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October 17, 2019
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Exploring Ocean Worlds

Ocean Reads

A collection

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Nehalem Bay, at the confluence of the Nehalem River and Pacific Ocean. Image Credit: Jenny Woodman

Books


Jaime Green and Ayana Elizabeth Johnson’s The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katherine K. Wilkinson’s (editors) All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

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


  • The Fishadelphia Story by Ann Finkbeiner
  • 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 By Nathaniel Rich
  • 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

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NOAA’s Chief Scientist Charts Course Toward a New Blue Economy (IEEE Earthzine, March 2016)
Exploring Ocean Worlds

NOAA’s Chief Scientist Charts Course Toward a New Blue Economy (IEEE Earthzine, March 2016)

A look back to a 2016 conversation with Dr. Rick Spinrad
by Jenny Woodman

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Solve for ‘x’
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Solve for ‘x’

The life variables of a forest-nesting seabird

by Tamara Enz

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Questioning Nature
Exploring Ocean Worlds

Questioning Nature

Science, parenting, and cultivating a sense of joy and wonder
by Kelley Christensen

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