Powering the Intelligence of Our Living Planet
About InterNodes
InterNodes is a nonprofit research and AI-enablement organization dedicated to strengthening the global foundations of forest, biodiversity, and biosphere science.
We connect environmental data, field expertise, advanced computing, and artificial intelligence to improve how the world understands, manages, and restores forests and other living systems.
Our Mission
InterNodes stewards the world’s largest forest and biodiversity data, integrates global expert networks, and provides AI-enabled computational infrastructure to power next-generation research, practical forest solutions, and biosphere stewardship.
What Makes InterNodes Distinctive
Global environmental data
InterNodes develops and maintains foundational infrastructure integrating standardized field observations, long-term forest inventories, biodiversity surveys, remote sensing, and large-scale environmental datasets.
AI-enabled research
InterNodes provides artificial intelligence systems, scalable analytical environments, ecological modeling platforms, and high-performance computing.
International expertise
InterNodes connects hundreds of scientists, practitioners, data experts, and institutions whose regional knowledge and field experience are essential to credible global research.
Research-to-impact delivery
InterNodes translates scientific knowledge and computational intelligence into practical environmental tools, models, and decision systems.
InterNodes provides the nonprofit institutional framework for GFBI and Science-i. GFBI contributes the scientific community, global forest expertise, and field-based data foundations. Science-i provides the computational, analytical, governance, and AI-enabled infrastructure required to operate these assets at global scale.
Our Areas of Work
Forest and biodiversity data infrastructure
Stewarding, harmonizing, governing, and integrating environmental data across regions and institutions.
Artificial intelligence and ecological modeling
Developing AI systems, advanced models, simulations, and digital twins for forests and the biosphere.
Global scientific collaboration
Connecting researchers, practitioners, and institutions through shared infrastructure and international research programs.
Environmental decision support
Providing credible tools and intelligence for conservation, restoration, forestry, climate mitigation, and land-use planning.
Carbon and nature-based solutions
Supporting high-integrity monitoring, reporting, verification, and finance mechanisms grounded in transparent science and data.
Who We Work With
InterNodes collaborates with:
- National and subnational governments
- International and multilateral organizations
- Universities and research institutions
- Nonprofit and conservation organizations
- Technology and computational partners
- Forest managers and practitioners
- Data contributors and scientific networks
- Responsible commercial partners
Organizational Status
InterNodes, Inc. is an Indiana nonprofit corporation recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) and classified as a public charity under Sections 509(a)(1) and 170(b)(1)(A)(vi).
internodes.org is the official website and domain of InterNodes, Inc. and is owned and operated by InterNodes, Inc. for its nonprofit programs and activities.
Legal name: InterNodes, Inc.
Status: 501(c)(3) public charity
EIN: 41-5068889
Registered mailing address: 3008 Wilshire ave, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA
Official website: internodes.org