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Evolution 101: From Soup to Cells—the Origin of Life part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/IIE2aOrigin...
This page is part of an evolutionary biology tutorial for teachers. It provides an overview of the origins of life. Subsequent pages cover possible mechanisms of abiogenesis, the search for ancient ...

Cycling through the Food Web part of SERC Web Resource Collection

www.bigelow.org/bacteria
This resource invites students to participate in a "virtual" scientific research cruise where they use real data to discover the significant role of marine microbes in the ocean’s ...

Ship Mates part of SERC Web Resource Collection

www.bigelow.org/shipmates
This resource, by the Bigelow Laboratory, provides an interactive media for teachers and students to study one of the world’s most biologically productive areas, the Gulf of Maine. From season to ...

From the Top of the World...to the Bottom of the Food Web part of SERC Web Resource Collection

www.bigelow.org/foodweb
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

www.bigelow.org/edhab
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 ...

Garbage-eating Geobacter part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.geotimes.org/feb05/trends.html#geobacter
This Geotimes article highlights recent work done by Derek Lovley on the microbe Geobacter. The article discusses the ability of Geobacter to eat metal wastes as well as the prospect of using ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Chesapeake Bay's Dead Zone part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.cbf.org/issues/dead-zones/index.html
This Chesapeake Bay Foundation fact sheet provides information regarding the cause and growth of the Chesapeake Bay dead zone. The site also addresses possible solutions to the hypoxia and includes a ...