelling and Monitoring \|author=Kondratyev, Kirill Ya.; Krapivin, Vladimir F.; Phillipe, Gary W. \|publisher=Springer \|year=2002 \|pages=27–62 \|isbn=9783540433736 \|accessdate=04 June 2014}}</ref><ref name="ReckHandbook">{{cite book \|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=XzEKlNhnUHUC&pg=PA41 \|chapter=Chapter 3: Ecological Informatics: Current Scope and Feature Areas \|title=Handbook of Ecological Modelling and Informatics \|author=Recknagel, Friedrich; Jørgensen, Sven Erik (ed.); Chon, T. S. (ed.) \|publisher=WIT Press \|year=2009 \|pages=41–47 \|isbn=9781845642075 \|accessdate=04 June 2014}}</ref>

	==Further reading==		==Further reading==

			* {{cite book \|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=XzEKlNhnUHUC&pg=PA41 \|chapter=Chapter 3: Ecological Informatics: Current Scope and Feature Areas \|title=Handbook of Ecological Modelling and Informatics \|author=Recknagel, Friedrich; Jørgensen, Sven Erik (ed.); Chon, T. S. (ed.) \|publisher=WIT Press \|year=2009 \|pages=41–47 \|isbn=9781845642075}}

	* {{cite journal \|url=http://www.iemss.org/iemss2008/uploads/Main/S18-01-Voigt_et_al-IEMSS2008.pdf \|format=PDF \|journal=International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software \|series=Proceedings of the iEMSs Fourth Biennial Meeting. \|title=Environmental Informatics, Environmetrics, Chemoinformatics, Chemometrics: Integration or Separation!? \|author=Voigt, Kristina \|volume=3 \|date=July 2008 \|pages=1594–1601 \|isbn=9788476530740}}		* {{cite journal \|url=http://www.iemss.org/iemss2008/uploads/Main/S18-01-Voigt_et_al-IEMSS2008.pdf \|format=PDF \|journal=International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software \|series=Proceedings of the iEMSs Fourth Biennial Meeting. \|title=Environmental Informatics, Environmetrics, Chemoinformatics, Chemometrics: Integration or Separation!? \|author=Voigt, Kristina \|volume=3 \|date=July 2008 \|pages=1594–1601 \|isbn=9788476530740}}

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	* the modeling and assessment of ecological environments		* the modeling and assessment of ecological environments
	* the development and optimization of mathematical algorithms for environmental modeling		* the development and optimization of mathematical algorithms for environmental modeling

			===Ecoinformatics===
			Closely related to EI is the concept of ecological informatics or "ecoinformatics," which essentially takes environmental informatics and adds the consideration of anthropogenic activity trends. Ecoinformatics aims to facilitate environmental research and management by developing ways to access, manage, and integrate databases of environmental information and develop new algorithms enabling different environmental datasets to be combined to test ecological hypotheses.<ref name="CracknellGlobal">{{cite book \|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=k2aVFcrCi90C&pg=PA449 \|title=Global Climatology and Ecodynamics: Anthropogenic Changes to Planet Earth \|author=Cracknell, Arthur Philip; Krapivin, Vladimir F. \|publisher=Springer \|year=2008 \|page=449 \|isbn=9783540782094 \|accessdate=04 June 2014}}</ref><ref name="KondratyevGlobal">{{cite book \|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=n04HU6f5FDYC&pg=PA27 \|chapter=Chapter 2: The Basic Principles of Global Ecoinformatics \|title=Global Environmental Change: Modelling and Monitoring \|author=Kondratyev, Kirill Ya.; Krapivin, Vladimir F.; Phillipe, Gary W. \|publisher=Springer \|year=2002 \|pages=27–62 \|isbn=9783540433736 \|accessdate=04 June 2014}}</ref>

	==Further reading==		==Further reading==
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	==External links==		==External links==
	* [http://www.dataone.org Data Observation Network for Earth] (DataONE)		* [http://www.dataone.org Data Observation Network for Earth] (DataONE)
			* [http://www.ecoinformatics.org ecoinformatics.org - Online Resource for Managing Ecological Data and Information]
			* [http://www.ecologicaldata.org/ Ecological Data Wiki]
			* [http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ecological-informatics/ Ecological Informatics: An International Journal on Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology]
	* [http://www.frontiersin.org/Environmental_Informatics Frontiers in Environmental Science - Environmental Informatics]		* [http://www.frontiersin.org/Environmental_Informatics Frontiers in Environmental Science - Environmental Informatics]
	* [http://enviroinfo.eu/ ''Informatik für Umweltschutz, Nachhaltige Entwicklung und Risikomanagement''] (formerly ''Informatik im Umweltschutz'')		* [http://enviroinfo.eu/ ''Informatik für Umweltschutz, Nachhaltige Entwicklung und Risikomanagement''] (formerly ''Informatik im Umweltschutz'')

