God created our world and created mankind to enjoy it, care for it, and protect it. As the human race, have been mostly unsuccessful in this commission. But we can do better. The MDHI encourages simple projects and research to understand, enjoy, protect, and restore our natural environment.
- Service Projects
- Make property into a certified wildlife habitat
- Trail trash clearing, pickup, and cleaning – Trails, parks, and recreational areas throughout the state.
- Collaborative Research – Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Collaborative Research – Zooniverse
- TBD
Resource Links
- Nature Sites
- Birdcast
- Earthsky
- Eurobird Portal – Bird well-being in Europe
- Global Fishing Watch
- Merlin
- NASA Eclipse
- PlantNet
- Pollution
- Sky and Telescope
- Space.com
Other Research Sites
- Correlates of War – Military history and armed conflict databases
- Digital Public Library of America
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
- Directory of Open Access Repositories (DOAR)
- Federation of American Scientists
- Global Medical Research Institute
- International Government Information
- National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research (NCCSIR)
- National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
- National (Hospital) Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS/NHAMCS)
- National Library of Medicine (PUBMED)
- National Science Foundation
- Open Library – Books
- Open Library of Humanities
- Project Gutenberg – free electronic books
- Public Library of Science (PLOS)
- Statistics Portal
- Uppsala Conflict Data Program – conflict and war databases
- US Census Bureau Factfinder
- US Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)
Search, Writing, and Publishing Sites
- Accelerated Reader Bookfinder – find books at the right reading level
- Amazon Author Central – Author page, Kindle Direct Publishing
- Bowker – bibliographic information for publishers, authors, and booksellers
- Cite Seer X – Academic search engine
- Dictionary – get the right definition
- EBSCO Information Services
- eTurabian – helps you get your notes and bibliography in the Turabian style.
- Google Scholar
- Readability Score – what grade level is your writing? How easy is it to read?
- Retraction Watch – research papers retracted for errors or lies
- Survey monkey
- Thesaurus – find the right word
- Write Express – Rhyming dictionary
- Writer’s Diet Test – place some writing in this website and it will analyze it.
