RESOURCES
Antarctica
Books
McGonigal, David (2008) Antarctica: Secrets of the southern continent. Buffalo, NY: Firefly
Books, Inc.
Soper, Tony (2008 – 5th ed.) Antarctica: A guide to the wildlife. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press
Streever, Bill (2009) Cold: Adventures in the world’s frozen places. NY: Little, Brown, &
Company
Trewby, Mary, ed. (2002) Antarctica: An encyclopedia from Abbott Ice Shelf to zooplankton.
Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, Inc.
Websites
Classroom Antarctica
www.classroom.antarctica.gov.au
Cool Antarctica
www.coolantarctica.com
- Excellent source of information on the effects of global warming
DVDs
Antarctica – An adventure of a different nature (IMAX – 1991)
Antarctica is replete with breathtaking aerial and underwater footage of the earth’s
highest, coldest, and driest continent.
March of the Penguins (2005)
Chronicles the life cycle of Emperor penguins, filmed over the course of a year.
Encounters at the end of the world (2007)
Famous director Werner Herzog’s take on the southern continent including unusual
people, underwater life, and penguins.
Plankton
Books
Cerullo, Mary M. (1999) Sea Soup: Phytoplankton. Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House Publishers
Cerullo, Mary M. (1999) Se Soup: Zooplankton. Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House Publishers
Johnson, William S., Dennis M. Allen, and Marni Fylling (2005) Zooplankton of the Atlantic and
Gulf coasts: A guide to their identification and ecology. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
Press
Smith, Deboyd L., and Kevin B. Johnson (1996) A guide to marine coastal plankton and marine
invertebrate larvae. New York: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company
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Haeckel, Ernst. (1998) Art forms in nature. Germany, Prestel Publishing
Websites
Bigelow laboratory for ocean sciences
www.bigelow.org
This is the website for the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Maine. They are
home to the largest living library of marine phytoplankton in the world. Their website
offers a number of free educational materials on phytoplankton, marine food webs,
upwelling, and more.
These are some good examples of their plankton related lessons:
http://www.bigelow.org/edhab/fitting_algae.html
http://www.bigelow.org/foodweb/microbe0.html
NASA Earth Observatory
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Phytoplankton/
A nice article on phytoplankton with some excellent pictures and diagrams covering
much of what we will be discussing.
NASA – where is SeaWiFS now? http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi/whereis_seawifs.pl
Go to this page to see the current location of NASA’s Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view
Sensor Satellite.
Oceanic Research – this 12 minute video provides a good introduction to “What is plankton?”
Requires quicktime. http://www.oceanicresearch.org/education/films/plankton_qt.htm
Plankton*Net
http://planktonnet.awi.de
A taxonomic database of images of plankton species
Sea Drifters
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8498786.stm
An audio slideshow showing the variety and importance of plankton
Guide to marine plankton
www.msc.ucla.edu/oceanglobe/pdf/guide_plankton.pdf
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General ocean science and climate resources
DVDs
An inconvenient truth (2006)
Former Vice-President Al Gore guides the viewer through an understanding of global
warming and its possible consequences.
Websites
Ocean Link – explore careers in marine science http://oceanlink.island.net/career/career2.html
Interviews and profiles of marine scientists, and links to many other institution career
pages.
Rutgers Coastal Ocean Observation Lab (COOL Room) “What does an oceanographer look like?”
video:
http://www.thecoolroom.org/tv.htm
NASA’s Ocean Motion site
www.oceanmotion.org
A great resource for detailed information about ocean currents.
NOAA Ocean Careers to inspire Another Generation of Explorers (OceanAGE)
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/oceanage/welcome.html
Bridge -
http://web.vims.edu/bridge/?svr=www
Free teacher approved marine education resources. Supported by the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Association and the National Marine Educators Association,
maintained by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.
COOL Classroom
www.coolclassroom.org/home.html
The Cool Classroom is a series of internet-based instructional modules that link middle
and high school classrooms with active research investigations at the Rutgers Institute of Marine
and Coastal Sciences Coastal Ocean Observation Lab.
COSEE-NOW
www.cosee-now.net
Centers for Ocean Sciences Educational Excellence – Networked Ocean World
Links ocean scientists and educators in the real and virtual world.
Their Ocean Literacy Interactive Animation provides a lot of great background
information about the importance of the ocean to climate and the human connection to
the ocean.
http://coseenow.net/blog/ocean-literacy-interactive-animation/
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Ocean Literacy
http://oceanliteracy.wp.coexploration.org/?page_id=167
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