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	* the application of "[r]esearch and system development focusing on the environmental sciences relating to the creation, collection, storage, processing, modelling, interpretation, display and dissemination of data and information."<ref name="NERCResearch">{{cite web \|url=http://www.nerc.ac.uk/funding/application/howtoapply/topics/ \|title=NERC - Research areas \|publisher=Natural Environment Research Council \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref> - ''Natural Environment Research Council, 2014''		* the application of "[r]esearch and system development focusing on the environmental sciences relating to the creation, collection, storage, processing, modelling, interpretation, display and dissemination of data and information."<ref name="NERCResearch">{{cite web \|url=http://www.nerc.ac.uk/funding/application/howtoapply/topics/ \|title=NERC - Research areas \|publisher=Natural Environment Research Council \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref> - ''Natural Environment Research Council, 2014''

			==History==
			Environmental informatics emerged roughly around the late 1980s in Central Europe.<ref name="PageAdvances" /> For example, in 1986 Germany's ''Gesellschaft für Informatik'' (Society for Computer Science) created the technical committee ''Informatik im Umweltschutz'' (Computer Science in Environmental Protection) dedicated to "the whole spectrum of subjects related to informatics in environmental protection."<ref name="IUArch">{{cite web \|url=http://www.iai.fzk.de/Fachgruppe/GI/allgemeines.eng.html \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19970726002709/http://www.iai.fzk.de/Fachgruppe/GI/allgemeines.eng.html \|title=General Information about the Technical Committee 'Computer Science in Environmental Protection' \|author=Geiger, Werner \|publisher=Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V \|date=22 April 1996 \|archivedate=26 July 1997 \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref> The group is still active as of 2014, set to host it's 28th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection.<ref name="EI14">{{cite web \|url=http://www.enviroinfo2014.org/ \|title=EnviroInfo 2014 \|publisher=University of Oldenburg \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref> Since ''Informatik im Umweltschutz'''s inception, other groups there and in other regions of the world were created, including The International Environmetrics Society (TIES, founded in 1989<ref name="TIESHist">{{cite web \|url=http://www.environmetrics.org/history.html \|title=TIES - History \|publisher=The International Environmetrics Society \|date=19 September 2013 \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref>) and the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs, founded in 2000<ref name="iEMSsHist">{{cite web \|url=http://www.iemss.org/society/index.php/medallists-fellows-and-ecres \|title=iEMSs - Medalists, Fellows and ECREs \|publisher=International Environmental Modelling and Software Society \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref>), as well as conferences like the International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems (ISESS, founded in 1995<ref name="ISESSabout">{{cite web \|url=http://www.iemss.org/society/index.php/isess \|title=ISESS – International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems \|publisher=International Environmental Modelling and Software Society \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref>).

			==Application==
			Environmental informatics can help tackle problems and tasks such as the following<ref name="KokhGrand">{{cite journal \|url=http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fenvs.2013.00005/full \|journal=Frontiers in Environmental Science \|title=Grand challenges in environmental informatics \|author=Kokhanovsky, Alexander \|volume=1 \|issue=5 \|year=January 2014 \|doi=10.3389/fenvs.2013.00005 \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref><ref name="JEIAbout">{{cite web \|url=http://www.iseis.org/jei/ \|title=Journal of Environmental Informatics \|publisher=International Society for Environmental Information Sciences \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref>:

			* the acquisition and application of remote sensing data from optical, thermal infrared, and microwave instruments targeting the atmosphere, vegetation, and the ocean
			* the estimation of aerosol load in the atmosphere
			* the gauging of influence of trace gases, aerosol, and clouds on the weather and climate
			* the analysis of geographical features for urban and regional development
			* the modeling and assessment of ecological environments
			* the development and optimization of mathematical algorithms for environmental modeling

