Please Visit and Participate!
July 1, 1999
Today, the online National Library for the Environment
launches its new Environmental Research Information Exchange (ERIE) service which
provides a forum for researchers, educators, resource managers, agency decisionmakers,
foundation representatives, journalists and others in all environmental fields to share
information and discuss issues. The service is located on the CNIE web site: www.cnie.org.
ERIE is intended for:
- Managers and decisionmakers to present research needs
(funded and unfunded) or search for expert knowledge.
- Researchers and students, to locate research
opportunities, collaborators or funders.
- Funders to advertise opportunities.
- All to share scientific information about the
environment.
ERIE will provide many services to help you to find
answers to your questions, solutions to your problems, and colleagues you may not know
about:
- Bulletin Board for participants to post messages,
questions and answers- organized by environmental topics.
- Highlights Page where selected research opportunities
discussed by participants will be posted.
- Links and lists of funding opportunities.
- Outreach Service. The Committee for the National
Institute for the Environment will share selected requests with its network of thousands
of scientists, managers, and others.
ERIE will be both a site of information sharing and
research match making service.
Examples of how ERIE might be used:
1. A park manager is seeking a researcher to study
management of a particular type of habitat. She can offer in-kind resources like
accommodation at the park, but can’t offer funding. A faculty member at a university
may be looking for a suitable research project for a graduate student. Thus a match can be
made.
2. A researcher is looking for study sites that meet
certain criteria, such as the presence of certain species or contaminants. A federal,
state or local, or private sector environmental manager may be responsible for an
appropriate site and would be delighted to have research conducted at the site.
3. A journalist is writing an article about an
environmental issue and is seeking a scientist to provide background information.
The bulletin board can also be used to discuss a wide
range of research related issues.
