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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An Analysis of Contaminated Well Water and Health Effects in Woburn part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article from the Journal of the American Statistical Association describes the 1979 discovery that two of the eight municipal wells servicing Woburn, Massachusetts, were contaminated with ...

Health Topics: Waterborne Transport Processes, Organic Compounds, Epidemiology and Risk Analysis
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 ...

Health Topics: Epidemiology and Risk Analysis, Organic Compounds, Waterborne Transport Processes, Heavy Metals
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Scientific Resources:Research Results, Overview/Reference Work, Opinion

Elements Magazine part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This 64-page issue of Elements Magazine presents an overview of the chemistry, mineralogy, geomicrobiology and health effects of arsenic. Read about the health disaster in Southern Asia caused by ...

Health Topics: Minerals, Waterborne Transport Processes, Epidemiology and Risk Analysis
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results, Overview/Reference Work

The Shiprock Uranium-mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Site part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article in the New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook discusses a uranium mill tailings site in Shiprock, New Mexico and its effect on the local environment. The site, located on a high terrace ...

Health Topics: Waterborne Transport Processes, Radionuclides
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results

Remediation of the Wells G and H Superfund Site, Woburn, Massachusetts part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article gives a detailed description of the sources and distributions of TCE and PCE at the Woburn superfund site. It also describes the various types of remediation systems being used to ...

Health Topics: Waterborne Transport Processes, Organic Compounds
Resource Type: Policy Resources:Opinion, Scientific Resources:Research Results, Overview/Reference Work