	==~~History~~==		==Further reading==
	Environmental informatics emerged roughly around the late 1980s in Central Europe.<ref name="PageAdvances" /> For example, in 1986 Germany's ''Gesellschaft für Informatik'' (Society for Computer Science) created the technical committee ''Informatik im Umweltschutz'' (Computer Science in Environmental Protection) dedicated to "the whole spectrum of subjects related to informatics in environmental protection."<ref name="IUArch">{{cite web \|url=http://www.iai.fzk.de/Fachgruppe/GI/allgemeines.eng.html \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19970726002709/http://www.iai.fzk.de/Fachgruppe/GI/allgemeines.eng.html \|title=General Information about the Technical Committee 'Computer Science in Environmental Protection' \|author=Geiger, Werner \|publisher=Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V \|date=22 April 1996 \|archivedate=26 July 1997 \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref> The group is still active as of 2014, set to host it's 28th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection.<ref name="EI14">{{cite web \|url=http://www.enviroinfo2014.org/ \|title=EnviroInfo 2014 \|publisher=University of Oldenburg \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref>

	==~~Initiatives~~==		* {{cite journal \|url=http://www.iemss.org/iemss2008/uploads/Main/S18-01-Voigt_et_al-IEMSS2008.pdf \|format=PDF \|journal=International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software \|series=Proceedings of the iEMSs Fourth Biennial Meeting. \|title=Environmental Informatics, Environmetrics, Chemoinformatics, Chemometrics: Integration or Separation!? \|author=Voigt, Kristina \|volume=3 \|date=July 2008 \|pages=1594–1601 \|isbn=9788476530740}}
	~~Current initiatives to effectively manage, share, and reuse environmental and ecological data are indicative of the increasing importance~~ of ~~fields like environmental informatics and [[Ecoinformatics]] to develop~~ the ~~foundations for effectively managing ecological information~~. ~~Examples of these initiatives are National Science Foundation Datanet projects~~, ~~DataONE and Data Conservancy.~~

	==External links==		==External links==
	*[http://www.dataone.org DataONE]		* [http://www.dataone.org Data Observation Network for Earth] (DataONE)
			* [http://www.frontiersin.org/Environmental_Informatics Frontiers in Environmental Science - Environmental Informatics]
			* [http://enviroinfo.eu/ ''Informatik für Umweltschutz, Nachhaltige Entwicklung und Risikomanagement''] (formerly ''Informatik im Umweltschutz'')
			* [http://www.iemss.org/ International Environmental Modelling and Software Society] (iEMSs)
			* [http://www.iseis.org/ International Society for Environmental Information Sciences] (ISEIS)
			* [http://www.iseis.org/jei/ Journal of Environmental Informatics]
			* [http://www.environmetrics.org/ The International Environmetrics Society] (TIES)

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	This article reuses a ~~few~~ elements from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_informatics the Wikipedia article].		This article reuses a couple of elements from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_informatics the Wikipedia article].

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	'''Environmental informatics''' is ~~the~~ science of [[information]] ~~applied to [[environmental science]]. As such~~, ~~it provides the information processing~~ and ~~communication infrastructure~~ to the interdisciplinary field of environmental ~~sciences~~<ref>L.M. ~~Hilty~~, B. ~~Page~~, F.J. ~~Radermacher and~~ W.-F. ~~Riekert. Environmental Informatics as a new discipline of applied computer science.~~ N.M. ~~Avouris and B. Page~~ (~~eds~~.)~~, Environmental Informatics (~~1995~~), pp. 1-11. Kluwer Academic Publishers. The Netherlands. ISBN 0-7923-3445-0~~</ref> ~~aiming at data,~~ information and knowledge ~~integration~~, the application of computational intelligence to environmental data ~~as well as~~ the identification of environmental impacts of information technology. The UK Natural Environment Research Council defines environmental informatics as the "research and system development focusing on the environmental sciences relating to the creation, collection, storage, processing, ~~modelling~~, ~~interpretation, display~~ and ~~dissemination of data~~ and ~~information"~~.<ref>http://www.~~nerc~~.~~ac.uk~~/~~funding~~/~~application~~/~~topics~~.~~asp~~</ref>		'''Environmental informatics''' ('''EI''') is a developing field of science that applies [[information]] processing, management, and sharing strategies to the interdisciplinary field of environmental science.<ref name="HiltyEI">{{cite book \|url=http://www.springer.com/environment/environmental+management/book/978-0-7923-3445-3 \|chapter=Chapter 1: Environmental Informatics as a New Discipline of Applied Computer Science \|title=Environmental Informatics \|author=Hilty, L. M.; Page, B.; Radermacher, F. J.; Riekert, W. F.; Avouris, N. M. (ed.) \|publisher=Springer \|year=1995 \|pages=1–11 \|isbn=9789048145386 \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref> Applications include the integration of information and knowledge, the application of computational intelligence to environmental data, and the identification of the environmental impacts of information technology. EI helps scientists define information processing requirements, analyze real-world problems, and solve those problems using informatics methodologies and tools.<ref name="PageAdvances">{{cite journal \|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187802961000112X \|journal=Procedia Environmental Sciences \|title=Advances in Environmental Informatics: Integration of Discrete Event Simulation Methodology with ecological Material Flow Analysis for Modelling eco-efficient Systems \|author=Page, B.; Wohlgemuth, V. \|volume=2 \|year=2010 \|pages=696–705 \|doi=10.1016/j.proenv.2010.10.079 \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref>

