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[1] 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."[2] Kostas Karatzas defined environmental informatics as the "creation of a new 'knowledge-paradigm' towards serving environmental management needs."[3] Karatzas argued further that environmental informatics "is an integrator of science, methods and techniques and not just the result of using information and software technology methods and tools for serving environmental engineering needs."
Environmental informatics emerged in early 1990 in Central Europe.[4]
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.
Environmental Infomatics
Informatics Applications and Systems Group, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering: Teaching and Research on Environmental Informatics and Quality of Life Information Services
Environmental Informatics Research Group
Applied environmental informatics, based at the University of Reading, UK
Environmental Informatics, a research institute
Centre for environmental informatics
GIS and Environmental Informatics
Division of environmental informatics and modeling
PhD in Environmental Informatics
Environmental informatics
Department of environmental informatics, research institute for soil science and agricultural chemistry, Hungarian academy of sciences
Sustainable development & environmental informatics
Department of Mechanical and Environmental Informatics
Research focus area in environmental informatics
Bren school environmental informatics research
Center of excellence for strategic energy and environmental informatics
Division of environmental informatics within the department of environmental science at Kuopio Campus
Research in environmental informatics
Environmental informatics undergraduate program
Physical Geography: Environmental Informatics
Environmental informatics GIS and modeling graduate program
Environmentla Informatics postgraduate course
Division of environmental informatics
Centre for environmental informatics
Research and undergraduate program
Professional Science Graduate Program: Environmental Informatics
Doctoral College: Environmental Informatics
Undergraduate Program: Environmental Informatics
Data Observation Network for Earth
Leading the movement to build data management tools and services across institutions and disciplines