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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Eukaryotes in Extreme Environments part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects...
This article is a compilation of information about free-living eukaryotes in extreme environments. Written in summary form, it includes anaerobes, thermophiles, psychrophiles, acidophiles, ...

Biology of Extremophiles Laboratory part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www-archbac.u-psud.fr/Topics/Topics.html
This site is the home page for a laboratory dedicated to the biology of extremophiles at Institute of Genetics in Microbiology at the University of Paris, headed by Patrick Forterre. The site is a ...

Benefits-Sharing Case Study- Yellowstone National Park and the Diversa Corporation part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://www.cbd.int/doc/case-studies/abs/cs-abs-yellowst...
This case study gives an in depth overview of the Yellowstone National Park and Diversa Corporation "Cooperative Research and Development ...

Some Like it Hot part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.astrobio.net/index.php?option=com_exclusive&t...
NASA Astrobiologist Jack Farmer is featured in this web article that focuses on microrganisms found in Yellowstone hot springs and ocean floor hydrothermal vents. Included within the article are ...