Research
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/scripts/DBs/VP_UF_pub.asp
Hosted by the Florida Museum of Natural History, this online database allows researchers and others to search the University of Florida Vertebrate Paleontology (UF) Collection. The UF Collection of 209,432 catalogued specimens contains "many unique (i.e. not found in other museums) fossil vertebrates from important sites spanning from the Eocene and Pleistocene epochs." The UF Collection features marine and freshwater fossils as well as "an extraordinary array of extinct land-mammals from the past 20 million years in Florida." The database offers search fields for Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species. Other available search fields include Site, Epoch, Formation, County, State, Nature of Specimen, and more. [NL]
http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/
Treesearch offers online access to a large collection of publications by USDA Forest Service Research and Development scientists. At the beginning of last year, "the collection contained over 7,000 publications, making it the largest freely available collection of online forestry research in the world." One year later, the collection holds close to 10,000 publications that are conveniently viewable and printable online. Searches can be conducted by Keywords, Author, and Title. Publications are also listed by eight Stations of Origin including the Northeastern Research Station, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Southern Research Station, and Rocky Mountain Research Station. [NL]
http://t1dbase.org/cgi-bin/welcome.cgi
T1DBase was created jointly by the Institute for Systems Biology, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation/Wellcome Trust Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory to support the work of Type 1 diabetes (T1D) researchers. T1DBase currently "includes annotated genomic sequences for suspected T1D susceptibility regions; microarray data; functional annotation of genes active in beta cells; and 'global' datasets, generally from the literature, that are useful for systems biology studies." Information is available for human, rat, and mouse Type 1 diabetes candidate regions. The site also offers several tools including Gbrowse, Cytoscape, Beta Cell Gene Expression Bank, and Kegg Pathways. T1DBase was created as a community resource, and the website invites researchers to contribute both ideas and data. [NL]
One significant outcome of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (an intergovernmental conservation treaty signed in 1971, in Ramsar, Iran) was the development of the Ramsar Sites, or Wetlands of International Importance. Managed by Wetlands International, the Ramsar Sites Database Service provides concise information about each Ramsar Site and also allows visitors to examine "Ramsar Sites across geographic and thematic boundaries, useful and necessary for maintaining an overview of a global network of well over 1300 internationally important wetlands from 138 countries." This informative website also offers basic and advanced search options, clickable maps, graphical analyses, downloadable publications, and more. The site links to the Criteria for the Identification of Wetlands of International Importance, the List of Wetlands of International Importance, and to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands homepage (reported on in the April 1, 1998 Scout Report for Science & Engineering). [NL]
http://californiaagriculture.ucop.edu/
Based on our nation's heavy reliance on food grown in California, this University of California publication regarding the agricultural affairs of the 31st state will be appreciated by researchers and agriculturalists from around the country. First published in 1946, "California Agriculture is a peer-reviewed journal reporting research, reviews and news from the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources of the University of California." Site visitors may view abstracts or full text documents of research articles from current and previous issues. In addition, free domestic subscriptions may be ordered online (the journal currently serves around 14,000 domestic subscribers). The site also provides downloadable guidelines for writers. [NL]
The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) works "to advance knowledge of immunology and related disciplines, to foster interchange of ideas and information among investigators in the various disciplines and to promote an understanding of the field of immunology." The AAI maintains a number of Training and Job Opportunity Lists on their website for Graduate Programs, Postdoctoral Fellowships, Faculty Positions, Research Scientists, and Positions Wanted. The AAI site also provides contact information for AAI committee members and information about membership, meetings, and a variety of awards (with downloadable application instructions). Present and past AAI newsletters are available as well. Notably, AAI also offers Summer Research Fellowships for Middle and High School Teachers. [NL]
http://www.broad.mit.edu/resources.html
From the Broad Institute--a research alliance of Harvard University, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology--this website makes a variety of genomic resources publicly available to researchers. The site links to Genome Sequence Databases under the following categories: Fungal, Vertebrate Lineage, Bacterium, Mammalian, and Archaebacterium. Examples of software available through the site include Locusview 2.0: A Program for Generating Images of Chromosomal Regions; GeneCruiser: Annotation for Microarray Data; Radiation Hybrid Mapping; and GeneCluster2: An Advanced Gene Expression Analysis Toolkit. The site also links to publications from different research groups such as the Neuropsychiatric Genetics Group, Population Genetics Group, Inflammatory Disease Research Group, and Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Group. Mapping Project Links are available as well. [NL]
http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/~carlson/index.html
The Oceanic Microbial Observatory is a project run jointly by Dr. Craig Carlson of the University of California-Santa Barbara, and Dr. Stephen Giovannoni of Oregon State University. Centered on the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study site, the "goal of this microbial observatory project is to understand the cell biology and biogeochemical activities of the major bacterioplankton groups-SAR11, SAR86, SAR202 and SAR116, marine actinobacteria, SAR324, and SAR406, by applying new high throughput technologies for cell culturing, and studying the metabolism of these organisms in nature and their interactions with organic matter in the oceans." The Microbial Observatory website contains links to downloadable publications, public data sets, and poster presentations. The site also offers links to a number of other microbial observatories; and connects to the Bermuda Biological Station for Research as well. [NL]
