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Deep Life in the Slow, Slow Lane part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.296.5570.1056

This Science Magazine article provides an overview of microorganisms able to survive deep beneath the Earth's surface. These organisms live on and within rock, slowly eating away at the rock as ...

Glass Munchers Under the Sea part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/articles/2001/10/29/glass-m...

This NASA Astrobiology Institute article documents recent findings of bacterial life beneath the sea floor. These newly discovered bacteria are thought to live as far down as 500 meters beneath the ...

Bangor Acidophile Research Team (BART), University of Wales. part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://biology.bangor.ac.uk/research/bart/

This website is operated by the Bangor Acidophile Research Team (BART), which is based in the School of Biological Sciences (SBS) at the University of Wales. The group studies extremophiles, with a ...

Geobiology of a microbial endolithic community in the Yellowstone geothermal environment part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7036/full/nat...

This Letters to Nature scholarly article presents findings from a study done at Yellowstone's Norris Geyser Basin, the purpose of which was to characterize the endolithic microbial community in ...

Bizarre Life Forms Thrive Beneath Earth's Surface part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.nsf.gov/news/frontiers_archive/7-97/7extreme.jsp

Bugs from Hell part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/articles/2002/1/23/bugs-fro...

This NASA Astrobiology Institute article provides information about life found approximately 2 miles beneath the Earth's surface. These rock-dwelling ...

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 ...

Winogradsky Columns part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://web.archive.org/web/20180421053451/http://www.per...

This is an exercise about Winogradsky Columns with emphasis placed on the formation and properties of microbial biofilms. It includes background reference material, a field/lab exercise, and several ...

Environmental Affects on Microbial Growth part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.math.unl.edu/~jump/Center1/Labs/Environmental...

This lab activity guides students in the development of background information on the environmental conditions for microbial growth, including that of the extremophiles, and relates this information ...

Can we revive Lake Erie's "Dead Zone?" part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.circleofblue.org/2014/world/cause-lake-eries-...