Books
Bathsheba Demuth’s Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
Robert MacFarland’s Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Philip Hoare’s The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea
Sy Montgomery’s The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness
Nick Pyerson’s Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures
Ben Goldfarb’s Eager: The Surprising, Secret Lives of Beavers and Why They Matter (We know this isn’t technically an “ocean” read, but the health of our watersheds certainly plays a role in healthy ocean ecosystems, and let’s face it: beavers are super cool.)
Elizabeth Rush’s The Rising
Rachel Carson’s Under the Sea Wind (also see A Silent Spring)
Robert Kunzig’s Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science
Peter Godfrey Smith’s Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Sylvia Earle’s The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One
Carl Safina’s Eye of an Albatross
Articles and Multimedia
- History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin by Wil S. Hylton
- An Even More Inconvenient Truth: Why Carbon Credits For Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing by Lisa Song
- Exploring the Oceans by Remote Control by Jeffrey Marlow
- Hawaii’s Ancient Aquaculture Revival by Erica Gies
- How Squids Outsmart Their Predators by Carly Anne York (Animated video)
- A Whale’s Afterlife by Jeffrey Marlow
- OPB’s Oregon Field Guide Season 30, Episode 8 (about plastic in the ocean, Oregon rivers, and our food)
- A Bad Summer for birds on Cooper Island by Ned Rozell
- Time-bombing the Future by Rebecca Altman * (A writer worth following — her website always includes links to her bibliographies. We love that idea.)
- Frozen Ocean by Jennifer Kinglsey
- Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
- Letter to America by Rebecca Altman
- George Divoky’s Planet by Darcy Frey
- The World is Running Out of Sand by David Owen
- Sea Change by Hannah Hoag and Marcus Westberg
- American petro-topia by Rebecca Altman
- How the Benzene Tree Polluted the World by Rebecca Altman
- The Loneliest Polar Bear by Kale Williams
- The Lunar Sea by Ferris Jabr
- A Case for Wonder by Christopher Norment
- Disappearing Seagrass Protects Against Pathogens, Even Climate Change, Scientists Find by Carl Zimmer
- Forewarned by Peter Dykstra
- On the thawing tundra, researchers race to understand black carbon’s climate impact by Madeline Ostrander
- A Wall Worth Building: Making Clam Habitat Great Again by Jude Isabella and Meigan Henry
- Cuttlefish Brawl by Shanna Baker and Mark Garrison
- Total Failure: When The Space Shuttle Didn’t Come Home by Geoff Brumfiel
- Exodus by Ross Anderson
- What Happens When You Zap Coral With The World’s Most Powerful X-ray Laser?, a KQED Deep Look
- Reef Avengers by Theodora Sutcliffe
- Drawing Meaning from Death, One Seabird at a Time by Larry Pynn
- Welcome to Pleistocene Park by Ross Anderson
- Wild thing – How and why did humans domesticate animals – and what might this tell us about the future of our own species? by Jacob Mikanowski
- A manifesto for the simple scribe – my 25 commandments for journalists by Tim Radford
- A Tale of Two Glassworkers and Their Marine Marvels by Julie Leibach
- Coral Sperm Banks: A Safety Net for Reefs? by Julie Leibach
- Battle of the Ash Borer by Matthew Miller
- The Really Big One by Katheryn Schulz
- Zoo Futures by Jon Cohen
- Science communication training should be about more than just how to transmit knowledge by Besley and Dudo
- Even the Bottom of the Grand Canyon is Now Contaminated by Osha Gray Davidson
- Oregon’s Only Saltwater Lake Is Disappearing, and Scientists Don’t Know Why by Rob Davis
- Nicaraguan villagers building electric grid by Lucas Laursen
- Losing Ground by Marshall et al.
- Disappearing Colorado River by David Owen
- California Burning by Amy Quinton
- Tending the Body’s Microbial Garden by Carl Zimmer
Podcasts & Podcast Episodes
- The Wild by Chris Morgon for KUOW
- Rifts Beneath the Ocean Floor by Shane Hanlon for AGU’s Third Pod from the Sun
- Under the Sea by Rose Eveleth (Flash Forward Podcast is amazing; seriously, pick any episode.)
- We Are Family by Rose Eveleth
- Ocean Currents Radio Program by Jenny Stock
- Teuthology by Allie Ward (Ologies Podcast is incredible as well!)
- Isabella Rosselini on Communicating the Wonders of Nature via Clear & Vivid with Alan Alda
