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Dive and Discover: Juan de Fuca Ridge part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/expedition8/index.html
Dive and Discover is an interactive distance learning web site designed to immerse you in the excitement of discovery and exploration of the deep seafloor. On this particular website, Dive and ...

Dive and Discover's Deeper Discovery: Hydrothermal Vents part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/vents/index.html
Dive and Discover is an interactive distance learning web site designed to immerse you in the excitement of discovery and exploration of the deep seafloor. On this particular website, Dive and ...

Stromatolite Explorer: Investigation of a Microbial Mat Community part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://learn.arc.nasa.gov/microbe/movie.html
This animated video takes students on a journey through a microbial mat. The assigned mission is to probe a microbial mat by following an imaginary 0.10 mm stromatolite explorer as it descends ...

Great Moments in Science: Lights of Life 1 part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s580511.htm
This Great Moments in Science radio transcript discusses the history of bioluminescence. It covers the first scientists to study bioluminescence, organisms capable of making light, biochemistry of ...

Great Moments in Science: Light of Life 3 part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s608548.htm
This Great Moments in Science radio transcript describes photons of light (not to be confused with bioluminescence) that can be seen only with the most sensitive photodetectors. Scientists believe ...

Winogradsky Columns part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://web.archive.org/web/20180421053451/http://www.per...
This is an exercise about Winogradsky Columns with emphasis placed on the formation and properties of microbial biofilms. It includes background reference material, a field/lab exercise, and several ...

Black Smokers: Life Forms part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.amnh.org/learn/pd/earth/gallery_week6/rfl_ind...
This educational web site features life forms of deep sea hydrothermal systems. Hosted by the American Museum of Natural History, this site offers a brief introduction of the community and then ...

We're in Hot Water Now: Hydrothermal Vents part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/07/...
In this National Geographic lesson, students will use National Geographic's Yellowstone internet module to learn about the processes that drive geysers. The activity involves learning about ...

Extreme 2002: Mission to the Abyss part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.ocean.udel.edu/extreme2002/home.html
This is the expedition page of the 2002 Mission to the Abyss. Developed by the University of Delaware Graduate College of Marine Studies, the site highlights the mission and crew, seafloor geology, ...

Aboard Alvin part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.gma.org/onlocation/alvin/index.html
This Gulf of Maine educational website takes students aboard the submersible Alvin. It includes informational pages such as a project overview, as well as pages about Alvin, hydrothermal vents, and ...