In the 2012 President's Budget Request, the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) is terminated. As a result, all resources, databases, tools, and applications within this web site will be removed on January 15, 2012. For more information, please refer to the NBII Program Termination page.
National Lichens & Air Quality Database & Clearinghouse
Across the US, lichen biomonitoring is helping federal land managers meet federal and agency responsibilities to detect, map, evaluate trends, and assess the ecological impacts of air pollutants.
Through this interface you can query lichen air quality monitoring data from every USFS region across the United States, retrieving your desired data on a map or in tabular form.
At the Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering (NACSE), our web-based mapping interfaces contain features developed using a number of open source technologies, such as MapServer, GDAL, PostgreSQL, and PostGIS. Most of our interfaces are database-driven, and are written in a combination of PHP and Javascript/DHTML. We utilize spatial data from a number of sources, and typically use tiled TIGER/Line data as our standard nationwide base layers.
The NBII Program is administered by the Biological Informatics Program of the U.S. Geological Survey
