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This site provides links to USGS information about mercury sources, cycling and toxicity in the environment. The site features announcements about upcoming workshops and activities, fact sheets and reports, fish consumption advisories, and links to other programs and agencies working on the issue of mercury in the environment.
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This site provides a brief overview of mercury cycling in the environment. Text is accompanied by useful diagrams that depict the health effects of mercury on the human body, the accumulation of mercury in an organism through biomagnification, and mercury cycling pathways in the environment. The site is also available as four separate PDF documents that have a more user-friendly layout.
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This
site
is
a
bibliographic
index
compiled
by
scientists
from
the
University
of
Minnesota
and
contains
approximately
4000
references
on
various
aspects
of
biodiversity
and
conservation.
The
bibliography
uses
Procite
bibliographic
software,
which
allows
web-users
to
conduct
searches
using
a
general
word
search
in
all
indexed
fields
(such
as
author
and
year)
on
the
initial
search
page.
Users
can
also
...
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The
Center
for
the
Study
of
Institutions,
Population
and
Environmental
Change
(CIPEC)
is
involved
in
a
variety
of
demographic,
geographic,
and
land
use
research
efforts.
The
biocomplexity
project
concentrates
on
using
several
types
of
mathematical
modeling
to
inventory
and
predict
land
use
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The
New
England
Complex
Systems
Institute
(NECSI)
is
an
independent
educational
and
research
institution
dedicated
to
advancing
the
study
of
complex
systems.
New
concepts
and
methodologies
regarding
these
systems
are
affecting
all
fields
of
science
and
engineering,
and
are
being
applied
to
technology,
business
and
even
social
policy.
This
website
provides
information
at
various
comprehension
levels
...
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The
Society
for
Chaos
Theory
in
Psychology
&
Life
Sciences
is
an
international
forum
bringing
together
researchers,
theoreticians,
and
practitioners
interested
in
applying
dynamical
systems
theory,
far-from-equilibrium
thermodynamics,
self-organization,
neural
nets,
fractals
cellular
automata,
and
related
forms
of
chaos,
catastrophes,
bifurcations,
nonlinear
dynamics,
and
complexity
theories
to
...
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The
goal
of
this
biocomplexity
research
project
is
to
investigate
the
functional
relationship
between
complexity
in
microbial
communities
and
the
biogeochemical
cycles
of
natural
ecosystems.
The
study
includes
sites
in
the
Chesapeake
Bay,
the
Choptank
River,
and
the
open
ocean
of
the
Sargasso
Sea.
The
research
will
characterize
the
physical
and
chemical
complexity
of
these
systems
in
terms
of
chemical
...
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This
site
features
seven
PBS
programs
from
around
the
world
that
explore
the
delicate
relationship
between
humans
and
the
natural
environment,
and
the
necessity
of
achieving
a
balance
between
the
two.
Programs
contain
both
text
and
video,
as
well
as
links
to
other
information
sources.
In
addition
to
the
seven
programs,
the
site
also
features
a
photo
gallery,
definitions
and
information
about
global
...
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This
site
contains
a
variety
of
information
related
to
global
change
research
and
specifically
the
research
efforts
of
the
US
Global
Change
Research
Program
(USGCRP).
Some
of
the
sections
on
this
site
include
global
change
data
from
a
variety
of
government
agencies
as
well
as
reports
from
national
and
international
research
projects.
Frequently
updated
lists
of
new
research
findings
and
calls
for
...
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The
Center
for
Global
Change
Science
(CGCS)
at
MIT
was
established
to
address
long-standing
scientific
problems
regarding
changes
in
the
global
environment.
The
initial
objectives
of
this
research
are
focused
on
five
fundamental
processes
in
the
global
climate
machine:
1)
convection,
atmospheric
water
vapor
and
cloud
formation,
2)
oceans
and
ocean-atmosphere
coupling,
3)
land
surface
hydrology,
4)
...
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