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Black Smokers part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/hellscrust/html/sid...
This brief web article features black smokers and discusses the history of their discovery, the geologic processes creating black smokers, and the various life forms inhabiting this extreme ...

Black Smoker, Hydrothermal Vent part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.ocean.udel.edu/kiosk/bsmoker.html
This website features an overview of the research of Dr. Craig Cary at the University of Delaware Graduate College of Marine Studies. Dr. Cary's research focuses on black smokers and the ...

Water Bear part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/amfacts/amaz3.html
This National Geographic Kids site features a "far out" fact about tardigrades, or water bears, along with a comical illustration.

Tardigrada (Water Bears) part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.micrographia.com/specbiol/tardigra/tardig/tar...
This reference page offers a brief description of Tardigrades, also known as water bears. It includes information about their physical appearance, an explanation of their name, likely habitats, ...

Tardigrades part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/quekett/Others/tardi.htm
This online article describes tardigrades and discusses how amateur microscopists can help scientists understand more about microscopic organisms called tardigrades, commonly known as water bears. ...

Black Smokers! part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/526.html
This webpage contains a brief introduction to the discovery of hydrothermal systems and black smokers. Within the webpage are links to information on gigantic tube worms, polychaete worms, oceans, ...

Australians Sweep up Black Smoker Chimney part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/template.cfm?name=blacksmoker
This brief web article features an Australian research team who dredged up a black smoker from the deep waters of the Bismark Sea. The article recounts the team's expedition and discusses the ...

Tardigrade Reference Center part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://tardigrade.acnatsci.org/
This web site features links to resources regarding tardigrade science and education. It is hosted by The Academy of Natural Sciences and was created by Dr. William Miller, a leading tardigrade ...

Freshwater Blooms part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.bigelow.org/hab/fre.html
This Bigelow Laboratory "Special Topics" page discusses freshwater harmful algal blooms (HABs). The interactive web page describes the features of a freshwater HAB with a focus on ...

Tardigrades as Environmental Indicators part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/youngnaturalistawards...
This essay was written by Amber, a high school senior who won the Young Naturalist Award in 2001 for her research on tardigrades (also known as water bears) as environmental bioindicators. Amber ...