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"Miracle" Microbes Thrive at Earth's Extremes part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/09/0917_040...
This news article introduces extremophiles, microbes found thriving in the most inhospitable environments on Earth. It reviews the differences between extremophiles and mesophiles, and how archaea ...

Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico and Fertilization Facts part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://web.archive.org/web/20170829041029/http://www.ipn...
This Potash and Phosphate Institutes of US and Canada article provides a detailed overview of the Gulf of Mexico low oxygen zone and its connection to fertilizer use along the Mississippi River. It ...

The Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.smm.org/deadzone/
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 ...

Phylum: Tardigrada (water bears, tardigrades) part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/metazoa/tardigrades/...
This web page describes water bears, minute animals that can remain dormant in a dry state for over 100 years. The page addresses what they are, where they are found, their general biology, ...

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 ...

Deep Life in the Slow, Slow Lane part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.296.5570.1056
This Science Magazine article provides an overview of microorganisms able to survive deep beneath the Earth's surface. These organisms live on and within rock, slowly eating away at the rock as ...

Glass Munchers Under the Sea part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/articles/2001/10/29/glass-m...
This NASA Astrobiology Institute article documents recent findings of bacterial life beneath the sea floor. These newly discovered bacteria are thought to live as far down as 500 meters beneath the ...