Environmental Informatics

• OECD Megascience Forum–Working Group Biological Informatics (1999):

• Informatics is an emerging area of science and technology that combines the advantages of computational science, networking capabilities, and information science and technology, and may be described as:

• • “Research on, development of, and use of technological, sociological, and organizational tools and approaches for the dynamic acquisition, indexing, modeling, dissemination, storage, querying, retrieval, visualization, integration, analysis, synthesis, sharing (including electronic research collaborations), and publication of data and information such that economic and other benefits may be derived from them by users in all sectors of society”.