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This page allows searching across the SERC catalogs: the set of resources from the web and in print that have been selected as relevant by SERC-supported projects. The catalog draws from collections created directly by our partners as well as those harvested from other digital library collections.



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Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium part of Web Resource Collection

The link is for the Mote Marine Laboratory, an academic research facility and aquarium in Florida that monitors Atlantic sealife, has a large pool of teaching resources, and maintains a network of ...
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Resources, Environmental Science:Oceans and Coastal Resources, Geoscience:Oceanography
Resource Type: Scientific Resources

Geoethics training in the Earth and environmental sciences part of Print Resource Collection
Ethical dilemmas are regularly encountered by Earth and environmental scientists. Explicit training is required to allow the community to recognize such dilemmas, and to prevent and mitigate ethical ...

Subject: Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Ethics/Values, Geoscience
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work

Thin Section Scans part of Web Resource Collection

An online library of high resolution, full color scans of over 200 "exotic" igneous, metamorphic and metasomatic rocks in thin section, displayed under both natural ...
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Mineralogy, Mineralogy:Optical Mineralogy, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Mineralogy:Mineral Analysis
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations

Isotropic Minerals in Thin Section part of Print Resource Collection
First volume of a 3 volume set, this is an e-book photographic atlas of isotropic minerals in thin section, accompanied by tabulated optical data and determinative characteristics. Both common and ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Mineralogy, Mineralogy:Optical Mineralogy
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work

California Burning: A multimedia project part of Web Resource Collection

This multimedia resource provides an overview of wildfire risk and response to the risk in California. Text, video, images, and data are used to discuss how drought and overgrowth of forests play a ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Decision-Making, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Public policy, Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Policy, Environmental Science, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Meteorology:Extreme weather, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather:Drought, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Public policy , Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Wildfires, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Environmental Science:Forest Resources, Sustainability
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Audio/Visual

Expanding boundaries of exploration part of Web Resource Collection

The appetite for mining beyond the confines of the land does not end with the deep ocean: celestial bodies, too, have stirred commercial interest. The prospect of mining the ocean floors and bodies ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Sustainability, Policy:Environmental Decision-Making, Environmental Ethics/Values, Geography:Human/Cultural, Environmental Science:Mineral Resources:Mining, Environmental Science, Geoscience, Geology:Environmental Geology
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work

Shear zones and crustal blocks of southern India part of Web Resource Collection

This volume is a collection of papers on the shearing and petrological evolution of southern India. It can be used to introduce students to the granulite/upper amphibolite facies rocks. Proceedings ...
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Structural Geology:Regional Structural/Tectonic Activity, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Structural Geology:Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results

Extraterrestrial Influence on Climate Change part of Print Resource Collection
Climate changes are being explained by various scientists based on the observational data of last 200 years. Most of the statistical scientific data were not able to answer satisfactorily the erratic ...

Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work

What is Geodesy? part of Web Resource Collection

Overview of what traditional geodesy is, including descriptions of geoid, ellipsoid, datum, gravity, and GPS (global positioning system). Appropriate for high school or lower division college ...
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work

GRACE: Tracking water from space part of Web Resource Collection

This 7-minute video gives an overview of the GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellites and explains the technique of using gravity to measure mass movement such changing as ice and ...
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video, Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work