	~~Environmental informatics emerged in early 1990 in Central Europe.<ref>B. Page~~, ~~V. Wohlgemuth. Advances in Environmental Informatics~~: Integration of Discrete Event Simulation Methodology with ecological Material Flow Analysis for Modelling eco-efficient Systems, Procedia Environmental Sciences, Volume 2, International Conference on Ecological Informatics and Ecosystem Conservation (ISEIS 2010), 2010, Pages 696-705, ISSN 1878-0296, DOI: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proenv.2010.10.079 10.1016/j.proenv.2010.10.079]</ref>		As EI has continued to evolve, several other definitions have been offered over the years:

			* "an emerging field centering around the development of standards and protocols, both technical and institutional, for sharing and integrating environmental data and information."<ref name="BDPArch">{{cite web \|url=http://dream.sims.berkeley.edu/biosphere/eimore.html \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041211010311/http://dream.sims.berkeley.edu/biosphere/eimore.html \|title=Biosphere Data Project - What is Environmental Informatics? \|author=Kada, Kathryn; Lussier, Steve \|publisher=University of California - Berkeley \|archivedate=11 December 2004 \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref> - ''Biosphere Data Project, University of California - Berkeley, 2004''

			* the application of "[r]esearch and system development focusing on the environmental sciences relating to the creation, collection, storage, processing, modelling, interpretation, display and dissemination of data and information."<ref name="NERCResearch">{{cite web \|url=http://www.nerc.ac.uk/funding/application/howtoapply/topics/ \|title=NERC - Research areas \|publisher=Natural Environment Research Council \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref> - ''Natural Environment Research Council, 2014''


			==History==
			Environmental informatics emerged roughly around the late 1980s in Central Europe.<ref name="PageAdvances" /> For example, in 1986 Germany's ''Gesellschaft für Informatik'' (Society for Computer Science) created the technical committee ''Informatik im Umweltschutz'' (Computer Science in Environmental Protection) dedicated to "the whole spectrum of subjects related to informatics in environmental protection."<ref name="IUArch">{{cite web \|url=http://www.iai.fzk.de/Fachgruppe/GI/allgemeines.eng.html \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19970726002709/http://www.iai.fzk.de/Fachgruppe/GI/allgemeines.eng.html \|title=General Information about the Technical Committee 'Computer Science in Environmental Protection' \|author=Geiger, Werner \|publisher=Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V \|date=22 April 1996 \|archivedate=26 July 1997 \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref> The group is still active as of 2014, set to host it's 28th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection.<ref name="EI14">{{cite web \|url=http://www.enviroinfo2014.org/ \|title=EnviroInfo 2014 \|publisher=University of Oldenburg \|accessdate=03 June 2014}}</ref>

			==Initiatives==
	Current initiatives to effectively manage, share, and reuse environmental and ecological data are indicative of the increasing importance of fields like environmental informatics and [[Ecoinformatics]] to develop the foundations for effectively managing ecological information. Examples of these initiatives are National Science Foundation Datanet projects, DataONE and Data Conservancy.		Current initiatives to effectively manage, share, and reuse environmental and ecological data are indicative of the increasing importance of fields like environmental informatics and [[Ecoinformatics]] to develop the foundations for effectively managing ecological information. Examples of these initiatives are National Science Foundation Datanet projects, DataONE and Data Conservancy.

