Citizen Science/Data

Data Sources
Here's a list of open data sources. There are many more. Add any you know of!

Environmental Data

 * A bunch of data sources
 * Marine Geoscience Data System (MGDS) - A data portal, hosted at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (Columbia University), for a number of NSF-supported marine research programs
 * National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) - Meteorology and paleoclimatology
 * National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)- World-wide marine environmental and ecosystem data
 * GEON- Portal for datasets and visualization tools
 * National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) - Cryospheric datasets from ground field research and satellites (Source: http://library.uoregon.edu/datamanagement/repositories.html )
 * British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC)
 * Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE)

Domain Data Collection Projects

 * http://mushroomobserver.org
 * http://projectnoah.org
 * http://www.galaxyzoo.org/
 * http://www.inaturalist.org/
 * iNaturalist.org API for plant and wildlife sightings

Open Data and APIs

 * http://healthdata.gov - health data
 * http://figshare.com/ - site for sharing all kinds of data
 * http://zenodo.org/ - site for sharing all kinds of data and papers in a citable format
 * http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25500/ - api for entrez (pubmed)
 * http://www.wikidata.org/ - aggregating (and correcting) open data