From our local institutional scale to the global worldwide community, the University of Vermont's Ecoinformatics collaboratory and the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics are part of a coordinated network of individuals, projects, and institutions that share the same goals. Some of our partner institutions are:
the Partnership for Biological Informatics, instituted to enable scientists and other users to deploy the vast amount of ecological, biodiversity, and environmental information in research, education, and public service in order to help society achieve the means to safeguard our future and a sustainable planet. The PBI is the primary force behind the SEEK project.
the OceanEconomics project, whose objective is to provide data on ecological economics related to the use and management of oceans. The project is a partner in all our future activities in Ecosystem Services Valuation, such as the ARIES project.
the Nature Valuation Network, whose overall aim is to stimulate the development of practical tools for proper valuation of the goods and services provided by ecosystems and biodiversity, so that decisions about economic development are made with the full understanding of all the costs and benefits involved. The Network, based in the Netherlands, uses our Ecosystem Services Database as the primary source of data and is involved in all our activities on Ecosystem Services valuation.
Earth Economics is a non-profit organization devoted to promoting ecosystem health and ecological economics and to halting the globalization of unsustainable economic policies. Focusing on the vital areas of toxics, forests, fisheries and global trade policy, Earth Economics achieves its goals through organization, education and advocacy. Earth Economics is a partner in our future activities on Ecosystem Services valuation.
Conservation International is a large non-profit organization whose mission is to conserve the Earth's living natural heritage, global biodiversity, and to demonstrate that human societies are able to live harmoniously with nature. CI is a partner in all our ecosystem services-related activities.
The Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, which hosts the Ecoinformatics Collaboratory, has a fellows program that interested individuals can apply to. Being a Gund fellow entitles to certain advantages and opens the road to collaborations. Feel free to inquire if interested in the fellows program.
We maintain a Wiki site that people can use to discuss ecoinformatics related activities, as well as a site dedicated to technical issues in integrated natural system modelling. Please feel free to use our extensive link database for more information and additional pointers to activities, projects, and institutions that are making a difference in ecoinformatics.
Corporate sponsors
The Ecoinformatics Collaboratory employs the great community tools developed by Atlassian that were made available to us under a generous open source license. In particular, we're using Confluence as a collaboration platform and Jira for issue tracking. We're thankful to Atlassian for giving back to the open source community.
Our open source software is better and more efficient thanks to JProfiler. EJ Technologies is generously providing us with a site license for JProfiler.
