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Microbial Life in Extreme Environments
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From the Top of the World...to the Bottom of the Food Web part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This resource, by the Bigelow Laboratory, is designed to help teachers and students discover linkages among marine ecology, phytoplankton, the behavior of light at the ocean surface, and ...
Toxic and Harmful Algal Blooms – Educational Activities part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Bigelow Laboratory site is designed to helps students and teachers discover information about toxic and harmful algal blooms (HABs). Five online standards, based educational activities, explore ...
The Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Science Museum of Minnesota interactive site is designed to teach elementary school kids about the Gulf of Mexico dead zone. It addresses the questions what is a dead zone, what causes it, and ...
Black Smokers part of SERC Web Resource Collection
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...