Reading List with Online Links
R. R. Colwell and J. A. Patz (eds.), 1998. Climate, Infectious Disease and Health: An Interdisciplinary Perspective.  National Academy Press, Washington, DC.

B. Balick and A. Frank. 2004. The extraordinary deaths of ordinary stars.  Scientific American, 291:50-59.

R. A. Binns and D. L. Decker, 1998.  The mineral wealth of the Bismarck Sea.  Scientific American Presents: The Oceans, 92-97.

M. J. Buckingham, J. R. Potter and C. L. Epifanio, 1996.  Seeing underwater with background noise.  Scientific American, 281(2):86-90.

P. Cervelli, 2004.  The threat of silent earthquakes.  Scientific American, 287(3):86-91.

Committee on the Conduct of Science, NAS, 1989.  On being a scientistProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 86(23):9053-9074.

V. H. Dale, C. M. Crisafulli, and F. J. Swanson, 2005.  25 years ecological change at Mt. St. HelensScience, 308:961-962.

I. W. D. Dalziel, 1995.  Earth before Pangea.  Scientific American, 280(1):58-63.

R. Doyle, 1996.  By the numbers: soil erosion of cropland in the U.S., 1982-1992.  Scientific American, 281(10):34.

T. Gold, 1992.  The deep, hot biosphereProceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 89:6045-6049.

S. J. Gould, 1994.  The evolution of life on Earth.  Scientific American, 279(10)84-91.

M. Gurnis, 2001.  Sculpting the Earth from inside out.  Scientific American, 284(3):40-47.

P. F. Hoffman and D. P. Schrag, 2000.  Snowball Earth.  Scientific American, 283(1):68-74.

M. Holloway, 1994.  Trends in biological restoration.  Scientific American, 279(4):98-107.

R. A. Kerr, 2002.  Earliest signs of life just oddly-shaped crudScience, 295:1812-1813.

R. A. Kerr, 2004.  New biomarker proposed for earliest life on EarthScience, 304:503.

C. H. Lineweaver and T. M. Davis, 2005.  Misconceptions about the Big Bang.  Scientific American, 288(3):36-45.

Marsbugs: The Electronic Astrobiology Newsletter

N. Pinter and M. T. Brandon, 1997.  How erosion builds mountains.  Scientific American, 282(4):74-79.

M. J. Russell and N. T. Arndt, 2005.  Geodynamic and metabolic cycles in the HadeanBiogeosciences, 2:97-111.

S. Simpson, 2003.  Questioning the oldest signs of life.  Scientific American, 286(4):70-77.

J. T. Staley, R. W. Castenholz, R. R. Colwell, J. G. Holt, M. D. Kane, N. R. Pace, A. A. Salyers and J. M. Tiedje, 1997. The Microbial World: Foundation of the Biosphere.  American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC.

Science News online

Scientific American online

Scientist, The online

G. D. Starkman and D. J. Schwarz, 2005.  Is the universe out of tune?  Scientific American, 288(8):48-55.

B. P. Wakker and P. Richter, 2004.  Our growing, breathing galaxy.  Scientific American, 290:38-47.

K. West, 2005.  Rebuilding a volcano.  Scientific American, 288(8):16-17.
 

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