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Data Basin Centers provide focused datasets, maps, galleries, people, and working groups on specific topics or geographies that facilitate more effective collaboration.

The Climate Center

The Data Basin Climate Center centralizes critical climate change datasets and findings about impacts, trends or predicted future scenarios at local and regional scales. Visit the Climate Center.

Boreal Information Centre

The Boreal Information Centre contains high-quality geospatial datasets and information to aid management of the North American boreal forest biome. Visit the Boreal Centre.

Aquatic Conservation Center

The Aquatic Conservation Center contains data, tools, and experts working to increase the resilience of freshwater and marine biodiversity. Visit the Aquatic Center.

Protected Areas Center

The Data Basin Protected Areas Center centralizes critical global data, including full access to the PAD-US v1.1 (CBI Edition). Visit the Protected Areas Center.

Recent Blog Posts

Welcome

Conservation is all about place, so it is not surprising that mapping plays an integral part in successfully addressing today's conservation challenges. A couple of years ago, the Wilburforce Foundation asked me if our organization (Conservation Biology Institute or CBI) would be interested in...

Joel Clement

Wilburforce Program Officer, Conserv. Science Program

One of the most pervasive barriers to conservation effectiveness has always been the lack of capacity in our community for easily sharing, interpreting, and visualizing complex ecological information, and our stories have suffered for it. In subsidizing the development of Data Basin™, our primary goal was to help Wilburforce grantees share their data easily and more effectively – to provide the latest technology and help foster more of those aha! moments when maps overlay to illustrate and communicate important threats or opportunities.

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Bridging Conservation Science and Practice

Data Basin is an online system that connects users with spatial datasets, tools, and a network of scientists and practitioners.

You can explore and download a vast library of datasets, connect to external data sources, upload and publish your own datasets, connect to experts, create working groups, and produce customized maps that can be easily shared. Click on Join Now to set up your free Data Basin user account.

The Building Blocks of Data Basin:

Datasets: A dataset is a spatially explicit file, currently Arcshape and ArcGrid files. These can be biological, physical, socioeconomic, (and soon to be imagery) that can be uploaded, downloaded or visualized. Browse datasets.

Maps: Maps are visualized datasets created with easy-to-use tools in Data Basin. Maps, customized by users, can be kept private, shared with groups, or published for everyone. Users can critique maps with provided drawing and commenting tools. Browse maps.

Galleries: Galleries are meaningful collections of datasets and/or maps created by Data Basin users. Users and organizations can publish galleries (including studies, atlases and books) that others can easily find and use. Browse projects.

People: People are members of the Data Basin community. Users can search profiles to find data providers, potential collaborators or interested audiences. Browse people.

Groups: Groups are user-defined subset of Data Basin users collaborating around a specific topic or issues. Group members can share, analyze, and discuss datasets and maps. Data Basin allows for private (closed) and public (by request) groups. Browse groups.

Tools: Data Basin provides highly-focused map-based analytical tools that can be used to address specific conservation topics, including risk assessment, ecosystem monitoring, and climate change adaptation.

Create Maps That Tell Your Story

Data Basin makes is easy to browse or search for datasets, maps, people, groups, and galleries. Find datasets to add to a map, find experts on key topics, find groups to collaborate with, and more. Click on Join Now to set up your free user account.

Participate in the Data Basin Community

Data Basin is built around the concept of community and participation. Your contribution of datasets, maps, galleries, and profile expertise may help you or other users to find answers to critical questions, identify potential collaborators, and publish important developments.

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Spotlight:

As hurricane season begins, it is more important than ever to maintain up-to-date information on the Gulf Coast oil spill in order to identify and respond to threats to biodiversity.

The Conservation Biology Institute continues to make spill-related GIS data freely available in support of clean-up efforts. Spill trajectories, landfall, threatened protected areas and more are all a part of the regularly updated Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil spill gallery.

Click here to see a featured article in Data Basin about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill which includes access to current datastet and maps.

Turn your concern into action by helping local nonprofits organize and respond. More information available in the Global Action Atlas.

Featured Content in Data Basin

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Data Basin was just contacted by an excited user in Indonesia who can use the WWF's Heart of Borneo datasets.
The Wild Utah Project has been one of the primary partners in developing the Heart of the West Wildlands Network Design.
The tri-national Gulf of Mexico marine priority group is using Data Basin’s group functionality to share and publish data.
Gifford Pinchot Task Force has uploaded their datasets to show priority areas for road removal in the National Forest.

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Data Basin is made possible by the generous support of the Wilburforce Foundation, Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), The Kresge Foundation, individual donors, and others.