Internet Resources for Geology and Human Health
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Speciation and fate of arsenic in three lakes of the Aberjona watershed part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article from Environmental Science and Technology shows the manner in which sediment cores taken from the bottom of the Mystic Lakes were analyzed and used to interpret historic periods (1890s ...
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results, Activities:Lab Activity
Evaluation of Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport at the Wells G and H Superfund Site, Woburn, Massachusetts, from 1960 to 1986 and Estimation of TCE and PCE Concentrations Delivered to Woburn Residences part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This doctoral dissertation from the Department of Geological Sciences at Ohio State University features a comprehensive treatment of TCE and PCE transport in the buried valley aquifer in Woburn, ...
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results, Activities:Lab Activity
No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This is a book written about the cluster of childhood leukemia cases that occurred from the 1960s through the 1980s in Woburn, Massachusetts, and spotlights the community action viewpoint. Material ...
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Scientific Resources:Research Results, Overview/Reference Work, Opinion
Navajo Birth Outcomes in the Shiprock Uranium Mining Area part of SERC Print Resource Collection
The role of environmental radiation in the etiology of birth defects, stillbirths, and other adverse outcomes of pregnancy was evaluated for 13,329 Navajos born at the Public Health Service/Indian ...
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results
Reshaping the Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Are we producing too many PhDs? Does the current graduate education system adequately prepare science and engineering students for today's marketplace? How do foreign students enter the picture? ...
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results
BIO2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Biological sciences have been revolutionized, not only in the way research is conducted but also in how research findings are communicated among professionals and to the public. Yet, the ...
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results
Petitioned Public Health Assessment part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This document summarizes environmental and health data for two large, open-pit, cyanide heap leaching, gold mines located adjacent to the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana. This public health ...Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Basic Research Opportunities in Earth Sciences part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Basic Research Opportunities in Earth Science identifies areas of high-priority research within the purview of the Earth Science Division of the National Science Foundation, assesses ...
Resource Type: Pedagogic Resources