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Domoic Acid Fact Sheet part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.cinms.nos.noaa.gov/focus/dom.html
This online fact sheet illustrates the transfer of domoic acid through the food web. Domoic acid is a nerve toxin produced by a naturally occurring Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) usually (but not always) ...

Pseudo-nitzschia part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.mbari.org/staff/conn/botany/diatoms/jennifer/...
This Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) website provides comprehensive scientific information about Pseudo-nitzschia, an important toxin-producing species associated with Amnesic ...

The Student Revolution that Saved Mono Lake part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://www.monolake.org/newsletter/03spring/p03-6hart.pdf
This essay, written by a twelfth-grader in California, details the history of Mono Lake conservation. Beginning in 1976, it traces the events that inspired a few college students to form the Mono ...

Arsenic: Toxic to People, Vital for Some Microbes part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20030519arseni...
This on-line newspaper article introduces arsenic-breathing bacteria. The article briefly describes the history and uses of arsenic and then explains how these microbes may be responsible for arsenic ...

First Salt-Loving Bug Sequenced part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/953356.stm
This on-line news article reports that scientists have sequenced the genome of the first salt-loving extremophile, a microorganism that can survive in conditions 10 times saltier than seawater. This ...

Voices: Rocco Mancinelli part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://archive.seti.org/videos/halophiles.mov
SETI scientist Rocco Mancinelli is featured in this interview about halophiles and their role in the search for extraterrestrial life. Mancinelli speaks to a young audience, recalling how he became ...

Utah Microbes May Have Come From Mars part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.yptenc.org.uk/docs/dailygecko_news/archives/2...
This article reports that halophiles of the Great Salt Lake produce pigments that shield their DNA from sun damage and enzymes that allow them to embrace hypersaline environments. The majority of ...

Microbial Wonders of the Deep: Halophiles part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.thesecondlayer.com/marine/halophiles.html
This reference site describes the adaptations of truly halophilic organisms that have a dependency upon high salt concentrations for survival. It discusses the creation of different hypersaline ...

Microbial Wonders of the Deep part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.thesecondlayer.com/marine/
Microbial Wonders of the Deep explores a number of interesting and highly adaptive organisms within some of the most extreme environments imaginable- those of the deep ocean. The website focuses on ...

Exobiology in the Solar System and the Search for Life on Mars part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.esa.int/esapub/sp/sp1231/sp1231.pdf
This 180-page report of the European Space Agency offers an exobiological view of the solar system and describes the search for life on Mars. Exobiology sections include: chemical evolution in the ...