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San Francisco ROCKS part of Teacher Preparation:Programs
The SF-ROCKS program works specifically with 9th grade teachers and students, focussing on incorporating the local watershed environments of San Francisco into current 9th grade curricula taught in the schools. ...
Landscape Changes in the Southwestern United States: Techniques, Long-term Data Sets, and Trends part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This report discusses land use and landscape changes in the southwestern United States. Themes that are explored are the importance of climatic variability in driving ecological processes and ...
Urban Growth in American Cities: Glimpses of U.S. Urbanization part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This circular from the USGS contains paired satellite images (one from the 1970s and one from the 1990s) of 16 American cities, showing changes in urban land use during this period. Each image pair ...
More Nitrogen Upstream, Fewer Filters Downstream part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This USGS-sponsored site provides an explanation for the low oxygen conditions of the "dead zone" stemming from the Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico watersheds. The factors that ...
The Chesapeake Bay's Dead Zone part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Chesapeake Bay Foundation fact sheet provides information regarding the cause and growth of the Chesapeake Bay dead zone. The site also addresses possible solutions to the hypoxia and includes a ...
Demographia: Selected Current and Historic City, Ward and Neighborhood Densities part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website provides a table of urban population, land area and density data for hundreds of cities, wards and neighborhoods worldwide. Data includes population per square mile, population per ...
Sustaining Multiple Functions for Urban Wetlands part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website provides summary and contact information for the Urban Wetlands research group at Oregon State University. This project will establish partnerships among public agencies, educators, and ...
Landsat 7 Data Sets part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The Landsat 7 data download page provides a number of Landsat 7 scene subsets in LAN and TIFF format. The scenes are images of geomorphic or geographic features such as volcanoes, coastlines, urban ...
Volcanoes Loom as Sleeping Threat for Millions part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This National Geographic news article from July 2002 describes world wide volcanic hazards. Due to the increasing population near dangerous volcanoes, the importance of volcanic monitoring and hazard ...
A Geologic Walking Tour of Building Stones of Downtown Baltimore, Maryland part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website describes a geologic walking tour of Baltimore Maryland. The tour has a map, lots of photos and descriptions of twelve structures built from a variety of rocks. The tour provides a ...
