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Biological and physical processes
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Contamination and pollution
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Culture and demographics
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Earth characteristics
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Effects of climate change
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Elements
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Field monitoring stations
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Hazards
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Health and disease
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Human impacts
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Information system design and development
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Land use and land cover
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Map coordinate systems
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Natural resource exploration
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Natural resource extraction
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Natural resources
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Organism groupings (non-taxonomic)
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Organisms
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Population and community ecology
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Water properties
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Water quality
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