Science & Technology Sources in State Agency Databases

Choose between selected county FIRMs, Flood Insurance Studies, and status reports.

Enter your zip code to view drought conditions in your area.

Browse the interactive map.

Browse the interactive map or search by location.

Enter your address or select a county to view risk of flooding.

This database allows you to search for registered pressure vessels (like a steam boiler). You can search by registration, board or serial number, by location, the year the vessel was built, or the name of the owner.

Looking for a new appliance? This database will help you compare the energy efficiency of many different products. Searchable by category, manufacturer, brand, and model. Results compare the average annual energy use in kilowatt-hours, and can be exported.

The Energy Almanac provides both a quick overview and in-depth statistics of California's energy industry.

The Energy Commission Library is the state's central repository for information on all forms of energy, consisting of more than 22,000 titles on energy policy, energy conservation, energy consumption, electric utilities, environmental issues, petroleum, natural gas, solar, wind, biomass, nuclear power, and related subjects. Materials may be borrowed through an inter-library loan program available at a university or public library.

An informal database using numerous electricity and natural gas consumption data sources. The data can be sorted by entity, county and planning area.

This extensive part of the California Energy Almanac includes a listing of all power plants in California of one-tenth (0.1) megawatt or larger, information on peak demands, maps of power plants and transmission lines, and the status of power plant projects. There is also a link to the Federal EPA's integrated eGRID database.

The Energy Commission publishes between 250 and 500 reports, papers, fact sheets, technical briefs, and other publications each year. This database will locate reports that are available to download; all reports since 2005 are available. Reports published from December 1994 to 2005 are mostly available online as well and can be searched through this database; for documents published prior to 1994, please check with the Energy Commission's library (link above).

The Energy Commission produces the Weekly Fuels Watch Report to cover refinery production and output in California from 1992 to the present. Each report compares the production numbers for the previous week and the previous year; reports are posted every Wednesday.

The Database for Energy Efficient Resources (DEER) is a joint project of the California Energy Commission and the California Public Utilities Commission, designed to provide well-documented estimates of energy and peak demand savings values, measure costs, and effective useful life for energy planning. The database is intended for program planners, regulatory reviewers, utility and regulatory forecasters, and consultants supporting utility and regulatory research and evaluation efforts; DEER has been has been designated by the CPUC as its source for deemed and impact costs for program planning. To use DEER you will need to enter User ID = DEER and password = 2008; rather than searching online, you download a special program to translate the online data.

A database of vendors of solar photovoltaic, small wind, and fuel cell systems; this database is a joint project of the California Public Utilities Commission's California Solar Initiative and the California Energy Commission's New Solar Homes Partnership Program. A search can be performed by company name, type of system, or zip code.

Decisions, resolutions, and rulings signed by the Commission are available online starting in July 2000, searchable by title, the type of document, date, proceeding number or the type of utility.

Current daily and hourly data from stations throughout California, plus long-term data for climate stations, searchable by location and date range. PestCast research networks provide hourly and daily values from selected locations.

The Human Mortality Database (HMD) provides detailed mortality and population data to anyone interested in the history of human longevity. At present the database contains detailed population and mortality data for over 35 countries. Registration is required but the database is free. In cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany.

A searchable database of the over 600 planets currently discovered orbiting other stars, with more added daily. This database allows you to create tables and plots of exoplanets. Maintained with the cooperation of the Center for Integrative Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley, NASA, the National Science Foundation, and Penn State.

An interactive database of plants and the nematodes that are associated with them, searchable by plant or nematode name, or location; this is a highly technical database that requires some expertise in the field.

The Idaho Geological Survey's (IGS) Mines and Prospects Digital Database contains information on over 8,000 mining properties in Idaho. See the About page for more information--http://www.idahogeology.org/DrawOnePage.asp?PageID=68

Search for papers, datasets and projects by the Missouri Department of Conservation.

Search for the results of samples that the Environmental Services Program tests in its lab.

The Nebraska Academy of Sciences was first organized in Omaha in 1880. The Academy is classified as a 501(c)(3) Private Foundation. Donations are tax deductible. The Academy is not a state agency, and is not sponsored by a particular university, college, or other Nebraska educational organization.

The Nebraska Educational Technology Association exists for the purpose of providing leadership and promoting the application of technology to the educational process. Its span of interest includes all levels and aspects of education.

Nebraska Innovation Campus (NIC) is connecting the talents of experts, companies and the university to create a unique culture of innovation. NIC is a research campus designed to facilitate new and in-depth partnerships between the University of Nebraska and private sector businesses. NIC is adjacent to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) and strategically provides access to research faculty, facilities and students. NIC aspires to be the most sustainable research and technology campus in the United States

The Nebraska Science Festival is designed to make science accessible, interactive, relevant and fun for kids and adults alike.

The Young Nebraska Scientists (YNS) program was founded in 2008 to provide exciting STEM enrichment activities for middle and high school students. YNS summer science camps at Nebraska colleges and universities integrate the research themes of current Nebraska EPSCoR grants. YNS also sponsors summer research internships in university laboratories for high school students.

Browse the map or filter by location, elevation, drainage area, discharge, or data source. Maintained by the Oklahoma Water Science Center.

The SC Active Mines Application provides users with the locations of all active mining locations in South Carolina.

Search DNR aviation missions, with aircraft, pilot, flight type, and date.

From the Office of the Texas State Chemist, one can search for a sample report by entering a sample number in the search box.

From this website, one can search for many commercial feed reports such as Feed Laboratory Findings Report, Feed Tonnage Distribution and, Commercial Fertilizer Report.

From the Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library "This digital collection brings to light many elusive reports written about Utah by local, state and government agencies, but not widely distributed. Full of interesting, significant research and information, these hard-to-find reports provide baseline and historical data as well as viewpoints from earlier eras."