Guided Search: Data collection - Biological data collection

The Miradi software tool helps conservation practitioners implement the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation. Miradi provides an easy-to-use, interview-style interface that walks a project team through each step of the process of designing, managing and monitoring their project according to the best practice standards established and tested by the world's major conservation organizations.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) is developing e-Estuary, a decision-support system for coastal management. E-Estuary has three elements: an estuarine geo-referenced relational database, associated estuarine and watershed GIS coverages, and tools to support decision-making.

Desktop GARP is a software package for biodiversity and ecologic research that allows the user to predict and analyze wild species distributions. GARP is a genetic algorithm that creates ecological niche models for species.

Mercury is a Web-based system to search for metadata and retrieve associated data. Mercury incorporates a number of important features. Mercury * Invokes a new paradigm for managing dynamic distributed scientific data and metadata * Provide a single portal to information contained in disparate data management systems * Provide free text, fielded, spatial, and temporal search capabilities * Puts control in the hands of investigators or other data providers * Has a very light touch (i.e., is inexpensive to implement) * Is implemented using Internet standards, including XML * Supports international metadata standards, including FGDC, Dublin-Core, EML, ISO-19115 * Is compatible with Internet search engines * Is based on a combination of open source tools and ORNL-developed software The new Mercury system is based on open source and Service Oriented Architecture and provides multiple search services including: RSS, Geo-RSS, OpenSearch, Web Services and JSR-168 Portlets.

Developed by the National Coral Reef Institute, Coral Point Count with Excel extensions (CPCe) is Windows-based software (PC use only) that provides a tool for the determination of coral and substrate cover using the random point count method on transect photographs.

Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools (MGET), also known as the GeoEco Python package, is an open source geoprocessing toolbox designed for coastal and marine researchers and GIS analysts who work with spatially-explicit ecological and oceanographic data in scientific or management workflows.

Morpho helps scientists to create and manage data, and to share it with others. It was created to provide an easy-to-use, cross-platform application for accessing and manipulating metadata and data (both locally and on the network, so that it works equally well in the field and lab).