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Extremophiles: Laboratory part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.babs.unsw.edu.au/projects.php?projectID=14
This website is home of the Extremophiles Research Laboratory at the University of New South Wales. It includes a brief introduction to the lab, contact information for team leader Rick Cavicchioli, ...

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 ...

The Discovery of the Lost City Hydrothermal Field, 2000 part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.lostcity.washington.edu/science/discovery.html
This page (part of the Lost City Expedition Site) describes the serendipitous discovery of the Lost City Hydrothermal Field by. In 2000, Kelley, Karson, and Früh-Green participated on a ...

Dead Zone: Galveston Researcher Examines Loss of Marine Life part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/05/04050708240...
This Texas A&M newspaper article provides very general info regarding the possible link between poor water quality in the Gulf of Mexico and farm runoff. Researcher Antonietta Quigg ...

Restoring Life to the Dead Zone: Addressing Gulf Hypoxia, a National Problem part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/factshts/016-00.pdf
This USGS fact sheet provides an introductory synopsis of some of the causes of poor water quality in the Gulf of Mexico. The dead zone is caused by increased nutrients from the Mississippi River, ...

Elusive dead zone tracked in the Pacific part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5684798/
This MSNBC newspaper article provides general information about poor water quality off the Oregon coast. The article recounts how scientists are hunting for very low levels of oxygen, a sign of what ...

Life in extreme environments part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://www.nature.com/articles/35059215
This Nature insight review article "Life in extreme environments" is a detailed description of bacterial prevalence in extreme environments. ...

Geomicrobiology: How Molecular-Scale Interactions Underpin Biogeochemical Systems part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://stke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;296/...
This Science scholarly article discusses the molecular biology behind geomicrobiology. It features sections about microbial diversity, microbial activity in the environment, mechanistic details, the ...

Phytoplankton Bloom in the Gulf of Mexico part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_...
This NASA site features color satellite photographs of the Gulf of Mexico dead zone. The site shows pictures of the Gulf of Mexico region in natural colors as well as on a scale of different ...

Harmful Algal Blooms part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.oceanservice.noaa.gov/websites/retiredsites/s...
This comprehensive NOAA pdf file contains in depth information about harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the United States. The article contains general information about HABs, location-based assessments ...