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Data Services: Campus Resources & Services
These links will lead to other campus sites which provide services and, in some cases, access to scientific and social science data resources.
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) data
Need help using or obtaining the ICPSR data?
For information, refer to the SBSRI Computer Labs listed below.
GIS services
University of Arizona researchers and staff using GIS are mainly in the following schools and departments:
- School of Geography and Planning
- School of Natural Resources and the Environment
- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Dept. of Hydrology and Water Resources
- School of Landscape Architecture and Planning
Campus sites
Advanced Resource Technology (ART) Lab
School of Renewable Natural Resources
Craig Wissler
520-621-9588
http://www.srnr.arizona.edu/ART/index.html
The Advanced Resource Technology Group (ART) was formed in 1988 to provide leadership in such areas as GIS institutional development, GIS environmental database design and development, application of cartographic and spatial analysis for agriculture, natural resources, and rural development. The ART research and teaching labs have a variety of equipment and software available to College of Agriculture faculty and grad students.
Arizona Remote Sensing Center
Stuart Marsh, Office of Arid Lands Studies
621-621-8574
http://arsc.arid.arizona.edu/
The Arizona Remote Sensing Center focuses on research supported by basic and applied research contracts and grants to develop and apply remote sensing and GIS technologies to problems in agriculture, natural resource management, and the environment. ARSC has created and maintains the Arizona Regional Image Archive [ARIA] (http://aria.arizona.edu), RangeView (http://rangeview.arizona.edu), Arizona FIREMAP - Fuels, Information, Restoration, and Education Mapping and Assessment Program (http://azfiremap.org/azfiremap), and Arizona’s drought impacts reporting system – AZ DroughtWatch (http://azdroughtwatch.org/).
Arizona Regional Economic Analysis Project
http://www.pnreap.org/arizona/
UA and ASU Launch Free Economic Data Resource- The University of Arizona's Eller College of Management and Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School of Business are collaborating to offer online access to 37 years' worth of Arizona economic data.
Center for Applied Spatial Analysis (CASA) Lab
Harvill Building, Room 460
Gary Christopherson
621-6267
http://www.casa.arizona.edu/
The Center for Applied Spatial Analysis (CASA) at the University of Arizona is a geographic information system research facility within the School of Geography and Planning
Research Computing Support
University Information Technology Services (UITS) Room 304
Mark Borgstrom
(520) 621-2304
http://uits.arizona.edu/research-computing
Research Support staff have extensive training and experience in the physical, biological, and behavioral sciences. The Research Computing resources includehigh performance computing systems, a high-end visualization facility, scientific visualization consulting, specialized video conference systems and statistical consulting.
Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute
Data and Software Lab for SBS faculty and Graduate Students
Social Sciences 115A
http://web.sbs.arizona.edu/college/node/53
SBSRI operates also the Instructional Computing Lab (ICL) .