Catalog Search
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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- Ecosystems 4 matches
- Energy 5 matches sources, supply, reserves, uses
- Water Quality and Quantity 5 matches including water resource management, water quality and water treatment
- Global Change and Climate 4 matches
- Waste 1 match
- Mineral Resources 1 match includes precious metals, base metals, industrial minerals, aggregate
- Soils and Agriculture 1 match
- Sustainability 2 matches
- Natural Hazards 4 matches
- Policy 4 matches
Environmental Science
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Computer Applications
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Tropical storms part of Web Resource Collection
This short activity uses GIS to explore hurricane track information to understand factors that encourage the formation of hurricanes. This site includes all materials needed for an instructor to ...Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Computer Applications, Audio/Visual
Remote sensing part of Web Resource Collection
This short activity uses GIS to consider place-based hazards (assessing housing choices) using remotely sensed data. This site includes all materials needed for an instructor to carry out the ...Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Audio/Visual, Activities:Lab Activity, Computer Applications
Mining the world’s most used minerals part of Web Resource Collection
This short activity uses GIS to demonstrate what mineral resources are commonly used in daily life and to learn the origins of these resources to better predict where they might be found. This site ...Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Audio/Visual, Activities:Lab Activity, Computer Applications
Globe Watersheds Module 1: Water Availability part of Web Resource Collection
The GLOBE Watershed Dynamics Module 1 GIS tool is a freely available web-based GIS. This tool allows users to analyze precipitation, evaporation, and surface runoff data across the US. Curriculum is ...Resource Type: Computer Applications, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations
Representational Tools to Support Understanding of Complex Biological Systems part of Web Resource Collection
This resource includes a hypermedia on aquarium ecosystems organized around structures, behaviors, and functions as well as NetLogo simulations of macro and microlevel processes. The macrolevel model ...Resource Type: Computer Applications, Pedagogic Resources, Datasets and Tools:Tools
Nuclear Power Plant Simulator 1.30 part of Web Resource Collection
This site allows users to download a program in which they simulate running a nuclear power plant. Users learn about energy generation and its limits by walking the fine line between not enough ...Resource Type: Computer Applications
World Oil Consumption - 3D Charts in Google Earth part of Web Resource Collection
This site, part of the Google Earth blog, provides 3-D graphs of the world's oil consumption by country, both raw use and per capita. The data comes from the CIA World Factbook.Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Maps, Computer Applications, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations
Integrating field observations with physical and computer models in an introductory environmental geology course part of Print Resource Collection
Resource Type: Computer Applications
EdGCM: Climate Modeling for Research and Education part of Web Resource Collection
The EdGCM Project develops and distributes a research-quality global climate model (GCM) with a user-friendly interface that runs on desktop computers. Anyone can explore the subject of climate ...Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Tools, Computer Applications
Eruption! part of Web Resource Collection
This is a downloadable computer simulation which showcases a series of villages that surround an active volcano. The volcano is modeled after Mount Vesuvius and, based on preliminary data, is getting ...Resource Type: Activities, Computer Applications