Communications

Sea Grant-sponsored research stimulates new ways of looking at our marine environment.

Materials, such as the following, are intended for a diverse audience that includes researchers, educators, students, resource managers, fishermen, seafood processors, marina owners, shippers, recreational boaters, and legislators.

• Chesapeake Quarterly, the program's magazine, and past issues of Maryland Marine Notes.
  
  
• Educational briefs on selected marine issues:
  • Contaminants and the Chesapeake
  • Exotic Species: Exotics in the Chesapeake: An Introduction
    Exotic Animals in the Chesapeake
    Exotic Plants in the Chesapeake
    
  • Managing and Protecting the Blue Crab
  
  (You may need to download free Adobe Acrobat Reader if not already installed on your computer.)
  
  
• Online interactive educational lessons:
  
  
• Oysters in the Classroom
• Biofilms & Biodiversity
• What Is the Key to Classification?
  
  
• Books, such as:
  
  • The Blue Crab: Callinectes sapidus
    
  • Chesapeake Perspectives, a monograph series
    
  • Saving the Seas
    
  • The Eastern Oyster: Crassostrea virginica
  • Working the Chesapeake: Watermen on the Bay
    
  • Oxygen Dynamics in the Chesapeake Bay
    
  • Restoring the Nation's Marine Environment
    
  • Dispersal of Living Organisms into Aquatic Ecosystems
    
  
  
• Video productions, such as:
  
  • The Pfiesteria Files, an Emmy-award winning video about the firestorm of media attention focused on a mysterious microbe that killed fish and sickened people in the Bay.
  • Twilight Estuary, an award winning video on the state of the Chesapeake Bay.
    
  • A Watershed for the Chesapeake, which details the environmental challenges facing the Chesapeake watershed.
    
  • Fishing for a Future, which dramatizes the need for a catch-and-release fishing ethic.

Please check out our marine education material. These items are a small sample of what is available from Maryland Sea Grant's publications on-line catalog.

Maryland Sea Grant
4321 Hartwick Road, Suite 300
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20740
(301) 405-7500
Internet: mdsg@mdsg.umd.edu

For a list of publications from across the nationwide Sea Grant network, including out of print publications, contact the National Sea Grant Depository (NSGD).