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Research with Red Tide Toxin Yields Potential Therapies for Cystic Fibrosis part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/newsroom/releases/2004/no...
This National Institutes of Health News article documents a study being done to use two compounds associated with Florida red tide to treat mucus build-up related to cystic fibrosis. Researchers ...

Tardigrades as Environmental Indicators part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/youngnaturalistawards...
This essay was written by Amber, a high school senior who won the Young Naturalist Award in 2001 for her research on tardigrades (also known as water bears) as environmental bioindicators. Amber ...

Toxic Tide part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/...
This website provides access to a news article published in September 2005 by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in which Mote Marine researchers responded to a series of questions posed by the ...

Maine Shellfishing Areas Closed Because of Red Tide (PSP) part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.maine.gov/dmr/rm/public_health/closures/pspcl...
This Maine Department of Marine Resources website lists instructions, warnings, legal notices, and maps pertaining to paralytic shellfish poisoning. A table is provided that displays up-to-date red ...

Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dmf/
This Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries website provides health advisories and closures related to seafood consumption and recreational fishing. Links are provided to the Division's ...

Red Tide Kills Fish, Fouls Gulf Coast part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/09/25/national/main2...
This CBS news article reports a toxic algae bloom that spread along the Texas Gulf coast in 2000, killing millions of fish and fouling beaches with their remains. The article explains how red tide ...

Domoic Acid Fact Sheet part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.cinms.nos.noaa.gov/focus/dom.html
This online fact sheet illustrates the transfer of domoic acid through the food web. Domoic acid is a nerve toxin produced by a naturally occurring Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) usually (but not always) ...

Pseudo-nitzschia part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.mbari.org/staff/conn/botany/diatoms/jennifer/...
This Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) website provides comprehensive scientific information about Pseudo-nitzschia, an important toxin-producing species associated with Amnesic ...

The Student Revolution that Saved Mono Lake part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://www.monolake.org/newsletter/03spring/p03-6hart.pdf
This essay, written by a twelfth-grader in California, details the history of Mono Lake conservation. Beginning in 1976, it traces the events that inspired a few college students to form the Mono ...

Arsenic: Toxic to People, Vital for Some Microbes part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20030519arseni...
This on-line newspaper article introduces arsenic-breathing bacteria. The article briefly describes the history and uses of arsenic and then explains how these microbes may be responsible for arsenic ...