Internet Resources for Geology and Human Health

A collection of internet resources intended to help faculty in teaching or designing courses and activities related to geology and public health. Resources include data, images, animations, activities, literature and references.

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Lessons from Woburn part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.law.seattleu.edu/x1873.xml
This site presents a three-part videotape series produced to enhance classroom discussions of the book A Civil Action. The site gives outlines of material covered by each tape and allows users to ...
Health Topics: Waterborne Transport Processes, Organic Compounds, Public Policy
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video

Love Canal Collection part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/lovecanal/
Between 1947 and 1952, Hooker Chemicals and Plastic Corporation buried thousands of tons of chemical waste in the Love Canal area of Niagara Falls, New York. By 1978, President Jimmy Carter had ...
Health Topics: Epidemiology and Risk Analysis, Controls on Bioavailability, Public Policy, Waterborne Transport Processes
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Maps, Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Online part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.epa.gov/rcraonline/
This EPA site is an electronic database of documents regarding the management of non-hazardous, hazardous, and medical waste regulated by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Topical, full ...
Health Topics: Public Policy
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Collection, Policy Resources

Toward Environmental Justice: Research, Education, and Health Policy Needs part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://books.nap.edu/catalog/6034.html
This online book uses five case studies to investigate whether environmental degradation is worse in poor and minority communities, and if these communities suffer more adverse health effects as a ...
Health Topics: Public Policy
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work

Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://books.nap.edu/catalog/10044.html
This online book summarizes the results of a workshop that examined the connection between human health and the natural, built, and social environments. The book makes the assertion that a new vision ...
Health Topics: Public Policy, Other
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Policy Resources:Opinion

Hurricanes: Links to health information including toxicology and environmental health part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/hurricanes
This clearinghouse website, compiled by the National Institutes of Health, provides links to a wide variety of useful information regarding the toxicological and environmental health effects of ...
Health Topics: Waterborne Transport Processes, Public Policy, Biogenic Hazards, Heavy Metals, Organic Compounds, Other
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Collection, Scientific Resources

Evironmental Working Group part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.ewg.org/
This website houses information about a wide range of health and environmental issues. Topics on the website include the US energy policy, pesticides in foods, toxins and impurities in cosmetics, ...
Health Topics: Public Policy, Other
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Collection

Public Drinking Water Contamination and Birth Outcomes part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article from the American Journal of Epidemiology describes the different types of birth irregularities that occur as a result of gestational consumption of contaminated water.

Health Topics: Waterborne Transport Processes, Public Policy, Epidemiology and Risk Analysis
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results, Activities:Lab Activity