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Voices: Rocco Mancinelli part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://archive.seti.org/videos/halophiles.mov
SETI scientist Rocco Mancinelli is featured in this interview about halophiles and their role in the search for extraterrestrial life. Mancinelli speaks to a young audience, recalling how he became ...

Life without Volcanic Heat part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://nai.arc.nasa.gov/news_stories/news_detail.cfm?ID=52
This site is a news article by NASA Astrobiology Institute featuring Deborah Kelly from the University of Washington. She talks about the navigational challenges of reaching this newly discovered ...

Ferroplasma acidarmanus part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://genome.jgi-psf.org/draft_microbes/ferac/ferac.hom...
This web page provides a description and photograph of Ferroplasma acidarmanus, a newfound archaeon microbe that eats iron, lives in acid-drenched conditions, and has been identified as a chief ...

Evidence of Ancient Martian Life in Meteorite ALH84001? part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov/summary/alh84001
This NASA website provides a summary of a study led by NASA's David McKay that may provide evidence for past life on Mars. McKay and his team found carbonate globule features on the ALH84001 ...

The secrets of deep intra-terrestrial microbes part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://web.archive.org/web/20061010081652/http://www.gmm...
This Deep Biosphere Laboratory website presents an image-rich introductory overview of life in the deep biosphere. It addresses: what is a microbe, how deep do they live, how do deep rock microbes ...

Black Smokers: Life Forms part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.amnh.org/learn/pd/earth/gallery_week6/rfl_ind...
This educational web site features life forms of deep sea hydrothermal systems. Hosted by the American Museum of Natural History, this site offers a brief introduction of the community and then ...

How to Measure Dissolved Oxygen part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://web.archive.org/web/20151220092016/http://www.ecy...
This web page, hosted by the Washington State Department of Ecology, offers a general overview of dissolved oxygen and how it is measured. It includes protocols for measuring dissolved oxygen in ...

Climate Models & Predictions For The Future part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/...
These lecture notes from the University of Michigan's Global Change curriculum provide information about paleoclimate and climate modeling. This website includes a list of suggested readings, an ...

Hydrothermal vent system unlike any seen before found in Atlantic part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://amser.org/index.php?P=AMSER--ResourceFrame&resou...
This web page is a press release form the University of Washington relating that a team of scientists led by Deborah Kelly, on Dec. 4 2000, discovered a new hydrothermal vent system that has been ...

Paleoclimate part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/pages/paleoclima...
This image-rich World View of Global Warming article provides a general overview of paleoclimatology, focusing on the interpretation of sediment cores as a proxy for climate change. The article ...