Cretaceous Climate and Ocean Dynamics part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site synthesizes the results of a Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI) and U.S. Science Support Program (USSSP) workshop. Recent progress, problems and future directions in Cretaceous climate ...

Stratigraphic Cross Section of Northeast Texas part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Cretaceous sedimentary rocks of Northeast Texas provide important clues about paleogeography, paleotectonics, and sea level fluctuation. This website describes several of these rock units and the ...

Western Interior Seaway part of SERC Web Resource Collection

The Western Interior Seaway is an ancient intracontinental seaway that occupied much of modern western North America and existed throughout much of the Cretaceous Period. This site discusses the ...

Strontium Isotope Stratigraphy part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Strontium isotope stratigraphy is a geologic tool used to date sediments that are generally undatable by other means. This site provides a list of publications related to strontium isotope ...

Realtime equatorial Pacific Tao buoy data part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This website provides realtime buoy data from an interactive map of NOAA TAO buoy locations. The TAO array is a major component of the El NiÃo/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Observing System, the ...

NGCD Web Image Slide Trays part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This website hosts a Web Image Slide Tray (WIST) designed by NGDC. A WIST is fundamentally an HTML table where the contents of each cell depend upon variables that are set in the row and column ...

UniData: Integrated Data Viewer part of SERC Web Resource Collection

The Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) is a Java based software framework for analyzing and visualizing geoscience data. The IDV brings together the ability to display and work with satellite imagery, ...

Chemical reaction believed to support underground microbes is now unlikely part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This article published by the National Science Foundation reports on new findings that suggest hydrogen may not be an available energy source to bacteria living on or near the surface of the ocean ...

Living Large in Microscopic Nooks part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This article published in Oceanus, a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution publication, highlights the ability of certain bacteria to live off a solid-rock substrate. This publication also contains ...

Is Life Thriving Deep Beneath the Seafloor? part of SERC Web Resource Collection

In 1991, scientists aboard the submersible Alvin sailed into the aftermath of a very recent volcanic eruption on the seafloor. This article published in Oceanus, a Woods Hole Oceanographic ...