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Dead Zone: Galveston Researcher Examines Loss of Marine Life part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/05/04050708240...
This Texas A&M newspaper article provides very general info regarding the possible link between poor water quality in the Gulf of Mexico and farm runoff. Researcher Antonietta Quigg ...

Restoring Life to the Dead Zone: Addressing Gulf Hypoxia, a National Problem part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/factshts/016-00.pdf
This USGS fact sheet provides an introductory synopsis of some of the causes of poor water quality in the Gulf of Mexico. The dead zone is caused by increased nutrients from the Mississippi River, ...

Elusive dead zone tracked in the Pacific part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5684798/
This MSNBC newspaper article provides general information about poor water quality off the Oregon coast. The article recounts how scientists are hunting for very low levels of oxygen, a sign of what ...

Phytoplankton Bloom in the Gulf of Mexico part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_...
This NASA site features color satellite photographs of the Gulf of Mexico dead zone. The site shows pictures of the Gulf of Mexico region in natural colors as well as on a scale of different ...

Harmful Algal Blooms part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/hazards/hab/
This website contains lesson plans and activities to teach students about harmful algal blooms (HABs). The lesson is developed for grades 9-12, but may be adapted to middle school or undergraduate ...

Huelva Province: Rio Tinto Mines part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.andalucia.com/province/huelva/riotinto/home....
This web site offers information about the Rio Tinto in Andalucia, Spain. It describes the opencast mine structures, landscape, rich history, and regional influence of the Rio Tinto mines. Part of a ...

Life Under a Spanish Red River part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/424/life-under-a-sp...
This magazine article introduces the Rio Tinto - a polluted, acidic river in Spain - and its significance in the Mars Analog Research and Technology Experiment (MARTE). As part of NASA�s search ...

Survival of the Fittest Microbes: Examining the Conditions of One River and the Microbes that Thrive There part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/2002052...
In this lesson, created for grades 6 - 12, students learn about the harsh conditions of Spain's Rio Tinto River and research the microbes that nonetheless manage to thrive there. They then ...

Hands-on Experiments To Test for Acid Mine Drainage part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://www.usgs.gov/
This is an on-line prototype for a book aimed at teaching kids the effects of acid mine drainage on our environment through experimentation and observation. Experiments introduce litmus paper, pH ...

The Goldilocks Zone part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://science.nasa.gov/resource/goldilocks-zone/
This on-line news article introduces the Goldilocks Zone, an area of space adequate for the survival of life. Initially believed to be a remarkably small region of space that didn't even include ...