National Geophysical Data Center

National Geophysical Data Center

Agency overview
Formed	1965 (1965)
Preceding agency	Central Radio Propagation Laboratory
Dissolved	2015
Superseding agency	National Centers for Environmental Information
Status	merged
Headquarters	Boulder, Colorado
Employees	50
Parent department	National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
Website	www.ngdc.noaa.gov

The United States National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) provided scientific stewardship, products and services for geophysical data describing the solid earth, marine, and solar-terrestrial environment, as well as earth observations from space. It was established in 1965 as part of the new Environmental Science Services Administration until that organization became the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in 1970. In 2015, NGDC was merged with the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) and the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) into the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).^[1]