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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 ...

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. ...

New Jersey Tardigrade Survey part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://tardigrade.us/nj-tardigrade-survey/
This image-rich web page represents highlights from the New Jersey Tardigrade Survey conducted by Michael Shaw, under the guidance of William Miller. A map of New Jersey site locations is followed by ...

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, ...

The Great Flood of Summer 1993: Mississippi River Discharge Studied part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/94EO...
This American Geophysical Union article documents factors contributing to the enlargement of the Mississippi River delta dead zone as a result of the 1993 Mississippi River flood. Unusually high ...

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 ...

The Garey Lab Page part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/%7Egarey/
This web page is home of the University of South Florida's Garey Lab, which studies invertebrate evolutionary relationships. The front page is dedicated to molecular and morphological studies of ...

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 ...

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, ...

Dominance of Vibrio fischeri in Secreted Mucus outside the Light Organ of Euprymna scolopes: the First Site of Symbiont Specificity part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/AEM.69.7.3932-3937....
This Applied and Environmental Microbiology journal article analyzes symbiont specificity of the Euprymna scolopes-Vibrio fischeri symbiosis. Previous studies have demonstrated that, during ...