Earth Systems Institute

Earth Systems Institute (ESI) is a non-profit organization started in 1997 with an emphasis on applied research and technology development in the interdisciplinary field of watershed science. ESI’s primary mission is to foster conservation, watershed restoration and wise land use by increasing access to information, disseminating databases,  developing watershed tools and creating educational materials.

ESI’s latest project is development of a community based watershed science systems comprised of digital watersheds of uniform data structure that are coupled to a suite of user friendly, but advanced watershed analysis tools across the western U.S. The system, ‘NetMap’ is involved with numerous resource management, restoration and conservation projects across the region (netmaptools.org).