This reference provides instructions on how to write scientific reports. Topics include why we write reports, the basic format (introduction, methods and materials, results, and discussion, or 'IMRaD'), how to state a...

This page from the GeoTech Center provides a link to an introductory textbook on Geographic Information Systems, or GIS. The textbook is freely available online. The text covers a general introduction to GIS, vector...

This site provides a technical report summarizing hundreds of research papers on this global issue. Offers definitions and presents bycatch by gear type, target species and fishing area. Includes overviews of biological...

Many people may wonder what happens in the vast stretches of the world's oceans. For some, it is simply a matter of "out of sight, out of mind". Fortunately that is not the attitude at the National Center for Ecological...

This useful article from the journal Mass Spectrometry features a compilation of some of the more widely used terms that non-mass spectrometrists may encounter, and for which a simple definition would be helpful. The...