Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Toxmap

If you haven’t checked out Toxmap before take a look. It is a website from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) that uses maps of the United States to show the location and amount of certain chemicals that are released into the environment. Read the FAQ’s to learn more about it.

TOXMAP (http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov) is a Geographic Information System (GIS) from the Division of Specialized Information Services (http://sis.nlm.nih.gov) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) (http://www.nlm.nih.gov) that uses maps of the United States to help users visually explore data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and Superfund Program.

TOXMAP homepage: http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/toxmap/main/index.jsp