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From Monsoons to Microbes: Understanding the Ocean's Role in Human Health part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This online book offers a deeper look into the oceans that surround us, exploring the links among physical oceanography, public health, epidemiology, marine biology, and medicine in understanding ...
Toxic and Harmful Algal Blooms part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Primarily through the use of engaging graphics, this resource outlines where Toxic and Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) occur in U.S. waters. It also addresses the differences between toxic and non-toxic ...
Eye in the sky: tracking harmful algal blooms with satellite remote sensing part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This article details an effort to use satellite imagery to track harmful algal bloom (HAB) events. The article provides basic information about HABs, how the satellite imagery will track HABs, and ...
Hot-Water Worms May Use Bacteria as Shield part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This National Geographic news article highlights research being done to study the Pompeii worm (Alvinella pompejana), the most heat tolerant complex organism on Earth, and its microscopic symbionts. ...
Mahogany Tides part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Smithsonian K-12 Education website provides a brief overview of mahogany tide (also known as red tide) events. These events are caused by dinoflagellates, a special type of phytoplankton, and ...
Poking About in the Climatologist's Toolbox part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site, hosted by the University of Wisconsin, is the first in a series of connected pages that discuss the methods scientists use to explore past climate. Informational sections (linked) include ...
Deep Sea Coring part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Ocean and Climate Change Institute module features a brief, but image-rich overview of ocean drilling and sediment analysis to determine paleoclimate (past climate). This site is the first of a ...
Sedimentary Record Yields Several Centuries of Data part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Oceanus article discusses reconstructing past climates based on proxies in ocean sediment. It focuses on climate during the Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period based on foraminifera data ...
Hunting Dangerous Algae from Space part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This image-rich NASA Earth Observatory article discusses how Ken Carder and his research team are using remote sensing data and offshore monitoring to find and track harmful algal blooms as they form ...
Red Tide part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Nova Scotia museum informational web page represents the Red Tide section of an online collection about poisonous plants. The page reviews several microscopic marine algae that are notoriously ...