	==External links==		==External links==
	*[http://www.lec.lancs.ac.uk/research/environmental_informatics/ Lancaster Environment Center]: Centre for environmental informatics
	*[http://www.iba.muni.cz/index-en.php?s=environmental-informatics Masaryk University]: Division of environmental informatics and modeling
	*[http://www.nuigalway.ie/eci/research/environmental_informatics.html NUI Galway]: Environmental informatics
	*[http://www.mta-taki.hu/en/departments/wgenvirionmentalinf RISSAC]: Department of environmental informatics, research institute for soil science and agricultural chemistry, Hungarian academy of sciences
	*[http://www.stanford.edu/group/ei/ Stanford University]: Sustainable development & environmental informatics
	*[http://kmi.tugraz.at/research/focus_areas/environmental_informatics TU Graz]: Research focus area in environmental informatics
	*[http://www.ics.uci.edu/faculty/area/area_environmental.php University of California, Irvine]: Bren school environmental informatics research
	*[http://www.udayton.edu/engineering/institutes_and_centers.php University of Dayton]: Center of excellence for strategic energy and environmental informatics
	*[http://www.uef.fi/envi University of Eastern Finland]: Division of environmental informatics within the department of environmental science at Kuopio Campus
	*[http://agis-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/asi/forschung/umweltinformatik/ University of Hamburg]: Research in environmental informatics
	*[http://www.informatics.unlv.edu/cognates/environmental.htm University of Las Vegas, Nevada]: Environmental informatics undergraduate program
	*[http://snre.umich.edu/degree_programs/environmental_informatics/overview University of Michigan]: Environmental informatics GIS and modeling graduate program
	*[http://www-ui.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/ University of Oldenburg]: Division of environmental informatics
	*[http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/faculties/apsc/centres/cei/ University of Sunderland]: Centre for environmental informatics
	*[http://www.dataone.org DataONE]		*[http://www.dataone.org DataONE]
	*[http://www.dataconservancy.org Data Conserancy]

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	This article ~~heavily~~ reuses ~~content~~ from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_informatics the Wikipedia article].		This article reuses a few elements from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_informatics the Wikipedia article].

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	~~''(This article was taken from Wikipedia)''~~

	'''Environmental informatics''' is the science of [[information]] applied to [[environmental science]]. As such, it provides the information processing and communication infrastructure to the interdisciplinary field of environmental sciences<ref>L.M. Hilty, B. Page, F.J. Radermacher and W.-F. Riekert. Environmental Informatics as a new discipline of applied computer science. N.M. Avouris and B. Page (eds.), Environmental Informatics (1995), pp. 1-11. Kluwer Academic Publishers. The Netherlands. ISBN 0-7923-3445-0</ref> aiming at data, information and knowledge integration, the application of computational intelligence to environmental data as well as the identification of environmental impacts of information technology. The UK Natural Environment Research Council defines environmental informatics as the "research and system development focusing on the environmental sciences relating to the creation, collection, storage, processing, modelling, interpretation, display and dissemination of data and information".<ref>http://www.nerc.ac.uk/funding/application/topics.asp</ref>		'''Environmental informatics''' is the science of [[information]] applied to [[environmental science]]. As such, it provides the information processing and communication infrastructure to the interdisciplinary field of environmental sciences<ref>L.M. Hilty, B. Page, F.J. Radermacher and W.-F. Riekert. Environmental Informatics as a new discipline of applied computer science. N.M. Avouris and B. Page (eds.), Environmental Informatics (1995), pp. 1-11. Kluwer Academic Publishers. The Netherlands. ISBN 0-7923-3445-0</ref> aiming at data, information and knowledge integration, the application of computational intelligence to environmental data as well as the identification of environmental impacts of information technology. The UK Natural Environment Research Council defines environmental informatics as the "research and system development focusing on the environmental sciences relating to the creation, collection, storage, processing, modelling, interpretation, display and dissemination of data and information".<ref>http://www.nerc.ac.uk/funding/application/topics.asp</ref>

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	*[http://www.dataone.org DataONE]		*[http://www.dataone.org DataONE]
	*[http://www.dataconservancy.org Data Conserancy]		*[http://www.dataconservancy.org Data Conserancy]

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			This article heavily reuses content from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_informatics the Wikipedia article].

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