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    SUSTAINABILITY METRICS AND INDICES
    Sustainability metrics and indices are measures of sustainability, and attempt to quantify beyond the general concept. Though there are disagreements among those from different disciplines (and...

    Keywords: climate changeSustainability Literacy

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    Human Population Growth and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
    Humans alter the climate by emitting greenhouse gases, by changing planetary albedo, and by altering atmospheric chemistry. Between 1900 and 2000, humans' emissions of carbon into the atmosphere...

    Keywords: demographyhuman populationgreenhouse gas emissions

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    Using Undergraduate Molecular Biology Labs to Discover Targets of miRNAs in Humans
    In this lesson, we describe an easily adaptable lab module that can be used in existing undergraduate molecular biology lab courses to conduct authentic scientific research, published in CourseSource

    Keywords: molecular biologybioinformaticsNIBLSEgene regulationmicroRNAsgene expressionCourseSourcemiRNA

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    Building Biodiversity Datasets for Invasive Species
    A module guiding students through the process of mapping biodiversity data and building a biodiversity dataset to study the spread and impacts of the invasive aquatic plant species, European...

    Keywords: Management Of Datanatural historyField researchconservation ecologyAquatic invasive speciesbiodiversity informatics

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    Sin Nombre Hantavirus in the US
    A module guiding students through the review of different biodiversity data sources to identify patterns in the distribution of the Sin Nombre Hantavirus in the United States. English, Spanish, and...

    Keywords: Resources @ AIM-UP!infectious diseasespublic healthnatural history collectionsWildlife Diseasedigitized natural history collectionsenglishSpanishzoonotic diseaseshantavirusMEPAPortuguesetranslated

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    Learn Biological Sciences and Environmental Science through biodiversity and pollution
    Biodiversity or biological diversity is the variety of and variability of biological life on Earth. Biodiversity is existing due to variation among living organisms from different sources air,...

    Keywords: databiologydata scienceBiodiversityclimateenvironmental scienceSpeciespollutionanalyze data

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    Sickle Cell Disease Case Study
    A short film explores the evolutionary connection between an infectious disease, malaria, and a genetic condition, sickle cell anemia. The animation explores the genetic causes and biological...

    Keywords: HHMI BioInteractive

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    Rivers as Social-Ecological-Technological Systems: Integrative Issue Formulation and Problem Solving
    Flowing surface waters continue to capture the human imagination and are increasingly harnessed by many interdependent human activities. Existing theories for studying rivers as cohesive ecological...

    Keywords: Interdisciplinary STEMProblem based learningcomplex systemsexperiential learningRiver Field Studies Network

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    Investigating Evidence for Climate Change (Project EDDIE) with CO2 and 13CO2 data: adapted for R
    This is an adaptation to work in R of Investigating Evidence for Climate Change (Project) by Hage, M. 2020. Students will investigate geologic and modern evidence for global temperature and...

    Keywords: climate changeGlobal Temperature Changeco2ice core datastable isotopesR software

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    Ecology of Infectious Disease: Data Mining the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) for Ecological Patterns
    How to use publicly available infection case data to teach ecology and evolution of human infectious diseases.

    Keywords: Evolutionecologyinfectious diseasehumansjigsawsmall group workEvolutionary medicinedata explorationCDCNNDSS

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    Sequence Similarity Resource Adaptation: Exploring Ebola Virus
    This adaptation of the sequence similarity resource provides biology students with a basic set of bioinformatics concepts and tools. These concepts and tools are used to explore relationships...

    Keywords: phylogeneticsbioinformaticsEbolasequencingFASTANCBINIBLSEalgorithmsincubatorsBLASTmultiple sequence alignmentsequence similarityBLOSUM scoring matrixneighbor-joining distance matrixCourseSourcephylogram

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